The jail’s annual mortality rate exceeded the national average in each of the last four years – though there’s been a steady decline since the pandemic.
The jail’s annual mortality rate exceeded the national average in each of the last four years – though there’s been a steady decline since the pandemic.
Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother. “I held her until she was, you know,” Kimberly Hammond said. “I held her until she went on and her body was cold. It was like somebody ripped out my soul.” Zenorah’s official cause of
Javonte Myers’ body lay unattended for as long as six hours before anyone noticed he’d died. Based on findings by the Tarrant County medical examiner, the 28-year-old suffered a seizure. The problem is that he was being held in the Tarrant County Jail, a place where 52 inmates have died since Sheriff Bill Waybourn