Grassroots criminal justice groups gathered Saturday morning in front of Bexar County Jail to demand Sheriff Javier Salazar and his office take accountability for mounting deaths at the detention center. “Let’s be clear, incarceration should not be a death sentence,” Ananda Tomas, executive director of police reform group Act 4 SA, told the crowd of […]
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Activists demand accountability as deaths at Bexar County Jail pile up
With six deaths reported so far this year, the Bexar lockup has Texas’ highest per-capita fatality rate.
