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What We're Reading
News that caught our attention or cited the Texas Justice Initiative from across the Lone Star State and beyond.HPD's use of force incidents that cause major injuries disproportionately affect Black residents
Published on June 12, 2023Data from the Houston Police Department's transparency hub: Black individuals made up 72 percent of those seriously injured and 63 percent of those killed by police since 2020, according to reporting by Matt deGrood.
Nearly 200 people with mental illnesses died in Texas jails. The death toll is getting worse.
Published on June 7, 2023In the second story in Houston Landing's series, "Deadly Detention," reporter Alex Stuckey writes that "the number of people flagged as mentally ill who died of unnatural causes in the custody of Texas’ jails in 2022 had increased nearly 1,200 percent since 2012, from three deaths to 38 last year."
Seven Texas prison employees face dismissal over 16-year-old inmate’s suicide
Published on April 25, 2023Jolie McCullough reports for the Texas Tribune that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has moved to fire seven employees for failing to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by suicide in a Fort Bend County prison in March.
Fatal police shootings are still going up, and nobody knows why
Published on February 21, 2023Reporters at The Washington Post, which tracks deadly shootings by law enforcement, found that 2022 saw the most incidents since they started tracking the fatalities in 2015.
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