Post by pavel on Apr 18, 2016 2:54:30 GMT -6
Changes at jail where Sandra Bland died could be hard to accomplish
DALLAS — Several recommendations issued by a panel investigating the small-town Texas jail where Sandra Bland died could be difficult to implement, including a call to separate sheriff and jail operations, which might run afoul of state law.
Waller County would also face financial challenges to implementing other panel recommendations, such as constructing a jail better equipped for suicide prevention and hiring medically trained experts to evaluate the mental health of inmates. County officials have faced criticism for not properly monitoring Bland in jail after she acknowledged that she had once tried to kill herself.
Problems at the jail highlighted in the report released last week are common to many jails across the country, but few have been scrutinized as closely as Waller County’s was after Bland was found hanging from a cell partition last July, provoking national outrage and drawing the attention of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The county sheriff endorsed the report’s findings and said he has already started making changes — the beginning of an overhaul that the attorney for Bland’s family hopes could be her legacy.
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/changes-at-jail-where-sandra-bland-died-could-be-h/nq6xZ/
DALLAS — Several recommendations issued by a panel investigating the small-town Texas jail where Sandra Bland died could be difficult to implement, including a call to separate sheriff and jail operations, which might run afoul of state law.
Waller County would also face financial challenges to implementing other panel recommendations, such as constructing a jail better equipped for suicide prevention and hiring medically trained experts to evaluate the mental health of inmates. County officials have faced criticism for not properly monitoring Bland in jail after she acknowledged that she had once tried to kill herself.
Problems at the jail highlighted in the report released last week are common to many jails across the country, but few have been scrutinized as closely as Waller County’s was after Bland was found hanging from a cell partition last July, provoking national outrage and drawing the attention of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The county sheriff endorsed the report’s findings and said he has already started making changes — the beginning of an overhaul that the attorney for Bland’s family hopes could be her legacy.
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/changes-at-jail-where-sandra-bland-died-could-be-h/nq6xZ/