The professors were one of 11 entities that filed legal briefs on the issue, all of which advocated for all deaths in county jails to be independently investigated.

A Texas Ranger investigation has revealed disturbing new details surrounding a coordinated assault that led to the brutal death of a Bexar County jail inmate. There have been five arrests. Francisco ...

Was she calling out for assistance? Did anyone pass by her cell and see her in distress?” Deitch served as an expert consultant to one of the key authors of the 2017 Sandra Bland Act, which requires ...

Tuesday, Feb. 7, would have been Sandra Bland’s 36th birthday ... was found dead in a Texas jail cell, two days after a police officer stopped her in Prairie View, Texas, because the officer ...

Six years after the highly publicized death of Sandra Bland in police ... Police said Bland died by suicide in her jail cell three days later. Bland’s death drew outrage from people ...

PRAIRIE VIEW — The makeshift Sandra Bland memorial on the street named ... Three days later, she was found hanging in a Waller County jail cell, a death that was ruled a suicide.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas authorities are disputing accusations of withholding evidence in a heated exchange with lawmakers over why cellphone video of Sandra ... in a jail cell near Houston three ...

Three days later, she was found hanged in a jail cell. Authorities ruled it a suicide. I am thrilled that Bland won’t shut up and go away. I am Sandra Bland. Every African-American woman is.

The Waller County Jail. Sandra Bland’s death there was ruled a suicide. Flickr/Patrick Feller Indeed, the cell phone video would have been publicized long ago if not for another troubling wrinkle.

Sandra Bland's name became a rallying cry in 2015 when she was found hanging in her Waller County, Texas, jail cell in what was ruled a suicide. The #SayHerName movement, founded earlier that year ...

The family of Sandra Bland — who died in a Waller County jail cell — is calling for a reopening of the criminal investigation into Bland's arrest and death after seeing footage for the first time.