Activists demand accountability as deaths at Bexar County Jail pile up


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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