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Counties feel ill over inmate medical bills
Zeke MacCormack: Express-News Staff Writer
HONDO Less than an hour after being booked into the Medina County Jail on July 20 on a charge of assault, Toby Guerra of D'Hanis was rushed to the hospital with chest pains.
State trying to keep mentally ill people out of jail system
By MELISSA McEVER: The Brownsville Herald
Out of jail and at a loss
By Nicole Chavez: San Antonio Current
Life on the outside is even tougher on women
Woman dies in jail after JPS refuses admission
By Jennifer Autrey: Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Jailers had watched her frantic distress for five days. Stopping up the toilet to flood her cell. Trying to hang herself with her gown. Announcing that she was pregnant with Jesus' child.
For jail's sick inmates, a regimen of neglect
JPS overlooked signs of a health-care crisis, even though inmates and their families cried out for assistance
By Jennifer Autrey: Star-Telegram Staff Writer
After James Wright had a brain abscess removed, he didn't always get his antibiotics.