About 100 percent of Texas County jail inmates who died after signing the Covid-1 contract were in pre-trial and were not convicted of any crime. Texas New report from the University of Texas at Austin.
Based on data from individuals in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s (TDCJ) detention facilities, university researchers found that 11 out of 14 or about 80 percent of those who died from Covid-19 in the Texas County Jail were not. Receive a conviction
The report also notes that the majority of those who died from the Texas prison virus have been charged with “individual crimes,” including robbery, assault, sexual assault, and murder.
While the report notes that most people incarcerated in Texas prisons have been convicted of personal crimes, the group accounts for a disproportionate proportion of those who have died from Covid-11 compared to those charged with other crimes.
According to TDCJ figures, V 73 percent of Texas prisons were convicted of COVID-19 deaths, while they account for only 57 percent of the state’s prison population. About 10 percent of coronavirus deaths were due to drug offenses, while 6 percent had property sentences and 11 percent were giving time for some other offenses.
The university found that a total of 231 people had died from COVID-19 in the state’s correctional facilities. However, the researchers noted in the report that this number could probably be higher, as ops tops are sometimes performed months after the inmate’s death. Even some prisoners “Never died without being tested for covid.”
Researchers have noted that the number of people who have died from a virus-induced survival condition is not counted in the total figure.
The report only included data from state-run prisons and county prisons, and not coronavirus-related deaths that could occur at federal prisons or immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) facilities in the state.
By Thursday, this Texas Department of Health and Human Services A total of 994,000 confirmed coronavirus cases have been reported with more than 19,000 deaths.
The rate of infection is also rising in Texas as many states are facing a second wave of the virus. As of Thursday, Texas had 5,756 newly reported infections, as well as 143 deaths.
The report on Texas prisons has come amid continuing concerns about the safety of correctional facilities across the country.
Last month, Ordered by the Court of Appeals of California This San Quentin State Prison will reduce its population by percent0 percent, the court said, citing the prison’s “intentional indifference” to the effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the prison population.
In its ruling, the court referred to San Quentin’s coronavirus outbreak as “the worst epidemic disaster in California’s corrective history.” At the peak of the outbreak, about 75 percent of inmates tested positive for coronavirus and 28 inmates died, according to the Associated Press.
The epidemic occurred when infected inmates were sent to the Southern Continent without testing from another Southern California facility.
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