Family members of people who died in the Tarrant County jail were in Austin on Thursday to plead with members of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to take action and help find answers about what happened to their loved ones.
It was Tamra Ramsey’s first time to speak before the commission. Her husband Vernon Ramsey died in the Tarrant County jail in December.
She told the commissioners that her husband suffered “superficial medical care, constant pain, poor nutrition, high levels of stress, a full body allergic reaction to unwashed jumpers and severe sleep deprivation.”…