A woman died of hunger and thirst in Tarrant County Jail custody. Her daughter seeks answers

Kimberly Phillips didn’t like to show when she was hurting, her daughter Maranda Mills said. But Mills could see her mother’s pain when she visited her at the Tarrant County Jail.

“I could tell she was holding back her tears,” Mills said. “And she just looked at me, and she said, ‘Baby, I need to eat.’”

Phillips kept telling her daughter how hungry she was, Mills said. She was trying to eat the food the jail gave her, but she couldn’t keep it down…

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