Diane Bailey turned 74-years old Feb. 2 — the same day she died while in jail custody at Parkland Hospital. Her death was not reported to a state oversight agency, apparently because of a technicality.
Bailey’s is not the only death the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office did not report to the state. Among nearly a dozen unreported deaths while in jail custody throughout Texas in the last three years, Julie Buelna also died in custody at a Dallas hospital less than two weeks after Bailey.
After Bailey died, a failure to appear in court notice was sent to her on Feb. 18, and on April 3 a warrant for her arrest was issued…