Nearly a decade after the discovery of human remains, Fort Bend County signed off spending money on plans to memorialize the 95 individuals found in unmarked graves at a Fort Bend ISD construction site.
In 2018, while working on the James Reese Career and Technical Center, workers came across human remains.
Experts said the remains found, now known as the Sugar Land 95, were Black men who were imprisoned for petty crimes carrying heavy penalties in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They say several of them died after only spending days at the camp, while others endured inhumane conditions for months and years. Although the median sentence length was five years, experts say more than half died within a year of arriving at the camp…