Grassroots felony justice teams gathered Saturday morning in entrance of Bexar County Jail to demand Sheriff Javier Salazar and his workplace take accountability for mounting deaths on the detention heart.
“Let’s be clear, incarceration shouldn’t be a demise sentence,” Ananda Tomas, govt director of police reform group Act 4 SA, advised the group of round 30 folks. “However, in Bexar County, that’s precisely what it’s turn into.”
The Bexar County Jail has the very best variety of deaths per capita in Texas, with 124 recorded county jail deaths between 2015 and 2025, in line with the Texas Jail Challenge. The issue reveals little signal of enhancing, with one other six deaths recorded thus far this yr…