Nearly 7000 Texas detainees died while in custody from 2005 to 2015.

Almost 7,000 individuals in Texas died while in prison or police custody from 2005 to 2015, nearly 2,000 of whom had not been convicted of a crime, according to a new report. Latinos died of justifiable homicides at higher rates.

According to the Wednesday report from the Texas Justice Initiative, there were 6,913 total incidents of people dying in custody in the state over the course of the decade.
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