The May 16 death of Robert Terry, 32, marks the sixth Harris County jail death this year....
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In a community alert, the Sheriff’s Office said 32-year-old Robert Terry asked to visit the jail clinic at about 6:20 a.m. before he collapsed. He was transported to the hospital by ambulance and pronounced dead there at about 7:30 a.m.Terry had no obvious physical injuries, according to the alert. He had been held at the jail since May 13, when he was arrested on a felony charge of retaliation.
Terry’s cause of death will be determined by an autopsy conducted by the Harris County medical examiner's office.Krish Gundu, executive director of the Texas Jail Project, said her organization has received numerous complaints about inmates being denied medical care. "It is deeply frustrating to keep hearing about people dying in our jail ‘in apparent medical emergencies’ given how many complaints we get from people locked up inside, about being denied timely medical care,” Gundu wrote in an email.
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