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HELP PRE-TRIAL DETAINEES INCARCERATED AT THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL, HOUSTON, FROM INHUMANE, SADISTIC & VIOLENT TREATMENT

Created by P.W. on October 21, 2016

This petition is important to protect/restore the civil, constitutional rights of pretrial detainees, both past , present and in future, who under law, are innocent until proven guilty.

this petition is intended to be addressed by those who have had their individual right of liberty violated

This is a petition demanding improvement to the deplorable and life endangering environment thrust upon citizens of Harris County, Texas that may have, will suffer the horrifying experience of a jail system that practices the revocation of one's dignity and goes beyond common decency, that violates the first, fourth and fifth amendment-ignoring due process and subjecting pretrial detainees to near starvation, physical abuse, insufficient medical care/ exposure to diseases such as Tuberculosis.

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