'Alarming' number of Texans died in custody from pre-existing medical conditions, study finds FacebookTwitterEmail People gather in Chicago's Federal Plaza Wednesday, July 13, 2016 to remember Sandra Bland, a Black woman whose controversial arrest following a traffic stop by a white state trooper led to her confinement in the Waller County jail. She was found hanging from a jail cell partition three days later, a plastic garbage bag around her neck. The death was ruled a suicide. The trooper was fired and accused of lying about the traffic stop.Paul Michna, MBI / AP Almost a third of the nearly 11,000 people who have died in the custody of Texas police, jails and prisons since 2005 succumbed at least in part to a pre-existing medical