A man with a severe mental illness called schizoaffective disorder was locked up in Dallas County Jail, where he later died. Jailers say a crisis-level staffing shortage is to blame.
Dallas County Jail failed a state inspection last year for the first time in a decade. As state officials returned this week for this year's annual inspection, new records point to a severe staffing shortage, amongst other issues.This wasn’t Deron Tolbert’s first trip to Dallas County Jail. The 31-year-old was arrested last May on a charge of indecent exposure.
But Tolbert died, and according to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office’s own report on the incident, jailers didn’t respond to any signs of distress from Tolbert until inmates in his section alerted them. Multiple jailers said that events surrounding Tolbert’s death are a result of a crisis-level staffing shortage inside the jail. The shortage has persisted throughout the pandemic as officers are knocked out by the virus, and it grew worse in recent months as the omicron variant spread rapidly among jail staff and inmates alike.
This figure doesn’t account for vacancies in the jail’s medical units: Records show that the jail’s nursing unit alone is operating at only 83% of its required capacity as of Jan. 31.
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