Harris County, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez sued by family of outsourced jail inmate who died in Louisiana facility

Jaleen Anderson, who died last year at age 29, was booked into the Harris County Jail in March 2024 on a low-level drug possession charge. He was one of thousands of pre-trial detainees who have been outsourced to other prisons because of the jail’s repeated failure to comply with Texas’ mandated detention officer ratio.

Learn more about Jaleen and the lawsuit for his death from Sarah Grunau for Houston Public Media.