Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn has faced backlash over deaths in his jail. His opponent, Patrick Moses, says it shows a failure of leadership.
Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn has faced intense backlash over some high-profile deaths at his jail. His opponent, Patrick Moses, said it shows a failure in leadership. NBC 5 had a chance to sit down with both candidates.
“The context is is that there’s isolated — there’s been an isolated incident, but the rest of those are that they died at the hospital or they have died from use of drugs," he said.Critics, including challenger Patrick Moses, see the situation differently. Moses is retired from the U.S. Homeland Security Department's Armed Protective Services branch, where he was an assistant director of field operations. He's now a local pastor.
One recommendation, for example, is for jail staff to use urine drug screens as inmates check in"to better identify those at risk of withdrawal." "They experience confinement for 23 of 24 hours per day and may have further restrictions to accessing some personal items," reviewers explained. "Meaning that I want individuals across the community to provide input on our policies, on our use of force policies to review all of them and also to review every in-custody death, so there is this notion of transparency," he said.Moses said the staffing shortage at the jail also points to a lack of leadership under Waybourn.He said part of his 100-day review would include hiring and retention.
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