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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Texas corrections officer waited hours before calling for medics after learning of inmate’s stabbing, cops say

A Texas corrections officer was arrested after allegedly waiting hours to report the fatal stabbing of an inmate inside a maximum-security prison last week.

Ty Wilkerson, 26, of Riverside, was charged with violating the civil rights of a person in custody after the inmate, later identified as 45-year-old Jarrod Tolbert, was found dead in his cell on July 21.

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