The Texas Rangers are investigating a complaint of "mistreatment by jail staff" made by a former inmate of the Waller County jail, state and county officials said Thursday. The Waller County jail has been in the national spotlight since Prairie View A&M graduate Sandra Bland was found dead in her cell in July, three days after she was arrested during a traffic stop in which she refused a trooper's directive to put out a cigarette. The hanging of Bland, who was African American, sparked nationwide protests over the treatment of minorities at the hands of law enforcement. Wolfe-Anderson did not refer to an alleged sexual assault in a separate written statement she said gave authorities and...
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