Amid Deaths and Inspections, Records Show Crisis-Level Staffing Shortages in Dallas County Jail
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. At the time, he had already struggled with a severe mental illness called schizoaffective disorder for years and was living with his mother in Dallas. Jailers figured out that…