Thomson Reuters Nearly 7,000 people have died while in Texas police custody or after being locked up in the last decade, according to a report from the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis. Almost 2,000 of those people were never convicted of a crime. The report, part of the Texas Justice Initiative, showed that 70% of the 6,913 deaths were due to natural causes.

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