WOMAN SAYS WALLER COUNTY JAILERS KEPT HER NAKED, DENIED BASIC HYGIENE PRODUCTS
A woman who was arrested over the weekend claims Waller County jailers kept her naked and denied her basic hygiene products for 28 hours.
Accused of assaulting the father of her son, Chelsea Schehr was isolated in a “suicide watch” cell Saturday.
According to Schehr, she was stripped of her clothing and given only a small towel to cover her private parts.
Schehr told Fox26 news that as she sat in the jail cell mostly naked, male guards and inmates were allowed to view her through a window and by a surveillance camera.
Waller County Sheriff Department's Chief Deputy Craig Davis told FOX 26 that inmates on suicide watch are stripped naked and given only a so called "suicide blanket".
Schehr says her requests for feminine hygiene products, underwear and a doctor were denied.
KWHI reached out to Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis, who said he has not seen any formal complaint from Schehr other than her television interview.
“All complaints should go to the Texas Jail Commission for an appropriate investigation to be conducted” said Mathis. “I will consider all facts and circumstances once it is presented to me through the proper methods and channels.”
Hopefully, this incident will be carefully investigated. Putting someone on suicide watch should require an assessment by a medical professional to get background medical information and determine if the person was on psych meds. If so, they might need to continue taking them. If his/her privacy was not protected from passersbys that’s another issue. If this scenario proves to be true, then they need to clean house from the top down at the Waller jail. You would think they had learned something from Ms Blane’s incarcer-
action and ultimate suicide.