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- April 22, 2026 at 3:15 am #11952
  
  Kris Marker
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  Loaded on April 1, 2026
  
  by Chuck Sharman
  
  published in Prison Legal News
  April, 2026, page 25
  
  Filed under:
  
  Overdetention,
  
  42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights,
  
  Unlawful Detention,
  
  Monell Liability,
  
  Class Actions.
  
  Location:
  
  Texas.
  
  by Chuck Sharman
  
  When Ladarion Hughes struck a plea deal and was sentenced to time served in December 2021, he had been held over two years since his July 2019 arrest, mostly in Texas’ Smith County Jail, except for a brief stay in a state psychiatric hospital. Yet …
  
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