James Garcia

James Garcia was 19 years old when he was taken into the Texas prison system and held at one of the Sugar Land plantation camps, where incarcerated people were leased out to work. He died there after about five months. No cause of death was recorded, and his remains were among the 95 found at the site in 2018. His great-great-niece, Briana Garcia, a Fort Bend ISD employee, volunteers on the Sugar Land 95 memorial project and wants to learn how he died and to identify his remains.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Custody: Serving a sentence.

Source

• Found and not forgotten: One descendant’s fight to honor the prison laborers who helped build Sugar Land Houston Public Media, November 13, 2026