Five years have passed, but Lydia Leos says July 30, 2020 feels like just yesterday.

That day is when her son Julian Dena died.

“This is the journey that no parent or sibling wants to be walking, but we are walking it,” she said.

Her family decided to take him off life support because just days before, he overdosed on meth at the Bexar County jail.

“Julian’s death was a death that came upon a choice he made,” Leos said. “When I fight Julian’s death, I’m fighting changes in the jail system because he died in a place that should have been ready for what happened to Julian.”

That’s why she’s working with other moms like Guadalupe Castro.

“It’s been very hard these past five years,” Castro said.

Castro also lost her son in 2020. Izaiah Riojas died after being shot and killed.

“What hel

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