Search for: "FLOYD COUNTY JAIL"
Results 41 - 60
of 144
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
25 Feb 2021, 2:25 pm
While work was ongoing, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and equity concerns that garnered national attention after the killing of George Floyd amplified stakeholders’ concerns about the need to further improve the county’s pretrial system. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:04 am
Eight correctional officers have filed a lawsuit against a Minnesota county jail, claiming that only White officers were allowed to guard Derek Chauvin, the ex-cop accused of killing George Floyd. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 6:24 am
(Grits would prefer to see marijuana straight-up legalized, but even tamping down arrests via the new hemp law is an improvement over prior practices.)Traffic stops are a major, front-end driver of county jail admissions. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 10:20 am
When Texas Appleseed analyzed jail bookings at eleven large counties in 2019, they similarly found many more Class C arrests than anyone expected. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 5:30 am
Louis County jail died of treatable leukemia despite asking his guards to see a doctor. [read post]
12 Dec 2020, 2:23 pm
This is not a receptive environment for meaningful criminal justice reform, the George Floyd Act filed by Rep. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:28 am
Jail populations began creeping back up in the fall, but many court systems are only beginning to hold criminal trials and cases are backlogged.George Floyd Protests: Nationwide protests over Houston-native George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police, including large protests in Texas cities large and small across the state. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 10:22 am
Cisco Surveillance and Black-Led Movements Abi Hassen Black Movement-Law Project Black Lives Matter, Online and in the Streets: Statement from EFF in the Wake of the Police Killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd (EFF) Digital Rights and the Black-Led Movement Against Police Violence (EFF) Activism Against Surveillance ACLU Calls on Lawmakers to Immediately Stop Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology (ACLU) California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang… [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 5:50 am
For a while, TDCJ stopped taking prisoners from county jails. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 12:09 pm
Deaths in County Jail and Racial Profiling The Texas Tribune reported earlier this month that in 2015 the “people’s sheriff” was warned by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to take “corrective measures” after two inmates died in less than two months in the sheriff’s custody. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:39 am
In the proposed Texas George Floyd Act, Houston state Rep. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 2:00 am
Jail Health Care. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 11:00 am
Floyd, an African American man, died on May 25th as police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck while he was pinned to the floor. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 2:00 am
As the Winston-Salem Journal reports, the death of John Neville at the Forsyth County Detention Center continued to animate calls for justice and accountability in Winston-Salem this week after surveillance video footage of the circumstances surrounding his death was made public. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 1:33 pm
Six contract nurses at the Midland County Jail have been charged with manslaughter and other, lesser offenses for allegedly falsifying documents in a way that resulted in the death of an inmate. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 8:03 am
We also sued the Dallas County Jail for failing to protect incarcerated people from a rapidly-spreading COVID-19 outbreak. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 2:35 pm
For about eight weeks, these protests against police brutality and systemic racism have been a nightly occurrence in the area of the Multnomah County Justice Center (which includes the local jail) and the Hatfield Courthouse. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 6:33 am
The plaintiff filed complaints within the jail and protested to staff. [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 1:30 pm
Broadly, they were eliminating Class C arrests, bail reform so she wouldn't be stuck in jail for lack of money, and new training and regulation at county jails related to mental health and suicide - largely recommendations from Michele Deitch about national best practices. [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 5:01 am
The Clark County d attorney also filed state charges against these defendants on the same day. [read post]
