Surprise cancellation of a legislative hearing on Alaska prison deaths exposes fissures in the House | #alaska | #politics
Barbed wire fencing surrounds Goose Creek Correctional Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 outside of Wasilla. (Loren Holmes / ADN) On Tuesday, the Alaska House Community and Regional Affairs Committee was scheduled to hear a presentation by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska about a record-breaking run of deaths in state prisons and jails. […]
Read More
Mayor Adams Vetoes City Council Bill on Solitary Confinement
Mayor Eric Adams vetoed Intro. 549-A, a bill proposed by the NYC Council aimed at reforming solitary confinement practices in city jails, on Friday.Photo: Peter K. Afriyie/AP Mayor Eric Adams vetoed Intro. 549-A, a bill proposed by the City Council aimed at reforming solitary confinement practices in city jails, on Friday. The veto has ignited […]
Read More
The Point, Dec. 18, 2023: First Black, female mayor of Micanopy reflects on first months in office
-
Google-News-Wire
- December 18, 2023
- Associated Press
- Bradford County
- Bradford County School District
- budget
- business
- cases
- cdc
- christmas
- citrus greening
- coffee
- communities
- community
- covid
- COVID-19
- data
- Deaths
- DeSantis
- election
- elections
- emergency
- flooding
- florida
- football
- Gainesville
- Georgia
- gop
- Gov. Ron DeSantis
- Health
- history
- homelessness
- land
- Live Oak
- mayor
- Micanopy
- NPR
- ocala
- Ocala Police Department
- officials
- Orange County
- Orlando
- pandemic
- Police
- Prison
- rally
- rates
- republican
- research
- roads
- ron desantis
- school
- shooting
- state
- Texas
- trees
- UF
- vaccine
- vote
- WCJB
- WUFT
- wuft news
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. • WUFT News: Unity and infrastructure focus of Micanopy Mayor Jiana Williams’s first months in office. “As the first Black, female mayor of Micanopy, Jiana Williams, 37, often thinks about what her late grandmother, Willie Mae Stokes who used to clean houses […]
Read More
Samuel Hartman who broke out of Arkansas prison riding a jet ski was nabbed a year later hiding with family in West Virginia motel
Samuel Paul Hartman, 39, was nabbed at the Quality Inn in Lewisburg, West Virginia along with his wife, Misty Hartman, 39, and mother, Linda White, 61 Hartman broke out of the East Arkansas Regional Unit Prison on August 12, 2022 He was serving a life sentence for the rape of his 14-year-old stepdaughter An Arkansas […]
Read More
Jan. 6 defendant who beat officer with flagpole during Capitol riot sentenced to over 4 years in prison
An Arkansas truck driver who beat a police officer with a flagpole holding an American flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was sentenced Monday to over four years in prison. Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, […]
Read More
Arkansas Department of Corrections considering land donations for new maximum-security facility
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas Board of Corrections and the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) issued a public notice for submissions today for communities to express interest in donating land for the construction of a new maximum-security facility. According to a DOC press release, the new prison would house approximately 1,000 inmates within the […]
Read More
Alabama prison strike in third week amid reports of deaths, murder and staff beating of inmate | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A strike by inmates in Alabama’s prison system has reached its third week. Unpaid inmates provide the bulk of the labor within the prisons; work stoppages have therefore impacted laundry and meal provisions in addition to other essential tasks. While the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has been quick to say that the work stoppages […]
Read More
Biden’s Marijuana Pardon and San Diego City Council Vote Could Shift Face of Local Cannabis Industry – NBC 7 San Diego | #citycouncil
President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon simple marijuana possession charges could be the momentum needed for a larger movement in San Diego. A local cannabis activist says city council is one vote away from a plan that could transform the face of the cannabis industry, benefitting those unfairly targeted by the war on drugs. Spring Valley native […]
Read More
Pennsylvania Judges Michael Conahan, Mark Ciavarella Ordered to Pay $200 Million for Kids-For-Cash Jail Scheme | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The financial kickbacks two Pennsylvania judges earned in the “kids-for-cash” scheme didn’t prove to be worth it in the end, with a judge ordering them to hand over more than $200 million in damages this week to the 300 victims named in a civil suit. Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were accused of accepting $2.8 […]
Read More