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Conditions worsening at Ray County, Missouri jail, sheriff says

by: Russell Colburn
Posted: Oct 26, 2021 / 07:42 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 27, 2021 / 06:17 AM CDT

HENRIETTA, Mo. — The Ray County, Missouri sheriff says conditions at the jail are continuing to worsen.

A sales tax vote Sheriff Scott Childers said would’ve paid for a new facility failed in August with 82% of voters voting against it.

Sales tax vote in August to decide fate of Ray County, Missouri’s deteriorating jail
In July, FOX4 showed you holes in the walls at the Ray County jail, even mushrooms in the drains caused by the moisture.

The facility had multiple prior escapes, and at the time, was housing a murder suspect.

“We have walls that are rusting, and people are able to pull the metal off to make shanks,” Childers said. “We did have a stabbing in here a couple weeks ago.”

Childers said that inmate needed medical attention.

He also said there was a gas leak Monday night. Deputies smelled the natural gas pouring in the jail.

He said where the gas line goes into the water heater, it had rusted, corroded, and just fell off due to moisture. He said it pulled off the water heater and broke the gas line in several spots.

Ray County Sheriff confirms ‘several’ positive COVID-19 tests at the jail
“Upstairs is where our furnace is at, so had that gas just been sucked up into the attic and we wouldn’t have smelled it, it definitely could’ve created a big explosion,” Childers said. “It could’ve leveled the jail and killed over 60 people in the process.”

Adding to that, the jail, built more than 20 years ago, doesn’t have a sprinkler system or exhaust fans to pull out smoke.

Childers said there’s also no warm water in the jail until the water heater can be replaced.

Childers said the jail has also been dealing with power outages, but the back-up generator is broken and will cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair.

“When the lights went out, that’s when the stabbing happened,” Childers said.



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Federal judge seizes control of Mississippi jail after citing ‘severely deficient’ conditions

Michael Goldberg, Associated Press/Report for America
Jul 29, 2022 8:23 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A federal judge has seized control of a Mississippi jail after citing “severely deficient” conditions at the facility.

In a Friday ruling, U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Carlton Reeves placed Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center in Raymond into receivership. The judge will soon appoint an expert, known as a “receiver,” to temporarily manage the facility in hopes of improving its conditions.

“After ample time and opportunity, regretfully, it is clear that the county is incapable, or unwilling, to handle its affairs,” the judge wrote. “Additional intervention is required. It is time to appoint a receiver.”

Reeves said that deficiencies in supervision and staffing lead to “a stunning array of assaults, as well as deaths.” Seven individuals died last year while detained at the jail, he said.

County officials said they’re still digesting the order and are determining whether they will appeal, WLBT-TV reported.

Federal and state judges have ordered receiverships or a similar transfer of control for prisons and jails only about eight times, according to Hernandez Stroud, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

The details governing the receivership will be decided by Reeves.

“What this receivership order looks like is totally within the court’s discretion,” Stroud said. “What powers to give the receiver, how long the receivership should last — those are matters that Judge Reeves will figure out.”

Reeves wrote in his decision that the facility’s staffing levels are “particularly egregious.”

“Persistent shortcomings in staffing and supervision embolden gangs and encourage the prevalent circulation of contraband, including narcotics and weapons,” Reeves wrote. “Jail staff continue to receive inadequate training regarding use of force, such as the use of tasers.”

He also wrote that cell doors still do not lock and a lack of lighting in cells makes life “miserable for the detainees who live there and prevents guards from adequately surveilling detainees.” He also said that guards often turn to sleeping instead of manning the cameras in the control room.

Reeves’ decision comes months after he agreed to scale back the county’s jail 2016 consent decree with the federal government to address “unconstitutional conditions” at Raymond and two other facilities that comprise the Hinds County jail system.





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POLICE USED THIS DANGEROUS RESTRAINT DURING A FATAL ARREST, SO WHY ISN’T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT IT?

The death of Christopher Robert Hensley while in custody of Fletcher, North Carolina, police has received little attention. PAR investigates the dangerous restraint police used during his arrest, and examines evidence that raises disturbing questions about what happened and who is responsible.

BY TAYA GRAHAM AND STEPHEN JANIS
JULY 20, 2022

The death of Christopher Robert Hensley in the custody of Fletcher, North Carolina, police is raising new questions about the use of deadly restraint by law enforcement. In this episode of Police Accountability Report, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis talk to independent pathologist Cyril Wecht, who reviewed footage of the arrest, to shed light on the circumstances surrounding Hensley’s death. We ask questions of North Carolina law enforcement officials to learn why cops are still using a tactic that has been widely recognized as both dangerous and deadly.

Video in article

TRANSCRIPT

Taya Graham: Hello. My name is Taya Graham, and welcome to the Police Accountability Report. As I always make clear, this show has a single purpose: holding the politically powerful institution of policing accountable. And to do so, we don’t just focus on the bad behavior of individual cops. Instead, we examine the system that makes bad policing possible. And today we will do so by bringing you breaking news on a shocking in-custody death at the hands of police in North Carolina that has received little attention, but warrants further investigation.

As you can see in the video we are showing now, Fletcher, North Carolina, police officers knelt on the back of a man for at least four minutes, until he was unresponsive. And I have to warn you, this video is disturbing. The man later died, but the police have said little. But despite their silence, we obtained this video of his death in custody, which suggests that a dangerous and often deadly police tactic known as prone restraint may have caused his death. The reason we are bringing this case to your attention is because of its similarities to the case of George Floyd and Tom Black and others, where police have sat on top of or otherwise laid across a person, causing downward pressure on their lungs, causing what’s known as positional asphyxiation.




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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:32 am May not really belong here (corruption perhaps?) but how come that cops from California can operate in Indiana?

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28 women file suit over 'night of terror' in Indiana jail, alleging incarcerated men bribed jail officer for keys

By: Emma Tucker, CNN
Posted: Aug 1, 2022 10:18 AM EDT

(CNN) -- Twenty-eight incarcerated women in Indiana have alleged in two separate federal lawsuits that they were threatened or sexually assaulted, including two who said they were raped, last year by ?men incarcerated at the same facility who, according to one of the lawsuits, bribed a corrections officer with $1,000 to obtain the keys to their jail cells.

The women are suing Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel, former Clark County jail officer David Lowe and unidentified jail officers in two federal civil rights actions filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The lawsuits stem from events that ?the plaintiffs say? took place in the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville on the evening of October 23 ?into the morning of October 24 2021, attorneys for both lawsuits told CNN.

The first lawsuit, filed on June 21 on behalf of 20 ?named women, alleges that ?men incarcerated at the same facility threatened, assaulted or raped them over multiple hours after Lowe gave the men keys to access the women's cells. The second lawsuit was filed on July 25 on behalf of eight additional women ?who are not named, according to Steve Wagner, an attorney who filed the lawsuit. It describes what they called "a night of terror" at the jail and said two ?men obtained the keys in exchange for a payment of $1,000.

One woman in the first lawsuit alleged that she was raped during the incident and a separate woman in the second lawsuit also alleged she was raped. However, there were no charges filed on these allegations, according to William Perry McCall, an attorney who filed the first lawsuit in June on behalf of 20 women. Attorneys for both lawsuits told CNN that the women are not speaking publicly about their claims, citing reasons such as emotional distress and to protect their identities.





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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:26 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:53 am The (replica) Batmobile case DOA

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 6:19 pm Bat shit crazy

Santa Ana police detective charged after sending explicit content to decoy officer acting as minor

BY CBSLA STAFF
AUGUST 3, 2022 / 5:09 AM / CBS LOS ANGELES

Santa Ana police detective Gregory Daniel Beaumarchais was charged Tuesday after allegedly sending explicit content to a person he believed to be a minor.

Another investigator, posing as a 14-year-old girl, received "graphic messages" from Beaumarchais, 43, in a sting operation designed to catch offenders.

After receiving the messages, the investigator alerted O.C. Crime Stoppers about the messages received during Dec. 2021 and Jan. 2022.

According to prosecutors, Beaumarchais created a new social media account using a similar name after his initial one was cut off by the provider.

"Police officers are entrusted with the sacred responsibility to safeguard society from harm," said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. "It is beyond disturbing that a sworn police officer would engage in inappropriate conversations with someone he believed to be a child. Our children should not have to worry about being preyed upon by the very people we teach them who are there to protect them. The vast majority of police officers are the trusted authority figures we expect them to be and when an officer engages in criminal behavior it tarnishes the badge of all of our hardworking law enforcement officers."

He was charged with one misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a person believed to be a child, and if convicted will face up to a year in jail and must register as a sex offender.




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Arkansas officers suspended after video shows suspect being beaten
Three officers seen punching and kneeing, Randall Worcester, 27, in Mulberry, about 140 miles from Little Rock

Edwin Rios and agencies
Mon 22 Aug 2022 13.43 BST

Arkansas state police have launched an investigation into three officers who were captured on video holding down and beating a man outside a convenience store, an interaction that sparked outrage on social media.

The incident comes as video footage captured by body cameras and cellphones continue to expose aggressive and abusive policing practices across the US. Recently, in Florida, a deputy resigned after video surfaced of him pointing his gun at a pregnant Black woman during a traffic stop.

Officers in Arkansas responded Sunday to a report of a man who allegedly threatened convenience store workers in a nearby area and then rode his bicycle to Mulberry, a town north-west of Little Rock, the Fort Smith Times Record reported.

Video captured of the encounter showed an officer pinning down Randall Worcester, of South Carolina, to the ground as one punched him and another kneed him.

Worcester, 27, was taken to a hospital for treatment on Sunday. After the hospital discharged him, officers booked him in a local jail on multiple charges, including second-degree battery, resisting arrest and terroristic threatening, state police said.

Two deputies with the nearby Crawford county sheriff’s office were suspended pending an investigation into use of force practices while a police officer working for the municipality of Mulberry was placed on leave. Authorities have yet to publicly release the officers’ names.



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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:31 am

Video captured of the encounter showed an officer pinning down Randall Worcester, of South Carolina, to the ground as one punched him and another kneed him.

Chilidog wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:01 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:31 am

Video captured of the encounter showed an officer pinning down Randall Worcester, of South Carolina, to the ground as one punched him and another kneed him.

Punched?

He grabbed the guy by the hair and slammed his head on the ground.

Then at the end he pointed in a very threatening mannor at the person taking the video.