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Many people believe Sandra Bland did not take her own life. But the circumstances of her death fit a recognizable pattern. In a significant number of the cases we found, people killed themselves within just a few days, even when they had been arrested on minor charges that were extremely unlikely to result in prison time.
The federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, which was passed in 2003 and whose rules were issued in 2012, is supposed to protect minors from such situations. PREA stipulates that youth may not be held within "sight and sound" of adult inmates. In 2015, only 10 states reported that they were in full compliance; Michigan was not one of them.
Lowell Edwin Amos (January 4, 1943 – January 5, 2022) was an American convicted murderer whose mother and three wives all died under suspicious circumstances. [1] He was convicted in 1996 of murdering his third wife, Roberta Mowery Amos, and was the subject of a 2006 Lifetime Network made-for-TV movie called Black Widower.
All of his alleged victims were described as "small framed" (e.g. short, thin, non-muscular) men, most of them African Americans. During the investigation, Michigan media dubbed Abuelazam the "Flint Serial Slasher" [2] and the "Flint Serial Stabber". [3] He was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and weighed 280 pounds (130 kg) at the time of his booking. [4]
The sad story of Robert Miller’s death in 2019 incorporates elements of nearly every problem implicated in the management of the Tarrant County Jail. How he was pepper-sprayed while handcuffed ...
The effort took a major turn in 2020, with assistance from the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. New evidence means freedom for a Michigan man who spent 37 years in prison ...
“I’m sick of watching my friends I’ve known at the park die on me,” said Wendy Coady, who described herself as the “queen” of Chapin Park, where people living homeless often gather.
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for failing to properly observe inmates. Jail or Agency: Bell County Jails; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/23/2016; Age at death: 45; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.tdtnews ...