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SLED CHARGES LANCASTER MAN WITH FENTANYL DISTRABUTION

SLED charged Jonathan Levi Beam with 3 counts of distribution of Fentanyl – 1st Offense. Beam on August 13th thru the 14th, while being an inmate at the Lancaster Detention Center was in possession of smuggled substance (.8 grams or 12.3 grains) which tested positive for fentanyl and through video surveillance and testimony is said to have distributed the substance in the facility.

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Virginia: Three arrested for aiding pair of 'dangerous' fugitives who escaped Chesterfield County jail

Islamic crescent and star tattooed on forehead, and jihadi-style beard. Juvenile prison converts?

WANTED: Rashad Williams (left) and Jabar Taylor (right) escaped from a Virginia jail on July 13

A pair of inmates who escaped from a Virginia jail nearly a week ago were spotted in recent days in southern Pennsylvania, officials said Saturday.

The U.S. Marshals Service has been looking for Jabar Taylor, 20, and Rashad Williams, 18, since they escaped Monday from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County.

“The danger posed by these fugitives and their escape should not be taken lightly by anyone,” Nick E. Proffitt, U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement. “The fugitives went to great lengths to affect the escape, and they pose a significant threat to any law enforcement officer or member of the public who may encounter them.”

According to officials, the pair broke out of the jail outside Richmond after assaulting a correctional officer.

Williams and Taylor then fled through a hole cut in a perimeter fence, with a getaway vehicle staged outside the detention center.

The two were believed to have traveled north after the escape, where each have "significant ties," according to the Marshals Service.

"They are believed to be together but may have separated," the agency said.

On Saturday, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office said in a news release that both fugitives have been spotted in the area. The pair stayed at a Homewood Suites hotel on Granite Run Drive in Lancaster earlier this week.

Surveillance footage also confirmed that the men were recently at a Turkey Hill store on Granite Run Drive and Manheim Pike in the city.

Taylor was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated malicious assault, according to officials. He is described as 5-foot-9, weighing about 140 pounds.

Williams, who was convicted of malicious wounding and robbery, is described as 5-foot-7 and approximately 140 pounds.

Officials said the men have "known ties" to northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina.

Three people have been arrested in connection with their escape, including a relative of Williams and two employees at the correctional facility where they were being held, according to WHTM-TV.

Authorities ares offering a reward of up to $5,000 apiece for information leading to the arrests of the fugitives.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Marshals Service at 1-877-926-8332 or submit tips online.

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More via Three arrested after Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center escape

Three people have been arrested following the escape of two residents from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center on July 13. The two escapees remained at large as of press time Monday.

Two of those arrested are employees at the Bon Air facility, and the other is a relative of one of the escapees. The escapees are Jabar A. Taylor, 20, and Rashad E. Williams, 18.

On the morning of July 14, Destiny L. Harris, 23, of Chesterfield, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on two counts of aiding the escape of a juvenile. Harris, a Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice employee who worked at the Bon Air facility, is being held at the Chesterfield County Jail.

Also on July 14, the USMS Fugitive Task Force arrested Gerald Thornton, 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on two counts of aiding the escape of a juvenile. Thornton, a relative of Williams, was taken into custody without incident. Thornton is being held in Pennsylvania, pending extradition to Chesterfield County.

On the morning of July 15, Virginia State Police arrested Darren Briggs, 42, of Lawrenceville, Virginia, on a felony count of providing a cellphone to a prisoner. Briggs is also a Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice employee who worked at the Bon Air facility. He is being held at the Chesterfield County Jail.

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PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia Field Office removed an unlawfully present noncitizen foreign fugitive on Nov. 9.Gustavo Guadalupe Gonzalez Jimenez, 26, was wanted in Mexico for negligent homicide and injuries. Gonzalez was flown from Alexandria International Airport to Valley International Airport, Harlingen, Texas, on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit. ERO Harlingen then transported Gonzalez via ground transportation to the Matamoros Port of Entry. Upon arrival at the port of entry, ERO turned Gonzalez over to Mexican authorities who took him into custody on a warrant for criminal homicide. “Dangerous criminals such as Mr. Gonzalez seek to take advantage of our systems and the generosity of the American people in order to avoid prosecution for their crimes,” said David C. O’Neill, Acting Field Office Director in charge of ERO’s Philadelphia office. “The men and women of ERO are here to ensure that they are returned to their country to face justice.” Gonzales illegally entered the U.S. at an unknown location without inspection or admission by an immigration official. On Jan. 20, 2003, U.S. Border Patrol arrested Gonzalez near Jacumba, California. The next day, USBP allowed him to voluntarily return to Mexico. Gonzalez entered the U.S. illegally three more times and each time was arrested, released and allowed to voluntarily return to Mexico. Once again, on an unknown date and at an unknown location, Gonzalez unlawfully reentered the United States without inspection or admission by an immigration official. On April 30, 2022, the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Gonzalez in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for driving under the influence and traffic offenses. These charges remain pending. On July 18, ERO Philadelphia arrested Gonzalez at the Lancaster County Probation Office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. On the same date, ERO served Gonzalez a Notice to Appear, charging inadmissibility pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act as a noncitizen present in the United States without being admitted or paroled. On July 28, an immigration judge in Cleveland granted Gonzalez bond. On Aug. 1, the ICE Assistant Attaché for Removals in Mexico City notified ERO Philadelphia that Gonzalez had an active arrest warrant in Mexico City, Mexico for criminal homicide. On Aug. 3, ERO Philadelphia canceled Gonzalez’s bond and arrested him at the ERO Philadelphia, York suboffice and transferred him to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center for removal proceedings. On Aug, 31, an immigration judge ordered Gonzalez removed to Mexico. Gonzalez waived his right to appeal. Members of the public who have information about foreign fugitives are urged to contact ICE by calling the ICE Tip Line at 866-DHS-2-ICE or internationally at 001-1802-872-6199. They can also file a tip online by completing ICE’s online tip form. Enforcement and Removal Operations is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that protects the homeland through the arrest and removal of those within the United States who undermine the safety of our communities and the integrity of our immigration laws. Immigration enforcement is the largest single area of responsibility for ERO, and is a critical component of the overall safety, security and well-being of our nation. ERO manages all aspects of the immigration enforcement process, including identification and arrest, detention, bond management, supervised release, as well as transportation and removal. In addition, ERO repatriates noncitizens ordered removed from the U.S. to more than 170 countries around the world. ERO and its workforce are responsible for managing a safe, orderly and humane immigration enforcement process.

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US man who 'killed seven motorcyclists was driving erratically'

A pickup truck driver accused of colliding with a group of motorcyclists, killing seven of them, pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to negligent homicide. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was today ordered to remain in prevention detention, with a judge citing his past driving record, saying it poses a potential danger to the public and himself. Mr Zhukovskyy earlier waived his right to arraignment, authorities said.

A pickup truck driver accused of colliding with a group of motorcyclists, killing seven of them, pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to negligent homicide. (AP)

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was today ordered to remain in prevention detention, with a judge citing his past driving record, saying it poses a potential danger to the public and himself. (AP) The plea was entered by his attorney Melissa Davis in Coos County Court in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Mr Zhukovskyy remains behind bars there. A jury trial has been scheduled to begin in November. The truck Mr Zhukovskyy was driving was towing a flatbed trailer and collided with the motorcycles in Randolph, investigators say. He was driving erratically and crossed the center line, according to criminal complaints released Tuesday. Related Articles Mr Zhukovskyy was arrested yesterday morning at his home in Massachusetts and handed over to New Hampshire authorities after a court appearance that day. Records show Mr Zhukovskyy, who was working for a Massachusetts transport company at the time of the crash, has been stopped twice on suspicion of drunken driving in the past seven years.

Motorcyclists with a club comprised of ex-United States Marines collided with a pickup truck on a rural highway today, killing seven and leaving the biker community reeling. (AP)

New Hampshire State Police said a 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup truck collided with the riders on US 2, a two-lane highway in Randolph. The cause of the deadly collision is not yet known. (AP) Connecticut prosecutors say he was arrested May 11 in a Walmart parking lot in East Windsor Walmart after failing a sobriety test. Mr Zhukovskyy's lawyer in that case, John O'Brien, said he denies being intoxicated and will fight the charge. Additionally, Mr Zhukovskyy was arrested on a drunken driving charge in 2013 in Westfield, Massachusetts, state records show. He was placed on probation for one year and had his license suspended for 210 days, The Westfield News reported. Records from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration indicate that the company Mr Zhukovskyy was driving for at the time of the motorcycle crash, Westfield Transport, has been cited for various violations in the past two years, MassLive.com reported.

Motorcyclists with a club comprised of ex-United States Marines collided with a pickup truck on a rural highway today, killing seven and leaving the biker community reeling. (AP) Phones rang unanswered at the company. The victims were members or supporters of the Marine JarHeads, a New England motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses, and ranged in age from 42 to 62. Four were from New Hampshire, two from Massachusetts and one from Rhode Island. Members of the group and relatives of the victims have welcomed the charges against Mr Zhukovskyy but said it would do little to easier their pain. Relatives of Mr Zhukovskyy said they were also suffering and defended him as a good person who didn't intentionally kill the motorcyclists. They said he was on his way back to Massachusetts from dropping of a shipment of cars and appeared happy to be heading home. Nine Digital Pty Ltd 2019 https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-news-volodymyr-zhukovskyy-new-hampshire-marine-jarheads-motorcycle-crash/18e1b861-7875-42ce-b3a2-4202f7257866

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Photos to share! Charity Day 2019

A few photos of you all to share!

From the LUX: “Your gifts yesterday could fund 33 percent of our Art Van program to Title 1 (low income) schools and the Lancaster County juvenile detention center.

If your gifts were applied to our scholarship fund, we can provide approximately 107 scholarships to kids who can't afford to take regular classes.”

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Thank you all for coming out!!! it was a great success and YOU ALL helped raise money for the LUX art van and their community outreach! There are many more photos available for free download here: https://www.theruleofthirds.com

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Missing Savannah Spurlock Suspect Killer Arrested: David Sparks Bio, Wiki, Age, Married, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Fast Facts You Need to Know

Missing Savannah Spurlock Suspect Killer Arrested: David Sparks Bio, Wiki, Age, Married, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Fast Facts You Need to Know

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David Sparks was arrested and booked into the Madison County Detention Center Thursday morning. He is charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence. Sparks is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. at Garrard County District Court for his arraignment.

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Driver pleads not guilty in New Hampshire motorcycle crash that killed 7

CONCORD, N.H. — A pickup truck driver accused of colliding with a group of motorcyclists, killing seven of them, pleaded not guilty through his lawyer Tuesday to negligent homicide.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was ordered to remain in prevention detention, with a judge citing his past driving record, saying it poses a potential danger to the public and himself.

Zhukovskyy earlier waived his right to arraignment, authorities said. The plea was entered by his attorney Melissa Davis in Coos County Court in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Zhukovskyy remains behind bars there.

The truck Zhukovskyy was driving was towing a flatbed trailer and collided with the motorcycles in Randolph, investigators say. He was driving erratically and crossed the center line, according to criminal complaints released Tuesday.

Zhukovskyy was arrested Monday morning at his home in Massachusetts and handed over to New Hampshire authorities after a court appearance that day.

Records show Zhukovskyy, who was working for a Massachusetts transport company at the time of the crash, has been stopped twice on suspicion of drunken driving in the past seven years.

Connecticut prosecutors say he was arrested May 11 in a Walmart parking lot in East Windsor Walmart after failing a sobriety test. Zhukovskyy’s lawyer in that case, John O’Brien, said he denies being intoxicated and will fight the charge.

Additionally, Zhukovskyy was arrested on a drunken driving charge in 2013 in Westfield, Massachusetts, state records show. He was placed on probation for one year and had his license suspended for 210 days, The Westfield News reported.

Records from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration indicate that the company Zhukovskyy was driving for at the time of the motorcycle crash, Westfield Transport, has been cited for various violations in the past two years, MassLive.com reported.

Phones rang unanswered at the company.

The victims were members or supporters of the Marine JarHeads, a New England motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses, and ranged in age from 42 to 62. Four were from New Hampshire, two from Massachusetts and one from Rhode Island.

Members of the group and relatives of the victims have welcomed the charges against Zhukovskyy but said it would do little to easier their pain.

Relatives of Zhukovskyy said they were also suffering and defended him as a good person who didn’t intentionally kill the motorcyclists. They said he was on his way back to Massachusetts from dropping of a shipment of cars and appeared happy to be heading home.

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He Now Faces Intent To Kill Charges

Just when you think a horror movie is enough thrills for one evening, shots were fired in a North Carolina movie theater right in the middle of Us. 

According to WBTV, the incident went down at an AMC Theater at Concord Mills mall on Sunday, and a teen suspect was arrested on Monday.

The reason for the whole shootout?

A movie theater seat, according to officials.

The victim, 24-year-old William Weldon, was treated for his injuries at a hospital and was later released.

The trigger-happy suspect was none other than 18-year-old Bryant Gregory Eaves Jr. He was arrested in South Carolina, and now he’s charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with an intent to kill.

After the shooting, the mall was shut down for the evening and folks were asked to leave the vicinity. One Jameel Bryant was inside the mall after the shooting, and he says panic ensued.

“It looked like a movie, like people escaping… and just literally running for their lives,” said Bryant. “I can tell you what, I’m glad I went to church today. To be that close to danger is kind of scary.”

Once the mall was closed, an early investigation by the cops determined that the suspect was no longer in the building.

However, once they picked up Eaves in South Carolina, they booked him in the Lancaster County Detention Center awaiting extradition back to Charlotte, NC.

According to New York Post, officials don’t believe that Eaves and the victim knew each other before the shooting.

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L.A. County Plans on Replacing Mens Central Jail With Mental Health Facility for Inmates

The county of Los Angeles has approved a plan that would initiate the demolition of the medieval-like Men’s Central Jail downtown in the efforts to build one mental health treatment facility in its place.

The new strategy customizes a $2.2-billion proposal that would have created the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which was designed to house 3,885 “prisoner patients” in a rehabilitation-focused center in the footprint of the Central Jail, which was built in 1963.

Under a critical arrangement authorized Tuesday, the Department of Health Providers would supervise the brand-new facility, rather than the Police Department, which presently handles all prison operations. The brand-new area, called the Mental Health Treatment Center, would be staffed by the Department of Mental Health, with a restricted number of deputies providing security.

The county would also consider building a series of smaller mental university hospitals instead of a single, big health center. The strategy marks a significant shift in viewpoint in housing inmates and an acknowledgment of the changing nature of the prison population: Inmates who are medically or mentally ill now make up an estimated 70% of people kept in the county prison system.

” Sheriff’s deputies will never get adequate training to end up being psychological health professionals, nor should they,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn, who co-authored the motion detailing the strategy with Manager Mark Ridley-Thomas. “Jailers equipped with Tasers and pepper spray are inherently damaging to producing the safe environment essential for mental healthcare.”

Hahn said the supreme goal is to divert prisoners to community-based care any place possible.

Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl opposed the relocation in a 3-2 vote, arguing the plan might still allow for the building of a vast facility with too many beds, which they say would lead to bad results for people who have a mental disorder.

” It’s still a jail. It’s still walls. It’s still avoiding individuals from having freedom, the possibility of even rehab,” Solis stated.

Kuehl stated the new task if it consisted of near to the original variety of beds supplied under the old proposal, would house a more extensive range of people than all the county medical facilities integrated. California’s biggest state-run psychological health healthcare facility runs about 1,500 beds.

Ridley-Thomas noted that the plan does not mandate a specific variety of beds.

” There is nothing here that is irreparable,” he stated. He included that the more urgent goal is to take down the decrepit Central Jail, an out-of-date lockup that houses people in long rows of cells. “Having them there one day further is just undesirable.”

The board’s action Tuesday implies the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which had remained in development in 2015, will no longer be built. It had been billed as representing a “paradigm shift” in the handling of prisoners.

That policy required prisoners presently held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, the main site for prisoners with mental illness or drug addiction, to be relocated to the brand-new center. Men’s Central Jail inmates would be transported to Twin Towers.

Neighborhood activists have long opposed the building of any brand-new prisons, arguing that the billions of dollars devoted to a new center would be better invested in reentry programs, accessible housing, community-based services, and other options. Hundreds of advocates for jail reform, wearing orange shirts, crowded the auditorium Tuesday to fight the mental health treatment facility, arguing it would become a dressed-up prison

“In the end, they have just approved an agreement to create a psychological health jail, a jail with a bow on it,” Hernandez said. Still, she stated it was a partial victory that years of activism had pressed authorities to seek alternatives to imprisonment.

Also Tuesday, the supervisors voted to kill a long time proposal to transform the Mira Loma detention center in Lancaster into a women’s jail. They supported a relocation presented by Manager Kathryn Barger to take a look at whether economic housing might be built on the site instead.

The supervisors also authorized efforts to produce programs resolving ladies’ requirements in jail, to study most exceptional practices for serving ladies and those with a mental disorder and substance abuse addiction, and check out how to expand diversion programs when it comes to custody.

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L.A. County Plans on Replacing Men’s Central Jail With Mental Health Facility for Inmates

The county of Los Angeles has approved a plan that would initiate the demolition of the medieval-like Men’s Central Jail downtown in the efforts to build one mental health treatment facility in its place.

The new strategy customizes a $2.2-billion proposal that would have created the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which was designed to house 3,885 “prisoner patients” in a rehabilitation-focused center in the footprint of the Central Jail, which was built in 1963.

Under a critical arrangement authorized Tuesday, the Department of Health Providers would supervise the brand-new facility, rather than the Police Department, which presently handles all prison operations. The brand-new area, called the Mental Health Treatment Center, would be staffed by the Department of Mental Health, with a restricted number of deputies providing security.

The county would also consider building a series of smaller mental university hospitals instead of a single, big health center. The strategy marks a significant shift in viewpoint in housing inmates and an acknowledgment of the changing nature of the prison population: Inmates who are medically or mentally ill now make up an estimated 70% of people kept in the county prison system.

” Sheriff’s deputies will never get adequate training to end up being psychological health professionals, nor should they,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn, who co-authored the motion detailing the strategy with Manager Mark Ridley-Thomas. “Jailers equipped with Tasers and pepper spray are inherently damaging to producing the safe environment essential for mental healthcare.”

Hahn said the supreme goal is to divert prisoners to community-based care any place possible.

Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl opposed the relocation in a 3-2 vote, arguing the plan might still allow for the building of a vast facility with too many beds, which they say would lead to bad results for people who have a mental disorder.

” It’s still a jail. It’s still walls. It’s still avoiding individuals from having freedom, the possibility of even rehab,” Solis stated.

Kuehl stated the new task if it consisted of near to the original variety of beds supplied under the old proposal, would house a more extensive range of people than all the county medical facilities integrated. California’s biggest state-run psychological health healthcare facility runs about 1,500 beds.

Ridley-Thomas noted that the plan does not mandate a specific variety of beds.

” There is nothing here that is irreparable,” he stated. He included that the more urgent goal is to take down the decrepit Central Jail, an out-of-date lockup that houses people in long rows of cells. “Having them there one day further is just undesirable.”

The board’s action Tuesday implies the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which had remained in development in 2015, will no longer be built. It had been billed as representing a “paradigm shift” in the handling of prisoners.

That policy required prisoners presently held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, the main site for prisoners with mental illness or drug addiction, to be relocated to the brand-new center. Men’s Central Jail inmates would be transported to Twin Towers.

Neighborhood activists have long opposed the building of any brand-new prisons, arguing that the billions of dollars devoted to a new center would be better invested in reentry programs, accessible housing, community-based services, and other options. Hundreds of advocates for jail reform, wearing orange shirts, crowded the auditorium Tuesday to fight the mental health treatment facility, arguing it would become a dressed-up prison

“In the end, they have just approved an agreement to create a psychological health jail, a jail with a bow on it,” Hernandez said. Still, she stated it was a partial victory that years of activism had pressed authorities to seek alternatives to imprisonment.

Also Tuesday, the supervisors voted to kill a long time proposal to transform the Mira Loma detention center in Lancaster into a women’s jail. They supported a relocation presented by Manager Kathryn Barger to take a look at whether economic housing might be built on the site instead.

The supervisors also authorized efforts to produce programs resolving ladies’ requirements in jail, to study most exceptional practices for serving ladies and those with a mental disorder and substance abuse addiction, and check out how to expand diversion programs when it comes to custody.

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L.A. County Plans on Replacing Men’s Central Jail With Mental Health Facility for Inmates

The county of Los Angeles has approved a plan that would initiate the demolition of the medieval-like Men’s Central Jail downtown in the efforts to build one mental health treatment facility in its place.

The new strategy customizes a $2.2-billion proposal that would have created the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which was designed to house 3,885 “prisoner patients” in a rehabilitation-focused center in the footprint of the Central Jail, which was built in 1963.

Under a critical arrangement authorized Tuesday, the Department of Health Providers would supervise the brand-new facility, rather than the Police Department, which presently handles all prison operations. The brand-new area, called the Mental Health Treatment Center, would be staffed by the Department of Mental Health, with a restricted number of deputies providing security.

The county would also consider building a series of smaller mental university hospitals instead of a single, big health center. The strategy marks a significant shift in viewpoint in housing inmates and an acknowledgment of the changing nature of the prison population: Inmates who are medically or mentally ill now make up an estimated 70% of people kept in the county prison system.

” Sheriff’s deputies will never get adequate training to end up being psychological health professionals, nor should they,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn, who co-authored the motion detailing the strategy with Manager Mark Ridley-Thomas. “Jailers equipped with Tasers and pepper spray are inherently damaging to producing the safe environment essential for mental healthcare.”

Hahn said the supreme goal is to divert prisoners to community-based care any place possible.

Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl opposed the relocation in a 3-2 vote, arguing the plan might still allow for the building of a vast facility with too many beds, which they say would lead to bad results for people who have a mental disorder.

” It’s still a jail. It’s still walls. It’s still avoiding individuals from having freedom, the possibility of even rehab,” Solis stated.

Kuehl stated the new task if it consisted of near to the original variety of beds supplied under the old proposal, would house a more extensive range of people than all the county medical facilities integrated. California’s biggest state-run psychological health healthcare facility runs about 1,500 beds.

Ridley-Thomas noted that the plan does not mandate a specific variety of beds.

” There is nothing here that is irreparable,” he stated. He included that the more urgent goal is to take down the decrepit Central Jail, an out-of-date lockup that houses people in long rows of cells. “Having them there one day further is just undesirable.”

The board’s action Tuesday implies the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility, which had remained in development in 2015, will no longer be built. It had been billed as representing a “paradigm shift” in the handling of prisoners.

That policy required prisoners presently held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, the main site for prisoners with mental illness or drug addiction, to be relocated to the brand-new center. Men’s Central Jail inmates would be transported to Twin Towers.

Neighborhood activists have long opposed the building of any brand-new prisons, arguing that the billions of dollars devoted to a new center would be better invested in reentry programs, accessible housing, community-based services, and other options. Hundreds of advocates for jail reform, wearing orange shirts, crowded the auditorium Tuesday to fight the mental health treatment facility, arguing it would become a dressed-up prison

“In the end, they have just approved an agreement to create a psychological health jail, a jail with a bow on it,” Hernandez said. Still, she stated it was a partial victory that years of activism had pressed authorities to seek alternatives to imprisonment.

Also Tuesday, the supervisors voted to kill a long time proposal to transform the Mira Loma detention center in Lancaster into a women’s jail. They supported a relocation presented by Manager Kathryn Barger to take a look at whether economic housing might be built on the site instead.

The supervisors also authorized efforts to produce programs resolving ladies’ requirements in jail, to study most exceptional practices for serving ladies and those with a mental disorder and substance abuse addiction, and check out how to expand diversion programs when it comes to custody.

source http://www.ivdaily.com/l-a-county-plans-on-replacing-mens-central-jail-with-mental-health-facility-for-inmates from Ivdaily https://ivdaily.blogspot.com/2019/02/la-county-plans-on-replacing-mens.html

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Who’s on the neighborhood advisory councils for the borough jails?

Last week, I noted that I was looking into who is serving on the Neighborhood Advisory Councils weighing in on the jail expansion plan. A couple of days ago, I got a response from the Mayor’s Office with more info. Below is the list they provided. Each of the groups has already begun meetings, except for Manhattan which will commence later this month, per the Mayor’s Office.

Bronx 

In addition to several community members, there have been representatives from:

Community Board 1

Bronx Defenders

SOS Bronx

Bronx Connect

Latino Pastoral Action Center,

Queens

 In addition to community members from Kew Gardens (Kew Gardens Civic Association) there have been representatives from:

Community Board 9

LaGuardia Community College

Queensborough Community College

Life Camp

Queens House

Fortune Society

Hour Children

Brooklyn

In additions to community members from Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights Associations there have been representatives from:

Community Board 2

JustLeadership USA

Brooklyn Law School

Gangstas Makings Astronomical  Community Changes (GMACC)

Lippman Commission

Atlantic Avenue BID

Manhattan

In addition to Chinatown community members (Confucius Plaza, Smith Houses, Hamilton Madison house and Chatham Towers)  there have been representatives from organizations such as:

Smith Houses

Hamilton-Madison House

Chatham Towers

Community Board 1

Community Board 3

Chinatown Partnership

Chung Pak

Chinese- American Planning Council

Street Corner Resources

READING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE BEAT

DA RACE: Queens DA Richard Brown will not seek re-election this fall. The announcement sets the stage for the first competitive primary for Queens district attorney in decades. Related: For district attorneys and sheriffs, “tough on crime” is becoming a liability. The Appeal looks back on 2018 as the year organizers put their attention on elections that typically haven’t gotten much attention, but that have huge effects on how the criminal justice system functions. The best example is, of course, Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s progressive DA, who during his first year on the job has made significant changes to how all kinds of crimes — both non-violent and violent — are prosecuted. Related: Could the borough get its own Krasner? A number of progressive candidates are already throwing their hats in the ring, including Tiffany Caban, Lorelei Salas, Jose Nieves, Rory Lancman and Gabe Munsen.

JAIL EXPANSION: Mariame Kaba went on Democracy Now! to discuss the NYC jail plan. In an interview with Amy Goodman Friday, Kaba (aka @prisonculture) advocated for the #NoNewJails approach to closing Rikers, arguing that replacing the jail complex with new facilities completely misses the point. The Mayor, she said, only came out against closing Rikers after massive pressure from organizers, “who did not say, ‘Close Rikers and open up a bunch of decentralized jails.’ That was not the demand, OK? It was ‘Close Rikers and decarcerate.”

CRIMINALIZED SURVIVORS: Cyntoia Brown will be released in August. This week, Tennessee Gov. granted full clemency to the sexual trafficking victim who killed a man who paid her for sex when she was just 16 years old. She has already served 15 years behind bars. Background: For a good backgrounder on her case, read this from The Appeal. In her own words: Here’s Brown’s full statement on her clemency. And also read this: There are thousands of Cyntoia Browns. Some of them are here in New York. Since 2011, Gov. Cuomo has granted clemency to just 12 people — zero in 2018. #FreeThemNY advocates are calling on him to do more.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS: After Hurricane Michael, a prison town in South Carolina struggles to get back on its feet. The New York Times looks at how the town of Marianna is recovering from the 2018 storm, which forced hundreds of inmates to relocate to a facility in Yazoo City, Miss., more than 400 miles away. I’ve been following reports about disaster preparedness in jails and prisons for a few months, and have read about Marianna before, in the news and on online prison forums. When Michael hit, families were left wondering where their loved ones ended up, and were working together to crowdsource reports of evacuations and conditions in prisons. Another disaster: Two sheriff’s deputies let mentally ill patients drown in a jail van during a flood. This devastating story was missed during the hubbub about prisoners eating food during the government shutdown.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Clickbait aside, the shutdown did have a real impact on both staff and inmates in federal prisons. Among them: family visits canceled during the holidays, terminally ill patients denied compassionate release, fewer mental health resources, reduced programming, and more.

ELSEWHERE: Across the country, locking people up who can’t pay fines is standard practice. These “modern-day debtors prisons,” where defendants can be imprisoned for months at a time simply for not having enough money, are especially common in declining southern towns but can be found all over the U.S. The New York Times talked to some of those who’ve experienced them. “I thought, Because we’re poor, because we’re of a lower class, we aren’t allowed real freedom,” one of them said. “And it was the worst feeling in the world.”

JAIL EXPANSION: Los Angeles County is rethinking its $3.5 billion jail plan. After months of community opposition, members of the LA County Board of Supervisors will reconsider their plan to retrofit an immigration detention center as a women's jail on toxic land in Lancaster. Justice Leadership USA celebrates the news in a press release: “We have organized as members of the Justice LA campaign, led by directly impacted communities, and we have gathered research making the case to stop the construction to avoid the deep generational harms that would come with this $3.5 billion dollar jail expansion.”

VOTING RIGHTS: Amendment 4 went into effect in Florida this week. Massive numbers of people flocked to government buildings to register to vote on Tuesday, the first day Amendment 4 expanded voting rights access to formerly incarcerated people who completed their sentences. “I just thank God for this day,” one man told the Sun Sentinel after registering. “I’m a different man now.” Related: New Yorkers who voted for the first time in 2018 had similar responses, as I reported in November. “I felt like my citizenship had been legitimized,” one man who voted for the first time after serving his sentence told me.

INSPIRATION

A resource hub on transformative justice. I am certain that Transformharm.org will become an invaluable resource to me as I continue to do solutions-based reporting on mass incarceration and its impacts. Do not miss this resource, compiled by Mariame Kaba (aka @prisonculture), which contains tons of useful information about abolition, transformative justice, community accountability, and more.

City Bureau is training and paying community members to record public meetings. The nonprofit launched Documenters.org last week, a project to creating a robust and centralized public record for Chicagoans. It will provide essential info on city and county meetings to the public daily, in part by enlisting the help of the public in collecting this information. I would love to see a journalistic project like this for the courts. 

WHAT I’M RESEARCHING

Do you have experience or expertise that could help me answer these questions? Please reach out at beatrixlockwood [at] gmail.com.

How many people on parole in NYC each year are violated for “associating with a known criminal?”

What are the unique pathways that land women in jail?

What is the racial and gender breakdown of who pays bail in NYC?

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How to Turn Back a Giant by Negin Owliailei

What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place. Residents of Lancaster County, Penn. were thrilled to learn this lesson with their recent victory against Geo Group, a giant of the private prison industry.

Photo credit: Shutterstock / cc

Geo Group has gained notoriety for its shady practices, with a rap sheet as varied as the so-called services it provides. Geo has turned into a household name in recent weeks for profiting off the youth and family detention centers that have become hallmarks of President Donald Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. But the company’s heinous practices predate Trump — though their highly suspect lobbying relationship with the current administration is well-documented.

The private prison profiteers have misspent millions in federal funds, only to manage facilities that one federal judge called “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions.” Despite their abhorrent track record, Geo has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government contracts in the last year, with a staggering $9.7 million lining the pockets of CEO George Zoley in 2017.

In Lancaster County, Geo found a smaller target than the family detention centers currently at the top of the headlines. The company was bidding to take over the reentry services the county provided to formerly incarcerated people as they left the prison system. Unfortunately for Geo, Lancaster County already had an established reentry program. A coalition of nonprofits known as the Reentry Management Organization had been providing community-led reintegration services with documented success.

But those nonprofits, which were funded on an ad-hoc basis, were left in the dust when the county decided to change the funding process to a bidding-style competition. A whirlwind of changing standards and priorities, along with opaque proposal processes, left the nonprofits confused, as the services they’d long provided were no longer aligned with the  county’s goals. Meanwhile, Geo Group capitalized, putting forward the only bid to provide parolee services.

The company had been circling Lancaster for some time, Michelle Hines, an organizer with Lancaster Stands Up, said. Lancaster residents were surprised and angry to learn that local nonprofits might be replaced by prison profiteers, and leapt into action, planning town halls and packing prison board meetings to protect a valuable community institution.

“I don’t think they were expecting to have to make this decision in the light of day,” Hines said. “Municipal government stuff, people don’t usually pay attention. There’s usually like two people at the county commissioner’s meetings. I don’t think they expected such a community response — or, as they called it, a distraction.”

People filled the commissioner’s meetings — religious leaders, nonprofit leaders, formerly incarcerated citizens — as the normally empty gatherings turned into standing room only events. Hines says the furor was a testament to how negatively the community felt about Geo Group, but also how well local nonprofits were functioning in that space for years. “They had a level of service that could only come from people in the community that really, really care.”

“I didn’t know these local organizations before and how successful they were, but I did know Geo Group and that it’s a bad company,” Hines said, citing her concerns over for-profit prisons in general, and Geo’s contract to build controversial immigrant family detention centers in particular. “I know I’ve lived in Lancaster my whole life and I don’t want them in my county.”

Neither did many people in Lancaster. The mass attention to the proposed contract took county commissioners by surprise. Ultimately, the county was swayed by the display of distrust in Geo. While the next steps remain unclear, the county rejectedthe company’s bid to manage the reentry program at a packed town meeting earlier this month. While Hines and other members of the community are still pushing the county to let the local nonprofits maintain control over the reentry program, they’re celebrating Geo’s denial.

“These big corporations over and over again come into our communities, buy people off, and then are able to perpetrate harm against everybody here,” Hines said. “For a really long time I’d been watching this happen and it just felt like an impossible thing to fight back against, and I feel so empowered to be in a position to have enough people power in our community to be able to fight back.”

For Hines, the win against Geo is a success in its own right, but it’s even more powerful because it’s one of the first concrete successes that she can point to as an organizer with Lancaster Stands Up — something she hopes will encourage budding activists in a region that’s frequently written off by the media and national progressive groups. “I am of the philosophy that one of the best things you can do when organizing a group of people is give them a taste of their power.”

Lancaster Stands Up has been organizing to build power in southern Pennsylvania for two years now. The collective came together in the wake of Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, and has since put pressure on elected officials across the political spectrum in an effort to recast established politics into something that works for people in their community.

“That election was degrading to people. A lot of people felt powerless to have any kind of say in their community, and felt like things were going in a direction so quickly that was opposite to our values,” Hines said. “To do work to try to make sure that the people, the regular, everyday working people have a voice, and to see that actually come to fruition in such a concrete way, to see evidence and validation that what we’ve been doing is working, is really incredible.”

Hines also hopes that the victory against the Geo contract will help other communities railing against what often feel like insurmountable odds. “I hope we can provide some inspiration to other groups that are fighting and feel like they’re up against an impossible system and incredible power, to know to keep at it. We’re not going to have for-profit prisons forever,” Hines said. “We’re going to win this fight but we’re not going to win it if we don’t keep fighting it.”

As for Geo? Hines says that their fight against the private prison profiteers began before they were a mainstay in national news headlines, but she wants to keep the target on their back. “Now I hope that they get worse press, and that they get driven out of communities across the country. That would be the dream.”

First published at Inequality.org