Rashaad Muhammad was arrested in August and booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia. He had his fingers and lower legs amputated after his medical staff failed to give him antibiotics and other medical supplies he told them he needed. His lawyer, Ben Crump, is calling for a criminal investigation into the events leading to the amputations. Crump and his team are exploring "every possible legal remedy" to secure justice for Muhammad and hold those responsible accountable.
Everlee Wihongi, 37, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles on 10 April. She moved to the US with her family aged six and has a green card. She was detained because she had a conviction for possession of marijuana dating back more than a decade. The family visited New Zealand in March for an uncleâs 80th birthday, but when they flew back to Los Angeles, she was detained. She is being held in a room with 46 people for 22 hours a day. Her recall date is set for 10 June.
Miccosukee Tribe observes corn dance season on lands sacred to them in the Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz is a migrant detention site that now looms among the tribal lands. The light from the facility interferes with an important aspect of the tribe's religion, the orientation of the stars. The tribe and environmental groups will continue their litigation over the Alligator alcatraz.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is not accused of helping the inmates pull off the brazen jailbreak through a hole behind a toilet. She is charged with malfeasance, obstruction of justice and falsifying public records. Hutson's office came under investigation after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in an audacious escape that happened on her watch. Bianka Brown, the chief financial officer of the sheriff's office, was also indicted on 20 similar charges.
The US State Department informed Congress that the Palestinian Authority has not stopped making payments to the families of security prisoners and slain attackers. The payments were supposed to be stopped last year, but they are still being made. The US law bars economic aid to Ramallah as long as the controversial payments continue. Israel rejects the prisoner payment reform.
Peter Reuter is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Public Policy and Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland. JONATHAN P. CAULKINS is H. Guyford Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon Universityâs Heinz College. KEITH HUMPHREYS is Esther Ting Memorial Professor at Stanford University.
The Fifth Circuit ruled in February that the administrationâs mandatory detention policy does not violate the Immigration and Nationality Act. Some federal judges have ruled against the policy on constitutional grounds. A three-judge panel heard arguments Wednesday for appeals by the government in three such cases.
Bryan Kohbergerâs lawyers have accused a former defense expert, criminologist Brent Turvey, of violating a confidentiality agreement by speaking about the case. Turvey is a forensic scientist with a Ph.D. in criminology. He has spoken with a number of news outlets in recent days, including Fox News Digital, after breaking his silence in a newly released book, âBroken Plea.â The book revealed a defense assertion that there were serious problems with the chief piece of physical evidence in the case, the Ka-Bar knife sheath.
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Daniel Kinahan was arrested in Dubai. He is accused of being involved in at least two murders and two attempted murders between 2015 and 2017 during a bloody feud between his group and another Dublin-based organization, the Hutch clan. On Monday, Kinahan's former top lieutenant, McGovern, appeared at Dublin's Special Criminal Court for a sentencing hearing relating to the same period. It was the first time since the nineteen-nineties that a senior figure in the Kinahan Organized Crime Group had appeared before an Irish court.