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Joinfortmill
(17,867 posts)CurtEastPoint
(19,398 posts)rubbersole
(9,705 posts)IA8IT
(6,130 posts)Arkansas has the death penalty.
TomSlick
(12,341 posts)The prosecuting attorney would never dream of charging the county jailers. I'm not terribly optimistic about the civil case in northwest Arkansas.
Next thing he knows, his teenage kid in jail - full of bumps and bruises - and no one knows why.
TomSlick
(12,341 posts)peppertree
(22,850 posts)I grew up in Mississippi, and some of my fondest memories are of visiting the Ozarks - especially Eureka Springs, the lake country and Hot Springs.
Second only to N'Awlins as my favorite, I'd say.
And guess who was Governor...
TomSlick
(12,341 posts)There are many good people here. We're just outnumbered - by a lot - by the Bubbas.
Arkansas is home. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
Appealing - and reasonably priced too. Unlike so many other states these days.
I do also miss Orange County, CA, I can tell you - but man...
judesedit
(4,543 posts)hydrolastic
(536 posts)How is possible for this to even happen? This is a privately run jail, correct? I hope he has family and that the state gets sued. Even then there is nothing that can make up for what this man went through.
TomSlick
(12,341 posts)The "health care provider" was a private company but it was county employees that let the man starve.
The county sheriff's personnel will be shielded by qualified immunity.
iluvtennis
(21,150 posts)he wasn't eating.
This jail needs to be investigated and changes made.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,275 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,770 posts)Like the really necessary Executive Order to Prohibit Indoctrination and Critical Race Theory in Schools!
Good forbid we teach kids any truths.
Ilsa
(62,717 posts)disabled? What the hell is wrong with the police and prosecutor? Who collected his SSI or SSDI while he was in prison?
LiberalArkie
(17,991 posts)will stop being paid.