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A Stellantis NV employee died this week after machinery collapsed on him while on the job at the Sterling Stamping Plant in Sterling Heights.
The findings were a part of a preliminary investigation by the Sterling Heights Police Department of the Wednesday evening incident that led to the death of the 57-year-old Shelby Township resident, Lt. Mario Bastianelli said. The transatlantic automaker confirmed the employee s death.
In a Facebook post, United Auto Workers Local 1264 identified the individual as a third-shift crane operator. Stellantis confirms that there was a workplace accident at the Sterling Stamping Plant on April 21, resulting in the death of one of our employees, spokeswoman Jodi Tinson said in a statement. The incident is currently under investigation. We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of our employee.
(The Center Square) â Gov. Bill Lee has promised criminal justice reform in Tennessee, and several of his proposed bills that are set to move forward in coming weeks could have a significant effect on those in the stateâs prison system.
âI ve been thinking about it for 20 years,â Lee said recently during a roundtable he held on the subject last week. âNow, we re in spot in Tennessee to really make substantive change.â
Many of the changes proposed in the bills and in Lee s amended budget aim to reduce the prison population while focusing on re-entry for nonviolent offenders.
The Reentry Success Act â
Matthew Charles was sentenced to a 35-year prison sentence in 1996 for trafficking in crack cocaine.
Shortly after Congress passed and former President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act in December 2018, a judge ordered Charles released.
As someone who spent 22 years in prison, I know first-hand that you are not the same person at sentencing that you are when you are released – and that there is too often not a path to have an excessive sentence reconsidered.
I was the first person released under the federal First Step Act, landmark federal legislation signed by President Trump.
When I started my 35-year prison sentence for selling drugs, I experienced a radical transformation by reading the Bible and becoming a Christian. I took every Bible study and educational class I could, became a tutor and then a law clerk, started serving others in prison, and didn’t receive a single disciplinary infraction.
March 11, 2021
A resolution designed to remove Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle from the bench may have died, but other legislation is pending that could move cases against the state out of Davidson County into more conservative parts of Tennessee.
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Cases against the state of Tennessee are filed in Davidson County courts because the State Capitol is located in Nashville.
But state Sen. Mike Bell, a Riceville Republican from southeast Tennessee, said Wednesday he is planning to introduce legislation that would move cases against the state to different judicial jurisdictions, either surrounding counties or into one of the state s three grand divisions. He also mentioned the possibility of setting up judicial panels to hear those cases.