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A spokesman for Mayor Tishaura Jones did not say what the announcement would be
Credit: KSDK Author: Sam Clancy Updated: 7:34 PM CDT May 13, 2021
ST. LOUIS St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and St. Louis County Executive Sam Page will hold a joint press conference Friday to announce new joint health orders in the two jurisdictions.
The press conference will be held at 11:30 a.m. at St. Louis City Hall. A spokesman for Mayor Jones did not say what the announcement would be.
Jones will also hold a solo press conference at 1:30 p.m. The press release said she will discuss COVID-19 updates, the status of the City Justice Center and Workhouse, new members of her administration, and other topics.
Mayor Tishaura Jones announced Corrections Division Commissioner Dale Glass s retirement Wednesday Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 12:33 PM CDT May 14, 2021
ST. LOUIS Charlene Deeken isn’t one for the spotlight, but this week’s abrupt retirement of Corrections Division Commissioner Dale Glass changed that.
“You know I’m not keen on this sort of thing,” she told me as our interview began. “But this bothers me a lot.
“It bothers me a great deal that he s been disrespected in this fashion.”
Deeken retired April 20, the day St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was sworn into office, after a 40-year career with the city. The last third of her career she spent as the Deputy Director of Public Safety.
Embattled St. Louis corrections commissioner stepping down
by Jim Salter, The Associated Press
Posted May 12, 2021 3:15 pm EDT
Last Updated May 12, 2021 at 3:28 pm EDT
The head of St. Louis’ oft-criticized corrections department will resign at the end of the month, the new mayor announced Wednesday.
Mayor Tishaura Jones said in a news release that Dale Glass wasn’t asked to resign from his position as corrections commissioner, but she made clear that she wasn’t pleased with how he’s run the department, which in recent months has had to deal with two large inmate uprisings and complaints about squalid conditions in the city’s jails.
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Corrections Commissioner Dale Glass announced he plans to resign from his position on Wednesday, after a tumultuous year. Glass has held the position since 2012.
St. Louis Corrections Commissioner Dale Glass will resign from his position on June 1, following months of criticism over the management and condition of the city s jails.
Glass s resignation, announced Wednesday in a statement from the mayor s office, came as little surprise to city politicians and criminal justice activists.
“Failed leadership overseeing the city’s Corrections division has left the city with a huge mess to clean up,” Mayor Tishuara Jones said in a statement. “Between failing locks, lackluster maintenance, and subhuman conditions for the detainees under our care, it only further justifies my promise to shut down the Workhouse within my first 100 days.”