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Pandemic causing delay in jail releases, overcrowded prisons, Texas judge and lawyer agree
They say Texas citizens are the ones paying to keep inmates behind bars longer than normal, but the trouble is twofold. Author: Almiya White (KBMT), KBMT (12NewsNow) Published: 10:19 PM CDT June 29, 2021 Updated: 10:19 PM CDT June 29, 2021
BEAUMONT, Texas Texas jails and prisons are both overcrowded. Judges and lawyers are calling it a COVID-19 pandemic side effect.
They say Texas citizens are the ones paying to keep inmates behind bars longer than normal, but the trouble is twofold. County jails are full of defendants awaiting trial, and Texas prisons are housing people who have already been cleared for parole.
Alabama Shakes Drummer Steve Johnson Denies Child Abuse Charges as He Posts Bond
The musician is now set to be released after weeks behind bars
According to local Alabama news network WAYY [via
Stereogum], Johnson will be released later today after posting bond:
RIGHT NOW: Friends, family and supporters of Alabama Shakes drummer Steve Johnson pray outside the Limestone County Courthouse. Judge West granted bonds totaling $26,500 and he will be released later today after he posts, his lawyers say. @WAAYTV@StephenGallienpic.twitter.com/W3PvJeTJh7 Luke Hajdasz WAAY 31 (@LukeWAAY31) April 7, 2021
A grand jury had indicted Johnson of willful torture, willful abuse, and cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating a child under the age of 18.
Rep. Tom Reed, R.-NY, wrote in a Tuesday op-ed for The New York Times his intention to introduce a censure resolution in the House for the president to ensure accountability occurs without delay for the events of Jan. 6.
Trump s pardons are worth a second impeachment inquiry
An immediate second impeachment may be our only hope to avoid a Trump 2024 bid for office.
Impeachment might still be the best option to avoid another Trump presidency.Anjali Nair / AFP via Getty Images
Dec. 29, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC
President Donald Trump is leaving the White House in January, and he seems determined to exploit and abuse every power of the presidency he can on his way out.
The clemency he offered up recently for convicted war criminals, corrupt former members of Congress and members of his extended family were bad enough. But most disturbing were his pardons of his political allies Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, both of whom were convicted as a result of Robert Mueller s Russia investigation.