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New Changes In Sight

By Aaron

Rick Anderson's Blog post can be found here. As you can read below, it appears that there is a dissonance between what should be done, what can be done and what will be done. That King County Council committee hearing yesterday was a start, at least, in making sure jail administrators and executive Ron Sims finally make changes at the downtown lockup. Council members seemed to agree with our report this week on how federal findings on jail deaths and civil rights violations were received with some of the same ol' bureaucratic shoulder shrugging of the past. "There's a huge divide between 'room for improvement' and what's in the report," council member Bob Ferguson said of the reaction to the Justice Department findings.Still, will the message really sink in? The P-I reports that King County jailers will merely "re-examine" their use of hair-holds to subdue inmates, and the Times notes that corrections director Reed Holtgeerts says his jail administration is cooperating with the feds "as much as we can...continue to full post

Full post as published by Washington State Criminal Defense on December 07, 2007 (boomark / email).