MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Why was this child not released on his own reccognizance? Might it be, his (pick one or more) Race? Class? County of Residence?
By jollyroger on Fri, 11/29/2013 - 11:09am |We appear to have lost track of the meaning of "presumed innocent"...
URL:
http://www.alternet.org/16-year-old-jailed-rikers-3-years-without-trial
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When we said conditions at Gitmo weren't exceptional, they were just like in the US of A, we meant it. Hunger strikes? check. Solitary? check. Lack of charges? check. Beatings? check. Racial profiling? check. Attempted suicide? check. Lack of counsel? check. Indefinite detention? check.
But not sure how you think he wasn't presumed innocent - they released him without charges - quite white of them, no?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/29/2013 - 1:59pm
Bronx criminal courts are notoriously FUBAR with backlog and general understaffuing. For years: a nightmare for many. So I would venture that it's his county that is the main problem, specifically, his county's courts.
Meanwhile, in related news, Rikers Island guards' union does not take it kindly even when it's the legal authorities making accusations of brutality by their members; they stage work stoppages. More here at NY Daily News.
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/29/2013 - 7:26pm
He really is not an unusual case for the Bronx, I am serious. Here's better back up
In this 1 1/2 min. video from April by William Glaberson of the NYTimes, he says it right at the start, that even many found not gulity languish for years in jail within the Bronx court system, that it is quite a Kafka like mess quite unlike the other courts in the city.
The video is a promo for his four part investigative report, also from April:
Kafka comparisons are not overreach if you read it.
Elsewhere I've read that the county's Family Courts can be equally Kafka-esque. Which means an attitude where minors get no special treatment in this system....
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/29/2013 - 7:43pm