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Cleveland activists to picket August 15 over 9 inmate deaths in county jail, malicious prosecutions, excessive sentences against Blacks, inhumane jail conditions, corrupt judges and prosecutors, excessive force, bail reform, speedy trial violations, grand jury tampering, indictment fixing, and other malfeasance, U.S. Marshals issuing findings of unconstitutional and inhumane Cuyahoga County Jail conditions......Activists also want justice for Shelia McFarland, who is Black and serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole aftet calling Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul a racist.....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com -CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland  community members and local community activists, led by Alfref Porter Jr of Black on Black Crime Inc and supported by the Imperial Women Coalition, Fathers Lives Matter, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Black Man's Army, and other Cleveland area activist groups, will again picket the embattled Cuyahoga County Jail at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland on Aug 15, 2019 at 11 am to protest jail conditions, nine inmate deaths in roughly a year, and for Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst to resign for harassing Blacks and activists, among other matters. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THIS PROTEST Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Organizers said that issues also include excessive force, bail reform, malicious prosecutions, grand jury tampering, indictment fixing, and excessive sentences by the 34 largely White general division common ple

Cleveland's Black activists support Judge Michael Nelson's call for a federal takeover of the Cuyahoga County Jail with activists protesting May 23 after 9 recent jail deaths, Nelson also calling for a consent decree for jail reforms....Community activists Brenda Bickerstaff, Frances Caldwell and Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime Inc. comment....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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From left: Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael Nelson Sr., also a former Cleveland NAACP president, and Black greater Cleveland activists Brenda Bickerstaff, Frances Caldwell, and  Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime Inc. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, investigative reporter, editor-in-chief Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com -CLEVELAND, Ohio-   Black Cleveland com

Cleveland NAACP, activists to host community hearing today on Cuyahoga County Jail following 7 recent jail deaths, an FBI investigation, and a finding by U.S. Marshals of unconstitutional jail violations, including inadequate health care, withholding food from inmates for punishment, juveniles housed with adults, pregnant women housed on the floor, harassment of inmates by management and jail staff, and roach and rat infested jail facilities....Cleveland Judge Michael Nelson Sr, who made national news for refusing to send low level offenders to the jail due to the deaths, will be in attendance, his personal bailiff told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, in cooperation with area community activist groups, will host a community hearing on the Cuyahoga County Jail on Thursday Dec. 6 from 6 pm-8pm  at Mount Sinai Baptist Church on Cleveland's  largely Black east side. The overcrowded county jail last year merged with the Cleveland jail, which paid the county

Chief Cuyahoga County Judge John Russo warns fellow common pleas judges on illegally jailed inmates after 7 recent jail deaths, a current FBI investigation, and a possible federal takeover over the jail that serves Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland....Data show that Blacks in particular, and others, are often jailed illegally by the judges....Community activists want both jail and court reforms via consent decrees monitored by a federal judge.... By Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cuyahoga County Presiding and Administrative Judge John Russo Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -Chief Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Russo, via a letter to his judicial colleges, is urging the other 33 judges on the general division bench to clear their dockets of people they have illegally jailed, a demand or gesture in response to an ongoing FBI inves

Cleveland activists are upset that Blacks are rapidly dying in the Cuyahoga County Jail and Cleveland Judge Michael Nelson Sr. has their support as to his stance of not sending defendants accused of minor crimes to the county jail, which merged with the city jail last year...."Thank you Judge Nelson for caring," said activist Frances Caldwell on the controversial issue....Activist Art McKoy said he is alarmed and supports Judge Nelson, a former Cleveland NAACP president, and activist Alfred Porter Jr, president of Black on Black Crime Inc, said that "there will be more pickets"....Activists picketed the county jail this past summer over police misconduct, judicial and prosecutorial malfeasance and overcrowding in the jail.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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From left: Cleveland activist Art McKoy, Cleveland activist Alfred Porter Jr., Cleveland Judge Michael Nelson Sr, and Cleveland activist Frances Caldwell Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Community activists are backing Judge Michael Nelson Sr., a former criminal defense attorney and former president of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP who won a seat on the 13- member largely Black Cleveland Municipa