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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