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State corrections officers altered prisoner’s ID with racial caricature, lawsuit claims

  • Katherine Dailey

A correctional officer at Newberry Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula digitally altered a Native American prisoner’s ID to depict him wearing a feathered headdress, stereotypical Native American attire and facial paint, a lawsuit filed in Michigan state court in early August alleges. Dylan Leenheer, who is Native American and a member of the Gun […]

Ohio

State of Ohio reverses course, finds Cuyahoga jail staff failed to start CPR in Wade’s death

  • Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project, Brittany Hailer, The Marshall Project, Mark Puente, The Marshall Project

This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. Correctional staff failed to start CPR the moment they discovered Jennifer Wade lifeless in her Cuyahoga County jail cell last year, state […]