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Dahlonega, Georgia's Cody Wood arrested in Forsyth County; Ron Freeman warns predators
Cody Wood, 33, of Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States was arrested during the Operation Masquerade in Forsyth County, Georgia. It was a three-day operation centered on adults accused of preying on juveniles online and soliciting them for sex.
This is the second operation of its kind in Forsyth County. In 2019, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office conducted Operation Just Cause,…
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There must be something about Trolls and paddleboards
Particularly when you've got mystical creatures so close to Nature as it gets and plenty of springs, creeks and bayous (not to mention their likely backwaters) around Troll County, somewhere close to the American South as I understand it ... and when two and two come together essentially, Trolldom, in its desire for introllconnecting unto Nature such as is their blood, can't help but find paddleboarding as introllesting as it can get.
In the particular case of those trollmantics, Blitz Lumpkin and Pixlee Trollsom, you just can't help but find plenty of incentive for as much trollventure as trollmance in some backwater paddleboard trollsperience, especially considering where
for the most part, Troll-type paddleboards are made of groundfall wood, never mind such being as long and as big as a typical old-school Hawai'ian surfboard such as was reserved for the use of royalty and chieftains;
warm summer days can't help but call for wearing but one's troll self on a paddleboarding excursion, whereas the slightly-chilly Southern winters will call for a light sweater and sweat pants in such a scenario;
it's not all that uncommon to pack just enough for maybe an overnight paddleboard trollventure to some backwater troll settlement, being surprised to find the locals themselves also into paddleboarding (especially on narrower creeks and bayous); and
such paddleboards that Blitz and Pixlee are fond of are those as can support both on a typical such paddleboarding trollventure--with Flooky, their pet drawg, sometimes joining along (and who knew drawgs could paddleboard as well?)
And with such companionship trollveturtous that Blitz and Pixlee happen to have, you can just bet that plenty of paddleboarding trollventures can get to be rather unpredictably fascinating in their own way. Which is pretty much the case among Trolldom down that way, knowing just how well outdoor adventure sport can help strengthen the natural troll bonds to Nature....
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February 2023 Tour
So some of the maintenance we did on our 11 year old RV: ��replace part of a rotted slide-out floor, paint the yellowed ceiling fixtures, get front seat covers, a new driver’s side window, install a microwave over-the-stove, replace the 2 house batteries, "new" mattress and just scrub and touch-up everything. We took it to Henkel's RV Sales August 9, knowing it was off-season for RV sales. . . it is still there! We were hoping it would sell around the time of the big RV show in Tampa, but that's been a few weeks ago. . . It’s still in good shape; as Shorty said, “Nobody’s got any money now.”
Closing on our house was July 22, 2022. We found a G.E. dishwasher at an outlet store in Clearwater, a G.E. stove at an estate sale, and fridge, washer and dryer at Lowe's. By the time we got the mattresses, shower curtains, and things you need to live, our first night in the house was July 29. We still had to commute to Holiday to finish working on the RV at our tired senior pace. We decided we're going to die here, because we're too old to move again. . . we were so worn out. But dang, we're loving it here!
We continued commuting (about 35 miles each way) to see Shorty most weeks; a few times he came up to see us at the house.
The first two things I cooked in the new house were sheet pan chicken/taters/ corn on the cob and chicken parm on the sheet pan. After 10 years with an RV oven, I had a heuge two-shelfer and two giant sheet pans I had been dying to use. I had been collecting recipes from Julia Pacheco, my fav You-Tube home cook, for about a year. To Corny's (and Bob's) delight, I have been cooking up a storm! I also started a little canning. I have wanted sodium-free beans for a long time - and the pressure canner takes them from dried, right outta the bag to squishy soft in 40 minutes.
^stuffed Manicotti
Corny watched and I re-watched Breaking Bad on one of the many TVs we've found in storage auctions. This one came with a guest subscription to Netflix. We watched "Better Call Saul". He was Corny's favorite character. I've always loved Bryan Cranston. Then we watched all the Jurassic Park movies.
Here's a little tour. The walls are a very light grey; flooring is grey vinyl:
^This is where I have my oatmeal with Piggie and Poco
Master bed and bath:
Life of Christ cross - all the little boxes were delivered to Shorty's house over the past year and accumulated in storage. It was like Christmas, opening them all up and displaying them!
Bedroom 1, Den and bath 2:
Poco got a cute little 2' fence surrounding the patio. Corny doesn't worry so much about him wandering away now.
Backyard visitors: flock of 6 wild turkeys, pond turtle
Fledgling woodpecker chatted with me and clung to my leg for several minutes when I went to pick up my bedside dresser.
Without gutters yet, when hurricane Ian headed our way in September, we made two trips to a county park to fill sandbags. Some young, energetic people took pity on us old, slow-moving, moaning people and helped us haul the heavy bags to the Jeep. Corny made a few bucks selling flashlights and lanterns he had gotten on clearance months ago, thanks to Ian.
In November I did a big 2-week Georgia county run. I only got the Jeep stuck once, in mud covered by leaves. A Lumpkin County Sheriff had me out within minutes. I have about 1/3 of GA counties to visit:
On Thanksgiving Shorty brought Bob up to the house. They arrived at 5pm; the turkey finished at 7:30pm. I made real gravy for the first time in decades.
Corny had some kidney procedures in November, then found himself in the hospital for an infection in December.
Shorty told us on Dec. 1 he was moving "up north". He heard rumors that Hyundai was hiring contractors to do his job so he promptly took his 3 weeks vacation. When he went back to see if he was on the schedule, they were like "Who are you?". He had worked there 10 1/2 years. We were so glad they did what we couldn't - kick him in the pants so he would get a better job. The little shit decided to move to Elkhart, Indiana to be able to afford a house of his own. We miss him - my life has certainly changed. I would plan all week what to bring him or ask him or tell him. But we are very happy for him to be out on his own and experiencing real freedom for the first time. He left for Elkhart Dec. 3 so now we just text.
We didn't have much notice, so Christmas was basically cancelled. We went to Buffet City on Christmas Eve. I made 4# of candied pecans to send up north and give to the neighbors and Liam - Shiloh Builders' Number Two. They are building a house right next door which Chick, the owner of Shiloh, is going to live in part time. They are using the garage as their office.
I threw a tapestry over the TV for Christmas.
Corny scored a home run and got me a Kitchen Aid accessory that peels, cores and slices an apple all at the same time! I made my first apple pie since I was 20-something years old. I was always too impatient to peel apples.
We continue going to storage auctions. The latest score was an entire tub of Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon cards. I went through them all to check for the big buck$ cards. There weren't any. When I get back from BamaRama (GC9TB1Z) I will list them on Facebook Marketplace for prolly $20/box.
Life is Godd!
We fit out.
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Mary Prince, a Black woman who had been convicted of murder, was already a controversial figure at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Presidential Inauguration.
Although she was incarcerated, Prince was given permission to travel to Washington, D.C. for the event and arrived in a dress made of material given to her by her fellow inmates at the Fulton County Jail and the Atlanta Work Release Center. At the end of the celebration, Prince remembers newly minted First Lady Rosalynn Carter pulling her aside. "Before I left, Mrs. Carter said, 'How would you like to work in this big old place?'" Prince told People that year.
Rosalynn Carter and Prince had known each other for years at that point, and had developed a close bond. Prince had been young Amy Carter's nanny when the family lived at the Georgia governor's mansion, not long after Prince was accused of—and subsequently sentenced to life for—murder. When the Carters arrived at the White House, most political operatives would have advised the family to keep their distance from Prince. But the first couple did the opposite.
After the inauguration, Prince told Rosalynn that she would indeed be interested in working at the White House. And Rosalynn pulled out all the stops: She secured a reprieve for Prince, helped make President Carter her parole officer and officially hired her to serve as Amy Carter's nanny at the White House.
Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, and her husband remained lifelong friends with Prince, and were both staunchly convinced she was wrongly convicted in the 1970 shooting death of a man outside a bar in Lumpkin, Ga., after an argument involving Prince’s cousin.
“She was totally innocent,” Rosalynn Carter told Kate Anderson Brower for her 2015 book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, bristling at the slightest hint of wrongdoing. “She had nothing to do with it.”
Both Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter earned a reputation for decency over the decades, and their relationship with Prince, who grew up in poverty in Georgia and dropped out of school in the seventh grade to care for her younger sister, gives more credence to their interest in helping the most vulnerable members of society.
The Carters first met Prince in late 1970 when Jimmy Carter was serving as Georgia governor, and Prince applied for a job as part of a program to put prisoners to work. Prince quickly made a positive impression on Rosalynn Carter, who asked the young woman if she would be interested in taking care of a then-3-year-old Amy Carter. It was a match made in heaven: the toddler bonded so much with her new nanny that she reportedly cried every time Prince left.
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Trigger Warning: long article that describes sexual assault. This is why women should be treated by other women.
THE FIRST FULL day that Maria, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, was in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, she was sent for a routine medical screening. After waiting for about two hours in a reception room, at around 2 p.m. a male nurse called her name. Maria stood up and walked past him, into the small exam room. The nurse greeted her jovially, followed her in, and then closed the door. It was New Year’s Eve, 2021.
Over the next approximately 30 minutes, according to a letter detailing her and other women’s allegations submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, or CRCL, the nurse inappropriately touched Maria’s breasts, rubbed his penis against her hand, made repeated uncomfortable remarks, resisted her attempts to push away his hand, and blocked her from leaving. She told him to stop multiple times and asked to leave the examination room.
The nurse did not let her leave, according to the complaint to CRCL. At one point he told Maria, “Me encantas,” or Spanish for, roughly, “I’m crazy about you.” He led her to another office, where he complimented her, told her that he needed to check her menstrual cycle, and insisted on seeing her vaginal discharge, the complaint reads. After Maria insisted again that she wanted to leave, the nurse eventually let her go and told her to tell her friend to come see him as well.
“I was shaking, I was scared, I wanted to leave,” Maria told The Intercept. “It was the worst day of my life.” After she reported the incident, she said, she was accused of lying and was threatened with retaliation for reporting the incident.
Maria is one of four women who spoke out about sexual assault and harassment by the nurse in the complaint. Three other women, who are also asylum-seekers, reported similar treatment in the complaint.
The nurse “has repeatedly taken advantage of his position as a medical professional to isolate women at Stewart in curtained-off medical examination rooms, force or coerce them into giving him access to private parts of their body without medical justification or need, and [assault] them during his ‘medical exams,’” the CRCL complaint reads.
The allegations of sexual assault and harassment are part of a broader series of troubling complaints levied by women who have been detained in the facility, raising a concern that there is a pattern of medical neglect and abusive conditions.
The nurse did not respond to multiple phone calls or a mailed list of questions. CoreCivic, the private prison company that runs Stewart and is the nurse’s employer, said in a statement that it completed an administrative investigation in January after two women reported allegations of sexual assault by the nurse. According to CoreCivic, its investigation found that one report was “unsubstantiated” and that the other was “unfounded.” ICE did not provide a comment by the time of this story’s publication.
STEWART DETENTION CENTER has long had a reputation for having the worst conditions in the U.S. immigration detention system. A remote and isolated facility with the highest death rate of all immigration jails in the last five years, Stewart is known as the “black hole” of the immigration detention network. It has been the focus of stories about abusive guards, exploitative labor practices, and migrants driven to suicide. Until recently, Stewart’s misery was only borne by male detainees.
That changed after the Irwin County Detention Center, a facility in Georgia that housed female immigration detainees, was partially shut down following numerous allegations of abuse and medical neglect. After the partial closure, ICE began sending female detainees to Stewart.
Stewart is known as the “black hole” of the immigration detention network.
With the arrival of women at Stewart in December 2020, a new pattern of abuse allegations is emerging. This investigation is based on internal Homeland Security records, public reports, sheriff’s department documents, emergency call records, and interviews with nearly a dozen sources. Records reviewed by The Intercept indicate that there were at least 17 sexual assault allegations in the 11-month period between May 2021 and May 2022, 11 of which allege abuse by facility staff.
Four separate women, in the CRCL complaint, are alleging sexual assault and harassment by the nurse employed at the facility. The Intercept spoke with all four of them.
Two women told The Intercept that when they initially made complaints through official channels inside the detention center, CoreCivic staff threatened them with retaliation for attempting to speak out. A Department of Homeland Security database tracking accusations, which was reviewed by The Intercept, shows two women made complaints of sexual misconduct by medical staff at Stewart during the same period covered by the letter to the CRCL.
“I’m scared,” Maria recalled, telling an official who interviewed her the day after the assault. “I’m scared, I’m scared.”
“They said I was lying,” Maria later told The Intercept. “They said I could go to prison for seven years if I filed the [internal] complaint.”
Advocates for the detained women lauded them for coming forward despite the threats and lack of consequences resulting from their previous complaints.
“We’re blown away by the bravery of these women, to open themselves up like this and tell these stories,” said Erin Argueta, lead attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. “Even when detained, and threatened with retaliation, they showed amazing bravery coming forward.”
The sexual misconduct allegations are part of a broader set of charges made by detainees and advocates of medical misconduct and abuses related to health and hygiene — allegations repeated in public records from a variety of sources that point to neglect and unhealthy conditions. Stewart has the capacity to hold nearly 2,000 detained people, but, as of June 13, it has an average daily population of 1,092.
The internal complaint database from the CRCL office, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows 30 complaints made to CRCL about Stewart between August 5, 2021, and April 13, 2022. Many of the complaints detail a lack of medical attention. Others allege rotten food, prolonged detention, and correctional staff misconduct.
In addition, 911 call records obtained by The Intercept through a public records request, from late December 2020 — when women started being held in Stewart — through late June of this year, show there were 118 emergency calls made to 911 from the facility. At least 23 calls were specified to be for detained women experiencing medical emergencies, although it could be more, since some notes from the emergency calls do not specify a gender.
According to the 911 records and interviews with women in the facility, two women have attempted suicide while in Stewart. Three women The Intercept spoke with said they witnessed or heard about suicide attempts while detained at the facility. “Many of us were really marked by seeing that,” said Diana, another asylum-seeker who, along with other detainees, witnessed one of the attempts. “Many couldn’t sleep, were depressed.”
FOUR WOMEN AT the facility reported their experiences with the nurse to immigration attorneys and advocates, who on July 12 filed a letter of complaint to the CRCL. The complaint uses pseudonyms for the women, who are named in the complaint as Maria, Viviana, Laura, and Marta. The Intercept has confirmed the names and identities of the women and is also withholding their names out of respect for their privacy because they are victims of an alleged crime.
The complaint was co-signed by civil rights and immigrant advocacy organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Project South, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Refugio, the Georgia Human Rights Clinic, and Owings MacNorlin LLC. The organizations also filed complaints against the nurse, one for each woman, to the Georgia Board of Nursing.
The Intercept reached out to ICE, CoreCivic, the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security’s CRCL office, and the nurse for comment on the CRCL complaint and allegations of misconduct. In a statement, CoreCivic said the two women who reported sexual assault allegations in the facility were offered medical, mental health, and emotional support services during the administrative investigation and that they were released from the facility before the investigation was completed.
“The investigation regarding [the nurse] determined one woman’s claim was unsubstantiated, and the other was unfounded,” CoreCivic said in a statement, saying that no further allegations had emerged. “The safety, health and well-being of the individuals entrusted to our care is our top priority.”
“It is CoreCivic policy to aggressively investigate all allegations, regardless of the source, and support prosecution for those who are involved in incidents of sexual abuse,” the company said. “Alleged victims of sexual abuse will be provided a supportive and protective environment.”
The CRCL office and the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to detailed questions.
MARIA TOLD THE INTERCEPT that after the nurse asked her to lie down, he leaned over to examine her and began rubbing his crotch against her arm. When she sat up, he told her he needed to listen to her heart first and instructed her to lift up her shirt. She reluctantly obliged, becoming increasingly nervous. The nurse said he was going to check her heart and then proceeded to touch her breasts with the stethoscope in his hand, the complaint says.
After he took her to another office, where he continued to touch her, the complaint reads, the nurse allowed her to leave, and Maria reported her experience to a CoreCivic staff member.
“I thought it was the worst that could have happened to me,” Maria said. “But the days ahead were even harder.”
In the following days, Maria describes in the complaint that she was interviewed by CoreCivic and ICE officials. According to the complaint, she says a CoreCivic official accused her of lying, and an official allegedly said she would be given “seven years in prison” if she continued with her report, also accusing her of lying. According to the CRCL complaint, a CoreCivic employee also hit the table in front of her during an interview, and, over the course of a week, “she was subjected to repeated interrogations and accusations that she was lying.”
While there are systems ostensibly in place for detained women to file internal complaints with separate ICE and DHS offices, Maria told The Intercept that the phones intended to connect women to reporting hotlines were not working.
An internal review by the Southern Poverty Law Center of detainee medical records showed the nurse was seeing patients as recently as late as May of this year.
For some medical professionals, abuses tied to the provision of medical care constitute particularly grave violations. “You go to a medical provider with a sense of trust,” said Amy Zeidan, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine who has reviewed dozens of medical cases at Stewart and looked over the testimonies of the four women. “And that person completely abuses that trust.”
LAURA, ANOTHER WOMAN detained in Stewart who also tells her story in the complaint, had been suffering from severe stomach pain and made multiple requests for medical attention. She said she was not seen by medical staff for a month. (She also asked to see a psychologist and was made to wait months before she was seen.) Attending to her medical request, after the monthlong wait, was the same nurse who allegedly assaulted Maria.
During the course of his examination, Laura said, the nurse put a stethoscope under her bra, touching her breasts with the stethoscope and his hands in a manner that she said deviated from past procedures she had experienced. He then told her to pull her pants down and put the stethoscope near her groin. As he touched her, he repeatedly pulled down his mask and chuckled, and she felt like he was “flirting,” she told The Intercept. She also said he looked at her in what she described as a sexually suggestive way while examining a painful bump on her leg. “The way he looked at me, it was so gross,” she said. During a second examination, she said, the nurse again instructed her to lift her shirt up and lower her pants, touching her chest and below her waist.
Documents reviewed by The Intercept show that Laura reported her allegations to at least three health care staff members, independent of each other, in early January. The medical records read that Laura was independently “evaluated by Mental Health, LIP” — a licensed independent practitioner — “and nursing staff.” Laura described her allegations in depth to all three staff members, with one even noting her fear of retaliation: “[Patient] said she did not alert security because she was afraid of getting in trouble.”
After speaking with the three health care staff members, officials were alerted of a possible violation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, the complaint says. Laura said that in the days that followed, two ICE officials threatened her, saying that there would be consequences if she was lying, and, again, that she could face seven years in prison for doing so. CoreCivic officials also began an investigation and interviewed Laura. Due to the ICE threats and her fear of retaliation, she decided that she didn’t want to proceed with an official complaint, she told The Intercept.
“The employee was placed on administrative leave until the investigation was completed and facts determined, as is standard practice,” CoreCivic said in its statement. “The two detainees making these claims were offered appropriate medical and mental health services, emotional support services, and answers to any questions they had about the investigative process.”
In her remaining months at Stewart, Laura said, “I couldn’t sleep, I could barely eat. I had fallen into depression. I was sick. The treatment is terrible.” Records obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request show — the DHS database — that officials at CRCL were notified of two reports from two women, alleging sexual abuse by a medical staff member.
The two other women in the CRCL complaint, Viviana and Marta, also allege similar behavior by the nurse. For both Viviana and Marta, he had them remove their shirts during an exam. With Marta, the complaint says, he also told her to remove her bra.
“The manner in which he engaged with patients was not indicated, outside the scope of his practice, and in violation of the medical ethics required of a healthcare professional during patient-provider encounters,” the CRCL complaint reads. “While it is common to auscultate (listen) to heart and lung sounds with a stethoscope, it does not require a patient to remove or lift up their shirt and expose their breasts and certainly does not require removal of the bra.”
ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL assault and harassment — like those levied by Maria, Laura, Viviana, and Marta — are not new to the facility. Inspection reports about Stewart reviewed by The Intercept, although limited in nature, tally at least 27 reports of sexual assault in Stewart between 2017 and early 2021 — prior to an influx of women. At least three of those were accusations made against staff. The latest inspection report from Stewart, which covers May 2021 to May 2022, shows there were 14 reports of alleged sexual abuse, eight of them by staff. Two of the allegations of sexual assault by staff were substantiated, and one allegation against a detainee was also substantiated.
According to an internal DHS Office of Inspector General document from a 2017 inspection, guards at Stewart “lacked in-depth training” in guidelines laid out in the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, which sets standards to prevent and address sexual assault in carceral facilities. Since its opening in 2006, Stewart has undergone two PREA audits: one in 2017 and one in 2021.
According to the Stewart Detention Center’s contract, ICE and the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office must be notified of all PREA-related reports. In response to a public records request submitted to the sheriff’s office, The Intercept found that there have been at least six official reports of alleged sexual assaults in an eight-month period, from July 2021 until April 2022. The sheriff’s office did not provide records for the other eight cases of alleged sexual assault at Stewart listed in the ICE inspection report.
The only way detainees could press charges was if a CoreCivic official drove them to the sheriff’s office.
Four of the complaints obtained from the sheriff’s office explicitly state that they were investigated “in house,” meaning that outside authorities did not get involved. In one report, it is written “no charges filed at this time” and on another, simply and with no further detail, “reported Prea case to Sheriff office by phone.”
On March 24, a complaint was shared with the sheriff’s office that merely stated: “Staff v Detainee Prea Case. Case handled in house.” CoreCivic said in its statement that their internal investigation into this complaint found the allegation to be “unfounded.”
During a phone interview, Stewart County Sheriff Larry Jones confirmed that CoreCivic investigated these six cases on their own, stating that the sheriff’s office would only get involved if someone wanted to press charges. The only way they could press charges, however, was if a CoreCivic official drove them to the sheriff’s office. “We don’t like going in and out of the facility. We try to stay away from there as much as possible because of Covid,” Jones said. He added, “Basically, there were so many small cases, PREA cases, it was overloading the court. [CoreCivic] suggested they would handle as many cases as possible within the facility.”
SINCE STEWART BEGAN locking up immigrants in 2006, advocacy groups have continually called for it to be shuttered, pointing to its harsh conditions. From 2008 to 2012, a series of advocacy reports and internal reviewsfound poor conditions at the detention center, with issues in medical care to abuse of discipline and lack of food quality.
In 2017, Project South published a report highlighting the worsening conditions, especially with medical care and guards’ use of solitary confinement. For years, the facility has been criticized for being understaffed, with DHS Office of Inspector General reports in both 2017 and 2021 highlighting the lack of qualified medical professionals.
In 2018, CoreCivic was hit with a lawsuit by people detained in Stewart and advocacy organizations, claiming that detained immigrants were forced to labor inside the facility for as little as $1 a day, and that those who refused were threatened with solitary confinement. (The lawsuit is ongoing; CoreCivic denied the labor abuses.) Today, much of the work to clean, cook, and maintain the facility is still performed by detained people.
In the past five years, Stewart has had the greatest number of deaths of any facility in the entire ICE detention network. Deaths at Stewart have steadily mounted for its entire decade-and-a-half history, stemming from alleged negligence, medical issues, mental health issues that did not get the proper attention, and more.
In 2008, two years after Stewart opened, Pedro Gumayagay, a migrant from the Philippines, died while in custody there. The following year, Roberto Medina-Martinez, also detained in Stewart, died of a heart condition, which was due to, according to a lawsuit, the “federal government’s negligence.” (The government settled with Medina’s widow; the terms are undisclosed.)
In 2017, after spending 19 days in a tiny solitary confinement cell, 27-year-old Jean Jimenez-Joseph died by suicide despite a call to a hotline for mental health help, demonstrating that CoreCivic and ICE officials knew of his worsening mental health. Months later, 33-year-old Yulio Castro-Garrido died of pneumonia, a lung infection, and viral influenza, despite having no health problems when first being transferred to Stewart.
In July 2018, Efraín Romero de la Rosa died by suicide in Stewart after correctional staff placed him in solitary confinement without following proper protocols, neglected his mental illness, and falsified documents. (In its statement, CoreCivic said: “Solitary confinement, whether as a term or practice, does not exist at any of the facilities we operate.” There is overwhelming documented evidence of solitary confinement cells in Stewart, including housing plan records as well as photos and videos of solitary units and cells obtained and published by The Intercept.)
During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, officials counted at least 1,400 confirmed cases in Stewart — at one point, nearly 20 percent of the detainee population was infected. At least four people died of complications from the virus while detained at the facility.
In addition to the highest number of Covid deaths of any ICE detention center, officials in Stewart regularly ignored basic health protocols meant to keep people from contracting the virus. When the virus began to spread, migrants demanded personal protective equipment and basic hygiene items. On two occasions, in a two-week period, guards responded to the demands by deploying a SWAT-like “special response” unit, which then pepper-sprayed migrants, fired pepperball ammunition, and placed people in solitary confinement.
Another investigation from The Intercept found that a number of those officers joked about the use-of-force on social media and celebrated the violence. ICE launched an internal investigation into the force and inappropriate social media usage. The findings have not been shared with the public.
“It’s really unfortunate that the administration has taken the decision to keep this place open when it was fully aware of the tragedies that have taken place at this ICE prison over the years, whether it be deaths or human rights violations,” said Azadeh Shahshahani, legal and advocacy director at Project South. “It is on them to prevent future tragedies, and it’s fully in their control to shut this place down.”
MARIA, VIVIANA, LAURA, and Marta, the women in the CRCL complaint, are out of detention, waiting for their immigration cases to proceed. Despite Maria and Laura’s initial reports of misconduct, and despite CRCL being made aware of allegations against the nurse in January, the women say they have not been contacted by DHS, ICE, nor CoreCivic officials to continue the investigation into the alleged assault and harassment.
“What I want, most of all, is that if the nurse is there, what I want is for him to not be there. Because I don’t want anyone else to go through that,” Viviana said.
Maria echoed the sentiment: “I sometimes think I would have preferred staying in my country than to have this memory for my entire life. My country — where we don’t have food, where you have to stand in line to eat, where I had to end my studies. I would prefer to go through all of that rather than being abused again.”
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On Thursday, the girls from Bluff and Lumpkin County might both win their area crowns In two huge matchups on Thursday, one team in Region 7-3A could advance to a region title, and one girl’s region title will be determined. https://atlantasoccer.news/on-thursday-the-girls-from-bluff-and-lumpkin-county-might-both-win-their-area-crowns/
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So what could a trailer for a Trollkins movie be imagined looking like?
Although there is nothing abroad suggesting anything on the order of a movie based on the one-season Hanna-Barbera-produced flicktoon Trollkins as is in any stage of at least pre-production, at least it's good to imagine the likelihood of what a possible trailer therefor could be imagied looking like, particularly where the film is done up in 3D CGI animation in such manner as pays homage to the Smurfs wannabe, essentially what one fan described as "Dukes of Hazzard meets J.R.R. Tolkein," as in grafting Northern European troll lore upon the American South, but having a little fun in the bargain.
Such, as I imagine it, would be narrated by Pixlee Trollsom, something of the tomboy sort of Troll, even if she's the daughter of Troll County Sheriff Pudge Trollsom, of all trolls ... and the scene would open on a misty sort of Southern evening in what passes there for autumn, a little fog in the bargain, with Pixlee maybe wearing a decent little T-shirt and ripped troll jeans fashioned into shorts and sitting on the porch of such treehouse shared with her boyfriend, the somewhat crazy Blitz Lumpkin ... pan in on the porch and--
The name, in case you're wondering, is Pixlee Trollsom ... and I admit taking it upon my little ol' Troll self to be something of a chronicler and keeper of the troll lore in these parts--which can be rather fascinating in and of itself. Especially in a crazy little sort of place like Troll County, which can get to be crazy in its own way, howbit a likable sort of way, you understand.
And you folks simply can't help but find Troll stuff as much as Trolldom itself to be fascinating in its own way. Which we're trying to do in Trollkins: The Movie, as should be in your local picture show soon, which this little ol' trailer can't seem to do proper justice to....
Whereupon Flookie, the pet drawg of Pixlee and Blitz, comes along and gets a loving sort of head scratch from Pixlee, along with some drawg-style chuckling to show approval.
(Meanwhile, folks, what could be your ideas for a trailer for Trollkins: The Movie, were it ever to be considered for production? Go ahead and reblog away.)
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Residents of Lumpkin, Georgia are in awe as a mysterious lyrical kettle has been spotted around town continually knotting a tense balance between nature and the nearby city.
The kettle was first spotted in local resident Betty Lou Gentry's back yard, where it was singing a sweet melody while tying intricate knots in a rope. When asked about the remarkable sight Gentry said, "It was a beautiful sight, like something out of a fairytale. I've never seen anything like it before."
Since then, the lyrical kettle has been seen around town, knotting a rope while singing its enchanting tune. The kettle has been observed on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, at the Lumpkin County Courthouse, and even in the local park.
The sight of the lyrical kettle has brought both joy and confusion to the people of Lumpkin. Some see it as a sign of hope and peace, while others are concerned about the implications of the mysterious new presence in the town.
Regardless of the reactions it is evoking, the lyrical kettle has become a major topic of conversation in Lumpkin and its appearance has certainly brought some much-needed attention to the small town.
Only time will tell what this lyrical kettle will bring to Lumpkin, but for now, the people of Lumpkin just sit back and enjoy the sweet melody of the mysterious visitor.
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The Transcendental Painting Group
Frieze Los Angeles 2023 is here, and one of the highlights is the exhibition ‘Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938-1945’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Transcendental Painting Group achieved their modernity through potently charged shapes, patterns, and archetypes that they believed dwelled in the “collective unconscious.” The artists looked to a wide variety of literary, religious, and philosophical forces, including Zen Buddhism, Theosophy, Agni Yoga, Carl Jung, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Convinced that an art capable of being intuitively understood would have equal validity to representational painting in an era of uncertainty, political divide, and fear, they attempted to promote abstraction that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. According to their manifesto they strove “to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.”
The group, which came to include Agnes Pelton, Lawren Harris, Florence Miller Pierce, Horace Pierce, William Lumpkins and Dane Rudhyar, among others, followed the guidance of Raymond Jonson and Emil Bisttram, who were in turn heavily influenced by the colour theories of Wassily Kandinsky.
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1. Stuart Walker, Composition 55 (Convergence), 1938, Jean Pigozzi Collection
2. Agnes Pelton, Winter, 1933, Crocker Art Museum
3. Emil Bisttram, Oversoul, 1941, Private Collection
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#PI KAPPA ALPHA SERIES#
The Alpha Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha has and will continue to develop young men into leaders and gentlemen in the classroom and around campus.
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Our brothers enjoy numerous date nights, band parties, and socials throughout the year including our Epicurean Ball Formal in New Orleans, Beach Weekend in Florida and our annual series of concerts called Pike’s Peak. Pi Kappa Alpha President: Tyler Cashman (312) 257-9179 Recruitment Chairman: Eashan Arun (314) 825-0017 Risk Manager: Zane. While academics and integrity are the main focus of Alpha Mu, the brothers still find time to continue the tradition of a strong social calendar. Our annual philanthropy event – Spike for Life – is a beach volleyball tournament benefitting UGA Miracle. A Harris County grand jury Thursday indicted the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for hazing during a 2016 ordeal in which pledges were deprived of adequate food. We believe the fraternal experience makes better men, better. Our members continue to have a positive impact on their campuses, their communities and throughout their life. These qualities are exemplified by Alpha Mu’s representation in club athletics, IFC, Order of Omega, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key Honor Society, and the UGA Honors Program. Join Pi Kappa Alpha - Beta Sigma Chapter and be a part of one of the most historic organizations at Carnegie Mellon University where you will meet friends. Pi Kappa Alpha has remained dedicated to developing men of integrity, intellect, success and high moral character, and to fostering a truly lifelong fraternal experience. The Alpha Mu brotherhood strongly emphasizes excellence in academics, athletics, leadership and community service. In 2009, our chapter moved from 360 South Lumpkin Street to a new house in Greek Park by Sanford Stadium. Pi Kappa Alpha is the largest fraternity on. FSL Organization: Pi Kappa Alpha Chapter Designation, Iota Sigma Council, Interfraternity Council Founding Year, 1868 Year Established at JMU, 1991 Current. The Alpha Mu Chapter at the University of Georgia was founded in 1908, making Pike one of the oldest fraternities on campus. The Kappa Epsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was formed in 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri at Rockhurst University. Pi Kappa Alpha was founded at the University of Virginia in 1868 and has grown to become one of the largest national fraternities with more than 200 active chapters and over 250,000 initiates.
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U.S. Daily Precipitation Records Tied/Broken 9/5/22
Calera, Alabama: 3.52" (previous record 2.25" 1915)
Childersburg, Alabama: 1.57" (previous record 1.24" 1972)
Adin Mt. summit, California: 0.1" (previous record 0" 2021)
Gilroy, California: 0.01" (previous record 0" 2021)
Windsor Locks, Connecticut: 1.41" (previous record 0.28" 1955)
Cleveland, Georgia: 3.05" (previous record 1.88" 1970)
Unincorporated Lumpkin County, Georgia: 2.29" (previous record 1.89" 1970)
Unincorporated Pickens County, Georgia: 1.4" (previous record 1.26" 1953)
Columbus, Indiana: 2.08" (previous record 1.95" 1937)
Hazard, Kentucky: 2.28" (previous record 1.15" 2006)
Providence, Kentucky: 1.1" (previous record 0.51" 1991)
Worcester, Massachusetts: 0.91" (previous record 0.9" 1991)
Concord, New Hampshire: 1.41" (previous record 0.97" 1944)
Conway, New Hampshire: 2.05" (previous record 1.35" 2012)
Londonderry, New Hampshire: 1.41" (previous record 0.26" 2012)
Adirondack Park, New York: 1.08" (previous record 1.05" 1948)
Barton, New York: 1.86" (previous record 0.68" 1910)
Elmira, New York: 1.45" (previous record 1.19" 1937)
Queensbury, New York: 0.98" (previous record 0.95" 1953)
Rushford, New York: 2.15" (previous record 0.97" 1991)
Union, New York: 2.53" (previous record 0.86" 1986)
Asheville, North Carolina: 1.94" (previous record 1.78" 2006)
Eden, North Carolina: 2.31" (previous record 1.3" 1999)
Elkin, North Carolina: 1.32" (previous record 1.3" 1963)
Little River Township, North Carolina: 4.1" (previous record 1.72" 1959)
Dayton, Ohio: 1.2" (previous record 1.1" 1958)
Hilliar Township, Ohio: 2.11" (previous record 1.51" 1961)
Jefferson Township, Ohio: 1.6" (previous record 1.02" 1986)
McArthur Township, Ohio: 0.82" (previous record 0.79" 1980)
Newton Township, Ohio: 1.87" (previous record 1.53" 2017)
Springfield, Ohio: 0.88" (previous record 0.77" 2017)
Waverly, Ohio: 1.69" (previous record 1.38" 1915)
Canton, Pennsylvania: 1.56" (previous record 1.21" 2001)
Covington Township, Pennsylvania: 1.04" (previous record 0.79" 2011)
Delmar Township, Pennsylvania: 1.27" (previous record 0.7" 1937)
Galeton, Pennsylvania: 1.92" (previous record 0.91" 1937)
Grove Township, Pennsylvania: 1.58" (previous record 0.8" 1996)
Lafayette Township, Pennsylvania: 0.88" (previous record 0.65" 1973)
Montoursville, Pennsylvania: 1.66" (previous record 1.28" 1968)
Moon Township, Pennsylvania: 1.71" (previous record 1.41" 1968)
Pittston Township, Pennsylvania: 2.28" (previous record 1.86" 1953)
Tioga Township, Pennsylvania: 1" (previous record 0.57" 1991)
Tionesta Township, Pennsylvania: 1.82" (previous record 1.52" 1961)
Tyrone, Pennsylvania: 1.72" (previous record 1.15" 2011)
Unincorporated Municipio De Aibonito, Puerto Rico: 3.87" (previous record 1.7" 1933)
Providence, Rhode Island: 2.19" (previous record 1.59" 2012)
Greer, South Carolina: 1.24" (previous record 0.69" 2011)
Norris, Tennessee: 1.79" (previous record 1.22" 2011)
Austwell, Texas: 2.79" (previous record 2.6" 1958)
Unincorporated Bee County, Texas: 2.51" (previous record 1.83" 1923)
Unincorporated Cass County, Texas: 1" (previous record 0.3" 1995)
Choke Canyon State Park, Texas: 1.05" (previous record 0.91" 2019)
Ft. Worth, Texas: 0.66" (previous record 0.64" 2001)
Unincorporated Jim Wells County, Texas: 1.42" (previous record 1.12" 2019)
Blacksburg, Virginia: 1.69" (previous record 1.2" 1999)
Unincorporated Giles County, Virginia: 1.8" (previous record 1.29" 1962)
Unincorporated Patrick County, Virginia: 2.73" (previous record 2.35" 2006)
Bayard, West Virginia: 1.64" (previous record 1.54" 2011)
Unincorporated Greenbrier County, West Virginia: 1.41" (previous record 1.31" 2003)
Logan, West Virginia: 1.19" (previous record 0.91" 1953)
Morgantown, West Virginia: 1.57" (previous record 1.1" 2017)
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