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Final arguments in jail lawsuit made

  • Neita Cecil
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A ruling is expected within a month on a 2017 lawsuit that alleges the regional jail violated Oregon’s “sanctuary” law by housing immigration detainees. Wasco County Circuit Court Judge John Wolf said at the conclusion of a Thursday hearing, in which both sides asked the case be ruled in their favor, that he expected whatever decision he reached to be appealed, so he wanted to take the time to carefully lay out his reasoning in a written opinion.

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NORCOR board to try new jail management format

  • NEITA CECIL, The Dalles Chronicle
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The jail board reached consensus Monday (Oct. 2) to try running the jail without an administrator for the rest of the fiscal year on a trial basis. The board also accepted the Oct. 31 resignation of Administrator Bryan Brandenburg.

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Are you crazy? Part I

  • Craig Joseph Danner
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My first significant exposure to the “criminally insane” came many years ago when I was a physician assistant student in Baltimore, Maryland.

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'This is my jail' case goes to trial

  • JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press
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BALTIMORE — Inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, gang members used smuggled cellphones, dealt drugs and had sex with corrupt guards — several of whom they impregnated — who helped them as they ran operations of the Black Guerilla Family, according to court papers in a case alleging widespread corruption at the state-run facility.