ACLU alleges sheriff broke civil rights
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The Orleans Parish sheriff was accused in a lawsuit Friday of violating the civil rights of inmates in his custody during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
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By Nicole Lee, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Sep. 12--Lawyers for a man held in Allen County jail last month filed suit Monday against Allen County Sheriff James Herman and a corrections officer identified only by his last name.   Devin W.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Overton County, Tenn., sheriff's deputy Gary Grigg and Lt. Johnny Gann were sentenced late yesterday for their roles in violating the civil rights of an inmate detained in the Overton County Jail, the Justice Department announced.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 12--BILOXI -- The cost of defending the Harrison County Sheriff's Department against civil actions went up again Monday when county supervisors approved payment of more than $14,000 to lawyers representing Sheriff George H. Payne Jr.
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The Maricopa County sheriff says he should not have to transport pregnant inmates to abortion clinics, a policy that has drawn a court challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union.
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As longtime chairman of the American Conservative Union, David Keene seems an unlikely ally of the American Civil Liberties Union in a prisoners-rights campaign. But this cause is personal.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - A Savannah man went to jail this weekend for impersonating a sheriff's deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a gate at Hunter Army Airfield on Saturday and showed a guard a driver's license that was cracked in half, police said.
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Justice officials have asked a court to make the ACLU return a classified document. Is too much kept secret?
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By Anya Litvak  ANYA LITVAK           The Lancaster County Commissioners may have been the first ever to be prosecuted by a district attorney for violating the state's Sunshine law.
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Rosa Parks, who helped set off the American civil rights movement, is at the center of a legal controversy that her relatives say could forever taint her legacy.
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Ninety-five people who make up more than three-quarters of a rural Georgia county's registered Hispanic voters were summoned to a courthouse Thursday to defend their right to vote after a complaint alleged a county commissioner attempted to register non-U.S. citizens.
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ACLU says prison abuse witnesses threatenedSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  - Workers who saw abuses at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison were threatened by US special forces who confiscated photos of a prisoner they allegedly punched, US government memos released by
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A national voting rights group says it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states &#151; from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city of Slidell on Tuesday for displaying a painting of Jesus in a courthouse lobby, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
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Hard to keep up with the voting rights section of the Justice Department's civil rights division. Division chief John Tanner recently made some news with a fascinating analysis of how photo IDs for voters actually help minorities.
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The Justice Department is joining the American Civil Liberties Union in backing a student who lost his state-funded merit-based scholarship because he left college to serve a two-year church mission.