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Driver charged with vehicular manslaughter in deadly crash in Clarence in January
7 Eyewitness News Staff
and last updated 2021-04-07 10:43:02-04
CLARENCE, N.Y. (WKBW) â The driver who hit a vehicle head-on in a crash at Main Street and Goodrich Road in Clarence in January now faces two felony charges and a misdemeanor charge.
The Erie County Sheriff s Office announced the arrest of Jessica Novak, 37, of Akron, on Wednesday morning. Deputies say Novak was arrested Tuesday following several weeks of investigation. She is charged with vehicular manslaughter - operating a vehicle impaired, and second-degree manslaughter, both felonies. She faces a third misdemeanor charge of reckless driving.
Demonstration protests death at Erie County Holding Center
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By Juniper Carpenter
Workers World Party members and people from the community gathered outside the Erie County Holding Center, N.Y., on March 31 in response to the March 13 death of Mikey Frears. Frears was the 36th person to die in the Holding Center since Sheriff Tim Howard took office in 2005.
Demonstrators demanded that Sheriff Tim Howard resign, that addiction be treated through treatment and not through incarceration, and for abolition of the unjust prison system.
The U.S. prison system continues to prey on the working class. For decades, the system has been profiting from the labor of prisoners while paying them a minuscule amount in wages and isolating them from their community. Specifically in locations like the Holding Center, individuals are held before going to trial. And any death in these holding centers or jails happens because the administration refuses to care for the people i
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The suit filed Wednesday in Erie County Supreme Court on behalf of the New York State Commission of Correction says Sheriff Timothy Howard did not readily report to the commission allegations of sexual misconduct at Erie County Holding Center and the Erie County Correctional Facility.