DETROIT – Walter Forbes was a full-time student at Michigan s Jackson Community College in 1982. He had dreams of owning a real estate development firm after graduating.
One night that year, Forbes broke up a bar fight. He didn’t know that would change his life forever.
A man involved in the bar fight shot Forbes the next day, according to court documents.
The damage the gunshot did to Forbes’ body may have taken a few months to heal, but what happened next led to him spending nearly four decades in prison, leaving deep lifelong wounds on him and his family.
The man who shot Forbes, Dennis Hall, died in his apartment in Jackson, Michigan, in a fire that appeared to be deliberately set on July 12, 1982.
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ESCANABA As of Monday, the U.P. had 13,446 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 2,777 probable cases, 281 deaths and 54 probable deaths linked to the disease, according to state officials. According to the state the daily count represents new referrals of confirmed cases to the MSDSS since Saturday, December 12. Over the two days, Sunday and Monday, the average number of new confirmed cases is 3,602 per day.
The figure does not include prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
According to the state’s county-by-county count issued Monday, Delta County had a total of 2,394 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 374 probable cases, 53 deaths and 13 probable deaths; Menominee County had 1,327 confirmed cases, 178 probable cases, and 22 deaths; Schoolcraft County had 188 confirmed cases, 15 probable cases, two deaths and one probable death.
Michigan prisons sued for ID photos of Muslim women without hijabs
By Taryn Asher and FOX 2 Staff
Published It s embarrassing it is humiliating and it is degrading for Muslim women, said Amy Doukore.
Lawsuit filed against state prison system for mugshots of convicts without Muslim headscarves
Out of respect for the women, FOX 2 has blurred some of the pictures that appear on the website s offender search that have now sparked a federal class action lawsuit against the MDOC.
More than 15 Muslim and Moorish science incarcerated women have come forward saying they were forced to take off their religious headscarves for booking photos. The photos were not only shown on their prison ID cards but on the public Michigan Department of Corrections website for anyone to see.
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OAKLAND COUNTY, MI An Oakland County parolee has been arrested after stealing over $1,300 from a credit union in the city of Pontiac, just days after being released from prison, county sheriff s office officials said Monday.
Joshua David Hawley, 40, of Pontiac, was recently arrested at an apartment complex in Oakland County after police identified him on surveillance video as the suspect in the Dec. 10 robbery at the Genisys Credit Union, 44400 Woodward Ave., police said.
Hawley was arraigned Saturday before 50th District Court Magistrate Robert Morad on one count of bank robbery, which police said carries a maximum possible penalty of life in prison. Hawley was denied bond, police said. Hawley s next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 22.