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Inmates advocates criticize conditions at St. Louis jail
Eric Berger and Mark Berman, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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ST. LOUIS - Some inmate advocates and attorneys said Monday that they are not surprised by a weekend uprising at the jail here during which inmates smashed windows and set fires and a corrections officer ended up hospitalized. They are desperate in there, and anyone would be at this point, Erika Wurst, a lawyer with the St. Louis public defender s office, said of the more than 700 people detained at the St. Louis Justice Center, a six-story building a few blocks from the city s riverfront.
ST. LOUIS (AP) St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Monday launched an investigation into conditions at the City Justice Center, a large downtown jail that was the site of a massive.
Inmates at the St. Louis Justice Center start fires after breaking windows on the fourth floor, yelling to those watching from the street, in St. Louis on Saturday, February 6, 2021. St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards says the event started when a detainee began fighting with a corrections officer around 2:30 A.M. Other prisoners began beating the guard after they were able to free themselves from their cells. About 65 inmates were moved to the Medium Security facility in north St. Louis around 9 A. M. after the event was over. The only injury reported was the guard who was transported to a hospital. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
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Lawyers of the Year: Charles A. Weiss, Stephen R. Snodgrass And Jonathan B. Potts, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Charles A. Weiss, Stephen R. Snodgrass And Jonathan B. Potts
What are lawyers to make of the story of Donald Nash?
On the one hand, it is the kind of case for which people go to law school. A group of dedicated attorneys, working pro bono, undertakes a years-long effort to free an unjustly convicted man, winning key victories in the state’s highest court and finally securing his release from prison.