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(Sharon Chischilly for NPR) This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. When police took Carlos Yazzie to jail on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico after his arrest on a bench warrant in January 2017, he needed immediate medical attention. His foot was swollen and his blood alcohol content was nearly six times the legal limit. But law enforcement decided that he was fine, jail records show. They put Yazzie in a cramped isolation cell at the Shiprock District Department of Corrections facility instead of taking him to a hospital and then left him unmonitored for six hou...

Indian Affairs Promised To Reform Tribal Jails. We Found Death, Neglect And Disrepair By Nate Hegyi  June 10, 2021 This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. When police took Carlos Yazzie to jail on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico after his arrest on a bench warrant in January 2017, he needed immediate medical attention. His foot was swollen and his blood alcohol content was nearly six times the legal limit. But law enforcement decided that he was fine, jail records show. They put Yazzie in a cramped isolation cell at the Shiprock District Department of Corrections...

and more than 2000 people had been turned away because there was not enough time or staff to deal with them. again, this is from "the new york times" from yesterday. under the program, our government will grant a two year prieve from deportation for illegal immigrants under age 31, have been in this country since they were children and meet our requirements. president obama initiated the program on june 15th, using his executive authority. he did say after legislation, known as the dream act which he supported and which would have given legal stattous young immigrants stalled in con...

benghazi. he said he was going house-to-house to kill everybody. it's a city of 700,000 people. what would we be saying now, if we allowed it to happen? >> you are a key supporter. all the republicans on the stage of the debate seeming to waiver from what's a traditional republican position on national security. >> i wonder what ronald reagan would be saying today? >> what would he say? >> that's not the republican party of the 20th century and now the 21st century. it's not the republican party that has been willing to stand-up for freedom for people for all over the world, whether ...

administration, darrell issa. >> if it makes the president miserable because i'm working 74 igs and general accountability office and others to make sure that we do a better job, well that's what he signed up for. and then elijah cummings, the democrat who will go toe to toe with eye is along with steve israel and jason altmeyer on the tension in the white house. and this is "state of the union" i'm ed henry. candy crowley is off today. the president returns to washington tuesday. the new congress is sworn in wednesday. the 2012 presidential campaign is already under way and this w...