As one of South Carolina’s federal lawmakers is calling for an investigation into multiple inmate deaths at the Charleston County jail, the mother of one inmate who died there says she wants to know how many more must die before changes come.
The mother of Jamal Sutherland held a Wednesday news conference following the announcement that the Department of Justice will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against two former Charleston County deputies.
The United States Justice Department on Wednesday announced they will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against two former Charleston County deputies for the death of Jamal Sutherland.
The South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus is encouraging the passage of a proposal that aims to prevent excessive use of force by law enforcement officers.
The family of the man who died in custody a year ago at the Al Cannon Detention Center is speaking about their journey as they demand criminal charges against detention deputies.
A prominent Civil Rights attorney who represented the family of George Floyd demanded criminal charges in the death of Jamal Sutherland, who died while in custody in the Charleston County jail.
A Civil Rights attorney whose clients include George Floyd’s family is set to hold a news conference demanding criminal charges be filed against two Charleston County Sheriff’s Office deputies in connection to the death of Jamal Sutherland.
The South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus is calling on state authorities to investigation the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office following a Live 5 News story involving emails showing the sheriff’s office was monitoring social media posts of activists.
Newly released emails show the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office was monitoring social media posts of activists and at least one state lawmaker a day before the release of the Jamal Sutherland video.
Newly released documents show that the two Charleston County jail employees who were fired months after Jamal Sutherland’s death had each previously been flagged repeatedly for use of force.
More than seven months after Jamal Sutherland’s death inside the Charleston County jail, new documents from the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control showed health inspectors visited Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health where he was arrested while seeking treatment for a mental illness as he was dying.
Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano said she plans to change how her deputies respond to calls involving mental health issues to help prevent another tragedy under her watch.
Sheriff Kristin Graziano said she is changing her agency’s policies and procedures to better protect those in her care who are suffering from mental illness.
In her first interview since the announcement that the two former jail deputies involved in Jamal Sutherland’s death will not face state criminal charges, Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano said that they will not get their old jobs back.
A day after Solicitor Scarlett Wilson announced that the two Charleston County detention deputies involved in the death of Jamal Sutherland will not face state charges, the use of force consultant hired by Wilson said that what is depicted in the videos of Sutherland’s death is “shocking” and “disturbing.”
The South Carolina Black Activists Coalition will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon, a day after an announcement that two Charleston County detention deputies would not face charges in the death of Jamal Sutherland.
The two Charleston County detention officers that removed Jamal Sutherland from his cell before his death in January both said they did not see any issues with the level of force they used.
Jamal Sutherland’s mother said “Justice was denied” in Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson’s decision not to file criminal charges against two Charleston County deputies in her son’s death, and pushed state leaders to pass laws to better protect the mentally ill.
Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson has called a news conference on the investigation into Jamal Sutherland’s death at the Charleston County jail in January.
Officials with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division have released investigate reports on Jamal Sutherland death at the Charleston County detention center earlier this year.
Charleston County’s sheriff posted to a blogging platform about changes she has made in her first six months in office at the Al Cannon Detention Center despite refusing multiple requests for an on-camera interview to discuss them.
Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said the Charleston County Sheriff’s office has provided requested information involving the death of Jamal Sutherland after several months of delay.
The Racial Justice Network held a news conference Wednesday outside the Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office demanding she recuse herself in the investigation into a death at the Charleston County jail.
A Freedom of Information Act request revealed new details about some of the conversations and changes that have happened within the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office since Jamal Sutherland’s death.
Activist groups sounded another call for criminal charges Thursday night in the death of Jamal Sutherland, vowing to continue doing so until charges are filed.
The mother of the man who died in January at the Charleston County jail said she believes murder charges should have been filed immediately after her son died.
The Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office will not make a decision this week on whether to file criminal charges in the death of a man at the Charleston County jail.
The family of a man who died in at the Charleston County jail wants private entities they believe contributed to his death to be held accountable, including the medical company contracted to work inside the jail.
Lawyers for the family of a man who died while in custody at the Charleston County detention center have provided a death certificate which has been amended to show that Jamal Sutherland’s manner of death was homicide.
More than six months since Jamal Sutherland died inside the Charleston County Jail, community members continue to call for the detention officers involved to be charged.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has cited Palmetto Behavioral Health for failing to report the incident that led to Jamal Sutherland’s arrest.
Charleston County Council’s unanimous vote Wednesday night on a $10 million settlement in the death of Jamal Sutherland means the county will have to dip into its coffers to pay the majority of the cost.
County leaders approved the settlement on Tuesday, and according to county officials was the result of extensive negotiations led by the county’s attorney with the Sutherland’s family legal counsel.
Charleston County Council has voted unanimously to settle the Jamal Sutherland case for $10 million. The finance committee earlier voted in favor of the settlement.
It’s Solicitor Scarlett Wilson’s job to decide whether to bring charges against the two deputies who reportedly tased Jamal Sutherland in the Charleston County jail back in January.
The man in charge of Charleston County’s detention center was fired within hours of an inmate’s death inside the facility, but a spokesperson for the agency that runs the jail says that the two incidents are not related.
Saturday evening, around a dozen people with the activism group United Front marched downtown to demand charges be filed against deputies involved in Jamal Sutherland’s death at the Al Cannon Detention center back in January.
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