I’ve decided to add a segment to my blog that actually brings to light some stories that often go unnoticed between verbiage about what actress is wearing coke on her dress and what short sighted message Bush Junior is spewing…
There’s no rocket science here but you will be reading some things that put the world in contect hopefully and will stretch your thought process beyond the “Chicken Noodle Soup” dance. I’m specifically interested in black people for a bunch of reasons. One, cause I’m black. Two, because I believe the news we read is often only geared towards us which, in some instances is excellent since nobody else cares unless there’s a captial slant, but mostly it’s just down right ignorant. Three, there’s a lot of information out there and if you can contemplate rims and Tims, you can digest global context. You can. I promise.
The first installment of our News You Don’t Know Can Hurt You comes from the BBC and is about some shenanigans that happened on our own soil (at this point you should know that you can’t trust our news sources over here completely….I mean come on).
False fax allows US prison escape
A prisoner in the US state of Kentucky was mistakenly freed after a phoney fax ordering his release was sent from a nearby grocery store.
Timothy Rouse, 19, was being held on charges of assault and robbery.
The fax ordering his release claimed to be from the state supreme court, but was riddled with spelling errors and had no letterhead.
Police found Rouse two weeks later at his mother’s house after prison authorities realised their mistake.
“It’s outrageous that it happened,” said Fulton County attorney Rick Major. “I’m just glad nobody got hurt, because he’s dangerous.”
‘No routine check’
Rouse was being held at the Kentucky Correctional and Psychiatric Center near Louisville for mental evaluation when he was released on 6 April.
Prison officials said the fax was received from a nearby grocery store. Police are investigating who faxed the document.
The prison’s director said their policies do not require them to check the source of faxes.
“It’s not part of a routine check,” said Greg Taylor, “but certainly, in hindsight, that would perhaps have caused somebody to ask a question.”
Mr Taylor said spelling mistakes are common on court documents.
Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6583043.stm
Published: 2007/04/23 10:00:26 GMT
Peep: “Mr. Taylor said spelling mistakes are common on court documents.” Somebody needs to reach out to the Akeelahs chilling in the Bees so they can fix that shit.
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