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VOLUME 1, NO. 18
No more race-based lockdowns in Cali- National fornia prisons nurses call by jennifer schlueter on President Obama to issue executive order directing hospitals to follow highest standards for beating Ebola
In February 2011, LeClaire Jr. was absent without leave from his duty station in Texas. At approximately 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2011, LeClaire Jr. was in a hotel room drinking and socializing with three other men at the Cypress Lodge on Lincoln
With concern escalating across the U.S. about the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on President Barack Obama to “invoke his executive authority” to order all U.S. hospitals to meet the highest “uniform, national standards and protocols” in order to “safely protect patients, all healthcare workers and the public.” The request, send in a letter to the President, came on a day in which NNU, the largest U.S. organization of nurses, hosted a national call-in conference in which 11,500 RNs from across the U.S. joined to discuss what steps should be taken to confront a virulent disease that the World Health Organization has termed the most significant health crisis in modern history. On the call, RNs from California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Texas described widespread concerns in their hospitals about inadequate preparedness at a time at least two nurses have been tested positive for the Ebola virus
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California High Desert State Prison, where a race-based lockdown called for a civil rights law suit - Courtesy Photo
In 2006, African American inmates of the California High Desert State Prison had been locked down for 14 months deprived from outdoor exercise, rehabilitation programs, and prison jobs after two guards had been attacked
by prisoners. The lockdown was solely based on race and unjustly included inmates who didn’t take part in the incident. According to the Los Angeles Times, another incident concerning a “riot between northern
and southern Mexican gangs at Pelican Bay State Prison, resulted in a three-year lockdown” during which prisoners “were denied family visits, issued housing and Please see page 2
Soldier sentenced for Cypress hotel shooting killing 1, wounding 2 A United States Army deserter was sentenced today to 90 years to life in state prison plus a determinate sentence of 11 years and four months in state prison for shooting and murdering an acquaintance and seriously wounding the defendant’s father and another man in an unprovoked shooting at a Cypress hotel. Ste-
ven Matthew LeClaire Jr., 26, was found guilty by a jury Aug. 1, 2014, of one felony count of second degree murder, two felony counts of attempted murder, and sentencing enhancements for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death and the personal discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury.