Ex-commissioner arrested more than visit the prison challenges right Ga.
A former President was in charge of the house of peacekeeping break in their local prison is a challenge Georgia, the law allows the authorities, the arrest of the man, “bread, or admire,” Nearby occupiers.
Beulah dollars a federal complaint filed Thursday Telfair says Jim Williamson County Sheriff violated his civil rights, as they were arrested in July 2006 as they tried to meet with detainees in the county jail, without his permission.
“As President, I had a right to visit the prison and all things in the county,” said $ 72 “But all these rights have been swept away by me.”
The appeal was rejected by the Southern Center for Human Rights in U.S. District Court in Dublin. It indicates a state exam to make it a crime of “bread, or admire, where some employees are on board or detained” is too vague and broad, and that limits free speech dollars.
“Commissioner dollars has the right and duty to monitor the prison,” said Gerry Weber, a senior lawyer with the center. “Drag archaic, probably unconstitutional” bread and admire the “law to hinder their efforts good intentions was a clear violation of their rights. ”
Williamson, reached Wednesday, said he had tried to maintain order in the prison - not to restrict access to dollars.
“If you want to talk with some of the occupants or give them information, tell me,” Williamson said. “But this is not sneak around him and get it done. This is dangerous.”
From $ served eight years as Commissioner for Telfair County, Georgia, a rural town about 160 miles south-east of Atlanta.
She said during their time in office, she fair treatment of prisoners a priority, and dinner aboard Thanksgiving and Christmas and the promotion of this alleged they were treated unfairly.
Dollar said she had visited the prison without problems for years, until May 2006 when he was served with a “stop and drain”, while still a commissioner. It has been said, except that ‘authorization of the Sheriff prior to the visit of prisoners in the prison.
Williamson said that, during consultation with local authorities Crown on the order loafing on the status obsolete and that a law comes from the year 1903 at least.
“This is the first time I had the law. I have been in a situation with a circuit official and I did not know which way to go,” said Williamson, a magistrate since 2000. “If the officials Police overexploitation of this law, I would be worried. But it was one of those situations. ”
Williamson has asked prosecutors to file formal charges of house peace in case of failure, he says, is still pending. And the daughter of a dollar, from his seat of the Commission elected, but the dollar and their supporters that the complaint filed with the obscure provision, Weber said he had never questioned.
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