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Corrections Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah remains in the hot seat

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, City Justice Center, St. Louis Board of Aldermen, Inez Bourdeaux, St. Louis jail

A horrific photo of a man at the City Justice Center got attention yesterday — and administrators apparently aren’t happy

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Kevin O'Shaughnessy, City Justice Center, Jordan Cohen, suicide by cop, jail medical care, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah

A former staffer says even healthcare problems at the jail can be traced back to a lack of workers

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, City Justice Center, YesCare, Physician Correctional USA, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, staff shortages, staff vacancy rate

The Detention Facility Oversight Board has chafed at its lack of access to the City Justice Center

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Detention Facility Oversight Board, Reverend Darryl Gray, Pamela Walker, Mike Milton, Ornetha Lewis-Walls, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah

Opeoluwa Oke says he wrote two letters of concern about the City Justice Center before being terminated

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Opeoluwa Oke, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Mike Milton, Detention Facilities Oversight Board, Division of Civilian Oversight, City Justice Center, Carlton Bernard, jail deaths, Corizon, YesCare

The congresswoman sent a letter expressing her concern to St. Louis Corrections Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Cori Bush, St. Louis City Justice Center, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, St. Louis jail

Nurses and DJs strike, city police can't be found and Wainwright wins in every sense

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, KDHX, SLU Hospital nurses, jail deaths, Mister Gary Day, Rasheen Aldridge, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Robert Tracy

Juwon Carter had been held at the City Justice Center for 16 months awaiting trial

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Juwon Carter, City Justice Center, jail death, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Tishaura Jones, Detention Facility Oversight Board

Rasheen Aldridge spoke at a protest outside the troubled City Justice Center

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Rasheen Aldridge, Rasheen Aldridge, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Mike Milton, Detention Facility Oversight Board, Freedom Community Center, City Justice Center

Alderman Rasheen Aldridge has introduced a bill to give St. Louis’ Detention Facility Oversight Board more teeth

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Rasheen Aldridge, Rasheen Aldridge, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Mike Milton, Detention Facility Oversight Board

Neither a letter from Mayor Jones nor a visit to the City Justice Center by U.S. Rep. Cori Bush has mollified critics

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, City Justice Center, St. Louis jail, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, jail oversight board, Tishaura Jones, Mike Milton, Cori Bush, Darryl Gray

The oversight board isn't alone in calling for Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah to be fired

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, City Justice Center, St. Louis jail, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, jail oversight board, Tishaura Jones, Cover Story

Lawyers say they had to fight to get the 37-page report commissioned to look into causes of the riots

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, St. Louis City Justice Center, 2021 riots, Amy Breihan, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, St. Louis jail riots, report

Police forcibly removed Janis Mensah from the St. Louis City Justice Center last night

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, City Justice Center, Tishaura Jones, Janis Mensah, Mike Milton, Inez Bordeaux, Carlton Bernard, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, St. Louis jail reform

"They won't tell us anything. I have no words left," says one oversight board member

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, St. Louis jail, St. Louis City Justice Center, Carlton Bernard, Mike Milton, Mark Pedroli, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, jail deaths, Pamela Walker

After a hostage situation Tuesday, attorneys say other detainees’ constitutional rights are being violated

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, St. Louis jail, St. Louis City Justice Center, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Robert Taaffe, Terry Niehoff, Sheriff's Department, Division of Corrections

Carlton Bernard, 32, died Sunday while in jail custody

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, St. Louis jail, St. Louis City Justice Center, Carlton Bernard, Mike Milton, Mark Pedroli, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, jail deaths

A SWAT team gained control of the downtown jail within a few minutes of entering

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, St. Louis jail, hostage situation, St. Louis City Justice Center, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Charles Coyle, Department of Public Safety, Mike Milton, Pamela Walker

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