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Thirty-year-old Adam Weakley was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday evening, the statement said. He was brought to MetroHealth Medical Center and pronounced dead about an hour later.
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Officials are currently considering locations for the jail. According to a county spokeswoman, there are two frontrunners under consideration by the county. Based on news reports, one location is in an industrial site in Slavic Village. It’s unclear where the other frontrunner is.
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Ohio reported more than 20,000 COVID-19 cases on Saturday and Sunday combined; Mass drive-thru testing will expand to Akron this week; a COVID-19 surge at the Cuyahoga County Jail is prompting Gov. Mike DeWine to call for backup; and more stories.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is sending military reserve support staff to the Cuyahoga County Jail after a wave of medical absences left local officials short handed.
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Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced the former Cuyahoga County jail director to six months for falsification and 90 days for dereliction of duty.
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The Ohio Supreme Court says it will not hear an appeal over the firing of a white Cleveland police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice outside a city recreation center in 2014; tougher criminal penalties for hazing in Ohio will take effect this fall, nearly three years after the death of the college student for whom the law is named; despite the hype and hoopla around Governor Mike DeWine’s Vax-a-million lottery, a new study finds that the million-dollar giveaways did not increase vaccination rates; and more stories.
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Recent staffing shortages at the Cuyahoga County Jail have led to extended lockdowns and the use of National Guard members or other sheriff’s department officers to ensure adequate staffing.
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Legislation introduced in the Ohio Senate says if an infant is born alive after an abortion, the healthcare provider must do everything in their power to keep them alive; police body camera footage shows a routine police pat-down of a man in a suburban Columbus hospital emergency room erupting within minutes into a fatal police shooting; a former Cuyahoga County Jail guard will spend 30 days in jail for failing to get medical attention for an inmate who eventually died; and more stories.
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The legal battle between Summit County Republican Party chair Bryan Williams and Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose is intensifying; Summit County health officials are still working to get a mass vaccination clinic set-up at the county fairgrounds ahead of its tentative Monday opening; the mass vaccination site at the Wolstein Center in downtown Cleveland is getting $8.7 million dollars from The EMA; and more stories.
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With about 300 COVID-positive inmates and 69 staff members currently out with COVID-19 illness or exposure, Cuyahoga County is taking several dramatic steps to stem an outbreak of the coronavirus in the jail.