Monday, June 30, 2008
A.C.L.U. TO OPEN ITS FIRST OFFICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
As we previously noted a couple of months ago, The New York Times reported A.C.L.U. Votes to Take Over State Branch. And last week The Post and Courier reported ACLU to open its first office in state.
Now that "the Calvary has arrived," we wonder how long it will be before Dorchester County is forced to compensate the inmates who provided free "voluntary labor" and South Carolina counties are forced to provide free attorneys for alleged contemnors facing incarceration of one year. We also wonder whether Sheriff Ray Nash will be able to provide documentation concerning who "volunteered," where they worked, the number of hours they worked, and the types of services they performed.
Now that "the Calvary has arrived," we wonder how long it will be before Dorchester County is forced to compensate the inmates who provided free "voluntary labor" and South Carolina counties are forced to provide free attorneys for alleged contemnors facing incarceration of one year. We also wonder whether Sheriff Ray Nash will be able to provide documentation concerning who "volunteered," where they worked, the number of hours they worked, and the types of services they performed.
Given Sheriff Nash's well-documented poor record-keeping, we suspect that he will not be able to provide this information and that, if he could, it would prove embarrassing to both Dorchester County and to certain county council members who turned a blind eye to this sorry practice because doing so was either to their political or personal benefit.
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