One of prison’s worst-kept secrets is that almost anything sold outside the walls can be purchased inside, and a witness to countless inmate drug overdoses is calling for state and federal authorities to act. Identified as “Abe,” the source spoke with Metro Times after approaching the Michigan State Police, Michigan Attorney General’s Office, FBI, DEA, Justice Department, and Senate Oversight Committee to offer proof of alleged drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy between Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) officers and prisoners; in three years of effort, Abe says no law enforcement or government agency has acted on extensive documentation that was provided, or accepted Abe’s offers to cooperate. “I know the identities of the guilty prisoners and law enforcement officers at the MDOC, and outside the MDOC,” Abe says, “and I’d be willing to name them, as well as provide official evidence, if it were to spur an investigation.”
Part IV in our ongoing investigation into the case of Mario Willis. Clara Mitchell was preparing for a funeral. Mitchell, who would pastor her own congregation years later, served as executive secretary of Community Christian Fellowship Church on Detroit’s east side in 2008 when parishioner Walter Harris died.
In a hall where weddings, christenings, and eulogies have taken place were now remnants of chaos. Even blood could be spotted in the aftermath of an unlikely event at the Gaelic League of Detroit Irish American Club in the same room where a children’s Irish dance class was scheduled the next day. Yet the 104-year-old Corktown fraternal organization and members-only watering hole had been booked by Ohio-based Ruthless Pro Wrestling, a company known for face-offs by “Hoodfoot” Mo Atlas and “The Carnivore” Remington Rhor.
With any “Top 10” list, there’s a natural tendency to look first at number one, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that, when it comes to their annual list of the top censored stories of the year. This year, the top story is about workplace deaths and injuries — with striking racial disparities, particularly for much-maligned foreign-born workers. Injury rates for Southern service workers — predominantly Black — are especially alarming, 87% in one year, according to one poll.
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One of prison’s worst-kept secrets is that almost anything sold outside the walls can be purchased inside, and a witness to countless inmate drug overdoses is calling for state and federal authorities to act. Identified as “Abe,” the source spoke with Metro Times after approaching the Michigan State Police, Michigan Attorney General’s Office, FBI, DEA, Justice Department, and Senate Oversight Committee to offer proof of alleged drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy between Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) officers and prisoners; in three years of effort, Abe says no law enforcement or government agency has acted on extensive documentation that was provided, or accepted Abe’s offers to cooperate. “I know the identities of the guilty prisoners and law enforcement officers at the MDOC, and outside the MDOC,” Abe says, “and I’d be willing to name them, as well as provide official evidence, if it were to spur an investigation.”
Part IV in our ongoing investigation into the case of Mario Willis. Clara Mitchell was preparing for a funeral. Mitchell, who would pastor her own congregation years later, served as executive secretary of Community Christian Fellowship Church on Detroit’s east side in 2008 when parishioner Walter Harris died.
In a hall where weddings, christenings, and eulogies have taken place were now remnants of chaos. Even blood could be spotted in the aftermath of an unlikely event at the Gaelic League of Detroit Irish American Club in the same room where a children’s Irish dance class was scheduled the next day. Yet the 104-year-old Corktown fraternal organization and members-only watering hole had been booked by Ohio-based Ruthless Pro Wrestling, a company known for face-offs by “Hoodfoot” Mo Atlas and “The Carnivore” Remington Rhor.
With any “Top 10” list, there’s a natural tendency to look first at number one, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that, when it comes to their annual list of the top censored stories of the year. This year, the top story is about workplace deaths and injuries — with striking racial disparities, particularly for much-maligned foreign-born workers. Injury rates for Southern service workers — predominantly Black — are especially alarming, 87% in one year, according to one poll.
