Trump Indicted in Georgia, Recovery Continues in Maui, Angola Prison Conditions
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yeah where the bird? No birds. That's an imposter bird. We have the latest chapter of the trump, indeed, summer.

a georgia and jury accused the former president of a criminal enterprise to stay in office after his defeat. It's trumps fourth entitled this year.

I'm laa foldin that Steven skipping. This is a first from N. P.

R. news. Authorities in mali say they're bouncing back .

after a wild fire.

The recovery from this tragedy is proceeding and proceeding extremely vigorously.

But why do some survivors save otherwise?

Also the lousianner state penitentiary as a history of human rights violations, why are juveniles being held there? Some of them in solitary confinement? Stay with us.

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In all of american history, a former president has been indeed only four time.

and we have witnessed all four of them all against the same man, donal trump, and all of them happened this year. The latest comes from a grand jy and fulton county, georgia, district attorney, phony willis accuses trump and eighteen other people of a quote, criminal enterprise .

to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald j. Trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january twenty of twenty one.

The indictment includes four one counts such as conspiracy to commit election fraud, filing false statements and forgery. Others charged include trust attorney identified in the papers as rude uh, William Lewis Juliane and trump's White house chief of staff, mark medows.

Georgia public broadcasting Stephen fowler was at the course when the charges were announced late last night and this with this early this morning. Stephen, thank you. Good morning. Good morning. What is the essence of the case against trump?

So the ratio influences and corrupt organizations act, or rego act, was meant to go out for the mob, but the folding cane D. A in particular, has used IT creatively as this narrative tool to target alleged criminal enterprises. So in this case, Steve, former president Donald truck animali zed are accused of engaging in more than one hundred and sixty different acts, not all of them explicitly illegal, that contributed to the unlawful effort of trying to undo Georgeous twenty .

twenty election result OK. What sort of acts would be part of a recovering crime, but not an ordinary crime?

Well, George's requiteth ing law does have specific explicit triggers before you can be charged with crimes like forgery and both is getting you a reo violation. But then there these other acts that are instances that showed there's a broader conspiracy y of the to do illegal things, for instance, like influencing lawmakers in other states to overturn their elections, are acts that are efforts to influence lawmakers in georgia, which is illegal here. Think of them like building blocks that make up the wall of actions to overturn the election, but not necessarily those critical, foundational, blatantly illegal things like, say, trump calling toward the secretary state to, quote.

find the book. Okay, so that is the independent we've got against trump. And there are eighteen other people named. What kinds of people are this?

Well, there are several big buckets. The names that have popped up in the other federal investigations and conversations about twenty twenty, in addition to mark medows and rudy Julian oni, there's another trumped tori involved. Sydney power.

All obese people were involved with multiple states. You've also got those that spoke at hearings designed to convince George a. Lawmakers to change the election results.

Like lawyer ray smith, there's also three electors who falsely claim to be official electors like Georgeous former state republican party chairman David shaver. Another big part of this case is the effort to unlawfully copy election data in a rural county copy county. And there's people involved with that as well. And so notably new information, people involved in efforts to harass a particular election worker and convinced, heard to falsely says he committed election.

Broad, wow. How did the da talk about all of this?

Will this is the only state level prosecutor to investigate trump and twenty twenty election interference way and SHE painted that decision as one that was her duty to ensure votes are counted fairly and accurately.

The state role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. SHE hopes have a trial .

date within the next six months, but Steve, given trumps other legal issues and the large number of defendants, IT could take longer. It's also notable what he didn't say, largely declining to respond to questions specifically about trump and his attacks on her and her office has been going on before these charges were even filed.

Stephen filer with georgia public broadcasting, thanks so much.

Thank you.

Some survivors of a fire in mali are not satisfied with their dealings with the government. So far.

that wildfire has killed ninety nine people, and authorities are still searching. They're keeping the area closed while they do, and that is one source of the tension between .

rescuers and the wider community.

Good morning.

How much of the burned area is left for authorities to search?

About twenty five percent of the area has been searched for human remains. Now there are about twenty searched dogs coming through the rubble of building still. So there's a lot more to do, and that's why the officials are saying but deathful is still likely to rise. They're also in the process of in those remains and have been asking families who are searching for love wanted to contribute DNA samples to help in that process as that search goes on. You know, the burned area in the hana is closed off even for people who live there, and the main roads into the area have also been restricted since the fire OK.

So now we get, I think, how is that affecting the community that vive the fire?

It's been a big point of contention in the community. Local residents have been doing an amazing amount of heavy lifting, just organizing huge care vans of food by boat and truck. And some of them trouble getting that in. The state says it's brought in a million pounds of food. Hawaii governor jh screen says theyve mobilized a lot of resources.

The recovery from this tragedy is proceeding and proceeding extremely vigorously.

The community agree with that assessment.

I mean, walking around the china is easy to see. Cell service is very weakened, sort some communities there are still lacking power and drinkable water. So many residents have been eager to do day trips to the rest of male, where to get supplies and connectivity.

The most direct road has been restricted to residents since officials. They want to keep IT open for trucks and emergency vehicles. Yesterday, officials announced a new system.

Local residents had to come to a park to get a placard for their car. When producer jaci, meta and I walked up, they had called IT off. We are taking that. We are counselling that. We are no longer doing the place, place parts.

Why they were told .

more than a thousand people had showed up a totally overwhelm the site, so they cancelled the system altogether. And that's where he meant alex calmo. He lost his house in the fire. He's been staying with his parents and his uncle is missing.

And there they're really feeling in the worst.

We want to go to the hospital .

and his family is hoping to find any information at hospitals, but he's he's worried about leaving the area since the checking rules to get back in have changed several times already and he was really hoping that .

black card would help. How are authorities explaining their various changes and who they let in, who they let out in? how?

Yeah, I mean, they say residents have been able to use a checkpoint on the north side of mi, which involves this very long car trip on a windy road. So there's a lot of frustration. Um mali county council woman, tomorrow. Epl tins, if he was there in the park, we met her there. And he says state officials are making decisions that aren't always what the local community needs.

You know what I would like to see more of is more communication with us and more listening to us. You know.

emergency situations are always hard to manage and recovery efforts, you know, you can always see them. They're not always visible. But it's almost a week from when the fire started and many residents in the hiner feeling there happened to do so much of this themselves.

And there is law in summer.

Thanks for your work. Thank you.

We have a story now of the Louisiana state penitentiary.

It's known as Angella, after the plantation that Operated there in the eighteen hundreds, and even after slavery formally ended, convicts work there under conditions a lot like slavery. Today, the prison has a history of human rights abuses and medical neglect. And this week a federal judge will hear about conditions affecting juvenile being held. Their temporarily teenagers as Young as fifteen years old say they're being placed in solitary confinement, denied services and subjected to unbearable heat at angola. Their detention there was supposed to end in April, but they are still there.

Reporter, bobbi jean music is with the very news service in new baLance. She's been following the story the morning to you.

Why are people's .

Youngest fifteen and go in the first place while the state .

started sending the kids there last fall because they needed to renovate a facility and make more space, there was overcrowding, and there is also some violent escapes from a youth detention center in south east lusia. So the move to angola was supposed to be temporary, but they missed that April deadline. Now attorneys are filed a motion asking federal judge Shelly tick to order the state to stop sending youth tankle a prison and to release the ones who are currently there to adequate juvenile facilities. So I should say the update facility is now set to be ready in october on october.

but not April. You mentioned the turney filing emotion on behalf of the Young people. What are they saying?

Well, there's saying teenagers as Young as fifteen or being held in a unit formally reserved for death row. We've complained that some cell box are lacking air conditioning. Temperatures in Louisiana have been near a hundred degrees this summer, with heat index is reaching as high as a hundred and twenty degrees.

They are also saying that juvenile justice guards have placed a whole cell black under solitary confinement, only allowing these use out for eight minutes a day while handcuffed and shackled to shower. And kids say they're not getting the educational and mental health services that the state is required to provide them. The case has even caught the attention of the U. S. Department of justice, which issued a statement of interest ahead .

of the hearing. I'm kind of stuck on eight minutes a day, but i'll try to go on here. You said that there's hearing in federal court this week what happens.

Well, I I spoke with David utter. He's a little attuning for the plaintives. He said there will be expert testimony speaking to the dangers of exposing Young people to things like solitary confinement and extreme heat, and the hearing is expected to last multiple days this week.

How does the state justify it's conduct? The official .

position from the governor and the office of the juvenile justice IT is to not comment on the cases. It's ongoing, but in legal filings, the state's position is that these kids are getting the specialized educational programs and mental health care that they need. They say the areas where the teens were kept our air conditioned and the facility is being run like any juvenile justice center in the state IT just so happens to be on the campus of a maximum security prison.

A lot of disputes about the facts. Well, here, what comes out of the hearing? Bobby gene music from very news and new world. And thanks so much.

Thank you very much.

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