Michigan Inmates Fight to Keep Bottled Water as Supplies Dwindle

Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- flint.water.bottled.dwindling.lawsuits.inmates_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group

 

According to local reports out of Michigan, a lawsuit filed June 30th has resulted in an agreement between Genseee County Sheriff Robert Pickell and attorney Daniel Manville to keep inmates at the jail on bottled water “until tests show the water is safe to drink”.

Manville is the director of the Michigan State University (MSU) Civil Rights Clinic (CRC). He filed the complaint in a US District Court, requesting that the court force Pickell to “provide safe and clean water to all those confined presently and in the future at the jail.”

Four months ago, Manville wrote to Pickell, explaining that “the clinic is asking that you change the jail’s policy and allow law students and paralegal access to detainees when a letter is provided to the jail from an attorney requesting that the paralegal or law student be allowed to visit particular detainees.”

So far paralegals working for attorneys representing inmates at the jail have been making it difficult to visit with their clients; while at the same time Pickell claims that the lawsuit was “unnecessary litigation”.

Pickell stated that the agreement “is in the best interests of the inmates, the public and the jail staff.”

The supply of bottled water coming into Flint, Michigan is beginning to dwindle . Where fifty semi-trailer trucks per day were arriving, now an average of seven bring bottled water to residents.

Bill Kerr, president of the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan (FBEM) told local news: “we’re not at the peak of the media’s attention right now and you know, quite honestly, the water in the state it is, where the water is drinkable in Flint now as long as you use filters, there is less need in some peoples’ eyes for bottled water. We will continue to supply water to the community as long as it’s needed.”

Meanwhile residents cannot imagine going back to using the public water supply without more evidence that it is safe. One resident said : “We’re going to be on bottled water until we hear different, but even then we might not trust it. These are our children we got to worry about.”

Back at the Genesee County Circuit Court (GCCC), lawsuits filed against Lockwood, Andrews & Newman and others show promise to demonstrate that environmental corporations that worked for the city at the time of the water contamination and the state may have been aligned.

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