Three Years in a Cage. No Charges and No Lawyer.
By Brandon Buskey | ACLU | September 24, 2014 Octavious Burks has been waiting for 10 months. He’s locked in a jail in Scott County, Mississippi. He hasn’t been formally charged. He hasn’t been assigned an attorney. This is a recurring nightmare for Octavious: The same thing happened in 2009 and 2012. In each case, […]