A.G. Gancarski
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry gets many letters, and a certain percentage of them involve promised/threatened legal action.
One of them was sent Oct. 13, naming Curry, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, and Tara Wildes, director of JSO’s Department of Corrections, as defendants in a proposed action for “declaratory, punitive, and any other damages the court deems just and proper.”
The inmate, 55-year-old Jamaal Hameen, has been arrested multiple times for cocaine possession, paraphernalia possession, and such. His current sentence started in September, for petty theft, possession of misdemeanor levels of marijuana, and “resisting – opposing retail merchant.”
Hameen’s beef: “Mayor Curry knew or should have known as the chief jailer, chief financial officer, chief administrator of the city… that inmates are being [denied] due process and equal protection in the area of faulty and ineffective grievance process.”
This claim encompasses an “inadequate law library,” “cruel and unusual punishment,” “unsanitary dining conditions,” “inadequate medical conditions/treatments,” “discrimination and deliberate indifference in programs/religious services.”
We have reached out to the mayor’s representatives for comment; updates will be provided as warranted.
