Blackwood urges state to take over monitoring responsibilities from private companies

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Electronic Monitoring,Private Companies,Bond Revocation

Mobile County’s top prosecutor is calling for the state to take over electronic monitoring from private companies after a murder defendant's bond was revoked due to alleged violations.

Mobile County’s top prosecutor calling for the state to take over electronic monitoring from private companies that currently perform that task.) - A bond revocation controversy involving a murder defendant has Mobile County’s top prosecutor calling for the state to take over electronic monitoring from private companies that currently perform that task.

“This case with Haratio Stewart is one of the most egregious that I’ve seen,” Blackwood told FOX10 News. “And I just think it’s, you know, reprehensible that a company promises to monitor someone by a judge’s order, and then they allow them to do so many things outside of – in violation of the judge’s order.”Jabyron Nichols and wounded his girlfriend, Jelaysia Smith, while they were in a car at Maison De Ville apartments on Christmas Eve.

“They’re told that if you want to leave your house, you have to call or text, and you have to get approval ahead of time,” he said. “And he had the approval.” “There was complete lack of effort to follow the judge’s order,” he said. “The judge had ordered the defendant to be on house arrest, and under the supervision of this ankle monitoring company, he was allowed to go to Biloxi, to casinos. He was allowed to go buy shoes for himself.”

 

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