According to the settlement agreement The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained on Wednesday, the money will be paid to Damion MacClain’s family in exchange for dropping the lawsuit they brought, blaming the state prison system for MacClain’s death on Dec. 26, 2013, death.

The agreement says the settlement is not an admission of liability but was made “to seek peace and secure resolution and to terminate further controversy.

MacClain’s was one of three deaths in five months at the northwest Georgia prison. At the time, Hays was becoming increasingly dangerous because faulty locks allowed inmates to leave their cells and roam at will. MacClain’s family said that was how other inmates were able to attack him in his bed.

According to the suit brought on behalf of the MacClain family by the Southern Center for Human Rights, prison officials knew conditions at Hays had deteriorated to a level that allowed stabbings, beatings, and assaults on inmates and officers.

Prison audits in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 all reported cell door locks at Hays could easily be circumvented. Yet prison officials did not fix the locks or find a way to control the movements of the inmates…

State Rep. John E. Barnes wanted to talk to the Democratic House leader about his committee assignments after the 2010 election, but he says that he was instead told to make that request through the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus.

Barnes is black, but the Cleveland Democrat said he did not see any value in joining the Black Caucus. He called the organization’s “moral compass” troubling, and he “wanted to be treated as an individual rather than as a member of a presumed monolithic block of votes based upon his skin color.”

White Democrats, Barnes said, could simply let their committee preferences be known, while black lawmakers had to go through the Black Caucus.

“There should not be a process where there’s a certain procedure that John has to follow because he’s an African-American legislator,” Barnes told reporters yesterday as he discussed an unusual defamation lawsuit he filed this week against the Ohio Democratic Party and its outgoing chairman, Chris Redfern.

“I understand the focus is, you want to have people where you can manage them like they’re on a plantation. That’s…

“We are working with the authorities on this, but we’re not in a place where we can talk about it,” said school spokeswoman Colleen Reynolds.

According to the suit, the victim was pulled out of a school bathroom by one of the accused attackers. She was taken to the locker room where she was forced to perform oral sex on the football player.

Another boy arrived in the locker room. He had keys to the office of the school’s dean of students, which the suit says, the student claimed to have retrieved from the dean himself. The two accused perpetrators took the girl into the dean’s office, where they both sexually assaulted her, the suit alleges.

“Getting the keys to the dean’s office is inappropriate. They shouldn’t have access to private, secure locations like that,” Herman said. “The only reason they would get that, we believe, is because of their status as football players.”

The suit claims the attack happened in April during school hours. The alleged victim eventually told her mother about the incident, and a police investigation has been opened, Herman…

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Judge Christopher S. Brasher, of the Fulton County Superior Court, said in a 14-page ruling that he believed state and county officials were complying with the Georgia elections standards that govern voter registration.

Judge Brasher, who sits in Atlanta, issued his decision four days after he heard oral arguments in the litigation filed by the NAACP and the New Georgia Project, an officially nonpartisan group founded by the state House’s Democratic leader, Stacey Abrams.

The organizations contended in their lawsuit that the Georgia secretary of state, Brian P. Kemp, and certain county election boards had not properly handled applications from more than 40,000 residents, many of them minorities and young people.

The groups argued that regulators did not quickly process applications and had not contacted prospective voters who submitted incomplete forms.

The organizations alleged that the decisions essentially amounted to a lockout from the polls for thousands of Georgians.

But Judge Brasher wrote: “Not only is there no proof that the respondents have failed to fulfill their duties, but there is also affirmative proof to the contrary. The secretary of state and the county registrars…