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CONCORD – About 35 people marched two miles from the men’s prison to U.S. District Court in Concord on Thursday to support Andrew Butler of Hollis and others who are locked up at the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
His supporters are planning on Thursday to walk the two miles from the state prison to the State House to the U.S. District Court on Pleasant Street in Concord to “Free Andrew,” a walk sponsored by human rights advocates.
CONCORD — Supporters are holding a walk from the state prison in Concord to the federal courthouse for Andrew Butler of Hollis and other prisoners at the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the men’s prison on Thursday starting at 9 a.m., according to an American Friends Service Committee news release.
Updated: CONCORD — Andrew Butler’s father says the state is trying to hide its federal court response to his son’s demand for transfer out of the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit because he hasn’t committed a crime by filing some of the documents under seal.
Right to Know NH will meet on Saturday, May 19, at 9:00 A.M. in Concord at 8 North Main Street in the office of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers.
After considering arguments made by the New England First Amendment Coalition, a New Hampshire court last week unsealed judicial records in a case involving Nathan Carman, a Vermont resident being investigated for the murder of his wealthy grandfather and the disappearance of his mother.
Plymouth, NH – The New Hampshire Circuit Court has ruled that the border patrol checkpoint that occurred in August 2017 on Interstate 93 in Woodstock, New Hampshire, was “unconstitutional under both State and federal law.”
After seeing the scars of coal, Fayette County banned the disposal of natural gas drilling waste. Industry fought back, arguing the community doesn’t get a say.
Patient Andrew Butler, 21, who was a well-known athlete as a Hollis High School student, argued through his attorney that he is locked up in a maximum-security prison because of mental illness even though he hasn’t committed a crime.