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Youngkin pardons Loudoun County dad convicted after confronting school board about daughter's sexual assault
Sun, 2023-09-10 00:00 +0000 — CCJR-NH StaffVirginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a full pardon for a Loudoun County father who he says was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted for standing up for his daughter at a 2021 Loudoun County School Board meeting after she was sexually assaulted at school.
Join Webinar JAN 25: Challenging 50 Years of Mass Incarceration
Sat, 2023-01-21 18:56 +0000 — DRBobFifty years ago, the United States embarked on a path of mass incarceration that has led to a staggering increase in the correctional population. Today, nearly two million people - disproportionately Black Americans - are living in prisons and jails instead of their communities. In the early 1970s this count was 360,000.
Covid Outbreaks Devastated Prisons, but State Inmates’ Access to the Vaccine Varies Widely
Fri, 2021-03-19 15:29 +0000 — DRBobCLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE
This is an important analysis of the distribution of vaccine in prisons and jails. Vaccination varies by state. While Florida is not vaccinating inmates, New Hampshire vaccinates in the order they would become eligible if in the general public.
A state-by-state patchwork of vaccine rules has left prison inmates with different outlooks even as the C.D.C. has recommended prioritizing them.By Ann Hinga Klein and Derek M. Norman March 17, 2021 New York Times
Nearly half of the roughly 8,700 state prison inmates in Kansas have received a coronavirus vaccine, and state officials say that all prisoners who want shots will have gotten at least a first dose by the middle of April.
But in Florida, no inmates in state-run correctional institutions have gotten shots, corrections officials said, not even those who would qualify under the state’s age and health guidelines if they were not behind bars. “There’s no way you’re going to get some prisoner a vaccine over a senior citizen,” Gov. Ron DeSantis has said.
