The coronavirus pandemic, protests over the police killing of George Floyd, the Blue Ridge fire, lockdowns, and the closing of schools rocked the Chino Valley and the rest of the nation during this extraordinary year.
The devastation was matched by the goodness of residents who helped school children cope with social isolation, collected food and items for those hit hardest by the pandemic, and rallied around frontline healthcare workers.
Barely had the year begun when the coronavirus pandemic originating in Wuhan, China spread across the globe resulting in 334,000 deaths in the United States by the end of the year.
There were 11 deaths in Chino Hills and 70 in Chino, with 26 of those at the California Institution for Men in Chino and one at the California Institution for Women.
By City News Service
Dec 30, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today.
Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Agents from specialized units within the department, along with help from the Long Beach Police Department, apprehended Booker in the Hyde Park area around noon Tuesday, authorities said.
By City News Service
Dec 30, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today.
Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Agents from specialized units within the department, along with help from the Long Beach Police Department, apprehended Booker in the Hyde Park area around noon Tuesday, authorities said.
After nine months of coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is now requiring staff to wear surgical masks because of a surge in positivity rates.
CARY ASPINWALL of The Marshall Project and ED WHITE of The Associated Press DETROIT Families of men incarcerated at Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility believed its remote location would spare it from a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. For a while, they seemed to be right. Kinross, built on the grounds of a former Air Force base in the Upper Peninsula, is closer to Canada than it is to Detroit. Unlike most prisons in Michigan, Kinross had remained almost unscathed by the novel coronavirus with only one case between March and October. But on Oct. 28, corrections officials transferred nine prisoners to Kinross from Marquette Branch Prison, several hours west, where COVID-19 was running rampant. There were 837 confirmed cases by late October, 350 of which were still active when the men were transferred.