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Corrections officials don’t need to repeat the horrors of previous waves of the pandemic in prisons and jails.

Plus, some drug supplies are getting tight, what might follow this US case plateau, third Pfizer shot produced 50x more antibodies, and more.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's trasparency initiatives include the MTA Open Data Act; state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli launched a federal COVID-19 funding tracker.

While most corrections systems have never provided much information about the spread of the virus in their institutions, lately it has gotten worse. Even less transparency is available from city and county jails and in juvenile detention facilities.

At two CoreCivic prisons, COVID-19 positivity rates are three times higher than at the average state-run facility in Tennessee.

This study examines COVID-19 cases and deaths among US federal and state prisoners from April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021, compared with cases and deaths in the o

As covid case numbers rise nationwide, Georgia and some other states have restricted the case count data they share publicly.

Florida has been accused of being less than transparent with covid health data. Newspapers have sued or threatened to sue.

Highlights from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and others.

Georgia and Florida no longer release information that was publicly available just a few months ago.