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Then U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, left, meets with Julio M. Algarin, warden at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Lower Providence in January 2016. The pair were discussing a prison grant for the Linking to Employment Activities Pre Release to establish jail-based employment centers to help inmates prepare for post-release job opportunities. John Strickler — Digital First Media Photo courtesy Montgomery County Commissioners

Kenosha News, Kenosha, Jan. 6

Published January 02. 2021 8:05PM  Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit An inmate of the state prison system died Saturday morning of complications from COVID-19, the Department of Correction said in a news release. It was the system’s 14th death associated with the disease. Citing medical privacy laws, the department did not release the identity of the 69-year-old man but said he had been serving a 20-year sentence for first-degree sexual assault and last entered...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is working through the details of exactly who will be eligible for coronavirus vaccines in exactly what order as it concentrates on giving shots mostly