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COMMENT Culture is a reflection of the collective arts and crafts, customs and traditions, language, music, and other expressions of academic, economic and social behaviour of a people. In Pakistan, there is a dearth of platforms that provide a comprehensive outlook of the culture of our society. Lok Virsa is one such place where people can access this information, especially those who have had no exposure to the various shades of our pluralism. However, recently, the organisation has been embr...

Some schools requiring testing after spring vacation week The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail As the April school break kicks off in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, families are being asked to revisit guidelines for testing and quarantining before students get ready to return to school. In Massachusetts, some schools are following the state’s lead and recommending testing or quarantining only for returning students and staffers, but others are keeping it as a requirement. Milton Schools...

Instead, she was recognized as one of the best. Noble County’s chief probation officer, Beam was presented with the Order of Augustus, a statewide award given annually to the state’s top probation officer. Beam said she was “shocked” by the honor, and had come to the courtroom with some trepidation. “It’s never good when you get a call from the judges,” Beam said. Instead, she was greeted by her family, five current or former Noble County judges and her entire...

Singapore orders corrections to Facebook posts on vaccine risks  15 Apr 2021 - 12:38 FILE PHOTO Bloomberg Singapore’s Ministry of Health has issued orders requiring correction to several Facebook posts and an article over what the government says are false or unsubstantiated claims about side effects from Covid-19 vaccines. The directives were issued to opposition politician Goh Meng Seng and alternative news site Singapore Uncensored for alleging that vaccine side effects had caused or co...

Senior corrections officer revealed as second man in child exploitation case involving SA Labor staffer MonMonday 12 updated TueTuesday 13 Benjamin Waters was arrested following an investigation by SA Police and the AFP. ( Print text only Cancel The identity of a second South Australian man allegedly involved in producing and possessing child exploitation material has been revealed. Key points: He appeared in court last month, but lawyers asked that his identity be suppressed His co-accused i...

Date Time North Shore parole officers share their stories in podcast Parole officers from across Sydney reveal what it’s like to work with offenders one-on-one in a ground-breaking new podcast, Behind the Walls. Hosted by crime author Michael Duffy, the six-part series features first-hand accounts from 30 correctional officers about what really happens behind the walls of prisons and doors of parole offices in NSW. One such interview is with Grace Wong, who works at Hornsby Community Correcti...

A 26-year-old inmate at Milwaukee County Jail was found unresponsive in his cell and was pronounced dead Monday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office says.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Following a yearslong push, New York is limiting the use of solitary confinement in state and local correctional facilities and banning the practice altogether for some inmates. The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as HALT, prevents inmates from being h...

Teens who escaped Corrections custody apprehended April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Three teens who escaped from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility Sunday have been arrested in Albany after being located by the Oregon State Police, officials said. The Oregon Youth Authority says at about 2 p.m. Wednesday, the escapees were located in a vehicle in Lebanon by detectives, The Democrat-Herald reported. The teens fled in the vehicle and were pursued by law enforcement, o...

Rebecca Conley / Maine Public The Maine Center for Disease Control has added 203 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths on Tuesday. In all, 47,591 COVID-19 cases and 725 deaths have been reported. The Maine Center for Disease Control cautioned the public on Tuesday that a possible COVID-19 uptick could occur in the state. Both the number of hospitalizations and the state’s positivity rate have increased over the last two weeks. Almost 525,000 doses of vaccine have been administered in t...