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COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons five times higher than state Follow Us Question of the Day Ramiah Whiteside of Milwaukee holds a sign during a protest outside of the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on Nov. 24, 2020. Event organizers sought to draw attention to the thousands of inmates and staff who have contracted ... more > By VANESSA SWALES of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - ...

COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons 5 times higher than state By: Associated Press February 20, 2021 9:32 am Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff on June 18 as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exce...

Oakhill Correctional Institution in Fitchburg. STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES A correctional officer at a state prison in Fitchburg was charged Thursday with smuggling contraband into prison for sale and with sexual assault for an alleged relationship with her inmate business partner, court records state. A criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court alleges Mariah S. Krienke, 36, of Janesville, brought cellphones, chewing tobacco, food and nutritional supplements into Oakhill Cor...

The coronavirus has run rampant across Wisconsin’s prisons, infecting at least 2,153 staff members at adult institutions and 10,786 inmates throughout the pandemic—more than half of the inmate population.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cumbria County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service is supporting teams across the council, NHS and the wider Local Resilience Forum by undertaking additional duties to protect communities across Cumbria. Cumbrian firefighters have been working tirelessly since the start of the pandemic to support communities in every way possible – from helping to deliver food parcels, PPE, emergency medication and more recently supporting the roll out of lateral flow...

Firefighters across Cumbria have done everything from delivering food parcels and PPE to supporting the rollout of lateral flow testing to help…

Firefighters across Cumbria have done everything from delivering food parcels and PPE to supporting the rollout of lateral flow testing to help…

N.C. Claims Fewer Prisoners Died of COVID Than Documents Show In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take him to the hospital, and instead called the time of death and left. A prison official called his uncle, who would wake up to a voicemail sha...

‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Posted: Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to...

Cumbrias Fire and Rescue Service has been praised by government inspectors for supporting the people of the county well during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) carried out an inspection of Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) to assess how the service was performing during the Covid-19 crisis. HMICFRS concluded Cumbria FRS had adapted and responded “effectively” to the Covid-19 crisis. Cumbri...