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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, SAN DIEGO, SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New data shows California’s life sciences sector produced $472...

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It's estimated that up to 65% of the U.S. prison population has an active substance use disorder. When these inmates are released, studies have shown that many will return to using and be arrested again within a few years. Stephanie Sy recently visited a jail in Kentucky that’s trying to not only break that cycle but also save lives. It’s part of our ongoing series, Searching for Justice.

  Michael Taylor thought he might die alone in the Shelby County Detention Center.  Taylor had been sick with the coronavirus for weeks. It was early March, and he was living in a cell with 19 other people, some of whom had not yet tested positive for the virus. Taylor’s symptoms got worse and worse until medical staff quarantined him in the cell usually reserved for people in solitary confinement.  On March 3, the first night he spent in what he calls the hole, Taylor said he was having ...