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DENVER A Colorado bill aims to improve healthcare for pregnant women, including those who are incarcerated, less than three years since a woman filed a federal lawsuit after giving birth in a Denver jail cell with no medical care.
Diana Sanchez gave birth alone in her jail cell in July 2018 after deputies and nurses allegedly ignored her pleas during about five hours of labor. Sanchez and her son will receive nearly $500,000 in periodic installments from a lawsuit settlement with the city and Denver Health Medical Center, which employed the jail’s nurses.
But her lawyer, Mari Newman, said the outcomes aren’t always positive, noting that an incarcerated woman she represented over 20 years ago lost her baby because she didn’t receive care. Legislation is “critically necessary” because things haven’t changed, Newman said.
Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate
Michelle Liu
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This Aug. 17, 2018, photo provided by Justice 360 shows death row inmate Richard Moore at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, S.C. Moore was sentenced to death in the 1999 fatal shooting of James Mahoney, a convenience store clerk in Spartanburg County, S.C. ( Blossom Street Films/Justice 360 via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. – If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes the electric chair or the firing squad.
Moore is one of three prisoners on South Carolina s death row who have run out of appeals in the past six months and could be among the first to face the grim choice under a new state law. But his supporters including the state s former prisons chief say he deserves better.
Hosemann, Gunn support return to Capitol post court decision
LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press/Report for America
May 18, 2021
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1of3FILE - House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, looks down the hall at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Some Mississippi lawmakers say they want Gov. Tate Reeves to call them back to the Capitol for a special session to revive the state s initiative process. Others want a chance to quickly revive discussion of a medical marijuana program. “We 100% believe in the right of the people to use the initiative process to express their views on public policy,” Gunn said Monday, May 17, 2021 in a statement that did not mention medical marijuana.Rogelio V. Solis/APShow MoreShow Less
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