MSC Meraviglia will kick off MSC Cruises’ restart starting August 2nd, with three- and four-night cruises from Miami to the Bahamas and Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.
This story is produced by the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists Association in partnership with High Country News, Indian Country Today, National Native News and Searchlight New Mexico. It was produced in partnership with MuckRock with the support of JSK-Big Local News. In May of 2020, the Navajo Nation reported […]
There have been at least 19 deaths in Bureau of Indian Affairs detention centers in the last five years. Many of the victims had been arrested for petty crimes and were awaiting trial when they died.
(Sharon Chischilly for NPR)
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
When police took Carlos Yazzie to jail on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico after his arrest on a bench warrant in January 2017, he needed immediate medical attention. His foot was swollen and his blood alcohol content was nearly six times the legal limit.
But law enforcement decided that he was fine, jail records show. They put Yazzie in a cramped isolation cell at the Shiprock District Department of Corrections facility instead of taking him to a hospital and then left him unmonitored for six hours without periodic staff checks as required, according to an investigative report. When a guard handing out inmate jumpsuits the next morning stopped at Yazzie s cell, the 44-year-old day laborer was dead. It would later be determined in an autopsy that he died from acute alcohol poisoning, which is easily treatable by medical professionals, experts said.
Jun. 10—SALEM — City officials are speeding up their plans to replace the Salem Willows pier. This year's capital improvement plan from Mayor Kim Driscoll outlines $11.6 million in projects that will require $9.8 million in borrowing. Of that amount, $900,000 is earmarked for replacement of the park's historic pier, which has been closed since 2019 due to extensive storm damage. The actual .