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The Federal Correctional Institute at Ray Brook is seen in April 2016. The buildings were originally built to house athletes for the 1980 Winter Olympics in nearby Lake Placid. Converting it to a prison afterward was part of the original plan.
(Enterprise photo â Antonio Olivero) RAY BROOK The federal prison here is showing its largest numbers of staff and inmates testing positive for COVID-19 ever. Data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons Wednesday evening shows 85 inmates and 17 staff testing positive at the Federal Correctional Institute in Ray Brook. The BOP has not been available to explain the situation.
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has said he supports a bill introduced by state legislators to end capital punishment in the state, US media reported.
State legislators in Virginia’s House and Senate on Wednesday introduced bills that would abolish the death penalty and convert existing capital sentences to life sentences without parole, ABC News reported.
Later on Wednesday, Virginia Governor Northam said in his annual State of the Commonwealth address that he supports efforts to abolish Virginia’s death penalty, citing racial injustices in the criminal justice system and the possibility of the state condemning innocent people.
This is known to have happened at least once in modern history. Earl Washington, a Black man, was sentenced to death in 1984 and “spent 18 years in prison in Virginia, including nine-and-a-half of them on death row. But he didn’t do it”, Northam said in his address.
The 1954 Attack On The Capitol And The Woman Who Led It
By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 10, 2021 9:22 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 4:50 pm EDT
In the middle of the 20th century, one woman became the face of the movement for Puerto Rican self-determination. Her name was Lolita Lebrón, and in an effort to draw the world s attention to Puerto Rico s colonial subjugation by the United States, she and a handful of men opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives.
After the United States Capitol was stormed by insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021, Amarilis Rodriguez questioned how long the domestic terrorists would serve in prison, considering that Lebrón and her fellow pro-independence activists served 25 years (after being sentenced to even more.) Will the United States legal system punish insurrection as harshly as it punishes anti-colonialism?
The program, in partnership with Can Do Canines, trains service dogs to perform a variety of functions. 2:42 pm, Jan. 10, 2021 ×
Kaity McGinn, prison program coordinator with Can Do Canines, works during a Can Do Canines training session Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, at Federal Medical Center in Rochester. As part of the program inmates at Federal Medical Center help train puppies for a future as assistance dogs through Can Do Canines. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
Normally, incarcerated dog handlers at the Rochester Federal Medical Center have time to prepare for the departure of the puppies brought to the prison as part of the Teaching Animals and Inmates Life Skills Program.