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Study: 1 in 5 U.S. Prisoners Have Contracted Coronavirus
The ongoing pandemic, which has entered its tenth month, has infected at least 275,000 prisoners nationwide, with more than 1,700 dying from the disease.
One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States have contracted the coronavirus a rate that is about four times higher than the general population, according to data collected by the Associated Press and the Marshall Project.
The ongoing pandemic, which has entered its tenth month, has infected at least 275,000 prisoners nationwide, with more than 1,700 dying from the disease.
The data further revealed that some states have been hit harder than others. For example, in Kansas, half of the prisoners have contracted the virus, which is eight times the rate of the state’s general population. Eleven of the prisoners have died.
Dec. 23, 2020
Six weeks after my eldest daughter was born, my husband and I packed up her swaddles and burp cloths and boarded a plane to Massachusetts, where our extended family was gathering for a reunion. I was nervous. The original plan was to leave our daughter with my husband’s aunts for a day while we attended a nearby folk music festival. But at some point during the first exhausting weeks of my life as a parent, I realized that wasn’t going to work and I knew everyone would be disappointed.
Before, it seemed simple: I could leave my family with a few bottles of breastmilk and then spend a relaxing day sitting on a blanket in the sunshine. But after struggling to establish a still-fragile breastfeeding routine, it sounded ridiculous. How could I possibly pump an entire day’s worth of milk before we left for the festival? Where would I pump at an event taking place in an open field, and what would I do with the expressed milk afterward? Plus, my daughter had only jus
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President Donald Trump could complicate President-elect Joe Biden s job by leaving thousands of political holdovers in office when Inauguration Day comes.
Outgoing presidents typically ask their appointees throughout the government to submit their letters of resignation, but Trump is still disputing the election results and thwarting transition norms.
Biden s team is worried Trump appointees will still be on the job when he arrives in the Oval Office and that the new president will be forced to kick them out of office while he also tries to project unity.
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IMAGE: When community leaders engage teenage boys in programming designed to either teach healthy masculinity or job readiness skills, reports of sexual violence among the boys went down. view more
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22, 2020 - Through small, neighborhood classes, researchers at UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US significantly reduced sexual violence among teenage boys living in areas of concentrated disadvantage.
The study, published today in
JAMA, is the culmination of a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical trial spanning 20 racially segregated neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area to evaluate two violence prevention programs. The proportion of youth reporting the use of sexual or partner violence in their relationships decreased in both groups by about 12 percentage points.