• Updated: April 20, 2021 6:00 p.m.
arrow A row of high chairs sit along a wall in the dining hall at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York. Bedford Hills has a prison nursery where women can live with infants under the age of 18 months. Julie Jacobson/AP/Shutterstock
The number of COVID-19 cases has spiked in recent weeks at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s prison that houses inmates who are pregnant as well as a nursery program for newborns. As of April 16th, 108 inmates at the facility had COVID-19 about one in five of the 529 women currently residing there. That’s up 23% from April 7th, when there were 88 inmates with COVID-19.
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Emily Goldberg Winer loves community building and sharing Torah with people from all walks of life and across generations. She has served as an intern at Congregation Beth Sholom in Potomac, Maryland, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, visiting chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, community educator at Brandeis, and teen coordinator at the Hebrew Home of Riverdale. She has participated in numerous fellowships including the Jewish Innovation Fellowship , the Join for Justice Fellowship, the rabbinic student fellowship at Shalom Hartman Institute, and is a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Emily is a graduate of Muhlenberg College with degrees in Religion and Jewish Studies.
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