Vaccines being provided as fast as supplies allow, Nicholson says
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GARDNER The city’s COVID-19 situation is improving, but Mayor Michael Nicholson said residents are still urged to do their part to help reduce transmission of the virus.
In a video update, Nicholson said the number of active cases in the city has been on a downward trend in recent weeks.
“Our numbers are much smaller than they were in the post-Thanksgiving holiday season,” Nicholson said. “However, that does not mean people should not take this situation seriously as we have been over the course of the past year.”
MCI-Norfolk. (Michael Norton/SHNS)
Two Massachusetts men, incarcerated at different state prisons, have died of COVID-19 in the past week. Six prisoners have died of the disease in the past three weeks.
The state Department of Correction said a man in his 60s who was being held at Old Colony Correctional Center was recently taken to the hospital for a medical emergency, where he later died. The DOC said the man had no known history of COVID, but tested positive for the disease at the hospital.
Another man in his 70s, who was being held at MCI-Norfolk, also died of the coronavirus this week. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks.
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YOUNGSTOWN A man who is serving a 21- to 26 1/2 year prison term for his part in a 2019 Liberty Township bank robbery now is indicted on federal charges in connection with a Nov. 6, 2018, robbery of the Lincoln Knolls Home Savings Bank.
Dabraylin Hawkins, 25, who last gave authorities a Duncan Lane, Youngstown, address, is expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carmen E. Henderson today. A defense attorney wants the judge to reschedule a trial that was set to begin next Monday.
Hawkins’ attorney Kenneth Callahan of Cleveland points to the large amount of evidence in the case and the fact that his law office has been closed as the reasons why the judge needs to postpone the trial.
YOUNGSTOWN A man who is serving a 21- to 26 1/2 year prison term for his part in a 2019 Liberty Township bank robbery is now indicted on federal charges in connection with a Nov. 6, 2018, robbery of the Lincoln Knolls Home Savings Bank.
Dabraylin Hawkins, 25, who last gave authorities a Duncan Lane, Youngstown address, is expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carmen E. Henderson today. A defense attorney wants the judge to reschedule a trial that was set to begin next Monday.
Hawkins’ attorney Kenneth Callahan of Cleveland points to the large amount of evidence in the case and the fact that his law office has been closed as the reasons why the judge needs to postpone the trial.
Advocates ask court to release inmates as COVID-19 sweeps through state prisons
Prisoner health conditions âworse now than at any time since the pandemic beganâ
By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff,Updated December 24, 2020, 1:17 p.m.
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One of every six Massachusetts prison inmates â and hundreds of correctional workers â have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last six weeks, new figures show, underscoring prisonersâ vulnerability and spurring new efforts to free some of them.
Late Wednesday, lawyers in a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Correction made a dramatic plea in court filings to reduce the inmate population, sharing