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COVID-19 Extends Sentences for Some Incarcerated People
A person waves a Black Lives Matter flag across the street from Elmira Correctional Facility in New York, protesting the conditions faced by people incarcerated there during the pandemic. Advocates say states could make better use of systems allowing “good time” credits to reduce prison populations.
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Editor s Note: This story was updated January 20, 2021 to clarify a quote from New Jersey Assembly member Christopher DePhillips.
Nearly every day, Jan Salvay checks for her nephew’s name on the Nevada Department of Correction’s website: Nicholas, 39, jailed in a credit card forgery case. Then she checks the state’s list of deaths in custody just to make sure his name isn’t there.
The series four segments follow the outline by attorney and civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson slavery, lynching, segregation, and mass-incarceration.
The series is linked to the page of the Diversity, Racial Equity and Inclusion Committee, and is also available on YouTube and at Chelmsford Telemedia.
Congregation Shalom, a synagogue in town to which Heines belongs, plans a virtual presentation and discussion of the series on Jan. 18, for Martin Luther King Day.
Heines, a retired computer science professor who worked at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, serves on Congregation Shalom s adult education and social justice committees. Civil rights is a major tenet of Reform Judaism, Heines said.
Earlier updates:
Update: Thursday, Dec. 31, 7:01 p.m.
The state has released new data about how COVID-19 vaccines are being allocated.
Of the over 64,000 doses that have arrived in New Hampshire, about a third have actually been administered to high-risk health care workers, first responders, and people associated with long-term care facilities.
That means that about 18 percent of the state s highest-risk population has been vaccinated so far. The state says it hopes to have all of them immunized with at least the first of the two shots by the end of January.
Another 17,000 shots are expected to arrive next week.
- Jordyn Haime
Life in lockup with COVID-19: Inmates worry they can t stay safe
The former warden tower office and hanging area at the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord. GEOFF FORESTER
Modified: 1/1/2021 3:01:05 PM
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly through the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. As of Thursday, the state says there are 49 active cases of COVID-19 among inmates and another 16 among staff. The men say they have very little ability to social distance, and because New Hampshire’s prisons only test inmates with symptoms and those who have been in contact with positive cases, they’re worried the virus will spread unchecked.
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The most recent update from the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 29:
20 new deaths reported.
The state s COVID-19 deaths total 735.
Active cases total 5,883.
295 patients are currently hospitalized.
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