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Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates on covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.
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Criminal Justice Reform Series [Part II] – BPR Interviews: Sharon Dolovich July 9, 2021 In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. Professor Dolovich started the which has aggregated Department of Corrections data concerning the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated people. The data covers infection rates and deaths in state and federal prisons as well as jails nationwide. She has written extensively about the role of decarceration in dedensifying prisons and jails and mitigating...
Some U.S. states have higher vaccination rates inside prisons than outside. A red tag on a cell door indicating an active Covid-19 case at Faribault Prison in Minnesota in January. Many U.S. jails and prisons have struggled with coronavirus outbreaks. Credit...Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune, via Associated Press By Ann Hinga Klein June 1, 2021, 5:01 a.m. ET While most of the United States’ prison systems have struggled to vaccinate inmates, some, including California’s, have outperformed vaccination rates among the general public. And experts say their success may offer clues about how to pe...
April 26, 2021 UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News. An annual study of inclusivity done by UCLA showed efforts to improve diversity in film and television are on the upswing. Darnell Hunt, the co-author of that research, is encouraged by what he’s seeing and says it’s good for morale and for business. (UCLA’s Ana-Christina Ramon was also quoted in the coverage.) Also: National Public Radio, BBC News, Japan Today and KCRW-FM. (Commentary by UCLA’s Yal...
Dolovich Wins UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award March 16, 2021 UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich has been selected to receive the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2020-21, with an additional citation for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level. With only six professors across the UCLA campus so honored, the Distinguished Teaching Award is the university’s highest recognition of excellence in the classroom. The UCLA Academic Senate has presented the award since 1961 “to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individua...