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California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation When news of the pandemic first reached the men incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in central California, inmate Ed Welker said the prevailing mood was panic. “We were like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to come in here and it’s going to spread like wildfire and we’re all going to get it,’” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened.” Calling the prison system’s response to the pandemic “nonchalant,” “incompetent” and at times “negligent,” Welker and his fellow inmates described a crowded and dangerous living sit...

In December, Covid-19 infections in prisons in the United States hit a record 25,000 in one week. Among correctional staff that month, there were an additional 5,000 new infections a week, leading to spread in surrounding communities. According to a New York Times database, collectively, more than 580,000 people at correctional institutions have been infected. The prisoner death toll has now surpassed 2,000. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Eleven months into the pandemic, the U.S. prison system has not gotten control of its rising...

N.C. Claims Fewer Prisoners Died of COVID Than Documents Show In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take him to the hospital, and instead called the time of death and left. A prison official called his uncle, who would wake up to a voicemail sharing the news. Bingham’s story is not unique. A North Carolina Health News investigation in pa...

Inmates' advocates criticize conditions at St. Louis jail Eric Berger and Mark Berman, The Washington Post Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ST. LOUIS - Some inmate advocates and attorneys said Monday that they are not surprised by a weekend uprising at the jail here during which inmates smashed windows and set fires and a corrections officer ended up hospitalized. "They are desperate in there, and anyone would be at this point," Erika Wurst, a lawyer with the St. Louis public defender's office, said of the more than 700 people detained at the St. Louis Justice Center, a six-story building a...

February 9, 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. “We as an engineering community learned from that, that just having strength was not enough,” said Jonathan Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA. “You had to have ductility” — the ability to stretch. “The [building] code would essentially produce nonductile concrete buildings.” A new archival project at UCLA seeks to become that conduit, using boxes and boxes of ...