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As COVID cases rose at jail, county officials gave praise Hillsborough County's jail inspection reports, filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, have looked essentially identical for years. —Composite A post outside the Valley Street Jail in Manchester. Emily Corwin / NHPR Published: 4/30/2021 5:13:28 PM When Hillsborough County Commissioner Toni Pappas toured the Valley Street Jail in Manchester last December, as she and fellow commissioners are required to do at least twice a year, she didn’t appear to find any cause for concern. “I have found the condition of the faci...

Hillsborough County's jail inspection reports, filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, have looked essentially identical for years. When Hillsborough County Commissioner Toni Pappas toured the Valley Street Jail in Manchester last December, as she and fellow commissioners are required to do at least twice a year, she didn’t appear to find any cause for concern. “I have found the condition of the facility, the security of the inmates, and the management to be in order,” Pappas wrote in an inspection report filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. “The i...

An inmates stands in a cell inside one of Massachusetts' county jails. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many states including Massachusetts took steps to reduce the number of people incarcerated in an effort to stem the spread. The result was a double-digit drop in the number of people incarcerated by June, but in the fall, that population started to go up again. Those steps included efforts to grant release to some prisoners, especially those who had not been convicted, and to make fewer arrests on charges that could result in incarceration. A report from the Ver...

It the quaha. >> if you took a vw car, you removed the body and replaced it with a porsche body, well you still have a vw functionally. >> reporter: does that say we dismiss what is going on here? or is there some significance to what they're doing? >> i think moving zebras into the habitat that is probably a fine thing to do. they certainly are genetically close enough they could be an ecological equivalent. but if they are trying to make the claim they're restoring the exact species, i think that's falling short. >> reporter: scientist working on the prairie of south africa disagreed. and th...