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Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.
Read Article With seven of eight towns in School Administrative District SAD 17 reporting, voters seemed to overwhelmingly approve the proposed $43.7 million budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. Tuesday night returns show 754 votes in favor and 346 opposed. Also on the ballot Tuesday was the district’s $471,078 adult education budget and Vocational Region 11’s $3.76 million budget. Both passed easily — adult education with 72% of 1,152 votes cast and vocational with 75% of 1,151 ballots. Results are unofficial until certified by election officials. The school budget results, by town, w...
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May 6, 2021 Two recent events again suggest that words emanating from the mouths of some of our leaders carry as much substance as a fleeting breeze. Unfortunately, those with welcoming pockets, outstretched hands and compliant craniums, too often refuse to question circumstances that stretch reasonableness and allow their various biases to inter common sense. The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is one of the greatest contributors to our Caribbean civilization. It is as important a regional institution as there will ever be. Thus, we owe it to ourselves to maximise its prof...
Solitary confinement abuse sparks hunger strike in Louisiana’s Angola Prison By Gloria Rubac posted on March 3, 2021 Angola State Prison was the 18,000-acre Angola Plantation before the Civil War, named after the African country from which many of the enslaved people in Louisiana were kidnapped. The plantation was worked then by enslaved Africans and now by imprisoned workers of African descent. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison began a hunger strike early Feb. 17. The reason: Prison officials refused to release them back into the prison population after they s...