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The alleged abuse that left one woman inmate with a concussion and another in a wheelchair earlier this year happened inside New Jersey's only prison for women on a unit named "Restorative Housing." Advocates for inmates say that unit at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Union Township is not restorative, and, in practice, is the very sort of isolated confinement that was supposed to have been limited under a state law that went into effect Aug. 1. Now those advocates — and inmates — are raising questions about compliance amid renewed scrutiny of how well New Jersey oversees its...

Female Keep Separate: Prisons, Gender, and the Violence of Inclusion A text, originally submitted to North Shore Counter-Info, exploring how gender is experienced in prison, arguing that "we also have to be able to critique [liberal ideas of inclusion] to continue working towards a world without prison and the violence of gender" and that "adopting the state’s purely positive understanding of gender identity can lead us to... end up defending the state’s projects from reactionaries when we should be attacking them on our own terms." First, a warning: This text is written by and for quee...

The Roanoke City-Alleghany, Southside and Pittsylvania/Danville Health Districts all plan to move into Phase 2. That’s ahead of the statewide date of April 18th announced by Governor Ralph Northam earlier this week. Credit AP Photo / Matt Rourke, File Those in higher-risk groups will continue to be prioritized. And officials say anyone wanting to get a shot will need to go through the state’s pre-registration system. You can pre-register here. Here's the full press release from RCAHD: (ROANOKE, VA) -- Based on the current demand and increasing supply of COVID-19 vaccine, the Roanoke City ...

Public trust is a key ingredient to successful vaccination programmes

Public trust is a key ingredient to successful vaccination programmes A little over 392 million doses of vaccine have been administered globally, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, with India accounting for around 9% of them. In the last week, there have been a flurry of reports from Europe, of blood clots developing in a very small fraction of those vaccinated and leading to a cascade of European countries announcing a temporary halt to their vaccination programmes involving the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine. WHO and the European Medicines Agency have underlined that there is no causal ...