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For the third budget cycle in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to expedite the closure of more New York state prisons.

Air purifiers are being installed, vaccinations will be offered to improve health and safety in state prisons New air purifiers installed in prisons for health and safety By WECT Staff | January 7, 2021 at 6:40 PM EST - Updated January 7 at 11:40 PM RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - Despite recent declines in COVID-19 cases in some state prisons, nearly 4,000 air purifiers are being installed in the ductwork of 53 North Carolina prisons to combat the spread of coronavirus. Costing a total of $1.8 million, the IWave air purifiers work by making the virus particles heavier and easier to filter. “T...

B2 the call centers operated out of state prisons. they put out a statement saying, we didn't know about this. we never would've allowed it if we had. we don't believe in his practi practice. we have ended our relationship with this. let it go away as the politics continues into 2020? >> not at all. this is completely unwitting. they've separated their relationship. no one's going to remember this at all. it's one of those things that pops up during the silliness of the campaign cycle. it was going to remember this. >> molly: i'm talking about senator susan collins of course. she said that she...

Calls, this is just coming to us now. they say his campaign apparently contracted a new jersey-based call center company, and two are the company call centers are apparently working out of state prisons in oklahoma. to the bloomberg campaign responding in a statement "we do not know about this, and we never would have allowed it if we had. we don't believe in this practice. and we have now ended our relationship with the subcontractor in question." when you have people making phone calls, you need to know who is making those phone calls. how is it even unimaginably possible, boyd, that they di...

State prisons. in at least one of the two prisons, incarcerated people were contracted to make calls on behalf of the bloomberg campaign. in response, michael 'bloomberg saying we only learned about this when the reporter called us. but as soon as we discovered which vendor's subcontractor did this we immediately ended our contract. they vet their subcontractors moving forward. joining us is the intercept contributor who broke this story. thank you for being with us. is this a vetting problem? did the vendor not know they were subcontracting to prisoners? >> the vendor most certainly knew. i w...