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Racism in the Health Care System is Killing Black Pregnant Texans
When issues like bleeding and postpartum depression are left untreated, they can lead to death. Black Texans and other groups of color experience maternal mortality at higher rates, but organizations are working to change that reality. By Elena River, KERA News April 16, 2024 A note: This story discusses mental health and suicide. For resources and…
Read MoreSouthwest Collective, CPS Parent University Launch Weekly Group Therapy for Chicago Migrants
By Stephanie Wade Tuesday, April 2, 2024 To watch video report click here. CHICAGO (WLS) — The road for a migrant to get to Chicago is not an easy one. “They are seeing a lot of things, a lot of trauma. A lot of rape. The children are going days without eating. The parents are going…
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Federal Trial Begins For Red Hill Water Contamination
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Associated Press Monday, Apr 29 The U.S. government said Monday it took responsibility for jet fuel that leaked into a Navy water system serving 93,000 people in 2021, but attorneys dispute whether the families who are suing were exposed to enough tainted water to make them sick. A trial for a mass environmental injury case began in federal…
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Supreme Court to Hear Another Major Veterans Benefits Case This Fall
By Leo Shane III Tuesday, Apr 30 The Supreme Court this fall will review the legal claim of two veterans denied medical benefits for what they insist were service-connected traumas, a case that could potentially expand benefits for thousands of veterans. Officials from the high court on Monday announced they will take up Bufkin v McDonough, which has been moving through…
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Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation
KFF Health News | By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime Published April 29, 2024 at 9:52am ET As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be contaminated with cancer-causing pollutants. “They…
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County in Rural New Mexico Extends Agreement With ICE for Immigrant detention amid criticism
BY MORGAN LEE April 24, 2024 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — County commissioners in rural New Mexico extended authorization for a migrant detention facility Wednesday in cooperation with federal authorities over objections by advocates for immigrant rights who allege inhumane conditions and due process violations at the privately operated Torrance County Detention Facility. The 3-0 vote…
Read MoreGeorgia Prison Officials in ‘Flagrant’ Violation of Solitary Confinement Reforms, Judge Says
BY SUDHIN THANAWALA Updated 1:19 PM CDT, April 23, 2024 ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for prisoners in the state’s most restrictive holding facility, showing “no desire or intention” to make the required changes to solitary confinement practices, a federal judge said. In a damning ruling,…
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How the US Failed People in Prisons During Covid: ‘Really Important to Learn From What Happened’
Data reveals at peak of pandemic in 2020, people in prisons died almost three and a half times more frequently than those outside Anna Flagg, Jamiles Lartey, and Shannon Heffernan of the Marshall Project Thu 18 Apr 2024 When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it wasn’t hard to predict that incarcerated people would be at higher…
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Coalition Pushes for Closure of Wisconsin’s Green Bay Prison
The 126-year-old maximum security facility is over capacity BY SARAH LEHR APRIL 29, 2024 A coalition of politicians, members of law enforcement and formerly incarcerated people took to the state Capitol last week to urge the governor and state lawmakers to shut down one of Wisconsin’s oldest prisons. The group’s goal is to get Democratic Gov.…
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