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"Rare trial underway to determine if N.J. jail did enough to protect inmates from COVID," by Joe Atmonavage, NJ.com, April 21, 2021
"U.S. to Begin Offering Vaccines to Detainees at Guantánamo Bay," by Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, April 19, 2021
"How Many Coronavirus Cases In Ky. Jails? We Don’t Know, And State Won’t Say," by Jared Bennett, WFPL, April 19, 2021
"All Federal Inmates To Be Offered Vaccine By Mid-May, BOP Director Says," by Becky Sullivan, NPR, April 16, 2021
"Coronavirus: The Latest Court Closures And Restrictions," by Sarah Jarvis, Law360, April 15, 2021
"A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons," The Marshall Project, April 16, 2021
"Federal Prisons Flunked the Pandemic, Senators Say," by Kaila Philo, Courthouse News Service, April 15, 2021
"U.S. has no plans to order inmates released in pandemic back to prison-official," by Sarah Lynch, Reuters, April 15, 2021
"Despite Working In Hotspots, NY Correctional Officers Fall Behind With COVID Vaccines," by Mirela Iverac , Gothamist, April 12, 2021
"The Impact Of The Pandemic In Prisons," by Kathryn Fink, 1A, April 12, 2021
"Incarcerated and Infected: How the Virus Tore Through the U.S. Prison System," by Eddie Burkhalter, Izzy Colón, Brendon Derr, Lazaro Gamio, Rebecca Griesbach, Ann Hinga Klein, Danya Issawi, K.B. Mensah, Derek M. Norman, Savannah Redl, Chloe Reynolds, Emily Schwing, Libby Seline, Rachel Sherman, Maura Turcotte and Timothy Williams, New York Times, April 10, 2021
"Coronavirus: The Latest Court Closures And Restrictions," by Sarah Jarvis, Law360, April 12, 2021
"A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons," by The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, April 12, 2021
"Advocates: Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates," by Dave Collins, Associated Press, April 08, 2021
"'Start Slowly': Brooklyn Federal Court's First Jury Trial of the Year Set to Start Monday Amid Precautions ," by Jane Wester, New York Law Journal, April 08, 2021
