Letter: High school name doesn t need changing auburnpub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from auburnpub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Michael Fitzgerald
The Imprint
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As the coronavirus tore through the country last year, New York state officials relied on testing to keep people safe in prisons, nursing homes, schools and other group facilities.
Statewide, 13,000 prisoners had been tested by September 2020. Youth accused of crimes awaiting trial in New York City were also regularly tested, with results guiding local health officialsâ efforts to contain infectious spread from cramped quarters out into the community.
State lawmakers look to trim youth prison costs auburnpub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from auburnpub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Steven Yoder
The Imprint
State Assemblwoman Michaelle Solages, D-Elmont, called it âjust unbelievable and unfair â those are the words I m going to say in public â but it s just disheartening that we re not really investing in these young people in a proper way.â
The $900 billion federal coronavirus aid package passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump late last month includes no dedicated money for state or local governments, creating dire prospects of gutted social service programs and laid-off public servants. In New York, that frightful fiscal reality will be confronted by a new super-majority of Democrats in both houses of the Legislature â inspiring youth justice advocates who say the climate in Albany may now be more amenable to shutting down costly youth prisons.