Florida inmates start to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Florida inmates beginning to receive vaccines
and last updated 2021-04-06 21:52:07-04
The director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management confirms state prison inmates who want the COVID-19 vaccine are starting to receive it.
This comes days after the I-Team reported Florida was one of less than a handful of states that had yet to make prison inmates and/or staff eligible for the vaccine.
On Tuesday, State Representative Jason Pizzo, D-Miami, tweeted that the wait to get people incarcerated vaccinated is over.
Jared Moskowitz told I-Team Investigator Kylie McGivern inmates began getting vaccinated late last week and that the Florida Division of Emergency Management is assisting in some locations. He did not say which locations.
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For at least 210 Florida inmates, a prison sentence turned into a death sentence due to COVID-19.
and last updated 2021-03-15 18:19:29-04
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For at least 210 Florida inmates, a prison sentence turned into a death sentence due to COVID-19.
The second-highest death toll in the country for prison inmates continues to tick up. The death rate is 1.5 times the rate in Florida overall.
Currently, Florida inmates are not eligible for a vaccine.
âI know what itâs like to try to get medical care under normal conditions, so to further exasperate that under COVID conditions, itâs a nightmare,â said Susan Melendy, whose son is in prison.
Nonprofitâs outreach to Tampa Bay strip clubs offers help, hope to women who may be sex trafficking victims
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I-Team Investigator Kylie McGivern followed the faith-based nonprofit HeartDance Foundation, as volunteers went inside Tampa strip clubs to offer help and hope to anyone in need.
and last updated 2021-02-04 18:22:01-05
TAMPA, Fla. â As Tampa hosts the big game, the world is watching.
Locally, anti-human trafficking nonprofits are keeping a watchful eye away from the glare of the game day lights â and on areas where victims may be sold for sex.
Code enforcement increases inspections of adult entertainment businesses ahead of Super Bowl
Ordinance requires signage with human trafficking hotline
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, warnings turned to citations as officers visited more than 30 adult entertainment businesses to gauge compliance with an ordinance requiring signs that will aid potential victims of human trafficking.
and last updated 2021-02-05 18:58:47-05
TAMPA, Fla. â In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, warnings turned to citations as officers visited more than 30 adult entertainment businesses to gauge compliance with an ordinance requiring signs that will aid potential victims of human trafficking.
and last updated 2021-01-27 19:17:02-05
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. â As the push continues to protect Americans, getting vaccines into the arms of the most vulnerable, the federal government is going after workplaces for coronavirus safety violations â including three more here in Florida.
Over the course of 11 months, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has received more than 14,000 coronavirus-related complaints.
The I-Team found OSHA received 633 of those complaints from Florida, 21 of them from Tampa alone.
âWe are strictly about the patients, we want our patients to be safe, ICU nurse Judy Preuss said.
The I-Team first met Preuss in November, after her union, National Nurses United, filed an OSHA complaint against HCA medical centers and hospitals, including Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville.