For the last 30 years, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, vice president of ASU Cultural Affairs and executive director of ASU Gammage, has worked every day living out the theater's mission of "connecting communities" with passion and energy. Her impact has reached not only the Sun Devil community, but the city of Tempe, the state of Arizona, the nation and the world.
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1 in 5 U.S. prisoners have had COVID, a rate four times as high as general public Nelson Oliveira
COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire inside America’s state and federal prisons, with an infection rate that is more than four times as high as the general population, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project.
The data analysis found that one in every five prisoners, or 276,000, have already been infected in the U.S., compared with a nationwide infection rate of about 5%. The virus has also killed at least 1,700 prisoners since the onset of the pandemic and its spread inside correctional facilities is actually accelerating despite repeated warnings by experts and activists.