For most of us in prisons, the pandemic has meant a year of even more restrictions than usual. No in-person visits, and months without classes or groups.To deal with that isolation, a lot of us turned to music. So today, we’re talking about the songs that kept our spirits up through the year. We hope they do the same for you.Check out our playlist on Spotify to enjoy these songs on their own: bit.ly/UncuffedPlaylist. Learn about Uncuffed at WeAreUncuffed.org.
A couple in Revolution Square in Havana.Yander Zamora / EFE
Continuity and change were the main themes of the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), celebrated in Havana in April. After 62 years at the helm, Raúl Castro and the old guard of the PCC officially stepped aside to make way for a new generation of leaders headed up by the new First Secretary Miguel DÃaz-Canel, whose mission is to enact the necessary economic reforms to make the Cuban model sustainable without changing the political system while guaranteeing the PCCâs oft-alluded to âhistorical continuity.â
âThe challenge for DÃaz-Canel is that most Cubans are more interested in change than in continuity,â US academic William LeoGrande wrote in a recent article in
Report from behind the wall at CSP-Solano: CDCr still endangering lives after a year of COVID
February 19, 2021
KALW’s prison show, Uncuffed, recorded by prisoners, covered COVID-19 for the first time almost a year ago, on March 13, 2020. In this photo, taken before the pandemic, are Uncuffed producers Joe Kirk, b.f. Thames, Spoon Jackson, Bryan Mazza and Damon Cooke. – Photo: Steve Drown
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A COVID outbreak and CDCr negligence have racked the CSP-Solano prison now for two and a half months and taken five lives. This past week saw collective counter-organizing by prisoners: work strikes declared, sit-ins planned and demands issued. Administration met the demand that untested transfers not be placed in COVID negative yards and narrowly avoided wholesale disruption of the institution.
Delaware News Journal
Delaware will continue to give first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of more residents this week, including about 1,000 educators and school staff, despite not being able to promise them a second dose.
Division of Public Health officials said they are concentrating on first doses to reduce current COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, but added high-risk health care workers need to get second doses as soon as possible. Until we get adequate supply, this is the extremely difficult balance we will need to continue to strike, spokesperson Robin Bryson said.
Gov. John Carney said last week the state needed to speed up its vaccine rollout to show it can vaccinate more people than it currently has doses for in order to receive more doses. His office referred a request for comment Tuesday to the Division of Public Health.
First 1,000 Delaware teachers will be vaccinated later this week but second doses for others still not guaranteed Brandon Holveck, Delaware News Journal
State vaccinates 4,600 residents Sunday after Saturday delays
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Delaware will continue to give first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of more residents this week, including about 1,000 educators and school staff, despite not being able to promise them a second dose.
Division of Public Health officials said they are concentrating on first doses to reduce current COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, but added high-risk health care workers need to get second doses as soon as possible.