Dozens of local jails in Florida have started offering inmates the COVID-19 vaccine but not all are following suit
More county jails in Florida are planning to offer inmates the COVID-19 vaccine but at some, no plans are in the works. Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone explains.
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In a pre-produced video provided to local media outlets by the Hillsborough County Sheriffâs office last week, the county Sheriff talks about the agencyâs latest initiative.
âWe havenât had a widespread outbreak and we want to keep it that way,â said Sheriff Chad Chronister. âWeâre not just protecting our inmates, weâre protecting our detention personnel as well as the community when they get released,â Chronister said in a string of soundbites his office emailed as part of a press release announcing it was starting to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to local inmates. The announcement came a week after we first emailed the s
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The Rock County Jail will offer single-dose coronavirus vaccines to inmates Saturday thanks largely to HealthNet of Rock County, which a jail official said Monday has âcome through for us big time.â
âThey got the vaccine for us,â jail Capt. Kim Litsheim said of the nonprofit health care provider. âThey have really saved the day here for us because this is something we have wanted for quite some time, and it was tough.â
Ian Hedges, CEO of HealthNet, said Monday that it is âcritically important for the countyâs most vulnerable to COVID-19â get vaccinated.
He pointed out that many inmates eventually will leave the jail and return to the community, where they might face other barriers to getting the vaccine.
Demand for tech talent from captives grew 22% in second half of FY21: Quess
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Banking and financial services, technology services and consulting, auto and engineering and have significantly contributed to the demand from the captive centres.
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Demand for technology skills among captives or global development centres in India has grown 22% during the second half of this last financial year, said staffing and business solutions major
Quess in a report.
The staffing major said roles such as IT security, full stack developers witnessed 166% and 110% growth, respectively, in demand from captives, between October 2020 and March 2021.
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Burnt vehicles are seen outside the Nigeria police force Imo state command headquaters after gunmen attacked and set properties ablaze in Imo State, Nigeria. [Reuters]
More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison in the southeastern city of Owerri after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the prisons authority said.
Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement.
The secessionist movement in the southeast is one of several serious security challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari, including a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, a spate of school kidnappings in the northwest and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.