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Concerns about the jail: A message for the late Frederick Whitlock was written on the vehicle of a protester on Dec. 9 outside of the Vigo County Jail.
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John Plasse
A federal judge Tuesday ordered Vigo County s sheriff to provide a COVID-19 status update on infected inmates, medical attention and specific steps being taken to protect those incarcerated at the county jail from the contagious virus.
The ACLU of Indiana filed a motion Monday after Vigo County Sheriff John Plasse last week stated 108 inmates and two staff have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Brandon Bernard.
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government on Thursday at the Federal Correctional Center in Indiana, according to a pool report.
Bernard, 40, was one of five street gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley who were youth ministers in 1999. The gunman, Christopher Vialva, was executed in September, while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences.
Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. He was the youngest person in the United States to receive a death sentence in nearly 70 years for a crime committed when he was an adolescent.