By Ian Manuel
Pantheon: 224 pages, $26
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As a child in one of Tampa, Fla.’s poorest and most violent housing projects, Ian Manuel was abused or abandoned by each member of his immediate family.
As a 13-year-old in 1990, he shot a woman in the face during a robbery gone awry.
Manuel confessed to the crime, but the judge said he wanted to make an example of the boy and sentencedhim to life without parole (plus 40 years). “They decided I was never fit to live in society again,” Manuel says.
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There is no bigger event in American sports and television than the Super Bowl. The halftime show, the media fanfare, and the football give this game a gigantic platform.
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Yeah. this upset a few people.
Prince’s 2007 halftime show was an all-timer but it didn’t come without controversy. In the set’s grand finale, the eccentric rocker played “Purple Rain” in a Miami monsoon. And during a guitar solo, a giant white sheet cast a shadow over Price and his… guitar. Which looked a lot like a… just take a look for yourself.
A doctor takes a blood sample for a quick COVID-19 test from a handcuffed inmate at a comprehensive diagnosis center that set up to attend patients with new coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The number of Florida prison inmates who have died of COVID-19 has increased to 196, up seven from last month, according to state prison and health agencies.
Also, five corrections staff members have died.
The Reception and Medical Center in Union County has been linked to 43 inmate deaths, while the South Florida Reception Center in Miami-Dade County has been linked to 23, according to a breakdown on the Florida Department of Health website.
The DOH plan identifies people in corrections and detention facilities as a critical population for vaccination but provides no written guidance other than to say that the state health department will coordinate with the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) in vaccine planning efforts.
The DOH did not respond to questions from
New Times about when corrections staff or incarcerated people would be vaccinated.
Florida s draft vaccination plan does not include state corrections staff or incarcerated people in any of the rollout phases.
A recent study found that prison inmates are five times more likely to be infected by COVID and three times more likely to die of the virus compared to the rest of the U.S. population. To date, more than 17,000 Florida inmates have tested positive for COVID, and nearly 200 have died, according to state figures.