Inmates are Dying in Connecticut s Prisons Due to Medical Negligence newsweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gomez: On July 4, let’s also honor missionaries’ role in nation’s founding
American flags are placed by headstones in Holy Saviour Cemetery in Bethlehem, Pa., on a rainy July 1, 2021, ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. The Catholic cemetery is in the Diocese of Allentown. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
By Catholic News Service • Posted July 3, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) As the nation’ celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, Americans should recall the country’s “other founding” by the missionaries who, beginning in the 1500s, came to proclaim “the love of Jesus Christ to Indigenous peoples,” said Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez.
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CT pays $250,000 to woman who gave birth in a prison cell
No mother should have to give birth in inhuman conditions,” Karine Laboy, Tianna’s mother, said at a rally in New Britain in September.
The State of Connecticut has agreed to pay $250,000 to the Laboy family after Tianna Laboy delivered her child into a prison cell toilet bowl while she was incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in February 2018.
Laboy filed a civil rights lawsuit in March 2019, alleging she had been denied and delayed in getting the medical care she needed. She repeatedly told corrections staff that she had stomach pains between Feb. 6 and Feb 13, 2018. Medical workers sent her back to her cell with a pitcher of ice water and a hot cloth before she delivered her child early in the morning of Feb. 13.