California Begins Vaccinating Inmates, but Not at Its Hardest-Hit Prisons
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Jan. 25, 2021, 10:18 a.m. ETJan. 25, 2021, 10:18 a.m. ET
Los Angeles County has seen a spike in cases. India approves two vaccines. Researchers say Africa’s relatively low case numbers are probably inaccurate.
Here’s what you need to know:
Elected officials, prison rights advocates and inmates’ family members protested for better conditions outside San Quentin State Prison in July. Credit.Jim Wilson/The New York Times
California’s prison system, which has been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus, has started vaccinating some inmates but none so far at the 25 prisons that have been most overwhelmed by infections, including San Quentin, Avenal State Prison and the California Institution for Men.
California Begins Vaccinating Inmates, but Not at Its Hardest-Hit Prisons
Last Updated
Jan. 25, 2021, 10:18 a.m. ETJan. 25, 2021, 10:18 a.m. ET
Los Angeles County has seen a spike in cases. India approves two vaccines. Researchers say Africa’s relatively low case numbers are probably inaccurate.
Here’s what you need to know:
Elected officials, prison rights advocates and inmates’ family members protested for better conditions outside San Quentin State Prison in July. Credit.Jim Wilson/The New York Times
California’s prison system, which has been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus, has started vaccinating some inmates but none so far at the 25 prisons that have been most overwhelmed by infections, including San Quentin, Avenal State Prison and the California Institution for Men.
Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.
Ms Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen US presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.”
This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way - also unsuccessful - to circumvent the outcome.
But unlike Donald Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneouvers has failed to change the result of this year’s election, Ms Baca is a Democrat. And she even serves as one of the body’s 538 electors while all but calling for the group to be abolished.
Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.
Ms. Baca believes the Electoral College, which has chosen American presidents since George Washington, âhas absolutely no reason to be.â This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her stateâs rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way â also unsuccessful â to circumvent the outcome.
But unlike Donald J. Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneuvers has failed to change the result of this yearâs election, Ms. Baca is a Democrat. And she even serves as one of the bodyâs 538 electors while all but calling for the group to be abolished.