{"id":101243,"date":"2021-03-31T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5e2f0a163374b316bce9d244b3bc1238"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:49:32","slug":"new-york-ordered-to-vaccinate-incarcerated-people-will-gov-sign-bill-curbing-solitary-confinement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/31\/new-york-ordered-to-vaccinate-incarcerated-people-will-gov-sign-bill-curbing-solitary-confinement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Ordered to Vaccinate Incarcerated People; Will Gov. Sign Bill Curbing Solitary Confinement?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/31\/new_york_vaccines_incarcerated_people\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/37\/57237\/w320\/SEG3-Prison-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seg3 prison 1\" \/><\/a><p>A New York judge has ordered the state to provide <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 vaccines to all incarcerated people, saying that officials &#8220;irrationally distinguished between incarcerated people and people living in every other type of adult congregate facility, at great risk to incarcerated people&#8217;s lives during this pandemic.&#8221; Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families for Justice, says advocates have been pushing the state &#8220;since the beginning of the pandemic to prioritize the health and safety of incarcerated people,&#8221; but those efforts were met with silence. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that it took court intervention in order to make the state do what it&#8217;s supposed to do,&#8221; says Elijah. She also addresses calls for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by lawmakers called the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (<span class=\"caps\">HALT<\/span>) Solitary Confinement Act, that would end the excessive use of solitary confinement.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/31\/new_york_vaccines_incarcerated_people\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York judge has ordered the state to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all incarcerated people, saying that officials &#8220;irrationally distinguished between incarcerated people and people living in every other type of adult congregate facility, at great risk to incarcerated people&#8217;s lives during this pandemic.&#8221; Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families for Justice, says advocates have been pushing the state &#8220;since the beginning of the pandemic to prioritize the health and safety of incarcerated people,&#8221; but those efforts were met with silence. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that it took court intervention in order to make the state do what it&#8217;s supposed to do,&#8221; says Elijah. She also addresses calls for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by lawmakers called the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, that would end the excessive use of solitary confinement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101244,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101243\/revisions\/101244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}