Nomin Ujiyediin
Kansas News Service ReporterNomin Ujiyediin is a reporter covering criminal justice and social welfare for the Kansas News Service. You can email her at nomin@kcur.org and find her on Twitter @NominUJ.
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The COVID-19 case numbers started to rise at the prison just this month, and family members of people who are incarcerated there say they've been told not all staff members or inmates wear masks. -
Kinship families, who take in foster children who are related to them, are more likely to lack computers and other tools needed for online learning, say foster care agencies.
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Social distancing and other COVID prevention measures have shifted many court proceedings online.
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Kansas' COVID-19 cases are on the rise outside prisons. Inside, inmates say they're still not getting much information about the virus.
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Besides the coronavrius, another urgent topic again surfaced this year: an end to racism.
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The settlement ends a court fight that began in late 2018, and will require the state to better track foster children in its care.
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Mental health providers say law enforcement can be an essential and unavoidable part of the system, when it comes to keeping workers safe and even coming across people who are in need of help.
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Kansas has statewide standards on bias in policing. But some residents are pushing for more.
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Hundreds of people across Kansas protested racism and police violence over the weekend, spurred on by the recent deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and many others.
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Kansas prisons have taken some steps toward stemming the spread of the coronavirus, but four current or former corrections officers say they're still short-staffed and lacking adequate measures like social distancing.
