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 National Juvenile Defender Center says Kansas needs a statewide system for training and assigning defense attorneys to work with children. -
Medical experts say social inequality and racism in medicine can be deadly for Black infants, mothers and families.
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As hospital beds fill up in rural parts of the state and nearby cities, some doctors say southwestern Kansas is running out of options.
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Local newspapers say they've seen an increase in readership and subscriptions as people have yearned for local news on the coronavirus.
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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.
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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.
