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Measles spike in federal detention facility reaches the Texas public, records show

Most of the state’s measles cases reported so far this year are inside the West Texas Detention Facility in Hudspeth County, where four infected El Paso residents worked.

The Texas Tribune

Louisiana jury awards more than $40 million to family of man who died in privately-run jail

A federal jury found a private corrections company running a Louisiana jail liable for the 2015 death of a man who died of head injuries he sustained while in custody and awarded the family more than $40 million in damages

The Independent UK

Despite Texas defendant’s death in Louisiana prison, lawmakers unlikely to end reliance on out-of-state lockups

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting resolution to their cases.

The Texas Tribune

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‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts

The Guardian - US

When Texas jail standards push inmates to lockups in other states, oversight doesn’t follow

Jaleen Anderson’s mom is on a quest for details about her son’s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial.

The Texas Tribune

City blesses plans to add apartments to two Loop office buildings

The proposals to revitalize the LaSalle Street corridor represent investments of $320 million and would add about 600 housing units to the Loop, almost half “affordable” under city rules.

Chicago Sun-Times

Suit over Texas woman's jail death settles for $7 million

A lawyer says a for-profit company that ran a Texas jail has agreed to a $7 million settlement in a lawsuit over the 2019 death of a woman who jail staff allegedly neglected as her health deteriorated

The Independent UK

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Most first-time workers get a promotion within 3 years. Gen Z wants theirs right away

The latest batch of Gen Z workers want—nay, expect—to earn their first promotion within one year on the job.

Fortune

Big blue catfish are back at LaSalle Lake

Darryl Turner, masterful at fishing for big blue catfish at LaSalle Lake, has been catching quality and quantity blues there in recent weeks.

Chicago Sun-Times

LaSalle vs. Villanova, live stream, TV channel, time, odds, how to watch college basketball

The La Salle Explorers will meet the Villanova Wildcats in college basketball action on Monday night from the Finneran Pavilion.

USA Today Sports Media Group

She Says Her Son Died After Smoking Insecticide While He Was Supposed To Be on Suicide Watch. Now She's Suing.

The lawsuit says there have been multiple deaths from neglect and poor suicide prevention policies at the Louisiana prison where Javon Kennerson died.

Reason

Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet sold as part of deal worth £600m

It has been snapped up alongside another site in Swindon

Birmingham Post

Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Ice-out, Braidwood hot, LaSalle opens, coho, lakers, river reports

Very good bass fishing at Braidwood Lake, a brief preview before the opener of LaSalle Lake next Tuesday, March 15, the spread of open-water fishing around Chicago, lake trout and coho on southern Lake Michigan, and the return of river reports lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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