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064 - part 1 - Tyrone Collins

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  1. Sacramento County Jail Offers To Pay Inmates To Get Vaccinated
    1. Paying jail inmates to get vaccinated? Sacramento County is making the move to stop the spread of COVID-19 behind bars, but some don’t believe the jail incentive goes far enough.
    2. Outbreaks at Sacramento County’s two jails are prompting demands of change from activists and loved ones of inmates.
    3. “[Jail workers] need to do it. Mandate. If you want to keep your job, you need to get vaccinated,” said a woman named Shelia, whose son is in jail.
    4. “As of just this late afternoon we were up to 191 cases of covid in the jail since the outbreak,” county Health Services Director Chevon Kothari said during a board of supervisors meeting Tuesday.
    5. Those numbers represent cases found in just the last two weeks. Since March 2020, there have been 2,018 positive tests among inmates.
    6. Crystal Carrell’s fiancé, Douglas Murrin, also passed on the $20. She is concerned about the jail’s quarantine system that separates inmates into pods and believes the jail should have more precautions in place. According to the county, there are four types of COVID-19 “pod” housing units in each jail.
    7. Those four are:
      1. intake quarantine for new arrivals
      2. close contact quarantine for those exposed to someone with COVID-19 but has no symptoms
      3. suspect isolation for those with symptoms but pending tests
      4. confirmed cases.
  2. A transgender woman was forced to share a jail cell with 3 men, and one of them beat her up so badly it broke her jaw, lawsuit says
    1. Kristina Frost was put in a jail cell with three men against her wishes in 2020, a lawsuit said.
    2. One of the men "viciously" assaulted her and broke her jaw, the lawsuit said.
    3. She said deputies at the San Diego jail also repeatedly misgendered her, according to the filing.
    4. https://www.insider.com/trans-woman-forced-share-jail-cell-3-men-assaulted-lawsuit-2021-11
  3. Jonah Hill To Play Jerry Garcia In Martin Scorsese Directed Grateful Dead Pic For Apple
    1. Sources tell Deadline, Scorsese is on board to direct and produce a new untitled biopic on the rock band the Grateful Dead with Jonah Hill on board to play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia. Hill will also produce the pic.
    2. https://deadline.com/2021/11/jonah-hill-jerry-garcia-martin-scorsese-grateful-dead-pic-apple-1234875832/
  4. Marianne and Todd Saw the new ghostbusters movie (ghostbusters afterlife) they tell us what they thought about it
  5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4513678/