Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Charleston Gazette-Mail - As of Friday, 68 days since the state shuttered schools, there were still about 230 children and teens imprisoned in West Virginia’s juvenile detention centers. Read article. And there have only been three tests for COVID-19 in all these facilities combined in that time, according to state-provided figures. Two turned…
WVCBP in the News
WV Metro News - Gov. Jim Justice said an inmate has tested positive for covid-19 at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in Randolph County — the first confirmation of a coronavirus case of an inmate at a West Virginia corrections facility. Read article. That came on day after a corrections officer at the facility was revealed…
West Virginia Metro News - Gov. Jim Justice isn’t wild about push-back on his administration’s policies during the pandemic. Read article. Justice focused his preliminary and concluding remarks during a week-ending news briefing on describing views that counter his administration’s pandemic policies as “noise” or “politics.” “The more we just politicize this right here, the…
Weirton Daily Times - Gov. Jim Justice made his feelings known Tuesday about those pushing for spending part of the state’s $1.25 billion coronavirus relief package and those pushing him to keep unemployment benefits flowing to those being called back to work. Read article. “Let’s please stop the politics, please,” Justice said. “That’s all there…
Beckley Register-Herald - The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety released Monday the number of inmates tested for COVID-19 at West Virginia jails and prisons, as well as those in community corrections and juvenile services programs. Read article. That number is 88, according to a new page on the state’s coronavirus.wv.gov website, under…
WV Metro News - Since the closure of public schools in West Virginia in the middle of March, food distributions to students who rely on school meals have taken various forms in the Mountain State’s 55 counties. Read. The disparities are a problem for some food security advocates. “When school is in session, West Virginia…
Ohio Valley Resource - Unemployment insurance claims are still reaching unprecedented levels across the Ohio Valley region. Read. At least 287,576 people in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia joined those seeking help during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s in addition to the roughly 755,000 claims form the three states in the…
Ohio Valley Resource - Claims for unemployment insurance once again surged around the Ohio Valley as nearly 355,500 people in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia sought help last week amid the economic calamity caused by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s in addition to the roughly 400,000 unemployment claims from the three states the previous week. The…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - More than a tenth of the state’s civilian labor force, or 90,000 people, filed for unemployment benefits last month as the coronavirus dealt a crushing blow to an already ailing West Virginia economy. Read. With layoffs and business closures mounting and state unemployment officials working with the feds on claims, some people…
Ohio Valley Resource - Claims for unemployment insurance soared around the Ohio Valley region as nearly 400,000 people in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia sought help amid the economic freeze associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Read/listen. The new numbers come from data released Thursday morning by the U.S. Department of Labor showing more than 6.6…