HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 15 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following statement by Executive Director David McGuire: The Connecticut Department of Correction announced that the first death from COVID-19 of a person incarcerated by the State of Connecticut. According to the Department of Correction, the person who died was a man in his 60s, who, according to the Department of Correction, had been scheduled for release. Also, the Department of Correction's COVI  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 16 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release on April 15: The Connecticut Superior Court held a telephone hearing for oral arguments regarding a class action lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Connecticut seeking emergency court action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by reducing the number of people who are incarcerated in Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) prisons and jails. At the hearing's conclusion, Judge Barba  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 18 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global medical products company, provided an update on how the company is responding to the COVID-19 epidemic that is challenging communities and healthcare systems throughout the world. The company's support remains focused on increasing supply of its life-sustaining medicines and medical devices amidst unprecedented, rising demand; protecting employee health and saf  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The American Soybean Association issued the following news release: The American Soybean Association (ASA) has hired Alexa Combelic to join its government affairs team, located in Washington, D.C., starting May 4. Combelic has served in various Hill staff roles the past 10 years, working for Members of both the House and Senate, and currently is legislative director for Congressman Joe Courtney of Connecticut. Combelic is originally from Connecticut and earned a dual Ba  more

STORRS, Connecticut, April 16 -- The Journal of Symbolic Logic, a journal that says it features mathematical logic and its applications from the Association for Symbolic Logic, published research articles, including the following topics, in its March 2020 issue: * Choice-Free Stone Duality * Coherent Extension of Partial Automorphisms, Free Amalgamation and Automorphism Groups * Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on a Class of Scattered Linear Orders * Factorials of Infinite Cardinals in Zf Part I: Z  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 17 -- Save the Children issued the following statement: Following reports of the rescue of a boat with hundreds of Rohingya people that had been drifting at sea for two months, Athena Rayburn, Save the Children's Rohingya Response Advocacy Manager, said: "Save the Children is horrified to hear reports of the many starving Rohingya women and children rescued by the Bangladeshi authorities after two months at sea, and saddened by reports that dozens may have died on  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 16 -- Save the Children issued the following statement by Country Director in Uganda Brechtje van Lith in response to the announcement by the World Food Program of 30 percent relief reduction to refugee programs in Uganda: "The food ration cuts, which are caused by lack of funding, come at the worst possible time, as hundreds of thousands of refugee children are already being pushed further into extreme poverty and hunger by COVID-19. These latest cuts will put chi  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 17 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: Children's rights must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response, Save the Children said, to ensure an entire generation does not suffer the catastrophic, long-term consequences of the outbreak. Save the Children issued this warning in response to a brief by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that was released today. According to the briefing, an estimated 84 to 132 million people could fall into extrem  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 15 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: The world's 75 poorest countries are scheduled to pay $60 billion of debts to external creditors in 2020--more than they are set to receive in donor aid to combat COVID-19. This burden will rob them of the financial resources they need for investment in testing, medical equipment, health workers, and safety nets to battle the outbreak, and will push millions more children into poverty, Save the Children war  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 16 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: 26 international humanitarian agencies are calling on the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh to restore full access to mobile data1 and telecommunications (including legal access to sim cards for Rohingya refugees), in Cox's Bazar and Rakhine and Chin states to ensure that refugees, displaced populations, conflict-affected and host communities can access lifesaving information about COVID-19. The restora  more