Carolina Public Press reports that Governor Cooper’s administration and the NC NAACP have reached a settlement in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the conditions of confinement in North Carolina prisons during the ongoing pandemic. The report says the settlement provides for the early release of 3,500 people over the next 180 days and notes that the prison population has decreased by about 6,000 people since February of last year. In addition, an anonymous complaint system must be established for incarcerated people to report noncompliance with virus mitigation requirements. Keep reading for more news. Gymnastics. NPR reports that this week former USA Gymnastics coach John Geddert was charged with multiple crimes in Michigan this week including sexual misconduct and human trafficking and that hours later he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said that the charges arose from acts of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse against multiple minor victims. Geddert was the head coach of the 2012 U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team and had a close relationship with Larry Nassar. Wake CROs. WRAL reports that the Wake County Board of Education likely will continue an agreement with local law enforcement agencies that places officers in schools as school resource officers. The current agreement will expire soon and some community members have been pressuring the board to consider ending the program because of a disproportionate rate of referrals of non-white students to the juvenile justice system. The WRAL report says that Black students accounted for [...]
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