Throughout the pandemic, the DOC granted 158 inmates conditional medical release because of health issues that put them at risk of contracting COVID-19. Late last month, as first reported in the Reformer, the agency notified 18 of them that they would need to return to prison to serve out the rest of their sentence.

“It became clear to me that any program addressing the violence women had committed would also need to address the aggression and violence they had personally experienced.”

A summary of the viewpoints of the seven candidates running for Hennepin County attorney general.

Advance-practice clinicians are already undergoing training to dispense the two-pill abortion medication regime. One of the state’s largest hospitals, HCMC (Hennepin Healthcare), is beginning to prepare to offer abortions as well.