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At its peak, 320 incarcerated people were sick and 12 were hospitalized.

WSKG's Phoebe Taylor Vuolo and Celia Clarke discuss reporting on the recent salmonella outbreak at the Broome County jail and the challenges of covering incarceration stories.

No one has died in the outbreak, but the county medical director said that was not guaranteed, and that addressing the outbreak took coordinated effort.

Some formerly incarcerated people and family members of some still in the jail are challenging the sheriff’s office account of the ongoing salmonella outbreak.

The sheriff’s office changed the policy a couple of months ago but it only became public recently.

A man who secretly filmed internment camps allegedly holding Uyghur and other minority people in China was granted asylum Wednesday afternoon. The Department of Homeland Security might appeal the decision.

A preliminary investigation by the sheriff’s department said the woman died after a “medical emergency.”

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program, called 287g, enlists local law enforcement agencies to assist in immigration enforcement. Only two other counties in New York participate in any part of the program.

In response to widespread unsanctioned walkouts by corrections officers, New York state temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, which limits the use of extended solitary confinement in prisons and jails. Local criminal justice reform activists argue the law has never been fully enforced.

An officer with the Broome County Correctional Facility is charged with official misconduct and harassment in the second degree, after hitting an inmate who was seated and handcuffed at the time of the incident.Officer James Woodard and another, unnamed officer are both suspended without pay.