The Indiana Department of Correction will conduct a "comprehensive review" of the Indiana Women’s Prison, according to an email sent to staff on Friday. 

The department will examine the facility’s “operations, programs, treatment services, maintenance and situational readiness.” The email says the decision to conduct the review follows complaints about the prison over the past couple of years. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Latino community particularly hard, and information about the virus is not always readily available in Spanish at the local level. To answer questions and fill information gaps, Side Effects Public Media convened a panel of three health workers who work closely with Latino Hoosiers throughout the state. Side Effects reporter Sebastián Martínez Valdivia spoke with Gabriela Lemus, community health worker for Health Visions Midwest in Fort Wayne; Indianapolis-based pulmonary disease specialist Dr. Jorge Morales-Estrella; and Guillermo Guevara, community health worker and multicultural liaison at Echo Division Street Family Clinic in Evansville.

La pandemia de COVID-19 ha golpeado particularmente fuerte a la comunidad latina, y a veces la información sobre el virus no está disponible en español a nivel local. Para contestar las preguntas y remediar la falta de información, Side Effects Public Media convocó un panel de tres trabajadores de salud que trabajan atentamente con los Hoosiers latinos por todo el estado. Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, periodista de Side Effects, habló con Gabriela Lemus, promotora de salud con Health Visions Midwest en Fort Wayne; el Dr. Jorge Morales-Estrella, especialista en enfermedades pulmonares en Indianápolis; y Guillermo Guevara, trabajador de salud comunitaria e intermediario multicultural en Echo Division Street Family Clinic en Evansville.

A prominent Indiana lawmaker wants to make sure the final days of Dr. Susan Moore’s life, which were chronicled in an emotional video, lead to lasting change for Black women.

So she’s drafting a bill that would require cultural awareness training for the state’s health care professionals.

While listening to the disturbing details of how 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot to death by Louisville police officers in her own apartment, Glynita Bell had a sudden thought about Taylor, who lived just miles away from her New Albany, Indiana home. 

Dani Hoover cu kum 26 a si i, Indianapolis ah harsa a tongmi pawl bawmtu (social worker) a si. High school a kai in lungrawh zawtnak (depression) le lungretheihnak (anxiety) a rak ngei peng i, Covid-19 zawtnak a um ruang ah hin aa harh chin chin. 

“Hi COVID-19 puiral chung ah hin, ka lungrawh zawtnak le lungretheihnak hi a fak bik tiah ka zumh,” tiah Hoover nih a ti.

Cauk zoh dawh tein chiah lawng si loin, Nikki Johnson cu sianginn dih hnu ah siangakchia rawl pek le hmailei an lam tluan khawhnak caah fimnak a cheuh hna. Tu thla le bang cu sichunh (flu shot) kong a thil tuah ding ah a chap. 

Johnson rian cu Indianapolis Public Library i Martindale-Brightwood Branch a zohkhenh tu a si. “ Kan khua (community) caah mah hmun hi himnak hmun pakhat a si. Cun, hi hmun hi anmah ta a si le kan khua (community) cu pumkhat kan si tiin theihternak kan tuah.”