Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

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The race for a COVID-19 vaccine is global with more than 150 in development across the world. According to the World Health Organization, there are 42 companies working on a vaccine in the United States and two of them are in San Antonio: Pfizer and Moderna. Hundreds of those volunteers are being tested in San Antonio through the Clinical Trials of South Texas. Will you take the first widely available COVID-19 vaccine? Kay Scroggins, President and CEO of Clinical Trials of South Texas, assures participants that they can not become infected with coronavirus from the vaccine.

SAN ANTONIO The first round of people participating in a COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Texas were given a dose Thursday. The double blind Pfizer trial is different than a vaccine trial being conducted by Moderna, which is set to begin Friday after being delayed for a few days. Texas biotech facility in College Station tapped to mass-produce potential COVID-19 vaccineTo participate in the Pfizer trial, you must be 18 or older and call Clinical Trials of Texas, the lab hosting the study, to get screened. Like the other trials, researchers assure participants that they cannot become infected with the coronavirus by recieving the Pfizer vaccine, which isnt live. If the trial is successful and all goes as planned, the Pfizer vaccine could be available to the public as early as the beginning of next year.

Dreiband said the Justice Department hopes to work with Alabama to resolve the departments concerns. Ultimately, Alabama does not properly prevent and address unconstitutional uses of force in its prisons, fostering a culture where unlawful uses of force are common," the report read. The report noted that at least two inmates died at the end of 2019 after use of force by officers. No one, not even a dog, deserves this.The 28-page Justice Department report listed other examples of violence by staff after reviewing files and visiting several state prisons. said Rep. Chris England, a Tuscaloosa lawmaker who has called for the new leadership at the state Department of Corrections.