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Alabama lawmakers are set to approve a plan to use $400 million (£298 million) from Covid-19 relief funds to build three new prisons, AP reports.
The House of Representatives voted 74-26 for the $1.3 billion construction plan and 75-25 to use $400 million from the state’s share of American Rescue Plan dollars to help pay for the construction.
(1/2) I’m deeply disturbed that the State of Alabama is considering a plan to use $400 million of COVID-19 aid from the American Rescue Plan to build prisons, especially as the virus rages on in our state!
The European Union will extend a mechanism to monitor and potentially limit the export of Covid-19 vaccines from the bloc until the end of 2021 instead of the current deadline of the end of September, Reuters reports.
Earlier this week, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, had said it would propose such an extension.
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