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Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyds killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.Chauvin was taken Wednesday from a maximum-security prison in a Minneapolis suburb, where he often spent most of his day in a 10-by-10-foot cell, to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, according to the Bureau of Prisons.The Tucson facility houses 266 inmates, both male and female, as part of a larger complex that includes a high-secu stanley usa rity penitentiary and a minimum-security satellite camp.Bureau of Prisons stanley quencher spokeswoman Randilee Giamussoau declined to detail the circumstances of Chauvins confinement, citing privacy, safety and security concerns.Experts said earlier that Chauvin was likely to be safer in the federal system. It typically houses less-violent inmates, and hed be less likely to mix with inmates he had arrested or investigated as a Minneapolis police officer. Its dangerous to be an officer in any prison, former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said after Chauvin was sentenced last month stanley termohrnek . Its even more dangerous in state prison because of the nature of the inmate population. There are gangs, for example. And police officers just dont do well there. Those risks are reduced in a federal prison. Chauvin was sentenced last month in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to 21 years on federal civil rights Omjf Trump delays Russia probe documents; allies voiced concerns
SAN FRANCISCO 鈥?The threat of another commute-crippling transportation strike in the San Francisco Bay area receded on Saturday when offici kubki stanley als for the regions transit rail system and negotiators for its two largest labor unions said they had resolved the latest sticking point in their months-long negotiations and reached a new contract.Bay Area Rapid Transit district and union leaders said the four-year deal reached early Saturday settles a dispute over paid medical leave for employees that arose last month after the two sides had approved an October agreement that ended the second of two strikes BART workers staged this year. Im hopeful this is the last stop and that we can get off this wild ride of negotiations and that the parties can get back to our main focus, which is delivering people to and from their poin stanley termos ts of interest, Saul Almanza, a BART worker safety specialist and Service Employees International Union vice president.Under the revised agreement BART posted on its website, workers who need to take time off to care for sick family members will be allowed to decide how to use sick days, vacation time and other accumulated paid days off to ma stanley termos intain their paychecks. They also will have the option of taking up to 12 days off without pay.The language replaces a provision in the October agreement that would have given workers up to six weeks of paid family leave a year. After that first deal was approved by union members, BART officials said the paid leave provision had |