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  2. Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    Because of their longevity, PCBs are still widely in use, even though their manufacture has declined drastically since the 1960s, when a host of problems were identified. [3] With the discovery of PCBs' environmental toxicity , and classification as persistent organic pollutants , their production was banned for most uses by United States ...

  3. Bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls - Wikipedia

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    Bioremediation of PCBs is the use of microorganisms to degrade PCBs from contaminated sites, relying on multiple microorganisms' co-metabolism. Anaerobic microorganisms dechlorinate PCBs first, and other microorganisms that are capable of doing BH pathway can break down the dechlorinated PCBs to usable intermediates like acyl-CoA or carbon ...

  4. List of inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute

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    She was at FMC Carswell, which housed the death row for women, [12] until the day before her execution. [13] She is the only woman to date executed by the federal government in the 21st century. Keith Dwayne Nelson: 1999 August 28, 2020: 45 07440-031 Convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering 10-year-old Pamela Butler in Kansas City, Missouri.

  5. Can California change a dark culture at Chowchilla women's ...

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    Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.

  6. Trans activist Buck Angel: Trans inmates who want to be in ...

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    “Real trans women [in prison] don’t want to be transferred to women’s prisons because they get treated like queens in the men’s jails,” Angel said. “The ones who want to be transferred ...

  7. Poe Hall timeline: When did NC State know about PCBs ... - AOL

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    Nov. 13, 2023: An additional lab, SGS Galson, received samples of the air in Poe Hall. The company reported the results to NC State on Nov. 14. The results did not appear to indicate ...

  8. Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States

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    Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States differ in the social structures and cultural norms observed in men's and women's prison populations. While there are many underlying similarities between the two sets of populations, sociologists have historically noted different formal and informal social structures within inmate populations.

  9. Corrections secretary: New women’s prison could be filled ...

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    The report has served as the basis for discussions on new prisons in South Dakota, and it identified the women’s prison as the area of highest need. At the time of the study, 60% of female ...