(Adhitya Ginanjar from Unsplash)State official says ‘the situation is extraordinarily dire’
Lilo H. Stainton
Lilo H. Stainton is a staff writer for New Jersey Monitor, where this story was first published. Stainton has covered New Jersey for two decades, much of it with Gannett newspapers and NJ Spotlight News, reporting on public policy, national political conventions and the 9/11 attack on lower Manhattan. She later served as press secretary to Gov. Jon S. Corzine and led a nonprofit coalition's successful advocacy for federal funding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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Lilo StaintonThe facilities, which focus on reducing harm, have saved lives elsewhere