CHICAGO, April 10 — Some 450 inmates and staff have tested positive for coronavirus at Chicago’s largest jail, county corrections officials said on Thursday, representing one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of the respiratory illness at a single site so far in the pandemic. The surge of...
Signs made by prisoners pleading for help are seen in a window of Cook County Jail in Chicago April 9, 2020 amid the coronavirus disease outbreak. — Reuters pic
The situation gained national attention earlier this week when inmates posted handmade signs pleading for help in the windows of their cells overlooking a public street. “Front line” staff members were being checked for fever at the start of each shift and issued protective equipment if they interact with inmates, according to the sheriff’s department.
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