Stateville Correctional Center

Cynthia McDonald’s son Joseph Wilson contracted Covid-19 in late March while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder and attempted robbery at the Stateville Correctional Center, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.

An inmate at Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Crest Hill has died after testing positive for coronavirus, and at least 12 other men have been hospitalized because of the virus. Of those 12 men hospitalized, several have required ventilators, according to state health officials. A total of 77 detainees at the facility are currently experiencing symptoms and are being isolated…

President Trump is abandoning his plan to get the economy going again by Easter and extending guidance to practice social distancing until April 30th. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 doubled in just two days over the weekend, and now sits at more than 2,400.