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Fewer than one in ten prison staffers have received a booster, even as cases spike in correctional facilities across the state.

Sherman Morisette served 35 years in prison for robbing a Chicago taxi driver at gunpoint on Christmas Eve in 1983.

I escaped the death penalty — my sentence was commuted to life without parole. But the nightmares, the trauma and the despair will always haunt me.

With a virus like COVID-19 that spreads easily with close contact or with large groups of people together, correctional facilities are naturally breeding grounds for the virus.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s failure to release vulnerable prisoners from overcrowded facilities will cost avoidable loss of life behind bars and in surrounding communities, say advocates and medical professionals.

Renaldo Hudson knew he needed to change his life when he got uninvited from a death row birthday party, for scaring the other inmates.