In places like Chicago's Cook County Jail, summertime spikes in detainees are typical, usually coinciding with violence in the warmer months, meaning that the "delicate balance" they've put in place to protect against coronavirus quickly gets thrown off. "I'm probably 500 people away from where this can't work," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. Michael Allen, a detainee at Cook County Jail, sits on his bed in the quarantine bootcamp. We were in a war," said Dr. Connie Mennella, Chairperson of the Department of Correctional Health with Cermak Health Services in Cook County. By mid-April, Cook County jail had released about a fourth of its entire population and even months later it remains among its lowest headcount in history.

Source: CNN June 30, 2020 00:11 UTC