As the coronavirus took hold at Nash Correctional Institution early this month, 45-year-old inmate Donald Burks began to feel worrisome symptoms. "He said his lungs burned, his joints ached, he had a headache," said his mother, Carol Taylor. "He said it was miserable." Burks is healthier now. But Taylor worries about what will happen if he's infected a second time. And she questions why the prison didn't lock down every unit and test each inmate after the first cases surfaced. "No matter what these inmates have done, they don't deserve to be endangered like that," she said. Nash Correctional, a mid-sized prison about 45 minutes east of Raleigh, had no COVID-19 cases in mid November. A month later, officials there were wrestling with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the state prison system.