ACLU sues Waseca prison, claiming COVID spread like 'wildfire'
Copy shortlink: For four days after she tested positive for COVID-19, Aaryana Malcolm, an inmate at the federal women's prison in Waseca, grew increasingly ill, vomiting and coughing up blood. Other inmates had to help her use the bathroom and shower. Medical staff told her to take Tylenol. Eventually she was rushed by ambulance to a hospital where she was put on a ventilator. Her account and the stories of 11 other inmates coping with the consequences of COVID-19 that spread rapidly through the low security Waseca facility are laid out in more than 300 pages of docume...