'This seems at best neglectful.' How a once-healthy NC prison became a COVID-19 hotspot.
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,...
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