Documenting the COVID-19 Outbreak at the Cook County Jail
Nurses and faith leaders participate in a protest outside the Cook County Jail in Chicago in this file photo from April 10, 2020. Nam Y. Huh/AP
One of America’s biggest COVID-19 outbreaks is afflicting people who work and are detained at the Cook County Jail.
Shannon Heffernan, a reporter on the Criminal Justice Desk at Chicago NPR station WBEZ-FM, has been documenting the crisis.
Her story was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network