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Karl Battiste, photo courtesy of Karla Battiste
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What Went Wrong at Cook County Jail 

by Kiran Misra and Shadowproof February 18, 2021December 17, 2021

few days before Easter, Karl Battiste called his daughter Karla with a headache. He wasn’t feeling well and was worried about the spread of COVID-19 in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, where he was incarcerated at the time.  Battiste told his daughter that he was being held right across from two people who had tested positive […]

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