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Prison Speaks: Torture survivor Mark Clements on the coronavirus, decarceration, and more

by Bobby Vanecko July 8, 2020July 25, 2020

ark Clements spent April 7 the way he spends many days: protesting outside the Cook County Jail. That day, the police torture survivor and activist was denouncing Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Governor J.B. Pritzker, for the state of things inside the jail—the site of one of the largest single-site outbreaks of COVID-19 in […]

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