Corona Virus In All Of The Prisons Poem by James McLain

Her face was beet red.
She was wheezing, struggling to breathe.

The 38-year-old woman — an inmate at Metro Transitional Center — had been experiencing stomach discomfort since early last week, one of her cellmates said. But she had clearly taken a turn for the worse and registered a temperature of 101 when she returned from work at a Forest Park poultry processing plant Friday night.


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The woman, whose name is being withheld out of respect for her privacy, was moved to a holding cell later that night.

She's been there ever since, essentially pleading for her life, inmates told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday