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Des Moines Register
Just after noon on Nov. 6, Melinda McNabb received a call from a prison counselor at Clarinda Correctional Facility. Her son, Christopher James Rios, an inmate serving decades for a burglary and robbery, had contracted the coronavirus.
For McNabb, 52 and a mother of four, the news was worrying but expected: Coronavirus was peaking in Iowa’s prisons.
“I figured it was just a matter of time,” she said of her 28-year-old son’s positive test. He was one of 4,800 prisoners who have tested positive for coronavirus in the state s overcrowded prisons since the pandemic hit Iowa more than a year ago.