CHRISTY GUTOWSKI
Chicago Tribune
Gray had lived behind bars for more than 40 years, serving a life sentence for hiring a relative to kill his business partner in 1978.
In the decades that followed, he tried to improve himself in prison, his lawyer said, working as a barber, a teacher and paralegal. He mentored younger men and ran an inmatesâ chapter of the Jaycees charity, as well as other prison programs.
Citing his age and poor health, Grayâs lawyer made a final plea for mercy dated Nov. 5. A day later, Gray died of complications related to COVID-19.
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CHICAGO Cynthia McDonald s son Joseph Wilson contracted Covid-19 in late March while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder and attempted robbery at the Stateville Correctional Center, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. McDonald said she found out that he had been taken away from the prison in an ambulance when she received a phone call from her nephew, who d been contacted by a prison guard who was a friend of Wilson s.
But the mother, who lives in the Auburn Gresham community on Chicago s South Side, said prison officials never formally notified her that Wilson had been hospitalized with the deadly virus. She also has alleged that corrections officials kept her in the dark as his health waned.
Mother of Jacksonville prisoner who died of COVID, others push for basic humanity
Mother of Jacksonville prisoner who died of COVID, others push for basic humanity They could have at least had the decency to call me to tell me that he had gone to the hospital. It s just not right.
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Camille Bennett, director of the Corrections Reform Project at the ACLU of Illinois, said it would take pressure on the Illinois Department of Corrections from state lawmakers to force the agency to better communicate with families when their incarcerated loved ones get sick.Journal-Courier