Family of Mercer student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating COVID-19 rules calls on Trump to intervene Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old pre-med student at Mercer University, was sentenced to four months in prison after breaking her mandatory quarantine. Author: CBS News Updated: 4:45 PM EST December 21, 2020 The family of a U.S. college student who was imprisoned for violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is calling on the Trump administration to intervene. Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old pre-med student at Mercer University in Georgia, was sentenced to four months in prison after breaking her mandatory quarantine. "She just wants to come home," her grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the "Today" show on Monday. "She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she's pretty hysterical right now."