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Chickenpox prompts prison quarantine, sentencing delay
By Nick Swedberg Daily Southtown
March 4, 2016
A quarantine at the Stateville Correctional Center is delaying the sentencing of a felon there convicted of killing a Metra police officer almost 10 years ago, according to his defense attorney...
...Five inmates are isolated in the prison infirmary with clinical symptoms of chickenpox, according to a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Corrections. One unit inside the prison is under "restricted movement" as part of the quarantine, which has been in place since Feb. 26. Units house up to about 200 inmates.
"The quarantine can last up to 21 days," Dede Short, public relations officer for the Department of Corrections, said in an email...
Chickenpox prompts prison quarantine, sentencing delay
By Nick Swedberg Daily Southtown
March 4, 2016
A quarantine at the Stateville Correctional Center is delaying the sentencing of a felon there convicted of killing a Metra police officer almost 10 years ago, according to his defense attorney...
...Five inmates are isolated in the prison infirmary with clinical symptoms of chickenpox, according to a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Corrections. One unit inside the prison is under "restricted movement" as part of the quarantine, which has been in place since Feb. 26. Units house up to about 200 inmates.
"The quarantine can last up to 21 days," Dede Short, public relations officer for the Department of Corrections, said in an email...