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Jason Hammond walked into Chicago s Cook County Jail last month with a stack of cashier s checks totaling $75,000. The volunteer for the Chicago Community Bond Fund was bailing out eight inmates at once, his largest group yet in response to the coronavirus pandemic. We re not just fighting for a few people, we re fighting for everyone to be bonded out, Hammond told CBS News. We were doing that before the coronavirus, but now it feels like a double emergency. The cases in prisons are about to explode. Community bond funds are working overtime as experts warn how quickly disease can spread inside jails. The organizations typically rely on private and small donors to assist those who can t make their cash bail. Criminal justice reform advocates argue the public health crisis is highlighting wealth inequality, as an estimated 450,000 people sit behind bars because they re unable to afford the payment. The maj
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For 18 consecutive days, Abie Benitez performed an excruciating ritual. She called Puerto Rico s morgue in San Juan, was put on hold for several minutes, provided her husband s name to the staff and asked them if his body had undergone autopsy so she could cremate him. They just told me I had to call every day, Benitez, 57, an educator in New Haven, Connecticut, told CBS News. They couldn t assure me that I could regain his body for two or three weeks mdash; and most probably, that the decomposition would be
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adidas originals iam Benitez, 58, an avid swimmer and lifeguard instructor, were born in Puerto Rico, where they were planning to retire this summer. He traveled to the island alone in December to start exploring the possibility of offering lifeguard and CPR training to local residents once he retired. Benitez said that on January 13, something mdash; possibly a stroke mdash; prevented her husband from staying afloat while he was swimming. Some good Samaritans tried to save and resuscitate him, she added, but he was pronounced dead by the time he was transported to a hospital.Benitez flew to Puerto Rico the same day but was not allowed to see her husband s body. She identified him through a tiny photograph provided by the morgue. It was not until January 31, after staff had performed an autopsy on the body, that Benitez was abl
