COLDWATER, MI (AP)-- A 12th inmate has died from COVID-19 complications at a southern Michigan prison where more than 50 percent of inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Lakeland Prison in Branch County has a large share of Michigan's older prisoners and is the first to test everyone. The Corrections Department said 785 of roughly 1,400 prisoners at Lakeland have tested positive. Only a fraction of all prisoners have been tested statewide, but the infection rate was 56 percent. There have been at least 33 deaths.
Separately, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to try to force the release of immigrants with health problems at the Calhoun County jail. They're being held there by federal immigration authorities.
