In this Thursday, March 12, 2020, inmates at the Cook County Jail from left, Joshua Cavin, Sean Allen, and Sirjerathan Wilson, pose for a portrait in a jail classroom after talking with The Associated Press about participating in early voting for the March 17, Illinois primary at the jail in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
March 16, 2020
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March 16, 2020 5:03 p.m.
Detainees walk out of cells, into voting booths in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Sirjerathan Wilson never thought it was worth the trouble to vote and never had. But inside Cook County Jail, Wilson sees it differently: voting is a chance to remind himself that his opinion matters and to show his family that he's doing more than just letting one day bleed into the next.