A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - Print Article In the general-population jail pod where 59-year-old Gilbert Cruz was incarcerated for 70 days, there was a chess set. He played every day, staying on the other inmates’ good sides by teaching them where to move their rooks and knights. He was the oldest of 26 guys, quarantined together for more than two months, after Cruz’s bunkmate was diagnosed with shingles. The men could not go to the cafeteria for meals, to the chapel to pray, to the rec room to exercise. But they could play chess; they could fight over the TV and fight each other in the back of the pod, where cameras and guards could not see them....
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