Cook County Jail inmates begin refusing food over COVID-19, sheriff forwards their petition for better treatment to judge – Chicago Tribune

Inmates have intermittently refused their food trays for a couple of days at a time in recent weeks, a statement from the sheriff’s office confirmed. But it would be “reckless and inaccurate” to describe that as a hunger strike, sheriff’s officials said, noting that the detainees were eating food from the commissary instead.