100 federal inmates have died from coronavirus

The federal Bureau of Prisons reached a grim milestone on Saturday: 100 inmates have died from coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. Among the dead are fathers and mothers, daughters and sons and brothers and sisters — none of whom were sentenced to death.

There are 122 facilities in the federal prison system that hold nearly 129,000 inmates across the country. According to the bureau, over 10,000 inmates have at one point tested positive for the virus, and over 35,000 have been tested.

Of the hundred dead, three female inmates have died from the virus. The first was Andrea Circle Bear, a 30-year-old mother who gave birth to her sixth child while on a ventilator.

"I asked [hospital staff] if she even knew about the baby and they said, 'No, she's been on a ventilator,'" Circle Bear's grandmother, Clara LeBeau, told CBS News. "She never even knew she had the baby, and never got the chance to hold the baby."

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