He folded the paper carefully, slid it beneath the cell door and waited.
Brayan Rayo Garzon was 26 years old, sick with Covid-19, running a fever in a cinderblock isolation room in rural Missouri. It was his fourth day alone. His body ached. His mental health appointment had been canceled twice. And the one thing that had anchored him each night, a phone call to his mother before bed, had been taken away to prevent the spread of illness.
