Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support this mission by purchasing a digital subscription. Two Fridays ago, the afternoon of March 13, Brooks Noddin received a phone call that he had a visitor. He changed into jeans and a blue, button-down shirt and walked from his cell at the Maine State Prison to a large room in another building where his dad, Bruce Noddin, sat waiting for him. As the father and son hugged, they didn’t know it would be the last time for the foreseeable future, they said. [Our COVID-19 tracker contains the most recent information on Maine cases by county] Sometime over the next two hours, while the men sat talking, prison officials made the call to suspend visits to the Warren penitentiary for at least two weeks in an effort to prevent the novel coronavirus from reaching the prison.

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