Category: Coronavirus

Buying all new wardrobe … after 27 years in prison, Saul is out! Home Sweet Home!

I remember the first time I smoked K2 in prison — synthetic marijuana! It was in 2007, I was housed at the supermax prison in…

I have been in prison for 34 years, serving a life sentence for a murder I did not commit. My trial judge was the father-in-law…

  I watched my friend’s face with skepticism.  No one in their right mind hoped for something so sinister. Yet his steady eyes only stared…

  With the mass-rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines across the US, vaccination is being offered inside state prisons nationwide and have been for a number…

Over a year into the Covid19 pandemic and America's quarantine shut-downs, most state prisons continue to operate under some form of lockdown, including the WA…

One day, in the beginning of December 2020, a number of convicts in my unit in a Michigan prison were infected/reinfected with COVID-19. Our unit…

Today I was at work and I learned that my good friend, Edward Jones, had passed away 3 months ago from the Coronavirus. I was…

  Americans, like the rest of the planet, have endured the COVID19 pandemic since early 2020. Tragically, there have been thousands of deaths. Even for…

The only way Covid 19 enters this facility is through its employees. And if the State does not have the political courage to stop these…

...yesterday our tests began to return and showed that many of the people who caught it back in March have now contracted it again. My…

I hope not to die in the next 145 days. Unfortunately, the possibility of death remains real. In the event of my demise, I ask…

Juan Mosquero was isolated in Sing-Sing Correctional Facility’s infirmary on March 20, 2020, after suffering in his cell for more than two weeks with symptoms…

“Covid-19 procedures in effect, masks on. Prepare for Chow,” the crackling PA announced. My door groaned open. I joined the snaking line to receive my…

The first prisoner in Washington State to test positive for COVID-19 happened to be housed just across the sidewalk from me in the Minimum Security…

When prisoners tested positive for the coronavirus at my prison, Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio, they were sent to solitary confinement to recover and quarantine.…