Covid in prison was another form of hell #prison #covid19 #lockdown

So as the world was flipped upside down because of co imagine what that was like in prison we were sitting behind those doors just left to our own devices about the only good thing that came was that the cops were never coming so you could do whatever you want. It was stressful though because people were wondering and worried about their family. All we saw on those TVs was body counts. It was crazy because when you’re in prison, your mind’s already running a million miles a minute and then you’re thinking about the worst and what could be happening to your loved ones. I remember looking out my cell window and seeing cells on fire. People were going crazy. They were putting blankets under the door and lighting that [ __ ] up and it was engulfing their whole door, smoking out their cells, making them come in there. It was a cry for help. They weren’t giving us commissary regular showers. They weren’t letting us call our loved ones. The world was upside down and prison was chaos. At one point, it was a safety issue for the staff because we were boarded up. We covered our windows. We didn’t want to let them count. We wouldn’t let them see us. And they have to make eye contact to know that you’re alive in there. And we weren’t letting them do it. That was our way of getting our point across. You either come in with the search team and handle your business or you negotiate. That’s the way a crisis is handled in prison. Luckily for us, they negotiated. But that went on. We kept having to do it. I mean, that’s no way to live. You’re stuck in there and they’re not giving you any kind of answers. No leeway. You got nothing coming. That’s how CO was handled in prison. That’s how we had to live. So, while the rest of the world was quarantined, hopefully with a batty, we were in there fighting for basic human rights. That’s something nobody wants to endure.