Hello Everybody,

Nearly everybody in nursing homes are dead due to COVID-19.
That is pretty much everywhere. But prisoners are a totally
different story.

Thank goodness only 70% of prisoners in Texas are infected -

70% of Texas Prisoners Infected

Within the walls of Texas prisons overrun with the new coronavirus,
information on its spread is still scarce, and the people locked up
and working inside are terrified.

At the massive Beto Unit outside of Palestine, a small town about 100
miles southeast of Dallas, hundreds of inmates and dozens of employees
have tested positive for the virus, according to department reports.
The prisoners have been largely locked in their cells or dormitories
for weeks as officials attempt to contain it, but more men are becoming infected, and inmates and their relatives believe the outbreak is much
larger than the numbers reported by the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice indicate.

“People are scared to tell the officers that they’re sick because they
say they’re not doing much of anything to actually help,” said a Beto inmate in a recent letter to his mother, who asked that they not be
named in fear of retaliation. “The sick people use the same showers as
the healthy people which is why I choose to take a bird bath,” a prison phrase for washing out of a prison cell’s sink.

“It’s pretty hair-raising,” said the mother, whose son has been granted parole but first needs to complete an in-prison program that is now up
in the air. “We’re wondering if he’ll ever get to come home.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/04/coronavirus-texas-prisons
-testing/

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