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The virus behind bars

Voices from inside the Covid-19 catastrophe in California prisons and US immigration detention 

21 July 2020

  • Patricia Wright, center in pink shirt, outside of CIW minutes after her release, swarmed by family.

    California releases cancer patient Patricia Wright from prison amid Covid-19 outbreak

    After outrage over case of Wright, a 69-year-old domestic violence survivor, advocates hope governor’s order will be first of many

27 June 2020

  • Inmates work in the laundry room at Las Colinas women’s detention facility in Santee, California, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

    California governor grants clemency to 21 prisoners as thousands infected with Covid-19

    Advocates say the move is deeply inadequate given scale of the Covid-19 crisis inside overcrowded state prisons

3 June 2020

  • Activists say the swift release of older and immunocompromised prisoners is necessary and could potentially save hundreds of lives.

    'Governor, let me see my kids before I die': pressure mounts to release elderly women from prisons

    The women survived abuse, war and cancer, and are now held in California prisons with rising Covid-19 outbreaks

20 May 2020

  • Beatrice Bayardo for Guardian<br>Beatrice Bayardo, 57 years old. Her daughter is Corene Delacruz, incarcerated at the California Institution Women, which currently has one of the worst Covid outbreaks in the state. Corene has been exposed to numerous people inside with Covid and was given a write-up for trying to make diluted bleach to help clean facilities. Photographed on 05/19/20 at Beatrice's home in Lancaster, CA for Sam Levin's story in The Guardian.

    'People are sick all around me': inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California prisons

    Prisoners and advocates told the Guardian that some infected inmates are in isolation without medical care or adequate food, cut off from family and attorneys

12 May 2020

  • collage of carlos ernesto escobar mejia

    He lived in the US for 40 years. Then he became the first to die from Covid-19 in immigration jail

    Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia’s death in San Diego last week was preventable, his sister says, as coronavirus has infected hundreds in Ice detention

28 April 2020

  • Sirous Asgari, detained by Ice

    Iranian scientist in US jail contracts coronavirus after pleading for release

    Dr Sirous Asgari, in Ice detention despite having been exonerated in a sanctions trial, had warned of ‘inhumane’ conditions

4 April 2020

  • Detainees sit and wait for their turn at the medical clinic at the Winn correctional center.

    'We're gonna die': migrants in US jail beg for deportation due to Covid-19 exposure

    Ice detainees isolated after one had Covid-19 symptoms tell the Guardian that cries for help and protection have gone ignored
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