MIAMI NOW: "I am Anthony Swain. I am 43. I am a parapalegic. Confined to a wheelchair. Trying my best to take care of myself in this pandemic, no different from you, no different from any other human being. But it’s impossible to do that at this jail. We inmates are scared."

"The cell I am in houses the most medically vulnerable people in Metro West. People in here have AIDS, people recently coming out of surgery, people who are elderly. Despite that, there are no measures taken to protect us from new people who circulate through our cell every day."

In the Metro West Detention Center in Miami, Florida in cell 1D2: "We see people who are coughing, have fevers, and are otherwise ill, but they aren’t tested and we don’t know what they have."

"There was one individual who came in here w/n the last month who was feeling terrible. Took his temperature & found it was 103 degrees. Took Corrections almost a week to send him to hospital. During that time, he was mixed in with the rest of us, using the same things we use."

"Soon after that there was another person who came in w/ a sore throat. He told us that he didn’t feel well & told us to stay away from him. Sweating in his sleep, & within a day, couldn’t get up out of bed. Left him in our cell for 2 days before sending him to Jackson hospital."

From the Sworn Declaration of Anthony Swain, currently incarcerated at the Metro West Detention Center in Miami, Florida in cell 1D2: "There are about five people in my cell who are coughing, or otherwise complaining about being sick."

In West Detention Center in Miami, Florida: "Even staff in here are sick. A cart nurse who passed out our medication was working in our cell for almost a month. The whole time he was here, he was coughing and sneezing. He finally stopped coming to work, and is now in quarantine."

"On 4/1, an officer told my friend she needed his help. Told him that she didn’t feel well. Asked him to count trays for her in the hallway. Only God knows what she is sick w/. She was walking around without a mask. Guards don’t wear masks or gloves. Aren’t enough to go around."