i’ve just spoken directly with two inmates at bradley county jail, and their reports are absolutely horrifying. i’ll be transcribing the notes i took and updating in a bit. thank you so much for all of the support, these inmates are begging for us to help them
“we have no masks, no gloves. i’m looking at 30 people without masks right now. they say we can’t cover our faces because the cameras can’t ID us. gloves are considered contraband. if we use shirts as masks we’re put in solitary”
“c pod had 13 outbreaks and 7 were put in our pod”
from an inmate with sickle cell: “when i came in, i was on crutches and they took them away. i don’t have an accessible toilet, i fall off of it and they don’t help me. i’ve written letters to my lawyers and they block my mail. i went to a hospital due to complications and when
i returned they confiscated my mask. i’m locked up for 12 years and they’re forcing me to pay my own hospital bill. jails are supposed to pay the bill if you go to the hospital”
“if we don’t have money we’re given a sliver of a bar of soap and expected to use it for two weeks”
“for two weeks straight during local outbreaks and protests we weren’t allowed to watch any news”
“news is shut off at 5 so we can’t see evening updates”
“we are on lockdown for 23 hours a day with no access to anything outside of our rooms”
“we weren’t given any medications during outbreak because medic wasn’t showing up”
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