WE MUST LISTEN TO THOSE INSIDE.

Thanh Tran, currently incarcerated at San Quentin Prison:

“I write this after 3 days of being curled into a fetal position, fighting off COVID19. For a week now shrieks of man down followed by alarms have become my alarm clock. /1

Over 30 people hospitalized in my building alone this past week. After fighting excruciating headaches and vomiting, all that i am given to heal myself is a box lunch - which is now served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. /2

We have not been allowed to use the pay phone for over 2 weeks now. We are given showers once every 5 days, showering with 40 to 50 other people at a time - 18 shower heads, one foot apart, in a building with no ventilation, creating a sauna like effect. /3

This is the sickest I've been in my life. This is the most alone I've ever been in my life. I've asked multiple nurses to please give me medicine but to no avail so far. "I only do oxygen test." "I only see people who are tested Positive already." "Put in a sick call form." /4

COVID Negatives are still being forced to cell with people who are COVID positive. Men in Badger section are forced to be on 23 hr lockdown in a 4 by 9 cell with no electricity to even boil a cup coffee not mention a soup. Men in the medical tents are experiencing the same. /5

I'm begging you to see how we suffer. I’m begging you to open up your hearts to compassion and not politics. I’m begging you to hear us and please @GavinNewsom, save our lives. We are dying in here. /6

Read & share Thanh’s full statement & how to #StopSanQuentinOutbreak: https://twitter.com/tgijp/status/1283483438226563073?s=20

There have been over 2000 COVID cases and 12 deaths at San Quentin Prison.

From what we know of the virus, there are significant long term health damages to many of those who survive.

Solidarity with incarcerated people everywhere.

And follow @railroadunderg1 for tweets from someone inside SQ: https://mobile.twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1/status/1283513884700143617