Part XII: Letters from the Harris County [Texas] Jail See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI These excerpts from inmates at the Harris County Jail in downtown Houston, Texas, were originally catalogued and published May 1 at The Texas Tribune in this piece…
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Part XI: “I knew some of those who have died” See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XII Jay G. 5/5 (Seagoville, TX) I am incarcerated at Seagoville FCI in Texas. Prior to this location, I was locked up at Oakdale from 2013 until…
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Part X: “I just want to bring him home while he is still alive” See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part XI Part XII Marsha, like Julie in Part VI, is not herself an Insider; she writes this on behalf of her 72 year old husband,…
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See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part X Part XI Part XII Part IX: The time to implement large-scale Community Residential Confinement in Wisconsin is NOW By Dylan 4/28 (Oregon Correctional Center, Oregon, WI) Prisons all across Wisconsin are overcrowded; some people are waiting months to be transferred…
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Part VIII: “In case I die” See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Jesse (Oakdale Federal Prison, Oakdale, LA) 4/26 Everything is chaotic here. The staff and inmates have no clue what’s happening or what to do. We watch as person after person…
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See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Part VII: Remember the Insiders who also help SHAUN 4/24 (Federal Medical Center, Rochester, MN) As many of you may or may not know, the COVID-19 virus has hit BOP, with, as of this date, over…
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Part VI: “I am afraid for my son” See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Julie is not an Insider but rather the mother of one. And her son is, by legal definition, not in prison but in a civil commitment facility, TDF…
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Part V: The Caronavirus has become a joke See also Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Jay 4/15 (OSCI, Salem, Oregon) The Coronavirus pandemic has become a joke, and deliberate indifference is shown toward an outbreak among inmates here at Oregon State Correctional Institution.…
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Part IV: We’re all in this thing together See also Part I Part II Part III Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Noah (Texarkana FCI, Texarkana, TX) 4/4 Today we have been issued masks that are rectangular with two loops and a wire at the top for form fitting around…
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Part III: Let everyone know what’s happening in here . . . We’re scared See also Part I Part II Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Eric 4/3 (North Carolina) Let all the news agencies you can, local and national as well as the ACLU, know what’s going…
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