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How California Created Its Newest COVID Hotspot

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

At the end of May, California’s oldest prison, San Quentin, had zero reported cases of COVID-19. Now, the facility has more than 1,300. Guards are falling ill. Some inmates are refusing tests, making it difficult to track the severity of the outbreak. One federal judge says the only way to save lives at this point is for the governor to approve a widespread release of inmates.  Guest: Megan Cassidy, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Over the last couple of years,

0:36.7

Megan Cassidy has become a bit of an expert on life inside California's prisons,

0:43.0

especially California's oldest prison,

0:46.0

San Quentin, guards inmates,

0:49.3

relatives of people inside. They all seem to know how to reach her.

0:54.1

So does that mean your cell phone is ringing all the time?

0:56.6

Yeah, I joke that I think that my phone number is written on a bathroom stall somewhere

1:00.5

in there.

1:01.7

It's actually the journalists at the prison newspaper who've become some of Megan's best sources.

1:07.5

There are a couple guys there that if I say,

1:09.7

hey, I'm looking for somebody who can talk to me about suicides in prisons.

1:14.0

I'll get three calls that day from somebody who knows somebody,

1:18.1

but from from the inside that can help me along with my story.

1:21.6

When did your contacts inside start talking to you about the coronavirus?

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