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Into America

Into an Outbreak Behind Bars

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

Government, Msnbc, Cultural, Politics, Society & Culture, Society, Ms Now, Justice, Blm, Black Lives Matter, News, Trymaine Lee, Culture, Versant, Covid-19, Health, Social, Policy, Breonna Taylor, Documentary, History, News Commentary, George Floyd

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

More than 2 million Americans are sitting behind bars as the outbreak spreads.

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0:00.0

What do you mind reading some of that email that you sent me?

0:10.7

Dear Mr. Lee, my name is Mary Goldchinsky and my husband is currently in Sterling Correctional

0:16.1

Facility here in Colorado.

0:18.5

A couple weeks ago, I opened my inbox to find an email from Mary Goldchinsky in Colorado

0:24.2

Springs.

0:25.2

She was trying to figure out what was going on with her husband, Jeremy.

0:28.4

I recently got a letter from him telling me if they get coronavirus, they are going to

0:36.9

put them in SAG.

0:39.1

SAG.

0:40.1

She's talking about what's called a segregation unit, where a person spends most hours of

0:45.0

the day in isolation.

0:47.1

So if they get sick, their thought is to let them suffer.

0:52.2

But to me, this is my husband, my best friend, and the father of my children.

0:58.2

Mr. Lee, I don't know what to do to help my husband, but I do know that I don't want to sit

1:05.0

and be quiet.

1:08.6

I wrote her back.

1:14.2

There are more than 2 million Americans sitting behind bars right now as coronavirus tears

1:19.5

across the country.

1:20.9

The majority of them are like Jeremy and state prisons.

1:28.2

We're all being told to keep our distance right now.

1:31.2

Wash your hands, protect your family.

1:34.0

But inside prison walls, people share 6x8 foot cells.

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