Locked Down Again

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As the Coronavirus pandemic locks down parts of America and the world, we revisit an episode from 2018 about how the San Quentin community manages a prison lockdown.

During a San Quentin lockdown, the prison grinds to a halt, and men are confined to their cells 24 hours a day. What causes a lockdown, and how do guys survive the wait when boredom, uncertainty, hunger and isolation can push them over the edge?

A heads-up: this episode contains discussion of suicide and self-harm — listener discretion is advised. You can reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

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Thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Acting Warden Ron Broomfield for their support.

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0:00.0	Longest lockdown I've been on it was 22 months.
0:05.3	A year.
0:06.3	Uh, six months.
0:07.3	18 months.
0:08.3	Three or four weeks.
0:10.3	I've been on an 11 month lockdown.
0:12.8	I got big, too.
0:14.5	10 months.
0:15.5	The longest lockdown I was on was one year.
0:17.7	It was a new folks.
0:18.9	We was in like going on lockdown for like 18 months.
0:24.3	Hey, over there, Irlon.
0:25.3	What's up, Nige?
0:26.5	How's it going all the way over there?
0:28.6	Six feet away?
0:29.6	Well, clearly, I've been better.
0:31.7	Yep.
0:32.7	America has, too.
0:33.7	Right now, America and the world is
0:34.9	grappling with this coronavirus, this COVID-19.
0:38.1	Yes, they are.
0:39.4	So we're recording this on Monday, March 16, 2020.
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