Two masks. Bars of motel-sized hand soap. A cleaning solution akin to bleach.
Those are the items Gabriel Little Dog, 45, said he received at the Montana State Prison to help fight the coronavirus behind bars.
Watching the pandemic take a grip on the rest of society struck fear inside him, he said.
“You hear on TV about people dying,” he said. He wondered if his chances were worse if he contracted the virus in confinement, inside the men’s prison in Deer Lodge. “You’re stuck … ‘If I get it will I die?’ That’s what’s going through your mind.”