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Report from behind the wall at CSP-Solano: CDCr still endangering lives after a year of COVID
February 19, 2021
KALW’s prison show, Uncuffed, recorded by prisoners, covered COVID-19 for the first time almost a year ago, on March 13, 2020. In this photo, taken before the pandemic, are Uncuffed producers Joe Kirk, b.f. Thames, Spoon Jackson, Bryan Mazza and Damon Cooke. – Photo: Steve Drown
by Oakland ABOSOL
A COVID outbreak and CDCr negligence have racked the CSP-Solano prison now for two and a half months and taken five lives. This past week saw collective counter-organizing by prisoners: work strikes declared, sit-ins planned and demands issued. Administration met the demand that untested transfers not be placed in COVID negative yards and narrowly avoided wholesale disruption of the institution.