This story was told by a person incarcerated at Chino.
UCI: Okay. And, do you — if, if you have a cellmate, how have they been handling the situation too? Have they — have they been coping with it? Or what has that been like for any of — any of your friends inside the facility?
Caller: Have any of my friends caught COVID?
UCI: Yeah. Like, and if they did, you know, have they been cool about it? Like, how—
Caller: Yeah.
UCI: How have they been handling the situation?
Caller: They got sick. Some people got sick real bad.
UCI: Mm-hmm. And, when, if they — when they got sick, were they transferred over to another facility or, like, a building?
Caller: Yeah. One dude, he—
UCI: Mm-hmm.
Caller: One dude had a seizure and one dude had a seizure and went into a coma.
UCI: Oh, wow. You said he had a seizure and one had a coma?
Caller: Yeah, went into a coma.
UCI: Oh, okay. Wow. And did the correctional officers do anything to, like, kind of better the situation?
Caller: They was sitting there — they was sitting there pressing his chest for about, like, 30, 45 minutes.
UCI: Mm-hmm. Wow.
Caller: Trying to get him to breathe, to breathe again.
UCI: Mm-hmm.
Caller: He started breathing at the last minute.
UCI: Yeah. And, what about, like, the situation, I’m guessing you guys have a hospital in the, in the prison system. So, like—
Caller: Yes.
UCI: Have they been helpful too? Or, you know, have they been kind of like, leaving you guys aside?
Caller: It’s basically they, they always, all they do is move – only thing they do when you get sick, they move you to a cell to isolate by yourself. That’s how they do it.
UCI: Yeah, okay.
Caller: They ain’t even take you to a hospital to isolate you. They take you to another cell to cell living. Individual cell living, and it’s staying in the cell by yourself.
