This story was told by a person incarcerated at Avenal.
UCI: What do you think would make the situation better at your facility?
Caller: Mandatory testing, like they did every kind of day they tested a whole building, um some of the guys when they first, when 90 percent of the building came up positive, they quarantined the building, but then they brought negatives from another yard and put them inside the building when our building was 90 percent positive.
So stuff like that, it uh discourages the population on the authority, that we start seeing the authority be irrational, so you have irrational authority take control of you, you have no trust over stuff like that. Everything that they’re doing is such [unintelligible].
