This story was told by a person incarcerated at Elmwood Correctional Facility.
Caller: But that’s a good thing to leave open in case they – we did have another big outbreak. Like we had one in January according to the newspapers and stuff. So this was equal to that. And so we – they transported us in – on vans, and had sterilizing guys.
It was like Ghostbusters outfits on. With you know, big hoses and pumps and tanks on; sterilizing everything everywhere. Trying to make – keep up on their homework.
And quarantine for 10 to 15 days downtown was fine. And then when that was up we got shoveled to another unit all in the same unit – it was the same four guys. Was interesting how the – how CDC was using it – doing what they know how to do, you know.
And so we go shoveled to a different unit, but all the same like one, two, three, four was all the same guys that – like same order they took us. They kept us like that, like lined up next to each other amongst – instead of spreading us out through the whole unit.
And we were – we were in an empty unit – by then, by the time we got done with our quarantine. They – everybody else in the whole place was already gone waiting for theirs to be up. So it was interesting how it was a ghost camp when we came back.
But they – they ran out of room downtown and they had to move one unit. One guy next to me into – make a two-man tank out of one, in one. But so we were – I had bungee all of a sudden.
I went, “well that’s kinda interesting,” I thought they were trying to keep us in separate – they really wanted to keep certain groups away from certain groups. You know, somehow the process is kind of mysterious. At that point, it’s just interesting you know?
So when our 10 days were up, we came back it ended up being the same – the kid that I was in a cell with, he was going to a THU, traditional housing unit, like I was. And we were both waiting for beds; it was coincidental. Kind of interesting and cool, you know?
