Lot of worry

10.30.2020 • Avenal • Segment

This story was told by a person incarcerated at Avenal.

UCI: How has the COVID-19 situation at your faculty affected your loved ones?

Caller: Aw man I don’t have words. Um it’s financial hood isn’t the way it should because like people in here we don’t have our jobs, we’re all in a, the program’s down to a minimal. Uh we spend more time trying to be like phone busy, or maybe a message, you wanna reach out, you wanna talk to your parents a little bit there’s a lot of worry going on.

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