This story was told by a person incarcerated at Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail.
Caller: Since I’ve been here, I had an 83-year-old guy that was next door to me, and they called him out. He came out positive for COVID. I never seen him again.
Found out he died. Died in the hospital over here. Since I’ve been here, during this COVID, my father, who was doing life in prison in [redacted], he got COVID. He almost died from it and he’s still suffering from complications from it.
I’ve lost my uncle to COVID since I’ve been here. Right now, I can’t even call my family. My mother’s got cancer.
My sister, she’s going through breast cancer and chemo right now. I can’t call her. I don’t have no family support at all.
I came down positive with COVID in here. The only thing they did with me is take me to the hospital over here at – next to the county jail. The only thing they did for me is give me aspirin.
So, I sat there and suffered the whole time. Since I’ve been here too in this county jail during this COVID I – I have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I’m not supposed to be isolated like this.
And – the the psychiatrist came and talked to me. Gave me the wrong medication that almost killed me, dropped my blood pressure so low that I fell out of my cell, cracked the back of my head open.
And now I’m scared to even take the medication here because these nurses here in the – they don’t care about us. They just use us for guinea pigs, pretty much. I haven’t had a hot meal in here in three years.
The dinner that we get in here is the only hot meal that we have in here and it’s always served ice cold. I mean, I mean, come on, you know, this is – this is unhumane.
