This story was told by a person incarcerated at Pelican Bay.
Caller: Yeah. So, basically, Pelican Bay has pretty much had like a delta variant outbreak for like the last two months – for like the last two months.
UCI: Mmhmm.
So the prison has really been on lockdown for like the last two months, off and on. You know what I’m saying? Because it’s a large number of officers that are refusing to get vaccinated. You know what I’m saying?
And then, you know what I’m saying, a lot of officers are testing positive and still coming to work. So you know what I’m saying? The officers are coming in here, spreading the virus around.
And, you know, it’s really been a large number of officers tested positive and, also, you know, spreading that, spreading that to the inmates. You know what I’m saying? And, yeah. Yeah. It’s very –
UCI: Mmhmm.
Caller: Yeah. So, yeah. It’s been going on for like the last two months, though. You know what I’m saying? So –
UCI: Mmhmm.
Caller: You know what I’m saying. It’s a large number of officers that they basically said that, once the state mandate still detect the virus, a lot of officers are saying that they’re not going to take it. So like I guess they would go on strike or whatever case may be.
And, once they go on strike, that right there is going to effect the, is going to effect the general population here. Because, you know what I’m saying, the officers – because the prison is going to be on officer shortage. So it’s going to be no programming here and shit like that. You know what I’m saying?
UCI: Mmhmm.
Caller: Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it’s definitely a – it’s definitely an outbreak up here, you know what I mean?