A phone call of terror & desperation from Knoxville, TN jail: “Since this Coronavirus broke out, I’m a bundle of nerves. I know that people may feel like I deserve to be here. But I’m somebody’s father. I want to see my kids again.”
“We’re scared. And thats the God’s honest truth. I didn’t do anything this bad to deserve to be left in here like this. It’s not fair. We don’t know what to do. Because we’re like everybody else. This is something new to all of us. Don’t push aside like we don’t matter.”
“Yesterday I was called to medical for a blood pressure check. They put 7 of us all in a room w/ a man complaining of chest pains. Said he couldn’t breathe. All they did was lay him on the floor. All of us: “Can we get masks?” Them: “Inmates are not allowed to have masks.”
“Antibacterial soap doesn’t do you any good when you’re in a room with 60 plus people, when everyone is coughing, there’s no masks, no sanitizer. The officers have sanitized wipes they can use but inmates are not allowed to use them. We’re basically a petri dish here.”
“We’re just sitting waiting to catch it. We have no defenses in here.”
“We didn’t ask for this. A lot of us in here are innocent. We have not been convicted of anything. A lot of us have not even had our day in court.”
