Dino Caroselli. 64. Caged in NY's Sing Sing prison. No masks to purchase. Social distancing impossible. Nothing changed since start of COVID. Haunted by the death of a friend in the Spring. “I felt like the walls of my cell closing in on me, like a trash compactor.” His words:
"My name is Dino Caroselli. I’m a prisoner at Sing Sing correctional facility. I’m 64 years old. And I’d like to inform you on some of the conditions that are happening here." Read on for more of Dino's witness statement. The full @CodaStory video is here:nysfocus.com/2020/12/10/pri…
"You won’t be tested in here unless you’re dying, unless you’re falling over and keeling over.
They’ll just quarantine you and then if you get real bad, like you can’t breathe anymore, then they’ll take you out and test you."
They’ll just quarantine you and then if you get real bad, like you can’t breathe anymore, then they’ll take you out and test you."
"The inmates of A block, when they’re going to the yard, they corral them into an area about 50-75 prisoners all up against each other. There’s no real distancing or any of that. We’re basically sitting ducks in here. We live a half inch away from the next guy."
"So April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November. We got about 2 masks for every 2 months. They said they're doing some Covid testing now, but nothing's really changed. You have officers that are running around without masks on, and they refuse to put them on."
"You're just looking at the people that are just going to allow you to die like they don't care. It's a horrible feeling. Like you’re left to die. Like nobody cares. You're like a cockroach or something." 
On March 30, a 58 y/o man named Juan Mosquero was the first incarcerated person in NY to die of Covid-19. Dino knew him. Dino saw him. "He had all the symptoms, he had a fever, he was sweating when he was talking to the nurses and stuff, they kept sending him back to the cell."
"The fourth time they stuck [Juan] up in the hospital. Kept on complaining that he couldn't breathe. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't breathe. And then about an hour and a half later, they went and brought him two Tylenol."
"When I think about him suffocating for 10 days, I said I felt like the walls of my cell closing in on me, like a trash compactor, you know, to try to just let someone understand what it feels like to be in here."
"When I was a kid I almost drowned one time. I always had a thing about suffocating.
I had dreams sometimes that I would wake up, that I was drowning.
But look, I mean, I made my amends so if something ever happens like that, I’m ready."
I had dreams sometimes that I would wake up, that I was drowning.
But look, I mean, I made my amends so if something ever happens like that, I’m ready."
Dino is one of @RAPPcampaign's incarcerated leaders. He was serving a 65-life sentence before COVID. Now he's facing another potential death sentence. It’s time for Albany lawmakers to pass Elder Parole. To give Dino and others a second chance. Visit: rappcampaign.com
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