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Oregon Prison Report: Voices from the Inside

"Coffee Creek told OSP that they were sending a busload of Covid positive people over, which wasn’t the truth. All of us that were there on the bus had been in Coffee Creek intake for over 30 days or more...”

We started to make a big fuss about being held there so long. Instead of fixing that themselves, Coffee Creek didn’t want to deal with us anymore and sent us away."

(Testimony from Lane County Mutual Aid's (@eughungerstrike) correspondence)

Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) / January 3rd, 2021.

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Coffee Creek Intake [CCIC] told OSP [Oregon State Penitentiary] that they were sending a busload of Covid positive people over, which wasn’t the truth. All of us that were there on the bus had been in Coffee Creek Intake for over 30 days or more.

We started to make a big fuss about being held there so long. Instead of fixing that themselves, Coffee Creek didn’t want to deal with us anymore and sent us away.

At OSP they put us in an old DSU [disciplinary segregation, another word for solitary confinment]. One person on the transport bus had Covid, so all of us were exposed and they put us on quarantine on top of being isolated in the DSU.

On December 17th, all of us were rapid-tested for Covid. The side of the DSU that I was on all came back negative. The other side of the DSU had 3 positives. Three days later our side had 3 positive cases, so Covid was brought to the other side of the DSU.

Then, on December 23rd they combined both sides of the DSU onto the same side exposing everyone in the process. 5 or 10 minutes after they did this, they took out a guy who couldn’t breathe and took him out on a medical transport.

We had one death on Christmas and another death the next day or so at OSP. On top of all that, we were on the 29th, we were all tested, and about a third of the unit came back positive.

I’m asymptomatic, and my cellie is asymptomatic. Then they took us to the new DSU, which is even more locked down. We don’t have dayroom. We got out of our cells if we’re lucky 30 minutes a day. It’s a big rectangular cube with a little bit of sky at the end of it.

We’re still locked down. The prison says, “Oh, we’re doing it because of blah, blah, blah,” but we’re being punished.

We’re supposed to be quarantined for 10 days, if we don’t show any respiratory symptoms in those 10 days, we get out, but because of our security designations (we were all in Coffee Creek intake), they’ll probable send us back to the old DSU.

We’re supposed to be quarantined for 10 days, if we don’t show any respiratory symptoms in those 10 days, we get out, but because of our security designations (we were all in Coffee Creek intake), they’ll probable send us back to the old DSU.

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