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I add something out ok and join the stream today president pandemic people are trapped inside of us prisons infected with corona virus but should they be we want to hear your thoughts on this one tweet us at a. J. Strain or leave a comment in our life chat to join the conversation. Prisons are supposed to be some of the most secure places on the planet but despite the high Security Prisons across the u. S. Havent been able to keep the coronavirus that bad one notorious covert 1000 hot spot is californias san quentin prison the outbreak there is a subject of a new film by al jazeera as for its have a look one of americas worst coronaVirus Outbreaks of the prison opened in california after infected inmates were transferred from one facility to another no ventilation windows or welded to everyone is breathing the same air all of the time every day for a week straight then reason lamb is called man down man down man down man down at the all my clients asks who is responsible. For making prison quintin operate on them just you know joining us from california to discuss the issues of covert infection in u. S. Prisons adlon card is a cofounder and Co Executive Director with the restore Justice James king hes a state campaigner with the Ella Baker Center for human rights and hes a managing attorney with the San FranciscoPublic Defenders Office teller freeways really good to see you james as you watch that 4 lines documentary if you took part in that documentary it was just a short period of time between when you were incarcerated and when you were released i will break how. When you put all of that together. Would he think and maybe for me it credibly. Just look think about the character. Quite id made it out maybe 90 days prior to the largest clustered outbreak in the in the country and it was in many ways just good fortune to smile and down on me it could have been anyone it should have been several people so just like knowing that there was nothing this think about me to they created that timeline just the way things lined up that there happened to d prevent me from going through it while thousands of others did have it has been. Really hard to reconcile frankly theres a moment in the documentary. A nice his walking at san quentin. Anonymously explains what happened i just want to play back because it all stressed frightening harry had how to listen everybody but the was there was a. Little we do we. Believe that the earth did you shoot. It was. Going to be. Our we are urging her to be the judge could shoot her. You. And i was about 7 months ago with the string that had to take a break because a cousin until the time that the sign says show the dead was about the risk of covert outbreaks and prison and he was talking about covert outbreaks in prison this was xpect to do you hold people about not that many advocates what went wrong. I mean one thing that went wrong is that they didnt listen to the advocates and the experts then texas disease experts the doctors the people who are formerly incarcerated lawyers they the people who are in charge who makes these decisions did not listen to the experts and that is exactly what we are what went wrong and in the midst of all of this we had a huge botch transfer of incarcerated people from one of the deadliest prisons in Southern California to san quentin that created this outbreak this is one of the largest tragedies in in the prison system that im aware of in recent history and that is actually a problem that were seeing nationally is people in charge in these positions of leadership are not listening to the experts was a facepalm moment what happened to some quite some presenters up until after the cases had. 0 cases than what happened time to pick up the stuff and i know youve got friends who are still in san quentin absolutely and one of the things that i think about often is we dont know that there would be ok says within san quentin prior to that out right what we do know is there was very little testing occurring and the plan when when people when they finally started testing because so many people were going man down and it was requiring them to test within 2 weeks over a 1000 people what became infected so you can imagine and thats out of a population at the palm of about 4000 people so one in 4 d people within 2 people in this very small clustered gated facility prison became. Infected very quickly and. There was no room to put them so everyone if you were in a cell the cells are 4 feet wide by an hour a foot wide and your cell mate became infected then that cell mate stayed right there and you just waited for the inevitable you would have it shortly and that was the understanding the expectation and there was nothing to do about it because the prison was so overwhelmed so quickly then you arent just looking at something half and the oh i see on my laptop the office of the Inspector General independent prison oversight just going to school down here on my laptop says have a California Department of corrections and rehabilitation distribute it and mandate mandated the use of personal protective equipment and cloth face color is it not psych they knew what they had to do how did it go so horribly wrong. The. Department of corrections which is the agency that oversees san quentin and all of the prisons in california makes a lot of policies but they are less. Adept at insuring it here and to policies by their own staff and so what the inspector what the office of the Inspector General found and thats sort of a Watchdog Agency that has the power to inspect the prisons unfortunately not the power to mandate any changes but what they found is that the department which is massive 63000. 00 employees. Were talking about a department that spent half a 1000000000 dollars last year on overtime alone so it is a Massive Organization and what the found is that they werent in forcing masking requirements so when of course when we put folks in prison a lot of folks as we have done we remove from them the ability to take care of their own basic needs so when we do that we not only. Are punishing people which we certainly are are but we are the state is taking on a huge obligation to care for the daily physical needs of these individuals their food of course and their health care and to protect them when Something Like this pandemic happened so if staff arent doing what we all know in least those of us who are willing to listen to the experts if theyre not Wearing Masks all the time when they are at work. There is no doubt that that is going to contribute to the spread in the prisons. Because theres no such thing as social distancing in prison in california even if you are placed in a cell by yourself at least at san quentin and you can see here what their structures are. Theres in most of the buildings in san quentin. There are 5 levels of open cells each cell has bars and nash on it but no solid door so its not just the person in your cell who you cannot social distance from its anybody walking by and its actually folks on the tears above you too because of the shared air and the terrible ventilation that doesnt really allow the air to get transferred in and out of the buildings and as a voice and at times. Yeah yeah i just wanted to add one thing today that daniel makes several excellent points but one thing that the vast majority of those 63000 employees that daniel just mentioned go in and out of the prisons every day in 8 hour shifts so the idea that these are somehow prison outbreaks and that this can be isolated suppressed prison incidents is a large part of what weve been advocating against each one of these outbreaks and theres when you just look at incarcerated people there are outbreaks at 20 different prisms right now when you look at staff theres an outbreak in every prison in the state right now in each one of those Staff Members and outbreaks those people get off work they take their uniforms off they drift into the community and there are no parameters set in place to reduce the kind of you get cities that are acting is a can act of super spreaders in the larger communities so i want to put this to you james you add them because as theres an empathy gap on right now so. North chilltown says 9 schools may if they are imprisoned they stay in prison until that time is up of this story another one along the same lines short as since when is a crime wealth death set us to overturn it conversations going on that they you also mentioned the stock that walk in the present at the new pickup that because yeah i think i want it and its a gap though so i stopped as well i have to i want to i want to add to that i mean i think that if people are only looking and we need to protect the staff and not incarcerated people i really feel like that this is a very individual question that we need to ask ourselves as human beings as the person that we want to become what is it about us as individuals that want to harm others regardless of what theyve done and the other thing is that our understanding of safety and well who commits crimes why crimes are committed how to restore people is totally lost on society what we believe is ok you did the crime you do the time no one ever understands what doing time truly means and if that is whats providing safety not just for people who are in society away from people who are incarcerated or people are coming back to society but to safety is really is people who are coming back into Society Making sure that theyre safe make sure that im safe that james is safe and still safety isnt one side or road its and we cover the showing that if i have coded and im Walking Around in the streets and in your Grocery Stores and in different areas and youre malls are you safe no youre not safe so safety is not just keeping james away from a nun or keeping danielle away from james thats not what safety is safety is restoring the humanity in people and last thing i would say that by the time i was 17 years old i was a parent list Homeless High School dropout. At the age of 18 under those conditions and with layers and layers of trauma and abuse i committed a crime im not excusing my crime but what i am saying is that when i got to prison there was nothing in prison that told me to say sorry no one in prison told me to be accountable no one in prison asked me to be to to apologize to the victims to making amends no one asked me that and so when we look at safety people completely misunderstand what safety is because its been sold to us as a product by policing and prisons thats the problem there is a voice that is missing from this conversation and its a tricky voice again thats the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation look here on my laptop because i do have at least some current figures here and if you look at this chart it tells us how many people in the state of california who are incarcerated colony have cunto had kovi its a cut in custody. Over 700 active cases of just over 400 people have been released while they had a covert result thats an interesting word isnt it a result that means that they probably are recovered from kovi im not sure that thats a question of been resolved and this fake a here a 1000 deaths so how many people who have actually had a covert in the California State Prison system. 1000 people we couldnt get their voice in this conversation for lines also try and here is my colleague dana to corey on the efforts that she also made to see if they were talk to out of their. In an email statement a c. D. C. Or representative said they implemented unprecedented measures to address the coven 1000 outbreak us and clinton. After transfers from ca i am tested positive they set up a 220. 00 bed alternative care site provided all staff and the incarcerated population live and 95. 00 respirators and send hundreds of additional staff to san quentin. Dont you this is a tweet here that you shat in it says 10 days ago and this was in july i wrote 60 People Living in san quentin offering advocacy todays return mail let me just screwed up and just see look at this one. From you what help did they need to go ahead. So they needed to know that people were paying attention that people cared that people were working to try to better the situation for them i think. Its interesting that c. D. C. Are continues to say that they took extraordinary measures as if they did all they could not withstanding the fact that the court of appeal has said that the in action in san quentin by those same officials has been quote morally indefensible we have a situation where the measures c. D. C. Are took may be unprecedented because were in the midst of a Global Pandemic the likes of which hasnt been seen in in the lifetime of anybody living today but is been grossly inadequate and thats why we are in the situation we are in where there was an explosion of co that at san quentin this stammer and in july people began dying at san quentin those 29 people 28 incarcerated people and one staff member who have died should be alive today that blood is on the hands of the c. D. C. Are officials and the reason that they dont speak really publicly i think is that they are used to operating in complete secret with complete impunity and there is no accountability 29 people died at san quentin and where is the accountability for those deaths. Our prison system is built on this notion that people need to be held accountable for the decisions that they made in june a team of independent experts told c. D. C. Our officials that they needed to cut the population of san quentin in half or people were going to begin dying and they refused to listen to that advice and 29 people are dead where is the accountability suggest lets talk lets talk lessons and maybe where we are right now i want to have a listen to adam mayes. And he introduces himself he tells the story i just i leave him to go ahead my name is adamu chan and i was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the crown of Virus Outbreak that happened there and at no time during those months did i feel like the health and safety the incarcerated population. At san quentin was a priority for the administration or for c. D. C. Or officials and what i witnessed was that the vast overcrowding in san quentin and all the prisons across california. Was a huge factor in kind of exacerbating the spread the virus through our population and so any solution has to start with mass releases mass rally im going to put this question to you from james this is from last how willing. To release present us law says james. You know i would start by saying that California Department department of corrections is unwilling to release anyone in response to this pandemic they have fought this tooth and nail every step of the way even though every public expert every medical expert legislators the Judicial BranchCommunity Members and advocates of all weighed in to not only say that that releases are the safest thing to do in response to this pandemic but also that we are standing by to support those releases so they have all of the information they know that its not only politically viable but that theres support for it like Material Resources and yet they still are resistant to to conduct any type of times why. I think that the bottom line is that that this is a. Our lives in our addiction upon incarceration as a means for social control has been part of our society for for decades upon decades we have 35 prisons within our state that hold close to 100000 people right now you dont get there without. Being devoted to that ever policy and has Priority Issues that we are going to incarcerate are our ways out of marginalization disenfranchisement a lack of resources and resource sharing in our communities so there is a very specific model that california believes in it which is that incarceration keeps us safe well says advocates are saying that is false that is categorically untrue what keeps us they are having basic affordable housing. Just having an income a reasonable living wage having access to reasonable medical and Mental Health treatment when needed those are the things that actually keep communities safe and build communities and our government at this point has a different philosophy james im just looking at some of the advocacy it says then ill come in right back to some of the advocacy that you were to when he says no transfers town halls daddys coming up at night im from new york and i say so and stop san quentin outbreak. And i i want to know if this may well be an opportune as it happens so many protests so much advocacy and im just putting this last common app and then you jump off the back of it Governor Newsom and c. D. C. Are have an opportunity and that is to stop the further spreading of kogan 1900 by stopping our prison transfers and also stop dropping people off in Ice Detention Centers sadly we cant go backwards we cant correct terrible decisions already made but what we can do is we can stop making terrible decisions we can understand that there are many people many Vulnerable People within a vulnerable population with comorbidities who have loved ones ready for their safe release who have organizations planning for safe release and this is a place where we can all lean in and understand that we have an opportunity to save lives 8 months into this Global Pandemic so many Lessons Learned a lifes last act now and now what. Thats what i was going to bring up i mean thank you for saying that again the Lessons Learned and lessons have not been learned and there is a clear example with the chart you gave earlier right now and corcoran which is a chance of california i spent 5 years there theres 392 cases active cases recorded right now and like you said 8 months into a pandemic after 80 deaths 16 over 16000 recorded or reported cases in California State Prisons alone right there that what youre showing now what lessons have we learned if you look at the left side right here 150 active cases in the in the last 14 days 392 cases in the last 14 days and these are 2 different facilities and we are 8 months in a pandemic that means 8 months without visits so family programs volunteers have not been coming in so who has been going in and taking covert out of these facilities for the past 8 months and who are talking about theyre not Wearing Masks properly you cant social this is or physically distance in prison and weve been saying that since march and why you know for us to repeat that in november on election day i bet it just is just mind blowing to me and so when we talk about accountability and society can constantly blame people for coming in crime and you do the time you do the you do the crime you do the time stay in prison well the truth is it for asking people to be accountable for the crimes that theyve committed by and for breaking the law well we as a society and as a government have a legal responsibility to provide Adequate Health care for people that we incarcerate that is a law so its very hypocritical to tell people or or bad started to to demand accountability from people and not hold ourselves accountable to a law that we have to be governed by so theres many discrepancies here that continue to contradict themselves when people like myself james and danielle talk about kogut and when the government and the governors talk. So what has stopped 392. 00 cases right now actively as were talking but theres a but we can see you know how like a super spreader event on the in that the rose garden at the white house lawn we talk about that but we dont talk about the 392 cases that are happening right now that half staff like james mention coming in you know that prison every 8 hours into our communities i dont know about that at night and james and danielle thank you so much for being part of todays program at night and there are so many more questions about what happens if you release people right now during a Global Pandemic which is why im really glad that youre going to be on Instagram Live guests a little bit later on about 30 minutes from now on. At a. J. Stream that is well youll find him and if you dont have time to do that very soon youll find it any time so how to look in on my laptop because we have been talking about the new 4 documentary pandemic imprison the san quentin outbreak you can find it online and you can also find dates. On aljazeera t. V. As well thanks so much for watching im femi oke a next time. Business leaders is both to buy the brass path. To. Business leaders is both to buy the brass pot. My name is Matthew Castle i grew up jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation when politics can pass and when my mom saw me at a protest in chicago carrying a cause to invite she told me i was no longer her son is it possible to be jewish and critical of zionism. I do palestinians are there to work against the most jewish thing i can do what about the treatment towards the palestinians in the occupation of Gaza Al Jazeera correspondent. Play an Important Role checking it would. Ringback face. 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