I Donât Want To Die Here : One Woman s Experience With COVID While Incarcerated
South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham, Mass., is seen in this March 1, 2021, file photo.
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Then, she got COVID-19.
âItâs been horrible. Itâs been hard mentally on me and the other women in here,â Nevarez said, speaking by phone from South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC) in Framingham, Mass., where she had been in pre-release for the last two years. She served seven years before that at Massachusetts Correctional Institution â Framingham.
As has happened since the start of the pandemic in prisons across the country, a COVID-19 outbreak hit SMCC at the end of January. In total, Nevarez and 11 other women at the facility â almost half of the population in the minimum security unit at SMCC â eventually tested positive for the disease.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who joined the seditious but unsuccessful legal effort to prevent
Joe Biden from winning the presidency, finally acknowledged his victory today. She left out a few pertinent words, which I will add in boldface:
Despite my legal efforts and Donald Trump’s incitement of a riot to prevent it ,”Today, we witnessed a hallmark of American democracy, the peaceful transition of power as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been sworn into office. I pray that God will grant this new Administration the wisdom to lead the greatest nation the world has ever seen. May God bless these United States of America.”