'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. Andrea Wolanin / GBH 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.