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Battle against covid19 behind bars Election fever had reached a peak on August 9, the day before the general election. Inside the Port of Spain (PoS) Prison, convicted inmate Neil Samdeo’s temperature was rising. Samdeo, a diabetic, coughed through the night in the cell he shared with three other inmates. He covered himself with a sheet, an unusual act in a sweltering, overcrowded prison with poor ventilation. Feeling dizzy the next morning, he went to the infirmary. He was sent straight to the hospital in a prison jeep. There, a nurse later told Samdeo he had tested positive for covid19.

Maximum security prison, san quentin. three weeks later, news that took everyone by surprise. >> 54 year old andrew urdiales' body was found friday night. >> urdiales was found unresponsive in his cell. >> bewere informed that there was irrefutable evidence that he intentionally killed him is self, and that was in the form of a note, but i have not seen it. >> prosecutor matt murphy told us urdiales had hanged himself. we reached out to the prison asking to see the note but never heard back. what does it mean to you that he took his own life? >> i just felt shock and disbelief. i asked myself ...

He's in the seriously mentally ill ward, but i've got access to him, and he's available to be interviewed." >> andrew goldstein, battling schizophrenia and off his meds, made headlines in 1999 when he hurled an aspiring journalist named kendra webdale onto the subway tracks in front of an oncoming train in new york city. she was killed instantly. any reservations about sharing a byline with somebody on the inside? >> on top of it being the only way that the story could be told, it had a certain novelty value. i think that helped get it some attention. >> that's the grit of why there's an audie...

To life. you're like, "what the [bleep] did i do here? this is -- this is disgusting." and then, you know, you go through some tribulations, and i found something that i was really passionate about. >> john lennon discovered his passion in a creative-writing course to write about the deplorable stories of poverty, literacy, and mental illness that he saw all around him in inmates. >> i was getting the story, and i was grabbing these characters and just bringing them to life. u you're immersed in whatever character is, you know, of the moment, and it's all about that. it's all about the story. ...

Do. >> and yet years passed before lennon truly felt this way. in prison, friends of alex were looking to avenge his murder. i'm hit up, lung punctured, 'cause when it happens it's slick, it's fast. it was "what's up?" you know -- right under the arms, six times, and i embraced the dude. we know each other. he's from the projects. i grew up with him, too. >> he was doing it because he knew alex? >> yes. >> so it was like payback. >> yes. well, that wasn't the first form of payback. another friend of alex gave me a good old-fashioned beating, and a part of me respects it. it's like, "you know w...