Similarly, the virus spread to San Quentin when prisoners were transferred from the California Institution for Men in Chino, a known COVID-19 hotspot.Ĭalifornia’s death-sentenced prisoners are particularly susceptible to the virus. Despite his concerns, inmates and pretrial detainees continued to be transferred across the state to Angola’s Camp J: a unit shut down in 2018 due to poor ventilation, crumbling infrastructure, and the inhumane treatment of prisoners. This inmate is currently housed on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as Angola, after the plantation that once operated there. Viruses spreads like wild fire in this place. I feel sorry for those people but I seriously hope that they find another place for them. They're talking about bringing some of the people who are sick here to the prison because they are running out of room at the hospitals out there. On the 30 th March 2020, one death row inmate wrote to me: COVID-19 outbreaks have been reported amongst death row inmates in Arizona, California, Ohio, and the federal prison complex in Indiana, although it is unclear exactly how many death row inmates have been infected or died from the virus. In Ohio, Romell Broom, who had survived a botched lethal injection in 2009, succumbed to the virus. On San Quentin’s death row in California, where there have been no executions for 15 years, and Governor Newson’s moratorium resulted in the dismantling of the execution chamber in 2019, 13 death row inmates died from an outbreak of the virus. Of these, at least 2,588 had died of COVID-related causes, exceeding the total number of executions carried out in the entire modern era of the US death penalty (1,529).
As of May 4th, 2021, at least 396,712 people in prisons across the United States had tested positive for COVID-19.
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