Several men incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison who have checked positive for COVID-19 have gone on a hunger strike to object what they call “miserable” living conditions, KNTV in San Jose reported Wednesday
More than 1,100 active coronavirus cases have been reported at San Quentin, California’s earliest prison and house to the state’s only death row. At least a single person, a 71- year-old death row prisoner, has actually died of issues from the coronavirus.
The cravings strike at San Quentin, north of San Francisco, began Monday, The Appeal reported The strikers are opposing inhumane and confined conditions inside an unit referred to as the Badger area, where some individuals with COVID-19 are being housed, two inmates told the publication.
“[T] he cells are unclean and we are not being offered cleaner to maintain them,” one male said. “Some of us are being housed together when the entire thing is to keep us six feet away from each other.”
Sources told the NBC affiliate that prisoners infected with the virus, about a third of the jail population, were kept qua