Sick & Elderly at Risk to COVID-19 in Allred Unit

Greetings from the All red (neck) Unit.

I was transferred here in March 2020, right when we were getting put on “Limited movement/social distancing,” temporarily for the Coronavirus. It has only gotten worse since then. Before I even got housed, I helped an old prisoner to lift his mattress from the floor to his bottom bunk. He has sleep apnea and COPD and had been without his CPAP for months. He was too weak to lift his mattress.

Then I got housed with a 60-year-old who is obese, crippled, has thyroid problems, diabetes, heart and liver problems, severe COPD and right now is being “treated” for pneumonia and we are on “medical lockdown” because the virus is here now. His breathing has gotten worse and he developed a cough so they put him in G-5 housing, which they are using for Corona patients.

He has been without the use of his BIPAP breathing mask since before I landed here in the High Security Building, which they call, “The Island.”