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  • Locked up: No masks, sanitizer as virus spreads behind bars

    03/28/2020 11:40:29 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 39 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 28, 2020 | Robin McDowell and Margie Mason
    Something was wrong. The chow hall line at New York’s Rikers Island jail had halted. For three hours, the men stood and waited, without food, until a correctional officer quietly delivered the news: A civilian chef was among those who tested positive for the coronavirus. “We was like, ‘What? The cook?’” said Corey Young, who spoke to The Associated Press last week by phone from Rikers. He and others wondered if the chef had sneezed on trays or into the food. Some men later floated the idea of a hunger strike to protest. “I don’t want to eat nothing that...