MONTGOMERY, Ala. – At the Bibb Correctional Facility in Alabama, the old prison chapel has been turned into a quarantine zone.
The sound of coughing is constant. And some people appear afraid to enter the room.An inmate described life in the quarantine to The Associated Press, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation.
The prison system has enforced the wearing of masks among inmates, but he said crowded dormitories like his offer nowhere to hide from the virus.He said he became so weak he could not stand.“He said they are just laying around like flies,” said Bonita Jackson, whose brother is a Bibb inmate who was hospitalized. “You can’t hardly hear him.