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My name is Christopher Trotter. I'm calling from inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I'm living under the threat of COVID-19 inside the facility. It's like waiting for the Grim Reaper to come and harvest your soul. You don't know when- you don't know when it's coming, but you know it's coming, so I find myself living in a constant state of anxiety and stress. The administration's response to COVID-19 here at the prison is to intimidate prisoners into not reporting if they may be asymptomatic or if they may actually be, uh, exposed to COVID-19. Their response is to- if you report it, everyone's quarantined, you in isolation for 14 days, and so most prisoners are fearful to report it. So right now, I'm sitting in here and it's almost like a forest waiting to catch fire. You know, there's no social distancing, there's no really good sanitary measures. And the response that I would like to see take place is to have a mandatory testing for all prisoners, mandatory testing for all