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COVID-19 in California Prisons (4:47) Ivan Kilgore

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My name's Ivan Kilgore and I am the founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation. And I'm calling you from Solano State Prison in Northern California. Let's go back to March of 2020. What's happening in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. At this particular time, what the department is doing is they're issuing memorandums to the public and in the prison population basically saying that they are providing us with social distancing, soaps, infectants, things of that nature/ Which someone who's been incarcerated for over 20 years and actually in prison reading this stuff, I'm like, okay, where is this stuff? They weren't passing out none of that. And so what happened uh, eventually, I was I was contacted by the administration and informed that- that had been a VICE News video that was made. I guess it received, you know, three, four thousand reviews, and they were basically saying that, okay, we got you on this video. And this video, what it shows is basically CDC is not hol