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My name is Dennis Solo McKeithan. I'm chairman of project 60, a committee underneath the Gray Panthers organization at SCI Phoenix, which is a senior citizen organization with about 900 members. The main agenda under our organization today is the Aging Out Bill. Time to establish aging out legislation. And right after having a meeting with one of the state legislators, the next week coronavirus took over the world. So that put a slowdown on everything and it brung a new step into, or a new step of adversity, into our struggle. Being that most of the prisoners in the Gray Panthers are over 60 years old, some with one leg, some with one arm, some with one eye. Most with some kind of heart condition, various other pre-existing conditions, that make you even more susceptible to the coronavirus. It has brung a new fear and a new state of anxiety, including to myself, who was in his mid 60s. And after 38 years of sitting in prison I have never seen that type of fear in elderly prisoners as I see today, including my