Sharee Miller is an inmate at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti. On Friday, it was confirmed an inmate there tested positive for COVID-19. Miller says inmates were reassigned housing and five inmates from the infected unit were moved to her unit.
“It just feels like they want us all to catch it.. that’s what we feel like because you keep doing that.”
Miller says that while officers at the prison have been encouraging everybody to keep their social distance, up until Sunday operations at the prison were continuing as usual.
“We didn’t have any protective gear whatsoever while crowds of people, because of our callouts are up to 110 people, while all these people are coming over there we had no way to protect ourselves.”
On Sunday Miller and other inmates were given masks to wear, but she is convinced many in the prison will end up contracting the virus.
“I just hope that it’s true that Governor Whitmer is going to release the sick and dying from here because it’s not going to stop here, it’s not.”
