Shane Crum – Victim of Injustice

Earlier this year, when the outbreak of covid-19 first became a national issue, Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio made international news. I wrote several e-mails to my friend, who turned them into a blog. The administration here was making some bad decisions which led to over 90% of the inmate population getting infected. Among those decisions was the moving of inmates who tested negative into a lock by themselves. This may seem like a great idea, but they could not say which inmates were infected and who still tested negative. The experts on TV were telling everyone who tested positive to “shelter in place”, and here we were moving inmates all around the institution. At one point, it got so crazy, that inmates who had tested negative, were placed in locks and cells with inmates who tested positive. I wish this were the only issue back then. It had all the appearances of an attempt to infect the whole population.

As inmates began to get passed the virus, the administration began doing some things that made a little more sense. They emptied out a small lock, that housed around 70 inmates, to make a quarantine lock for people transferring in and out of the prison.

Here we are again. A larger more rapid outbreak of covid-19 is gripping the country. You would expect our administration to have learned some valuable lessons. However, that is not what we have found.

The institution began transferring inmates into the facility, but they did not place these inmates into the quarantine lock. No! They placed them right into general population. Some of these inmates told the staff they were sick. When they arrived, they told medical they were sick. When they went to their perspective locks, they told the inmates near them they were sick. It took staff a couple weeks to react to this. Now we have 3 locks on lockdown, and they are to remain that way for God only knows how long.

The inmate population in Marion are being used as medical guinea pigs. First to test how the virus spreads, and now on how long the antibodies stays in the human body. We are not test subjects. We are human beings. Many of whom had just made a terrible mistake and are here because of it. Some, like me, who have been wrongfully convicted, and must make the best of the situation.

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