Crime & Safety

Released Inmates Describe Ordeal Inside San Quentin During Coronavirus Outbreak

"It was people in the middle of the night passing out or calling 'man down' when there is a medical emergency due to COVID-19."

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Greg Morris was doing 17 years to life in San Quentin State Prison for attempted murder when coronavirus infiltrated the prison’s walls. Morris was just released — three months earlier than expected — after he tested positive for COVID-19.

Now Morris is in quarantine in a hotel in Hayward where, in a Zoom interview with KPIX, he described what he called the “terrible” conditions inside the prison.

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