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‘They Were Screaming’: Congresswoman Visits COVID-Plagued Terminal Island

San Pedro Congresswoman Nannette Barragan got a firsthand look Tuesday at the coronavirus-plagued Terminal Island federal prison.

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA) – San Pedro Congresswoman Nannette Barragan got a firsthand look Tuesday at the coronavirus-plagued Terminal Island federal prison.

It comes after a series of reports by our investigative reporter David Goldstein who spoke to the congresswoman when she came out. The congresswoman spent more than an hour inside the prison which has one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks of a federal prison in the nation. Inside she spoke to both the warden and inmates.

“There were men screaming in there. They were asking for help, turn on AC, asking if they could make a call. And when I say asking they were screaming,” she said.

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