DeRay McKesson
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You feel imprisoned either way it goes.
And I think my last experience with it happened during COVID.
And yeah, it was weird how inhumane it felt.
Because of this national crisis, they got to switch the rules up a little bit.
And you was on a 23-1.
But this is just like the whole jail population was on 23-1.
Because you have books.
Of course, books that got passed around, but they'll be missing pages or whatever.
We wasn't allowed to have visits.
We wasn't allowed to do much.
It was like being in solitary confinement.
The only difference is you would have one cellmate, but then you subject to this, whatever they got going on too, because y'all are extremely locked in.
you will only get your one hour every other day because there is so many people.
So it was basically like a 47 and one.
And it was like... Do you still talk to any of the guys?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
This is... That's a thing.
everybody that get locked up, they know that like, okay, like this is where our relationship stops.
You know what I mean?