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Interview with Elizabeth Shatswell on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textElizabeth Shatswell discusses her experience being incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center for Women during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 until her release in 2023. Elizabeth describes living on a cot in a crowded gym while enduring severe COVID-19 symptoms with minimal medical assistance. She also tells of her experience working for Correctional Industries transcribing documents in braille for blind and low-vision clients and being made to work throughout the pandemic, even as most other programs were suspended. Elizabeth offers insight into the long-term effects the pandemic had on programming, education, and visitation, resulting in a stricter and less rehabilitative environment
Interview with Cameron Wiese on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textCameron Wiese discusses his experience being incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, Clallam Bay Corrections Center in Clallam Bay, Washington, and Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen, Washington, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2023. Cameron describes being transferred from Pierce County Jail to the state’s intake facility at WCC at the start of the COVID-19 the pandemic in February 2020. People typically spend about a week at WCC before being transferred to their assigned facility, but Cameron was there for over four months while DOC adjusted its protocol for transferring incarcerated individuals during the pandemic. The facility was so crowded that Cameron was forced to sleep on the floor as the third person in a cell designed for two. He was then transferred to CBCC, where he resided for about a year before moving to SCCC in 2021. Cameron describes being forced to work 14-hour shifts as a kitchen worker and receiving an infraction for failure to program when he chose to quit that job because of the long hours. He discusses a food strike that he participated in at SCCC in response to the official grievance process failing to solve issues with poor food quality. Cameron also tells of his time in medical isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, where he was made to wait multiple days to see medical staff after alerting correctional officers of severe respiratory complications. He credits his family and his faith for helping him get through the pandemic in prison
Associated Students Memorial Union Building 1919-2010 AKA Husky Union Building University of Washington With a special guest appearance by South Campus Center
No full textInterview with Tuan Quach on Correctional Industries and prison labor
No full textFrom his own experience, Tuan Quach discusses the different forms of incarcerated labor in Washington prisons, their remuneration and working conditions, and their connection to the post-prison experience. Quach describes how incarcerated people earn and spend money, and provides an overview of working conditions in prison. This interview took place in a session of a class on the History of Mass Incarceration and includes questions from students enrolled in the class
Interview with Miguel Diaz-Elrod on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textMiguel Diaz-Elrod discusses his experience being incarcerated during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2023. Miguel was at Washington Corrections Center (WCC) in Shelton, Washington, until August 2020; Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla, Washington, until 2021; and Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Clallam Bay, Washington, through 2023. Miguel describes how the Washington State Department of Corrections’ policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in prisons drastically impacted his access to basic necessities like showers, phone calls, and time outdoors. He discusses how extended time in his cell and isolation from his loved ones negatively impacted his mental health. Miguel recounts spending an extended period of time in the receiving units at WCC in 2020 without access to television. During that time, prison staff were his primary source of information about COVID-19, and they often spread misinformation about the virus. He also describes being involved in a disturbance at WCC after prison staff informed incarcerated individuals in R3 of the facility’s plan to close their unit and move them to another already crowded unit where they would be forced to sleep on the floor. Miguel still struggles with a lingering cough caused by one of the COVID-19 infections incurred during his incarceration, which can be heard throughout the interview
Interview with Siaosi Scanlan on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textSiaosi Scanlan discusses his experience being incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary during the COVID-19 pandemic. He recounts his attempts as a kitchen worker to advocate for better quality food and living conditions and the resulting infraction he received. Siaosi describes the strain that limited phone access and no in-person visitation had on some of his relationships. He also tells the story of marrying his partner in a virtual ceremony via Zoom. Siaosi explains the long-term impact COVID-19 has had on prison life, such as restrictions on peer-led programming and increased drug use
Interview with E on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textE discusses his experience being incarcerated in a Washington State prison during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2023. E describes how the Washington State Department of Corrections’ (DOC) policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in prisons drastically impacted his access to basic necessities like showers, phone calls, medical care, and time outdoors. He explains the frustration felt by the incarcerated population and prison staff about the COVID-19 policies that were created by executive DOC staff without the input of the people who were most impacted by them. He recounts numerous stories of medical neglect that resulted in the deaths of incarcerated individuals during the pandemic. He also details multiple use of force incidents that, combined with the aforementioned medical neglect, created tension in the prison, resulting in a disturbance on his unit. E discusses COVID-19’s impact on prison labor and how operations that generate profit for DOC were prioritized throughout the pandemic. He describes the lack of mental health support for the incarcerated population while dealing with the negative mental health impacts of spending extended periods of time in his cell and not being able to regularly communicate with loved ones. E says music and art helped him get through the pandemic
Interview with Tobrondri Richardson-Brown on experience during COVID-19 pandemic in Washington prisons
No full textTobrondri Richardson-Brown discusses his experience being incarcerated at Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, Washington, and Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, Washington, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tobrondri describes entering the Pierce County Jail in March 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning. He was transferred to WCCW in January 2021. He explains that COVID-19 precautions were more strictly enforced at the prison than they were at the jail. Tobrondri details how the Washington State Department of Corrections’ policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in prisons drastically impacted his access to basic necessities like showers, phone calls, and time outdoors. The conditions were so severe that incarcerated people discouraged each other from reporting COVID-19 symptoms to avoid what they perceived as punishment for being sick. He recounts feeling forced to work in unsafe conditions to avoid receiving a major infraction for quitting his prison job. Tobrondri is a transgender man, and he receives weekly hormone shots. He expresses feeling that he would not have retained regular access to his gender-affirming care throughout the pandemic had he not advocated so strongly for himself to medical staff. He describes another interaction with medical staff in which he was forced to choose between receiving the COVID-19 vaccine or getting a major infraction
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Jar of Original Hill's Bro BBQ Sauce, 2024
No full textRun by brothers Robert and Zebedee Hill, the Hill's Brother's BBQ Pit opened in 1952 in a small wooden building on 21st Avenue between East Cherry and East Jefferson streets in Seattle's Central Area. The barbecue stand served sweet potato pie, spicy sauce on smoked ribs, and white bread and butter through the 1990s. MOHAI also has in the collection photos taken by renowned photographer Al Smith of the barbecue stand in 1953, including one of the brothers, Robert and Zebedee. The gourmet BBQ sauce was finally bottled and sold, much to the delight of avid customers.1 Package, Product; Materials: glass --metal; Dimensions: 5 in.H x 3 in.Dia