Coronavirus cases at San Quentin soar to 190: 'they're calling man down every 20 or 30 minutes' [sfchronicle.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/24/207:00 AM

By Jason Fagone and Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2020

A week ago, Jessica Miller-Marez received a troubling phone call from her husband, 37-year-old Jesse Marez, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.

Something strange was happening at San Quentin, Jesse told her. A large number of prisoners had recently arrived on buses from somewhere in Southern California and had been placed in cells on the upper tiers of Jesse’s housing area — a unit known as Badger.

Soon afterward, Jesse told his wife, the prison started to perform coronavirus tests on the men in Badger.

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