I’m Facing the Coronavirus Behind Bars
Trying to stay alive in Sing Sing, as the pandemic rages
Lennon’s interviews with Dino Caroselli, who was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison in 1993 after an attempted robbery and shoot-out with police, were conducted the week of March 30, in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. As of April 13, three incarcerated people in New York State prisons had died from COVID-19, and 139 had tested positive for the virus, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Among staff, 581 people had tested positive, and one had died.
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and The Marshall Project.
It’s late March, and I am at my table on Sing Sing’s A-block yard. I want to call my wife, but I am wary of being
