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Author Archives: Mateo Hoke

Mateo Hoke is a writer, journalist, and co-editor of the Voice of Witness book Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary.

Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Incarcerated California man shares his experience contracting COVID-19 behind bars

by Mateo Hoke

This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Mateo Hoke.  Under usual circumstances, U.S. prisons and jails are unhealthy and dangerous places to be, but they have been especially perilous during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]