An article highlighting Shearod McFarland’s experience inside Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan was posted to Salon.com as part of a series of excerpts from “Unheard Voices of the Pandemic” by Voice of Witness. McFarland shares his experience and how the prison population has reacted to the threat of COVID-19 and also how prison staff have handled quarantining. McFarland starkly notes, “social distancing is virtually impossible” inside a prison.
