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BATON ROUGE, La (BRPROUD)- New Orleans native and rapper, Corey Miller, better known by his stage name ‘C-murder’ is on a hunger strike to bring awareness to the injustice and medical neglect of the inmates in Louisiana prisons as it relates to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Miller, who is currently incarcerated at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center located in Jefferson Parish, said in a statement that inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 are put in dorms with inmates who tested negative, which causes the virus to consistently spread.
“Since the onset of COVID-19, they have continued placing the inmates that have tested positive for the virus in the dorms with inmates that were COVID-19 negative. This has not only spread the virus but has caused abnormally long quarantine times. The COVID-19 positive inmates are put on a two week quarantine time initially but the prison adds new positive inmates to the dorm daily, which then extends the quarantine time two weeks each day that they add a new case,” says Miller.
The 49-year-old rapper released an official statement to his Instagram page on August 5.
Miller, who is currently incarcerated at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center located in Jefferson Parish, said in a statement that inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 are put in dorms with inmates who tested negative, which causes the virus to consistently spread.
“Since the onset of COVID-19, they have continued placing the inmates that have tested positive for the virus in the dorms with inmates that were COVID-19 negative. This has not only spread the virus but has caused abnormally long quarantine times. The COVID-19 positive inmates are put on a two week quarantine time initially but the prison adds new positive inmates to the dorm daily, which then extends the quarantine time two weeks each day that they add a new case,” says Miller.
The 49-year-old rapper released an official statement to his Instagram page on August 5.