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  • my name's Sue Bear.

  • I live with my daughter, Maisie, myself in.

  • Right on.

  • My husband, John, is currently serving a prison sentence in John Beer was convicted of drug smuggling in 2011 and he's serving a 24 year sentence.

  • So we've been married since 1993 27 years.

  • This shit.

  • We've got three lovely Children on a lovely grand or so lank and sons.

  • Gosh, is the kind of are spreading around prisons will spread like wildfire because it starts shortages.

  • There's gonna be frustrations.

  • Is gonna pay some pig who affected locked up for a long time, perhaps contact their loved ones.

  • You know, I just think it's gonna be quite dangerous on these costs.

  • Guys, I had to cancel visit, see John, which we will look forward to recharge.

  • Our batteries are gonna have a good sitting good couple of hours having a laugh.

  • Jake.

  • Family life.

  • We're all missing that we said last night, didn't we?

  • Mice?

  • No, Ben.

  • I was to have a heart because we cannot have each other.

  • Um, some state morning early?

  • I haven't heard from John yet.

  • This morning I read a few articles on line last night in this morning about, Oh, the Corona virus now being in prisons.

  • Yeah, you had starts playing games to do when you don't hear from him.

  • I don't know much Force Nation.

  • There's talk in the news is because I've been looking for a new space, that possibility releasing people.

  • At least go watch my senses to serve stuff you had to be really about, I said, I think being temperate basis.

  • But it's out there in the media.

  • Maybe it's been mentioned by someone.

  • Elizabeth Donahue is serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband in 2000 and four.

  • She's my daughter and that scene, 16 years just she reads me every day.

  • Yes, because I can't bring her.

  • But she raised me.

  • She worries about me.

  • I see the appeal, right.

  • Don't worry about me.

  • In 2014 Alex Henry was convicted of murder as a secondary polity.

  • Under the law of Joint Enterprise, he was sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison.

  • Alex's autistic.

  • That means that he's socially naive, and he may not realize, um, the devastation this virus pandemic could cause.

  • I'm really worried about my son's mental health because if he's on lock down for really long time, he might get distressed on.

  • God forbid, he has some suicidal thoughts.

  • If Alex was catch covert 19 he could be in a kind of really dire straits.

  • Would we even be told about it?

  • Would we know about how would weigh help him if they are captain long term solitary Confinement III in the cell on their own?

  • That is really, really going to do a lot of harm.

  • Since my brother was convicted, I began training as a lawyer.

  • I'm qualifying quite shortly, Andi.

  • So I I can not only see it from relatives point of view, but also from my experience in practicing law.

  • And also a lot of my fears are echoed by the families of my clients as well.

  • We know that the effect on young people has actually been downplayed.

  • We also know that people in prison they're susceptible to illness is cause I know out in the population so much that they're antibodies are low.

  • Other nutrition isn't as good as what people would have when they're able to buy themselves on the outside, come out for a draw a little bit, Borden three kids stuff inside on a lovely, bright day Like today, it's blown hooting out, then winds bitterly cold grits too nicely set indoors.

  • Um, Sega still self isolating.

  • But come on, the car at the beach way can still do this.

  • That can't come A little bit of an insight into life, isn't it?

  • Yes.

  • Behind bars.

  • You feel like your prisoner Cheerful, watching other people but not being able to speak to any of them as well.

  • Well, understand, endorses, can, you know?

  • Because I can't make an important There's no visitors She pulled last night and I ended up violence can about you know, you're right.

  • Yeah.

  • More asses to be careful.

  • Keep washing your homes.

  • You get they deliver stuff for you that she said you're getting them stuff.

  • So, assistant, please be careful after when you lose, huh?

my name's Sue Bear.

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