As US prisons and jails see an alarming spike in COVID-19 infections, John Oliver discusses why the virus has spread so rapidly behind bars and what we can do to stop it.
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So I wonder what cook county prison actually did about the Corona virus… I also really wonder how Wisconsin handled it because I know the head of the D.O.C of Wisconsin….he's an asshole btw, but I wonder….oh I also don't know Mr. Pamos from being in prison. I'm just tryna date/bang his daughter. WISH ME LUCK! 😀
I will own up. When they talked about Pharma Bro not being released I did think "Good. F*ck that guy!"
Wait, john oliver got arrested?
Idk John, if anyone deserves to die, Pharma Bro ranks pretty high up there
Leave Ryan Reynold's wife alone.
UK has an awesome system for bail. They pay £1 bail and let people go straight away while the investigation goes on
My girlfriend hates you,I love it, She works from home so I watch all day,tens hours a day.
I haven't heard you mentioned yet the prisoners who deliberately infected themselves, it's been 3yrs so I don't remember their motivation.
ravencardenel
hmmm why does the racial split in covid cases and prisoner poplation line up more then other wise…
they had cilvil rights.
@1:51 it is nothing like that its like standing in line your catching a cold just like everybody else if you like its like a 117 mph car your a germaphobe and hypochondriac
Prison makes money. You should do an episode on who benefits from our prison system, how many people are employed because of it.
How much were the prisons paid for each death?
I wonder where he is now—
Still in solitary?
or out?
or dead?
Looking forward to a possible Coronavirus VIV episode since apparently it's starting to resurge lately – I've heard masks might even get recommended again soon.
Dear Oliver , your great friend from India, that big mouthed Arnab Goswami and his gang of "godi MEDIA" are banned by all opposition parties
I was incarcerated for a bit over three months in 2022, in a county jail. I was in a single room with 25 other guys, and it was dark. When tests came around, anyone with even the sniffles would try their damndest to fake taking it, or rub disinfectant in their nose to try to test negative, because the alternative was 23.5hour/day isolation, half hour for calls and showers. Nobody was dying of covid in my tank, any of the ones I was in, but we were doing all that, sometimes with senior citizens in with us, because solitary is hell. Nobody on the outside cared about how we were scared, and we tried not to talk about it, but we all kinda were. Not even so much of the virus itself, but of getting put in isolation for two+ weeks, or until they could be bothered to take us out. one guy was there for a month, and he wasn’t quite the same after that. That isolation destroys people
9:15 been watching John's show since it aired and this is the first time Ive found something plain wrong. Theres no proof of Balloon Boy having been a hoax, and the evidence points more towards CSPD wanting to shut the case as quick as possible
"they (prison) do (work) – if your only goal is to have a lot of people in prison" true, funny and sad haha
I like to think Olive here was helpful in making sure everyone remembered how shitty Trump was and helped getting his ass out of The White House
If the prison’s were really an isolated population then how did the virus get there in the first place? If they were isolated enough for the virus to not get out it wouldn’t have gotten in there in the first place.
Only In america 😢
By refusing to say the video was fake and being incarcerated in isolation he became a political prisoner.
BALLOON BOY WAS2009????
How do the inmates have access to cell phones though?