In June, when this started to happen and reports started coming out that people were sick with Covid... what they originally said is this is just the transfers, and then eventually they started testing and realized' oh, it's everywhere.'.

Sirine Shebaya

At this point we're trying to figure out what we can do to make this better for people in the inside.

We filed litigation for a group of nine people who are medically vulnerable that we were trying to get out of detention and unfortunately, at the time, the judge didn't see things our way and didn't grant the release, the circumstances at Farmville right now are a perfect illustration of the ways in which the ongoing transfers that ICE has insisted on continuing are contributing to the spread of coronavirus.