Title: Orlando Irizarry, Covid Experience at Rikers
Collection: Covid at Rikers
Theme: Covid in Confinement
Summary: Orlando Irizarry was incarcerated at Rikers Island when COVID-19 first hit the facility in 2020. We captured his story as part of our oral history program. He describes how his severe anxiety about surviving the virus and surviving Rikers made him wonder if he would make it out alive. (video made with @headlinervideo)
Narrator: Orlando Irizarry
Creator: Annie Anderson
Producer: Regina Campbell
Date Created: April 21, 2021
Full interviews can be accessed here.