Title: Sergio Parilla, Covid Experience at Rikers Island
Collection: Covid at Rikers
Theme: Covid in Confinement
Summary: Sergio Parilla 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 losing close friends to the virus and the emotional toll that took on him. (Content warning: discussion of suicide.) (video made with @headlinervideo)
Narrators: Sergio Parilla
Creator: Annie Anderson
Producer: Regina Campbell
Date Created: April 16, 2021
Full interviews can be accessed here.