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About 20former inmates protested Saturday outside the NC Correctional Institution for Women, where Faye Brown, a 67-year-old inmate died Wednesday dcomolications fmm COVID-ro Many ware shirts in support of Brown, their friend: "Faye Finally Free." . l I rp r, A small group af farmer inmates and supporters from the N.C. Correctional Insdtudan for Women gathered across the street from the facility to protest prison conditions on Saturday,May 9,2020. Theirfnend,67 yearald Faye Brown,died there Wednesday, MW6af COVID-19 complications. They have argued for early release of mnvident offeMers and those within two years of finishing their sameness to prevent the spread &the virus citing personal knowledge of the conditions that make social distancing impossibk. Julia Wall iwnuaaNEWvWs[xv[a.cau They argued for early release for nonviolent offenders and those within two years of the end of their sentences to keep the virus from spreading, and they cited personal knowledge ofconditions inside that make social distance impossible. "We used to sleep a to 3 feet apart from each other, and in the day mom," said Imam Sudderth. "If one person coughs in dorm E, everybody has it." The protesters said they are in centact with current inmates who say they continue to work in unsafo conditions and comply out of far of reprisal. They cited shortages of PPE, mr personal protective equipment, among staff. "We know they don't have any kind of health care," said Christy Wells. "It don't matter if they have a temperature of soo degrees. They have to go to work mr they're going to get written up. This is so they know we haven't forgotten them."