Salim Holbrook

We're not physically close and we're not like that emotionally close either.

We're not physically close and we're not like that emotionally close either.

I like to tell people that there's no dignity in death in prison.

I like to tell people that there's no dignity in death in prison.

I'm the executive director of the Abolitionist Law Center.

I'm the executive director of the Abolitionist Law Center.

It is a horrible place to die. You die alone. You die chained to a steel bed with cold, callous faces. Your body is pretty much just wheeled on a gurney in a hallway and left to pick up as if it's just some disposable, for lack of a better word, trash that's taken to a county morgue.

It is a horrible place to die. You die alone. You die chained to a steel bed with cold, callous faces. Your body is pretty much just wheeled on a gurney in a hallway and left to pick up as if it's just some disposable, for lack of a better word, trash that's taken to a county morgue.

The process is... Pretty extensive. First of all, the person who was incarcerated has to be diagnosed with a terminal disease, meaning you have to be dying. You can't just be gravely sick. You can't have stage three terminal cancer.

The process is... Pretty extensive. First of all, the person who was incarcerated has to be diagnosed with a terminal disease, meaning you have to be dying. You can't just be gravely sick. You can't have stage three terminal cancer.

Another messed up thing is that you, it's almost like there has to be a resignation because if there is a medical treatment available on the streets that can possibly save you, you can't take it, right? Because it could bring you back.

Another messed up thing is that you, it's almost like there has to be a resignation because if there is a medical treatment available on the streets that can possibly save you, you can't take it, right? Because it could bring you back.

We're not physically close and we're not like that emotionally close either.

I like to tell people that there's no dignity in death in prison.

I'm the executive director of the Abolitionist Law Center.

It is a horrible place to die. You die alone. You die chained to a steel bed with cold, callous faces. Your body is pretty much just wheeled on a gurney in a hallway and left to pick up as if it's just some disposable, for lack of a better word, trash that's taken to a county morgue.

The process is... Pretty extensive. First of all, the person who was incarcerated has to be diagnosed with a terminal disease, meaning you have to be dying. You can't just be gravely sick. You can't have stage three terminal cancer.

Another messed up thing is that you, it's almost like there has to be a resignation because if there is a medical treatment available on the streets that can possibly save you, you can't take it, right? Because it could bring you back.