ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C.-- Hundreds of inmates in North Carolina jails are testing positive for COVID-19, but advocates are doing what they can to help.

Chris Stevenson was just released from the Alamance County Jail. He said the inmates there are worried about the virus.

"I just got out 48 hours ago,” Stevenson said. "It's terrifying not knowing what's going to happen out here, and what's going to happen to us if it gets really bad or worse in here."

The founder of Actively Changing Together, "ACT", gave the Alamance County Sheriff's Office nearly $1,500 Tuesday to provide every inmate with two bars of soap a week until November.  

First United Church in Graham and Ebenezer Church in Burlington donated the money so those people can at least wash their hands. The sheriff said he is grateful.

"Certainly everybody back there in that detention center doesn’t deserve being released because of the seriousness of the crime. But those that don’t have the money, for those that are having to stay back there because of not having the resources to post bond certainly needs to be treated like a decent human being,” said Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson.

Sheriff Johnson said the donation is especially helpful with less sales tax money coming in.