Collected Item: “Inside Rikers During the Coronavirus Outbreak”
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Inside Rikers During the Coronavirus Outbreak
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
video
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
This video shows one families struggle to get early release for their loved one from Rikers Island jail in New York. His sister poses the ten million dollar question, does someone who committed a crime deserve to die? This is the possibility many inmates face in the time of coronavirus because the only way we currently know to slow the spread of the virus is through distance. Something that cannot be done when you're sleeping twelve inches away from another person.
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social distancing, incarceration, Rikers Island, New York, jail, early release
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tynlUWVcUQU
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Vice News
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2020-04-02