Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 7/19-7/25/2020 by Railroaded Underground”
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Tweets from Inside a Prison 7/19-7/25/2020 by Railroaded Underground
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images
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These Tweets are from an incarcerated person at San Quentin Prison in California. He is posting to social media using a contraband cell phone in an effort to let the public know what is happening inside the prison during the Coronavirus pandemic. These weeks he talks about having to choose between waiting in line for a ten minute phone call and taking a shower, the long term health effects he is realizing will be with him from his bout with Covid-19, the high number of inmates refusing to take a Covid test because if they test positive they will be placed in solitary confinement, the hole, as quarantine.
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incarceration, prison, San Quentin, shower, phone privileges, Covid testing, long term health effects
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https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1
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unknown
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2020-07