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Collected Item: “Tweet about the lower prison population due to death from Covid-19”

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Tweet about the lower prison population due to death from Covid-19

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

image

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 person Tweeted that they feel the prison population is the lowest it has been since the 1990s because of people dying while incarcerated from Covid-19.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

incarceration, death, Covid, Twitter, social media

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/Katrina26897682/status/1291201753342283778

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Katrina Johnson

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2020-08-05
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