Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 09/06-09/12/2020 by Railroad Underground”
Give your story a title.
Tweets from Inside a Prison 09/06-09/12/2020 by Railroad Underground
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
images
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.
These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person utilizing a contraband cell phone to let the outside world know about prison conditions during the pandemic. This week he talks about how Sunday's are the hardest for him because he missed spending time with his family, spending Labor Day in a melting cage, is he in a California or west coast prison where they are experiencing raging wild fires or is it just hot there, convict leasing is still happening, including many of the firefighters used to battle the wildfires in California, those in county jails learning sign language to be able to communicate from their cells because they spent little time outside their cells, the lack of vegetables in prison made them plant "secret gardens" both inside and out, rehabilitation in spite of toxic conditions, mentorship, his many family members that are/were incarcerated and how incarceration tears apart families.
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?
HSE, Twitter, family, convict leasing, wild fire, secret garden, sign language, incarceration, rehabilitation
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
unknown
Give this story a date.
2020-09-06