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California’s Racial Justice Crisis is COVID-19 in Prisons
Title (Dublin Core)
California’s Racial Justice Crisis is COVID-19 in Prisons
Description (Dublin Core)
This article, written by three University of California professors, highlights the racial justice crisis inside US prisons. Due to their architecture and systems corrections facilities find it nearly impossible to keep covid-19 out or slow the spread of the disease. In California the incarcerated populations rate of covid is 650 percent higher than that of the general population of the state. Once introduced into a facility covid spreads rapidly due to overcrowding, lack of ability to social distance, and a shortage of soap and other cleaning supplies. While many people in the general public feel that inmates chose to commit a crime and therefor should do their time others argue that they should not be made to die for their crimes due to covid.
racial justice, social justice, incarceration, prison, jail, social distance, California, shortage, cleaning, pubic health, overcrowded, death sentence
Date (Dublin Core)
June 13, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Naomi Sugie
Kristin Turney
Keramet Reiter
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Medium
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Issues
English
Social Distance
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Government State
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
prison
jail
California
shortage
cleaning
overcrowded
death sentence
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Social Justice
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/25/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/11/2020
08/02/2022
10/10/2024
This item was submitted on June 25, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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