Item
Yuma Inmates Allege Prison Officials Ordered Them To Refuse COVID-19 Testing To Keep Numbers Down
Title (Dublin Core)
Yuma Inmates Allege Prison Officials Ordered Them To Refuse COVID-19 Testing To Keep Numbers Down
Description (Dublin Core)
This Tweet and linked article explain a haunting story. Inmates at the Yuma prison in Arizona were threatened with a "beat down" unless they refused to take a Covid-19 test in an effort by the administration to keep the case count down. The replies to this Tweet show the public's response to this allegation.
Date (Dublin Core)
August 21, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Jimmy Jenkins
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
images and article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
KJZZ
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Healthcare
English
Government State
English
News coverage
English
Conflict
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
prison
Arizona
testing
threat
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
incarceration
prison
Arizona
testing
threat
prison administration
Twitter
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/29/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/31/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
08/21/2020
This item was submitted on August 29, 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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