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70% of Texas prisoners tested have the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for more testing and fewer inmates.
Title (Dublin Core)
70% of Texas prisoners tested have the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for more testing and fewer inmates.
Description (Dublin Core)
Texas appears to have the worst outbreak of any state prisons across the nation and many relatives of incarcerated people believe the count is low. Inmates fear telling staff they don't feel well, infected and healthy people are taking showers together. As of the articles writing 1% of inmates across the state have been tested and 70% are infected with Covid. Many worry what effect this will have on the larger communities outside the correctional facilities.
incarceration, prison, death, defacto death sentence, public health, testing
Date (Dublin Core)
May 4, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Jolie McCullough
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)
Texas Tribune
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Conflict
English
Government State
English
Crime
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
prison
death
death sentence
testing
early release
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Deathways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/13/2020
01/30/2021
08/02/2022
09/25/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/04/2020
This item was submitted on August 7, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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