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Collected Item: “San Quentin Still at 100% Capacity”

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San Quentin Still at 100% Capacity

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images

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Covid-19 has been eye opening and really illustrated many of the problems we as a society have done a good job ignoring. One of the things society has long ignored is overcrowding in prisons and jails in the US. We've also learned that any enclosed population without the ability to social distance is a risk for having a major Covid-19 outbreak. Together, overcrowding and the inability to social distance, has made for a bleak outlook in the nation's correctional facilities. This Tweet shows that even this far in to the pandemic and the outbreak at San Quentin the prison is still over capacity.

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incarceration, prison, San Quentin, capacity, social distance, overcrowding, San Francisco Bay Area, pandemic, spread, outbreak

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https://twitter.com/jamesking0314/status/1293175371269996544

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James King

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2020-08-11
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