Explore the Archives
A Journal of the Plague Year Arizona Collection Australia Boston Bronx Community College New York Brooklyn College New York Canada Las Americas Lockdown Staten Island New Orleans Oral Histories Philippines Sacramento Community Based Organizations Southwest Stories Teaching the Pandemic The City College of New York

Collected Item: “Covid Crisis at San Quentin”

Give your story a title.

Covid Crisis at San Quentin

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.

This Tweet highlights the activism around releasing incarcerated people to prevent the spread of covid and any sentence from turning into a death sentence.

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?

incarceration, San Quentin, protest, covid, San Fransisco, prison, spread, outbreak

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/PhilTing/status/1281368445318164480

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Phil Ting

Give this story a date.

2020-07-09
Click here to view the corresponding item.