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Collected Item: “Did Inmates Transfered from San Quentin Spread Covid-19?”

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Did Inmates Transfered from San Quentin Spread Covid-19?

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These images show a Twitter social media post and the replies it received surrounding the transfer of inmates from San Quentin to other facilities introduced the virus to the other facilities. The author of the Tweet also references an article from the Sacramento Bee entitled "Major COVID-19 outbreak at rural California prison. Officials blame state for inmate transfer"

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article243822702.html#storylink=cpy

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jail, prison, incarceration, transfer, spread, California, San Quentin

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https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1277030953441914881, https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article243822702.html

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

Adnan Khan

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2020-06-27
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