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Collected Item: “Protest Supporting San Quentin Early Release”

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Protest Supporting San Quentin Early Release

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This is a Twitter post (social media) and the responses it received about a protest urging California governor Gavin Newsom to give early release to inmates to protect them from contracting covid-19. Here is a link to an article referenced in the thread https://www.orlandomedicalnews.com/article/3545/letter-to-the-editor-why-increasing-number-of-cases-of-covid-19-is-not-bad-news

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?

San Quentin, California, protest, Gavin Newsom, governor, incarceration, prison, jail, early release

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https://twitter.com/samklew/status/1277336592097501184

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Sam Lew

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2020-06-28
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