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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 5/31-6/6/2020 by Railroaded Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 5/31-6/6/2020 by Railroaded Underground

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images

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These images show the tweets from an incarcerated person, using a contraband cell phone to tell the world what it is like to be incarcerated during the pandemic. This week he continues to talk about the murder of George Floyd by the police, protestors and violence against them, his own fear of white officers in his prison which he blames on systemic racism, states his views on defunding police and the need for new politicians and laws, as well as fear of prison transfers spreading the virus.

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incarceration, social justice, defund the police, law, politicians, police, transfer, spread, violence, systemic racism

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https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1

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unknown

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2020-05
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