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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 07/26-08/01/2020 by Railroaded Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 07/26-08/01/2020 by Railroaded Underground

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images

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These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person sharing their experience during the Covid Pandemic using a contraband cell phone. This week he talks about the guards delivering food to their cells and leaving it on the floor, the inmates response, their lack of access to showering, the lack of compassion, encouraging people to vote and hold politicians accountable, medical emergencies, death, and the general feeling of anger.

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, prison, cell phone, contraband, shower, vote, politicians, lockdown, medical emergency

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https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1

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

unknown

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2020-07
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