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Collected Item: “6 million masks in. 50,000 people out.”

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6 million masks in. 50,000 people out.

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image and video

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 from REFORM Alliance explains they have gotten six million masks into correctional facilities across the nation by using the 10 million dollar donation from Twitter's CEO. And 50,000 people have been released. The accompanying video explains that if the nations 2.4 million incarcerated people become ill and go to outside hospitals there will be no hospital space for anyone else. If that isn't enough to make you care they pose the question, do any incarcerated people deserve a defacto death sentence?

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incarceration, prison, jail, Twitter, donation, mask, Reform Alliance, criminal justice reform

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https://twitter.com/REFORM/status/1291766049877250049

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

Reform Alliance

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2020-08-07
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