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Collected Item: “Correctional Sergeant Dies from Covid Complications”

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Correctional Sergeant Dies from Covid Complications

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images

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 expresses the lack of concern for the incarcerated people dying from Covid 19. California Governor Gavin Newsom expresses his sympathy for the family and friends of one of the correctional facility staff who recently passed from complications due to Covid-19 but he does not mention the many people incarcerated in these facilities who have also died from Covid-19.

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Twitter, social media, incarceration, Gavin Newsom, California, prison, San Quentin, flag

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https://twitter.com/angelafchan/status/1292972947905236993

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

Angela Chan

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2020-08-10
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