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Collected Item: “Voices of San Quentin: The inside story of how a prison became the nation's biggest COVID cluster”

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Voices of San Quentin: The inside story of how a prison became the nation's biggest COVID cluster

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article with video

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This article was co written by Popular Information and Voices of San Quentin. It explains how a major California state prison managed to stave off covid-19 until inmates from another prison were transferred into the facility. . . and they were carrying covid, what they did to deal with the outbreak, and how it effected incarcerated persons.

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incarceration, prison, San Quentin, San Francisco Bay Area, transfer, outbreak

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https://popular.info/p/voices-of-san-quentin-the-inside

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Tesnim Zekeria

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2020-08-18
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