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Collected Item: “Overcrowded Prisons Are Responsible for the Worst Outbreak in the Nation”

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Overcrowded Prisons Are Responsible for the Worst Outbreak in the Nation

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images

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While this Tweet specifically addresses the responsibility overcrowding in California prisons has played in the Covid outbreak, other states have the same problem. Overcrowding in prisons and jails is a nationwide epidemic.

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overcrowded, incarceration, prison, California

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https://twitter.com/Voicesof_SQ/status/1295741719917387776

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Voices of San Quentin

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2020-08-18
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