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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/09-08/15/2020 by Railroaded Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/09-08/15/2020 by Railroaded Underground

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images

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These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person using a contraband cell phone. This week he Tweets about politics, specifically Kamala Harris being chosen for VP and her role in incarcerating so many people while she was a prosecutor, another friend returning from solitary confinement, an unsanitary kitchen prison laborers were forced to prepare food in, the number of incarcerated crime victims, prison population reduction, getting more soap, and having to share a shower head with three or four other people because the prison removed several shower heads.

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incarceration, prison, cell phone, Twitter, politics, hygiene, soap, victim, solitary, prison labor

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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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2020-08
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