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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/16-08/22/2020 by Railroaded Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/16-08/22/2020 by Railroaded Underground

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images

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These Tweets were posted by a man inside a prison using a contraband cell phone. This week he talks about their nutrition, lack of air conditioning, lack of showers, the wildfires near Vacaville Prison in California and the lack of plan for evacuation, a friend that recently died of Covid, and how good it felt to finely be allowed to go outside for a bit.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

incarceration, prison, Twitter, contraband, cell phone, wild fire, California, shower, mental health, dehumanizing, air quality

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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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