Collected Item: “Almost All Detainees Have Covid at Farmville Detention Facility”
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Almost All Detainees Have Covid at Farmville Detention Facility
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images and article
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This Tweet brings to light that almost all detainees at the Farmville Detention Facility, a for profit prison in Virginia, have Covid-19. The attached article discusses long running complaints of mistreatment at this facility, some so egregious that even ICE itself was appalled. It also points to the spread of Covid through facility transfers all over the US. The replies to the original Tweet give a good representation of the American public's response to the situation.
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incarceration, prison, ICE, dentition, immigration, spread, outbreak, inhumane, Virginia, federal government
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https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1296801592751132673, https://www.mintpressnews.com/foia-docs-expose-conditions-ica-farmville-so-bad-even-ice-shocked/270593/
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Alan MacLeod
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2020-08-20