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Collected Item: “Guard Tested Positive: Conditions Inside One of America's Incarceration Facilities”

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Guard Tested Positive: Conditions Inside One of America's Incarceration Facilities

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

images

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This Tweet, from an incarcerated person, shows and expresses the conditions and treatment inside of a correctional facility with a Covid positive employee. The replies show what the public thinks of the situation.

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, jail, inhumane, Covid positive, Twitter, food

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/JailLawSpeak/status/1296833851956826113

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

unknown

Give this story a date.

2020-08-21
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