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Collected Item: “Why Prisoners Aren’t Reporting Feeling Sick”

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Why Prisoners Aren’t Reporting Feeling Sick

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article

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Prisons and jails were not planned or constructed with thoughts of weathering a pandemic, not was the system of incarceration. For these reasons, and our cultures current view of incarcerated people as less than human, many are suffering in silence. This article explains why incarcerated people are choosing not to tell anyone if they experience symptoms that might be from COVID-19.

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HSE, incarceration, symptoms, lockdown, the hole, prison, quarantine

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https://prisonjournalismproject.org/pjp-stories/why-prisoners-arent-reporting

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Michael J. Moore

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2020-10-05
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