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Collected Item: “California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread”

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California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread

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This is a text story from a news article online.

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The state is responsible for the spread of covid19 from the neighboring men’s institution to the women’s institution, leading to death.

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#lockedupwithcovid, #covid19, #chino, #abolishprisons, #slavelabor, #prisonlabor

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https://web.archive.org/web/20201030204416/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-11/california-prison-factories-inmates-covid-19

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KIERA FELDMAN

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2020-10-11
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