Item
One Journalist Is Chronicling San Quentin’s Huge COVID-19 Outbreak—While Locked Inside
Title (Dublin Core)
One Journalist Is Chronicling San Quentin’s Huge COVID-19 Outbreak—While Locked Inside
Description (Dublin Core)
One inmate at San Quentin Prison in California has been keeping his press contacts apprised of the situation during the pandemic via letters, many written on a typewriter. Kevin Sawyer, serving a sentence of 48 years to life is also the prisons newspaper editor, though operations stopped in March when prisons in the state went on lockdown in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. He wrote 8,000 words during just the first seven weeks of the pandemic. His goal is to document what is happening inside the prison during the pandemic.
incarceration, prison, San Quentin, San Francisco Bay Area, journalist, inmate, writing, documenting history
Date (Dublin Core)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
Partner (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Mother Jones
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
News coverage
English
Biography
English
Emotion
English
Conflict
English
Government State
English
Health & Wellness
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Collection (Dublin Core)
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
08/02/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/13/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
This item was submitted on August 7, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
Click here to view the collected data.