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  2020-09-29

  Incarcerated people are humans, with human rights

  This series of Tweets illustrates the number of Covid cases inside of prisons that go largely unnoticed by the general public. It also points to a larger problem of seeing "inmates", those who should be referred to in people first language as incarcerated persons, as fully human.
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  2020-08-26

  The Intersectionality of Climate Change and Prisons Plus More Pandemics

  This Tweet brings up a point many may not have thought of. Climate change and it causing more pandemics which greatly effect incarcerated populations.
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  2020-08-22

  Incarcerated firefighters give 3 million hours

  This Tweet expresses dissatisfaction with incarcerated firefighters who give so many hours and save the state of California millions of dollars every year, but none of that savings is put into supporting them with re entering society.
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  2020-08-10

  Tweet Changes Headline

  Language is changing to be more people focused. This has happened in several arenas including incarceration. Instead of calling people inmates, prisoners, or convicts there is a movement to change the language to a people first option such as incarcerated person. One activist, Adnan Khan, of Restore Justice, a California based nonprofit seeking to change the criminal justice system, saw his Tweet about people first language cause the Los Angeles Times to change their headline.
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  2020-08-05

  My Friend Died in San Quentin Due to Covid-19. His Death Was Entirely Preventable.

  Written by Adnan Khan, a formerly incarcerated person and criminal justice reform advocate, this article explains the death of his friend from Covid and how it was preventable.
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  2020-07-26

  Hand sanitizer donation accepted at San Quentin never reached the inmates

  These are images of a Tweet and the responses explaining how rapper, E-40, donated hand sanitizer to San Quentin for their incarcerated people and it never got to a single inmate. Many of the respondents believe the prison staff took it for their own use or to sell it.
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  2020-03-28

  My Experience with Sickness, Quarantines and the Prison’s Healthcare System

  The author of this article is a former inmate at San Quentin Prison in California. These days he focuses on justice reform through an organization he helped bring into being, Restore Justice. In this article he explains the medical system inside of prisons and his experience with lockdowns and solitary confinement as a place of quarantine during non-covid times.
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  2020-07-16

  Covid shuffle in corrections facilities

  These images show the Tweet of Adnan Khan, a formerly incarcerated person and activist. Adnan explains that corrections facilities are moving people all over the prison and between facilities. The result is spread of the corona virus when the officials are charged with slowing the spread.
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  2020-06-28

  Is the governor of California committing genocide by transfering inmates?

  This is a Twitter post (social media) from a prison reform advocate. In the post he poses the question is the governor of California, Gavin Newsome, committing genocide by transferring inmates from a correctional facility with known covid cases to facilities that have no cases. The Tweet and responses show people's feelings on the subject.
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  2020-06-27

  Did Inmates Transfered from San Quentin Spread Covid-19?

  These images show a Twitter social media post and the replies it received surrounding the transfer of inmates from San Quentin to other facilities introduced the virus to the other facilities. The author of the Tweet also references an article from the Sacramento Bee entitled "Major COVID-19 outbreak at rural California prison. Officials blame state for inmate transfer" Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article243822702.html#storylink=cpy