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  2020-09-20

  Tweets from Inside a Prison 09/20-09/26/2020 by Railroad Underground

  These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person utilizing a contraband cell phone to let the outside world know about prison conditions during the pandemic. This week he talks about mind, body, soul, freedom, effort to locate contraband cell phones, lack of compassion, support, Breonna Taylor, the rule against shaking a free persons hand, using the word inmate removes humanity, prisons acting as a herd immunity experiment, journalists profiting from the pain of incarceration, and rock bottom.
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  2020-10-01

  Prisons Are Mostly Closed to Journalist During Covid

  As this Tweet from journalist, Sara Tardiff, explains prisons are closed as a precaution to slowing the spread of Covid-19. This means one of our only windows into what is actually happening behind bars is coming from incarcerated persons using contraband cell phones.
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  2020-07-12

  Tweets from Inside a Prison 7/12-7/18/2020 by Railroaded Underground

  This Tweet is from a person incarcerated inside San Quentin Prison in California. They are posting with a contraband cell phone. This week they mention finally getting a shower, the death of Covid positive inmates, Black Lives Matter, Covid testing, people who test positive being put in solitary confinement, the hole, as a quarantine, and the mixing of negative and positive Covid people together.
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  2020-06

  Tweets from Inside a Prison 6/28-7/4/2020 by Railroaded Underground

  These images show the Tweets from an incarcerated person who began this Twitter account on a contraband cellphone, to show the world what it is like inside the nation's correctional facilities during the covid pandemic. This week he is talking about many people around him being sick, testing negative himself and then a few days later showing symptoms, 20 "man down" calls a day, which is a way someone needs immediate medical attention, it appears they are housing some inmates in tents in the yard to help with social distancing, genocide, calls on California Governor Gavin Newsom several times, talks about the vulnerable, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, disabled, feeling like they have a knee on their necks because of covid, and San Quentin.
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  2020-06

  Tweets from Inside a Prison 6/21-6/27/2020 by Railroaded Underground

  These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person for one week. They started this Twitter account using a contraband cell phone to show the world what is happening inside the nation's correctional facilities during the covid pandemic. This week they are talking about immuno compromised individuals, racism, Father's Day, inmates having trouble breathing and dying while waiting for an ambulance, 23 hour a day lockdown which means no phone calls, though prisoners are paying $1000 for contraband cell phones being brought in by cops, and he questions the value of his life.
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  2020-06

  Tweets from Inside a Prison 6/14-6/20/2020 by Railroaded Underground

  These images show the Tweets of a prison inmate who chose to use a contraband cell phone to show the public what is happening inside of the nation's prisons during the coronavirus pandemic. This week he discusses defunding prisons, the ongoing brutality inside prisons, San Quentin, outbreaks from transfers, Juneteenth, taking action not just paying lip service to the holiday, black communities, and early release beginning with the elderly and others most at risk.