Item

COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: Virus Spreads Through Inmate Populations and Staff

Title (Dublin Core)

COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: Virus Spreads Through Inmate Populations and Staff

Description (Dublin Core)

This article is the first of a three-part series covering the covid pandemic inside the Arkansas State Corrections facilities. NPR reporter, Anna Stitt, interviewed several prisoners and focused her reporting on the Cummins Unit, the state’s largest and oldest facility. While no cases were reported inside the prison until one month after the state had issued a stay at home order, once the virus entered the facility it spread quickly. Stitt covers the different stories reported by employees and officials as opposed to the inmates at the prison and other facilities in the state. The inmates report lack of access to bathroom facilities, being ignored when sick, and many other problems. The officials on the other hand tell a very different story.
Cummins, Arkansas, incarceration, prison, farm, covid, quarantine, testing
HST 580

Date (Dublin Core)

June 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Anna Stitt

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/post/covid-19-inside-arkansas-prisons-virus-spreads-through-inmate-populations-and-staff
https://web.archive.org/web/20200619023053/https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/post/covid-19-inside-arkansas-prisons-virus-spreads-through-inmate-populations-and-staff

Publisher (Dublin Core)

https://www.ualrpublicradio.org See all items with this value

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Distance
English Labor
English Government State

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Cummins
Arkansas
inmates
farm
Covid-19
quarantine

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: The Past and Future
COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: The Death of Derick Coley
Image of a male doctor holding a sign which reads I stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us.Doctor asking us to stay home
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/13/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/18/2020
1/26/2021
08/02/2022
10/13/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Teaching
Arizona State University

Linked resources

Filter by property

Relation
Title Alternate label Class
COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: The Death of Derick Coley Linked Data Interactive Resource
Chris Twing Internship Portfolio Linked Data Interactive Resource

This item was submitted on June 13, 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.

New Tags

I recognize that my tagging suggestions may be rejected by site curators. I agree with terms of use and I accept to free my contribution under the licence CC BY-SA.