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'People are sick all around me': inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California prisons

Title (Dublin Core)

'People are sick all around me': inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California prisons

Description (Dublin Core)

Due to the closer quarters and overcrowding in the nation's prisons they are a breeding ground for easy transmission of the coronavirus. As this article states the "public health catastrophe" inside the country's prisons was "predictable and preventable." California has over 25,000 covid positive inmates as of this article’s writing (05/20/2020), and more in other detention facilities. The outbreak doesn't look like it will slow down anytime soon. This article discusses the conditions inside of California prisons based on inmate communications and talking with family members.
HST580, ASU
California, TerminalIsland, prison, jail, incarcerated, testing, re-opening, overcrowding, forgotten

Date (Dublin Core)

May 20, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Sam T. Levin

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200620161437/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/20/california-prisons-covid-19-outbreak-deaths

Publisher (Dublin Core)

https://www.theguardian.com/us

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict
English Crime
English Health & Wellness
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

California, TerminalIsland, prison, jail, incarcerated, testing, re-opening, overcrowding, forgotten
California
Terminal Island
over-crowding
preventable
inmates
#lockedupwithcovid
public health catastrophe

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Social Justice

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210201011059/https://www.ppic.org/blog/severe-covid-19-infections-may-threaten-californias-prisons/
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)

06/20/2020
06/22/2020
1/31/2021
05/08/2022
08/02/2022
10/13/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/20/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Teaching
Arizona State University

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

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