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California’s Racial Justice Crisis is COVID-19 in Prisons

Title (Dublin Core)

California’s Racial Justice Crisis is COVID-19 in Prisons

Description (Dublin Core)

This article, written by three University of California professors, highlights the racial justice crisis inside US prisons. Due to their architecture and systems corrections facilities find it nearly impossible to keep covid-19 out or slow the spread of the disease. In California the incarcerated populations rate of covid is 650 percent higher than that of the general population of the state. Once introduced into a facility covid spreads rapidly due to overcrowding, lack of ability to social distance, and a shortage of soap and other cleaning supplies. While many people in the general public feel that inmates chose to commit a crime and therefor should do their time others argue that they should not be made to die for their crimes due to covid.
racial justice, social justice, incarceration, prison, jail, social distance, California, shortage, cleaning, pubic health, overcrowded, death sentence

Date (Dublin Core)

June 13, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Naomi Sugie
Kristin Turney
Keramet Reiter

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://medium.com/@naomisugie/californias-racial-justice-crisis-is-covid-19-in-prisons-a401a489f3d2
https://web.archive.org/web/20200711213758/https://medium.com/@naomisugie/californias-racial-justice-crisis-is-covid-19-in-prisons-a401a489f3d2

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Medium

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Social Distance
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Government State

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
jail
California
shortage
cleaning
overcrowded
death sentence

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Social Justice

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

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)

06/25/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/11/2020
08/02/2022
10/10/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on June 25, 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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