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Thousands of Texas prisoners still have the coronavirus. More than 25% of inmates at four units are infected.

Title (Dublin Core)

Thousands of Texas prisoners still have the coronavirus. More than 25% of inmates at four units are infected.

Description (Dublin Core)

"Two Texas prisons each have more than 670 inmates with active coronavirus infections, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the highest counts seen at any state lockup since the pandemic began." What makes this Covid so scary in a prison is that if caught it can turn a short sentence into a defacto death sentence. For this reason many advocate early release for nonviolent offenders but Texas Governor Greg Abbott does not agree.
Texas, prison, incarceration, percent positive, infection rate, testing, death, defacto death sentence

Date (Dublin Core)

July 14, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jolie McCullough

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.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/texas-prisons-coronavirus-infections/
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/texas-prisons-coronavirus-infections/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Texas Tribune

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict
English Crime
English Government State
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Texas
prison
percent positive
infection rate
testing
death
death sentence

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Deathways

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)

08/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/13/2020
01/30/2021
08/02/2022
09/25/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/14/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on August 7, 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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