Texas prisons will accept county jail inmates again, three months after the coronavirus halted intake

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Title (Dublin Core)

Description (Dublin Core)

In an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19 inside of the state of Texas correctional facilities all transfers were halted in April but in beginning July 1 Texas will begin transfers. This all happens as the states case count and positivity rate begin to sky rocket. By mid July Texas becomes one of the nations three biggest hot spots.

TDCJ, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, incarceration, prison, jail, transfer, covid

Date (Dublin Core)

June 16, 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/2020/06/16/texas-prisons-jails-coronavirus/

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/16/texas-prisons-jails-coronavirus/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Texas Tribune

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict

English Public Health & Hospitals

English Government State

English News coverage

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hot spot

Texas

prison

jail

inmate

transfer

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration

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

08/02/2022

09/25/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/16/2020

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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