Item

One Journalist Is Chronicling San Quentin’s Huge COVID-19 Outbreak—While Locked Inside

Title (Dublin Core)

One Journalist Is Chronicling San Quentin’s Huge COVID-19 Outbreak—While Locked Inside

Description (Dublin Core)

One inmate at San Quentin Prison in California has been keeping his press contacts apprised of the situation during the pandemic via letters, many written on a typewriter. Kevin Sawyer, serving a sentence of 48 years to life is also the prisons newspaper editor, though operations stopped in March when prisons in the state went on lockdown in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. He wrote 8,000 words during just the first seven weeks of the pandemic. His goal is to document what is happening inside the prison during the pandemic.
incarceration, prison, San Quentin, San Francisco Bay Area, journalist, inmate, writing, documenting history

Date (Dublin Core)

August 7, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Samantha Michaels

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.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/08/san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-journalist-kevin-sawyer-reporting-letters-typewriter/
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/08/san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-journalist-kevin-sawyer-reporting-letters-typewriter/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Mother Jones

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage
English Biography
English Emotion
English Conflict
English Government State
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
journalist
inmate
writing
history

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
San Francisco Bay Area

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)

08/07/2020

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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