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'Severe inhumanity': California prisons overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks and approaching fires

Title (Dublin Core)

'Severe inhumanity': California prisons overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks and approaching fires

Description (Dublin Core)

This Tweet and article concern the conditions inmates in California's prisons are experiencing. First they had to deal with Covid-19 and figure out how to slow the spread of the disease within overcrowded facilities where social distancing is impossible and mask wearing presents its own set of issues. Second incarcerated people are living in a near constant state of lockdown, visitation and even communication with family and friends is gone. Third they are facing the threat of wildfires within a few miles of several prisons causing the people inside the buildings to breath air filled with smoke. To add insult to injury the state of California uses prison labor to fight these same fires.
This article illustrates how we as a society treat those most at risk among us. Even those in a correctional facility for the terminally ill in hospice care are not being evacuated.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 21, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Julia Carrie Wong
Sam Levin

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

images and article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1296916262086250496
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/california-fires-prisons-covid-outbreaks
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/california-fires-prisons-covid-outbreaks

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The Guardian

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Architecture & Planning
English Government State
English Environment & Landscape
English Health & Wellness
English Social Class

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

emergency planning
evacuation
forgotten

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

incarceration
prison
California
wildfire
inhumane
air quality
Covid
outbreak
slow the spread

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Environment

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)

08/29/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/31/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/21/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on August 29, 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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