Item

Yuma Inmates Allege Prison Officials Ordered Them To Refuse COVID-19 Testing To Keep Numbers Down

Title (Dublin Core)

Yuma Inmates Allege Prison Officials Ordered Them To Refuse COVID-19 Testing To Keep Numbers Down

Description (Dublin Core)

This Tweet and linked article explain a haunting story. Inmates at the Yuma prison in Arizona were threatened with a "beat down" unless they refused to take a Covid-19 test in an effort by the administration to keep the case count down. The replies to this Tweet show the public's response to this allegation.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 21, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jimmy Jenkins

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/JimmyJenkins/status/1296921772558659584
https://kjzz.org/content/1611602/yuma-inmates-allege-prison-officials-ordered-them-refuse-covid-19-testing-keep
https://web.archive.org/save/https://kjzz.org/content/1611602/yuma-inmates-allege-prison-officials-ordered-them-refuse-covid-19-testing-keep

Publisher (Dublin Core)

KJZZ

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Public Health & Hospitals
English Healthcare
English Government State
English News coverage
English Conflict
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
Arizona
testing
threat

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

incarceration
prison
Arizona
testing
threat
prison administration
Twitter

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)

08/29/2020

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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