Item

Don't Release Inmates, We Need Them to Fight Wildfires

Title (Dublin Core)

Don't Release Inmates, We Need Them to Fight Wildfires

Description (Dublin Core)

In an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19 incarceration facilities across the nation have released a small number of people earlier than they would have been otherwise. This has created a unique situation in California, a state that relies on prison labor to combat wildfires every year. As the writer of this Tweet calls out, much of the general public and the nation's politicians believe "if you do the crime, you do the time" and feel this extends to using inmates for fighting fires.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 22, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jessica Brand
Thomas Fuller

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/jbrand07/status/1297278545195085824
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/california-wildfires-prisoners.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/california-wildfires-prisoners.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The New York Times

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage
English Politics
English Conflict
English Environment & Landscape
English Social Media (including Memes)

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
prison labor
wildfire

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

incarceration
prison
inmate
early release
wildfire
prison labor
fire fighter
politician

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)

08/22/2020

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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