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Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/30-09/05/2020 by Railroad Underground

Title (Dublin Core)

Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/30-09/05/2020 by Railroad Underground

Description (Dublin Core)

These images show the Tweets of an incarcerated person utilizing a contraband cell phone to let the outside world know about prison conditions during the pandemic. This week he talks about forever loosing his right to vote because he is now a felon, the logic of incarceration where people are told everyday how worthless they are as a way to make them "fit" into society, the daily request he receives to send or receive messages on his contraband cell phone, that the phone represents hope, a dream about Donald Trump, he never had role models growing up but now has them inside prison and they are other incarcerated people, and his greatest fear is not knowing. He says that used to relate to not knowing when he would get out, or if his parents would die before he is released but Covid has changed this into not knowing when he will be allowed to shower or get a bar of soap.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 30, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

unknown

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HSE

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

images

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

http://web.archive.org/web/20200720005253/https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1

Source (Dublin Core)

Twitter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

sick
incarcerated
contraband
phone
crisis
new normal
caged
fatigue

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

incarceration
cell phone
vote
death
SOS
contraband
hope
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

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/05/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/06/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/30/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on October 5, 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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