Item
He was supposed to be in prison less than a year. Instead, he died after catching the coronavirus.
Title (Dublin Core)
He was supposed to be in prison less than a year. Instead, he died after catching the coronavirus.
Description (Dublin Core)
A former Texas teacher was sentenced to a few months in prison to go through a rehab program after committing repeat DWIs. While incarcerated he contracted Covid and died. Texas has the highest mortality rate in its prisons, higher than even the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
incarceration, defacto death sentence, prison, Texas, mortality rate, death
Date (Dublin Core)
July 4, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Jolie McCullough
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Texas Tribune
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Conflict
English
Crime
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Government State
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
death sentence
prison
Texas
mortality rate
death
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Deathways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/13/2020
01/30/2021
08/02/2022
09/25/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
07/07/2020
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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