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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 7/12-7/18/2020 by Railroaded Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 7/12-7/18/2020 by Railroaded Underground

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

image

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This Tweet is from a person incarcerated inside San Quentin Prison in California. They are posting with a contraband cell phone. This week they mention finally getting a shower, the death of Covid positive inmates, Black Lives Matter, Covid testing, people who test positive being put in solitary confinement, the hole, as a quarantine, and the mixing of negative and positive Covid people together.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Twitter, incarceration, prison, contraband, cell phone, San Quentin, solitary confinement, quarantine, testing

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

unknown

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2020-07
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