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Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 09/20-09/26/2020 by Railroad Underground”

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Tweets from Inside a Prison 09/20-09/26/2020 by Railroad Underground

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images

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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 mind, body, soul, freedom, effort to locate contraband cell phones, lack of compassion, support, Breonna Taylor, the rule against shaking a free persons hand, using the word inmate removes humanity, prisons acting as a herd immunity experiment, journalists profiting from the pain of incarceration, and rock bottom.

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HSE, inhuman, compassion, contraband, Breonna Taylor, hand shake, herd immunity, incarceration

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https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1

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unknown

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2020-09-20
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