Collected Item: “My Experience with Sickness, Quarantines and the Prison’s Healthcare System”
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My Experience with Sickness, Quarantines and the Prison’s Healthcare System
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article
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The author of this article is a former inmate at San Quentin Prison in California. These days he focuses on justice reform through an organization he helped bring into being, Restore Justice. In this article he explains the medical system inside of prisons and his experience with lockdowns and solitary confinement as a place of quarantine during non-covid times.
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incarceration, prison, San Quentin, California, lockdown, solitary confinement, quarantine
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https://restorecal.org/my-experience-with-sickness-quarantines-and-the-prisons-healthcare-system/
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Adnan Khan
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2020-03-28