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Collected Item: “Unlock the Box Campaign Tweets: Solitary By the Numbers”

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Unlock the Box Campaign Tweets: Solitary By the Numbers

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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.

Because correctional facilities are not built with social distancing in mind the facilities often rely on solitary confinement as a place to quarantine people. This was happening with other contagious disease before Covid but as this graphic shows the number of people being sent to solitary confinement for Covid quarantine is very high.

It should also be noted that a person sent to solitary confinement for quarantine due to illness is treated no different than a person sent there for disciplinary action. Imagine having Covid and being locked in there with no medical attention.

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?

incarceration, prison, jail, lockdown, the hole, solitary confinement, inhumane

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/UnlockTheBoxNow/status/1291871860225908738

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

Unlockthebox.org

Give this story a date.

2020-08-07
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