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Collected Item: “Survivors Guilt”

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Survivors Guilt

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

article with video

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One man who was released from San Quentin Prison in California explains his feeling of survivors guilt. He was released in May 2020, before the outbreak in the prison began.

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Incarceration, prison, California, survivors guilt, emotion, outbreak, Covid

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https://prisonjournalismproject.org/pjp-stories/chiu-survivorsguilt

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

Jonathan Chiu

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2020-07-07
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