Collected Item: “Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/30-09/05/2020 by Railroad Underground”
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Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/30-09/05/2020 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 forever loosing his right to vote because he is now a felon, the logic of incarceration where people are told everyday how worthless they are as a way to make them "fit" into society, the daily request he receives to send or receive messages on his contraband cell phone, that the phone represents hope, a dream about Donald Trump, he never had role models growing up but now has them inside prison and they are other incarcerated people, and his greatest fear is not knowing. He says that used to relate to not knowing when he would get out, or if his parents would die before he is released but Covid has changed this into not knowing when he will be allowed to shower or get a bar of soap.
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HSE, incarceration, cell phone, vote, death, SOS, contraband, hope, Twitter
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https://twitter.com/RailroadUnderg1
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2020-08-30