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COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: Virus Spreads Through Inmate Populations and Staff
Title (Dublin Core)
COVID-19 Inside Arkansas Prisons: Virus Spreads Through Inmate Populations and Staff
Description (Dublin Core)
This article is the first of a three-part series covering the covid pandemic inside the Arkansas State Corrections facilities. NPR reporter, Anna Stitt, interviewed several prisoners and focused her reporting on the Cummins Unit, the state’s largest and oldest facility. While no cases were reported inside the prison until one month after the state had issued a stay at home order, once the virus entered the facility it spread quickly. Stitt covers the different stories reported by employees and officials as opposed to the inmates at the prison and other facilities in the state. The inmates report lack of access to bathroom facilities, being ignored when sick, and many other problems. The officials on the other hand tell a very different story.
Cummins, Arkansas, incarceration, prison, farm, covid, quarantine, testing
HST 580
Date (Dublin Core)
June 8, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Anna Stitt
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Distance
English
Labor
English
Government State
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Cummins
Arkansas
inmates
farm
Covid-19
quarantine
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Deathways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/13/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/18/2020
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This item was submitted on June 13, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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