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Collected Item: “Hand sanitizer donation accepted at San Quentin never reached the inmates”

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Hand sanitizer donation accepted at San Quentin never reached the inmates

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These are images of a Tweet and the responses explaining how rapper, E-40, donated hand sanitizer to San Quentin for their incarcerated people and it never got to a single inmate. Many of the respondents believe the prison staff took it for their own use or to sell it.

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hand sanitizer, donation, San Quentin, prison, incarceration, stolen, sold

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https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1287449097209749506

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Adnan Khan

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2020-07-26
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