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Collected Item: “Incarcerated people are humans, with human rights”

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Incarcerated people are humans, with human rights

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images

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This series of Tweets illustrates the number of Covid cases inside of prisons that go largely unnoticed by the general public. It also points to a larger problem of seeing "inmates", those who should be referred to in people first language as incarcerated persons, as fully human.

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incarceration, prison, Twitter, inmate, language, outrage, cases, testing

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https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1310982700539326464

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Adnan Khan

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2020-09-29
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