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Collected Item: “Covid Continues to Take the Lives of People Who Are Incarcerated”

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Covid Continues to Take the Lives of People Who Are Incarcerated

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images

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is a Twitter post and replies discussing the risk of people in U.S. prisons and jails of dying from Covid-19. The main argument is whether incarcerated people should be released early or placed on house arrest so they can effectively prevent themselves from being exposed to covid-19 or does this present a public safety risk.

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prison, jail, incarceration, covid, Twitter, Tweet, early release

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https://twitter.com/ILiveinAsia_/status/1275088775035715585

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

Mozelle Batiste Delacroix

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2020-06-22
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