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Tweets from Inside a Prison 5/31-6/6/2020 by Railroaded Underground

Title (Dublin Core)

Tweets from Inside a Prison 5/31-6/6/2020 by Railroaded Underground

Description (Dublin Core)

These images show the tweets from an incarcerated person, using a contraband cell phone to tell the world what it is like to be incarcerated during the pandemic. This week he continues to talk about the murder of George Floyd by the police, protestors and violence against them, his own fear of white officers in his prison which he blames on systemic racism, states his views on defunding police and the need for new politicians and laws, as well as fear of prison transfers spreading the virus.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

@RailroadUnderg1

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

images

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Twitter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Politics
English Government Federal
English Social Issues
English Race & Ethnicity

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

social justice
defund the police
police
transfer
spread
violence
systemic racism
law

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Social Justice
Law Enforcement

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/11/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/25/2020
02/05/2021
08/02/2022
10/05/2024

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This item was submitted on July 11, 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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