Sheltering Justice: Stories from the Intersection of COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration

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Sheltering Justice: Stories from the Intersection of COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration

Description

Sheltering Justice: Stories from the Intersection of COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration aims to document, archive, and share stories about the real time impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives, health, and well-being of our communities and the compounding impact of incarceration.

Source

Inside Books Project

Publisher

Texas After Violence Project
Inside Books Project Archive

Contributor

Texas After Violence Project

Rights

Public -- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Language

English, Spanish

Is Part Of

After Violence Archive

Collection Items

Letter from Lily Archuleta
A letter from Lily Archuleta to Texas After Violence Project and the Inside Books Project Archive. Lily describes her experience contracting Covid-19 in a Texas prison, dealing with isolation during her illness, and lack of of visitation with her…

"Justice is a Lie"
"Poem to show that (JUSTICE IS A LIE) Because Governments, Polices, Politician use the law as a [?] to scheme and pervent the law and hide behind the law the same law you suppose to uphold you are caught breaking the same laws?"

"Problems at Polunsky"
"This is a informative essay/Public Service Announcement/cry for help regard the issues of COVID era Polunsky Unit and how to fix the trapped cooped up in the cell prolem."

"Data Manipulation by Prison"
"Testimony: COVID-19 response on Wynne Unit"

"Helpless During a Pandemic"
"I would like people to know what we are going through during a pandemic while incarcerated."

"A Broken System"
"To many times we are FORCED to Act innappropriatly to get a Ear to Listen and the Medicol and few officers would Rather Lie than Really Help

"A Letter and a Poem"
"Just wanted to tell you how life is in here, how I cope and make it through each day. How to stay busy, and think, and be healthy."

Innocence Lost
"True story of my life's consequences."

Our Pandemic
"The pandemic has changed a lot of things but won't change human nature."

Social Distancing is a Joke
"Workers must violate social distancing in the kitchen then return to wings all over the prison. Covid-19 prevention is a joke at Allred Unit."

Effects Covid Caused
"My perspective and experience in prison during the pandemic"

Oppression of TDCJ Prison
"How we are being oppressed daily in Prison!"

Covid 19 Runs Wild on the Stiles Unit
"Exposé about some of the conditions that allowed Covid 19 to spread so thoroughly/personal battle with Covid 19"

We Saw It Coming
"Re: The routine of inmates from one wing of a prison unit that's been under lockdown for over 3-months and how they're coping."

Count Your Blessings

Covid-19 in Lockhart Private Prison
"Covid-19: A prisoner's perspective"

Texas Department of Criminal Failure
"A condensed overview of how and why the Texas Prison System continues to fail."

Covid and K-2 Pandemic
"A sound description of my experience with COVID-19 and K-2 while incarcerated"

A Letter from the Inside
"This is a letter to bring forth the awareness of the awful conditions of T.D.C.J. inmates have to currently endure."

Texas Ad-Seg / Covid-19 / Seg Lives Matter
"Discrimination by TDCJ in reference to how (restrictive housing/ad seg 'offenders') are treated and closed off from family and education."
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