A Prepaid Call for Help: Prisons in a Pandemic

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Identifier: 000024130
Alt Identifier: cip.2020.03.12
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Date: July 2020, July 2020
Description (An inmate at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Facility (near Jarratt, VA) speaks on the phone with producer Madison Buchanon about Covid-19 conditions in the prison. He states that proper safety precautions are not being taken in the mental health unit where he is located and expresses his fear of contracting the virus, along with doubts that he will receive proper medical attention. The call is made on a pre-paid phone card, which inmates must purchase to make phone calls. Produced as part of the series A Mask on the Mountains: Dimensions of Covid-19 in Appalachia, a project of Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute.): An inmate at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Facility (near Jarratt, VA) speaks on the phone with producer Madison Buchanon about Covid-19 conditions in the prison. He states that proper safety precautions are not being taken in the mental health unit where he is located and expresses his fear of contracting the virus, along with doubts that he will receive proper medical attention. The call is made on a pre-paid phone card, which inmates must purchase to make phone calls. Produced as part of the series A Mask on the Mountains: Dimensions of Covid-19 in Appalachia, a project of Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute.
Media Type: Sound

Subjects

Covid-19, Incarceration, Creating in Place project, A Mask on the Mountains

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This digital object may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media without express written consent from the copyright holder and Appalshop, Inc.

External Links

Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute

Related Collection

Creating in Place Project Collection

Related Places

Letcher County, KY

Greensville County, VA

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