Coping

The pandemic brought lockdowns, limited programming, and restrictions on visitations, which tested people’s coping abilities.

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09.17.2021 • Los Angeles MDC • Segment
I caught it again
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05.11.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
The hardest time
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04.27.2021 • Mule Creek • Full Story
Unrelenting cough
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04.27.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
This cruel reality
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04.26.2021 • Vacaville • Full Story
I’m not worthless
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04.26.2021 • Donovan • Full Story
We go hungry
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04.23.2021 • Susanville • Segment
Your cell
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04.05.2021 • Salinas Valley • Segment
Sit in this cage
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03.31.2021 • Centinela • Segment
Not many programs
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02.23.2021 • CMC • Segment
80 percent infection
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By providing a digital archive of stories, UCI PrisonPandemic™ is bringing greater transparency to the COVID-19 crisis in prisons and jails. Made up of faculty and students at the University of California, Irvine, it is an ongoing initiative to collect stories from people incarcerated in California carceral facilities, their family members and loved ones, and the staff who work in these facilities. We will continue to add more stories as we receive them. If you use any material from this site, please reference or link to prisonpandemic.uci.edu. In creating PrisonPandemic, our hope is that the archive will outlive the COVID-19 pandemic and serve as a resource for understanding the unequal toll of the criminal justice system in the United States.

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