Forced to Work

Many incarcerated people felt compelled to work in unsafe jobs during the COVID-19 outbreaks.

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04.28.2021 • Vacaville • Segment
Mold, bugs, rats
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04.21.2021 • Mule Creek • Segment
Purpose of liability
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02.23.2021 • CMC • Segment
Feeling the effects
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02.08.2021 • Soledad • Segment
In the trenches
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12.23.2020 • Chino • Segment
Volunteered my service
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12.14.2020 • Chino • Full Story
Are a number to them
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12.14.2020 • Lancaster • Full Story
Reckless endangerment
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12.03.2020 • CIW • Full Story
No fresh air
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11.09.2020 • Susanville • Segment
Mask mandated
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11.06.2020 • Chuckawalla • Segment
Life in danger
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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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