(In)access to Outdoors

This collection highlights people’s inability to leave their cells, or go outside at all during pandemic lockdowns. Having no access to the outside environment means more than a lack of fresh air or an inability to see the sky; it means lost contact with friends and family through limited phone access; it means lack of access to healthcare.

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04.23.2021 • Susanville • Segment
Your cell
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04.13.2021 • Valley State • Segment
Constant moving
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04.12.2021 • Folsom • Segment
Impossible to dodge
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04.05.2021 • Salinas Valley • Segment
Sit in this cage
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02.23.2021 • Pleasant Valley • Segment
Not out of the woods
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01.05.2021 • Corcoran • Segment
Negligence
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12.31.2020 • Soledad • Segment
The walls get sweaty
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12.29.2020 • Mule Creek • Segment
No access to doctor
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12.03.2020 • CIW • Full Story
No fresh air
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10.27.2020 • Soledad • Segment
Size of the bathroom
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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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