Socially (Un)Distant

One of the primary means of preventing COVID-19, as recommended by the CDC, is social distancing. Social distancing is impossible in prison, where overcrowding is rampant, protective equipment is scarce, and infection rates are five times as high as in the general population.

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04.28.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
Refused to test
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04.27.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
Death certificate
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03.22.2021 • Valley State • Segment
A breeding ground
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03.17.2021 • Fire Camps • Full Story
Concentration camp
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03.16.2021 • Fire Camps • Segment
Sardines in a can
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02.12.2021 • CMC • Segment
Not really isolation
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01.13.2021 • Ironwood • Full Story
Deliberately exposed
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12.28.2020 • Mule Creek • Segment
Quarantine
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12.21.2020 • Solano • Segment
Bare minimum
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12.07.2020 • Tehachapi • Segment
Hardship
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ABOUT PRISONPANDEMIC™

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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