Underlying Health Issues

Incarcerated individuals are more susceptible to infectious diseases due to inadequate access to care prior to incarceration, unsanitary and overcrowded conditions during incarceration, and poor access to health-care services in prison. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these vulnerabilities.

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04.23.2021 • Stockton • Segment
Approving transfers
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04.02.2021 • Valley State • Full Story
Getting better
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02.23.2021 • Pleasant Valley • Segment
Not out of the woods
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01.11.2021 • Vacaville • Full Story
Dropping like flies
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01.05.2021 • Corcoran • Segment
Negligence
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12.29.2020 • Mule Creek • Segment
No access to doctor
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12.11.2020 • Chuckawalla • Segment
Popped up positive
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11.27.2020 • Chuckawalla • Segment
Kept moving people
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11.13.2020 • San Quentin • Segment
Telehealth
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11.13.2020 • San Quentin • Segment
Crowded in here
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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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