Visitation

COVID-19 shut down visitation across prisons. Incarcerated people went more than a year without seeing their loved ones.

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05.09.2021 • Kern Valley • Full Story
Has been rough
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04.23.2021 • Salinas Valley • Segment
Sharing my truth
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03.16.2021 • Wasco • Full Story
Without any contact
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03.11.2021 • Tracy • Full Story
The biggest toll
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02.21.2021 • Wasco • Full Story
Can’t do anything
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02.16.2021 • Delano • Segment
Don’t hear from them
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02.11.2021 • Valley State • Full Story
24-hour confinement
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02.08.2021 • Norco • Full Story
Angry at the prison
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01.29.2021 • High Desert • Full Story
It’s been tough
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12.21.2020 • Chowchilla • Segment
Positive vibes
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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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