Winter Surge

Similar to communities across the country, carceral facilities experienced COVID-19 outbreaks during Winter 2020-2021.

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04.26.2021 • Vacaville • Segment
I slept for days
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04.26.2021 • New Folsom • Full Story
200 cases one day
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04.26.2021 • New Folsom • Full Story
Within two weeks
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04.01.2021 • Calipatria • Segment
On our deathbed
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03.22.2021 • Valley State • Segment
A breeding ground
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03.22.2021 • Pleasant Valley • Segment
Aware of the danger
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01.21.2021 • Centinela • Segment
Spreading COVID
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01.13.2021 • Ironwood • Full Story
Deliberately exposed
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12.28.2020 • Soledad • Segment
300 positive cases
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12.21.2020 • Solano • Segment
We’re COVID patients
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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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