State Prisons

There are 35 prisons throughout CA, housing a total of 96,000 people. An estimated 54% of incarcerated people have tested positive for COVID-19.

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10.05.2021 • Pelican Bay • Full Story
Call from Pelican Bay, October 5, 2021, #33525
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10.05.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
Breakthrough cases
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10.05.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
Not being offered
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09.20.2021 • Pelican Bay • Full Story
Call from Pelican Bay, September 20, 2021, #34490
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09.20.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
Variant outbreak
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09.20.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
Several complaints
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09.07.2021 • Pelican Bay • Full Story
Call from Pelican Bay, September 7, 2021, #20161
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09.07.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
They oppress you
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09.07.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
They were moved away
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05.26.2021 • Mule Creek • Segment
It’s a little scary
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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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