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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09.28.2023 • Vacaville • Segment
This is not living
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06.09.2022 • New Folsom • Segment
Lockdown for a year
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
They never answer
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
You’re in the hole
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
Not handling it well
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
Health issues
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
Once in a lifetime
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Full Story
Call from Chino, February 4, 2022, #94412
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
Everybody caught it
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
It’s on pause
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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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