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PrisonPandemic has collected stories from all 35 state prisons in California, as well as many of the jails, federal prisons, and ICE facilities in the state. We continue to update the website with new stories.

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01.05.2022 • Merced County • Full Story
It’s even worse
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01.03.2022 • Ventura County • Segment
More unsanitary
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01.03.2022 • Ventura County • Full Story
Call from Ventura County Main Jail, January 3, 2022, #11818
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01.03.2022 • Ventura County • Segment
More than 10 days
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12.23.2021 • Ventura County • Segment
Just disgusting
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12.23.2021 • Ventura County • Segment
Slammed down
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12.23.2021 • Ventura County • Full Story
Call from Ventura County Main Jail, December 23, 2021, #95494
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12.15.2021 • Ventura County • Full Story
Don’t sanitize
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11.30.2021 • Ventura County • Full Story
Hard timing
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11.29.2021 • ICE Detention Centers • Segment
Told them I was sick
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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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