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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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10.05.2023 • Los Angeles County • Segment
Not the visit guy
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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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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
My concerns
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
A damaging effect
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
Eaten up by bed bugs
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
Fool the public
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
Re-infect us
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Full Story
Call from Santa Rita Jail, February 25, 2022
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02.25.2022 • Alameda County • Segment
Discrimination
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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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