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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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12.01.2021 • Santa Clara County • Segment
Very cautious
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12.01.2021 • Santa Clara County • Segment
Enough information
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06.04.2021 • Riverside County • Full Story
Call from John J. Benoit Detention Center, June 4, 2021, #4897
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05.18.2021 • Corcoran • Segment
Ain’t on death row
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05.18.2021 • Corcoran • Segment
Jump through hoops
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05.18.2021 • Corcoran • Full Story
Call from Corcoran, May 18, 2021, #91678
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05.14.2021 • Corcoran • Segment
Very hard on us
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05.14.2021 • Chowchilla • Segment
Really worrisome
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05.14.2021 • Chowchilla • Segment
Everything was delayed
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05.14.2021 • Chowchilla • Full Story
Call from Chowchilla, May 14, 2021, #41045
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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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