State Prisons

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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05.26.2021 • Mule Creek • Segment
It’s a little scary
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05.26.2021 • Mule Creek • Full Story
Call from Mule Creek, May 26, 2021, #3890
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05.18.2021 • Avenal • Full Story
A huge delay
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05.17.2021 • Mule Creek • Full Story
Letter from Mule Creek, May 17, 2021, #4974
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05.17.2021 • Mule Creek • Full Story
A safety risk
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05.17.2021 • Mule Creek • Full Story
Budget motivated
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05.17.2021 • Mule Creek • Segment
An inconvenience
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05.13.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
A slow death
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05.13.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
The hardest time
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05.13.2021 • Kern Valley • Segment
It nearly killed me
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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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