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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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09.10.2021 • Fresno County • Segment
They offer us money
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09.10.2021 • Fresno County • Segment
The pod
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09.09.2021 • USP Atwater • Full Story
My past mistakes
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09.09.2021 • USP Atwater • Segment
The only choice
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09.08.2021 • USP Atwater • Segment
Precautionary steps
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09.07.2021 • San Joaquin County • Segment
That’s the only way
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09.07.2021 • San Joaquin County • Segment
It is just deflating
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09.01.2021 • Fresno County • Segment
It’s a hardship
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08.31.2021 • San Joaquin County • Segment
How it is so far
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08.31.2021 • San Joaquin County • Segment
No free calls
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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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