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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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02.09.2022 • Santa Clara County • Segment
Down a Tunnel
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02.04.2022 • Chino • Segment
Very inconsistent
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01.12.2022 • New Folsom • Segment
Front to back
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12.08.2021 • Alameda County • Segment
Don’t have rec time
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12.06.2021 • Santa Clara County • Segment
Good for me
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11.17.2021 • Ventura County • Segment
How program is
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11.09.2021 • Ventura County • Segment
Through a glass
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11.09.2021 • Ventura County • Segment
Occupy our minds
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10.05.2021 • Pelican Bay • Segment
Not being offered
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10.04.2021 • Los Angeles County • Segment
It was working
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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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