No better treatment

12.08.2020 • Chowchilla • Full Story

This letter was written by a person incarcerated at Chowchilla.

Thank you for your correspondence. Health care for me personally has been good. I’m diabetic, have pacemaker, hypothyroid, and a mild stroke all being addressed and feel I could get no better treatment elsewhere.

I admire those of you who go into the medical care profession and wish you all the best. Stay safe, especially during this pandemic.

Have a blessed holiday season.

Thanks again,

73 year-old woman of color, in prison 30 years

MORE STORIES FROM THIS FACILITY

12.04.2020 • Chowchilla• Letter
Horrible here
LISTEN
12.22.2020 • Chowchilla• Letter
The pandemic has hit
LISTEN
05.14.2021 • Chowchilla• Letter
Everything was delayed
LISTEN
Take Action
Shine a light on this crisis and share these
stories with your network today!
Find us on social media
@UCIprisonpndmic

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.

TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT, donate here.