COVID-19 Behind Bars: Stories of the Pandemic

As part of KPFA’s on-going coverage of COVID-19 outbreaks in California prisons and ICE detention centers, we bring you this series featuring the words of incarcerated and detained people and their loved ones.

Click on a link below to read and hear more:

 

What happens when you get COVID-19 inside
Santa Rita Jail… and then get released?

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

 

No human being should have to live that way“:
Inside Central California Women’s Facility

 

Everybody fears for their life in here“:
Inside ICE detention in Yuba County Jail, Part 1

 

Who will make it out alive is a gamble“:
Inside ICE detention in Yuba County Jail, Part 2

 

I really just want to die“:
Inside Pleasant Valley State Prison

 

All they see around them is death or infections“:
California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi

 

He’s losing people left and right“:
Inside San Quentin State Prison

 

My days are spent in survival mode“:
Inside the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran

 

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Reported and produced by Lucy Kang