PRISONPANDEMIC: BULIDING AN ARCHIVE OF INCARCERATED VOICES DURING COVID-19

SS 311 PRISONPANDEMIC: BUILDING AN ARCHIVE OF INCARCERATED VOICES DURING COVID-19
Format B/C

San Quentin Prison was the epicenter of one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States. People in U.S. prisons in 2020 were five times as likely to get COVID-19 and three times as likely to
die from COVID-19 as non-incarcerated people. UCI’s PrisonPandemic project gives a voice to these numbers. The project collected thousands of incarcerated people’s stories of struggling to survive in prison during the global pandemic. The project provides:

¦ a model for incorporating marginalized voices into public policy research
¦ why the pandemic was so deadly for incarcerated people
¦ insights into what people experienced in prison quarantines from 2020-22

Presenter: Keramet Reiter, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, Department of Jurisprudence & Social Policy. She is the co-founder of the UCI PrisonPandemic project.

Developer: Al Fuller and Mel Roth

Thursday, May 4; 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM