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“In 12 years, I never saw so many people moved in so little time” — Transfers at Chuckawalla Prison Led to Devastating COVID-19 Outbreaks

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|Date: November 02, 2020
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“In 12 years, I never saw so many people moved in so little time” — Transfers at Chuckawalla Prison Led to Devastating COVID-19 Outbreaks

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives BLYTHE, CA –– On May 15, 2020, Chuc ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives BLYTHE, CA –– On May 15, 2020, Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP) confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus. A month later, ...

November 02, 2020
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California Court Requires San Quentin to Reduce Population by Fifty Percent

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: October 26, 2020
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California Court Requires San Quentin to Reduce Population by Fifty Percent

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The COVID-19 pandemic has now claim ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The COVID-19 pandemic has now claimed the lives of 28 incarcerated individuals and one guard. 55-year-old Ron Lee Joffrion survive ...

October 26, 2020
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CA Appellate Court Finds CDCR, Warden of San Quentin Behaved with ‘Deliberate Indifference’ in COVID-19 Response

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: October 21, 2020
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CA Appellate Court Finds CDCR, Warden of San Quentin Behaved with ‘Deliberate Indifference’ in COVID-19 Response

By Madison Forwood MARIN COUNTY – California First District Appellate Court has stated that the warden of ...

By Madison Forwood MARIN COUNTY – California First District Appellate Court has stated that the warden of San Quentin Prison and California Dept. of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have behaved w ...

October 21, 2020
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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: October 19, 2020
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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release pr ...

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release prisoners in light of the threat to COVID-19 shows promise of moving forward efficiently with Mar ...

October 19, 2020
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CDCR Reports Deuel Vocational Institution Shutting Down Due to COVID-19 State Budget Cuts

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: October 12, 2020
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CDCR Reports Deuel Vocational Institution Shutting Down Due to COVID-19 State Budget Cuts

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives This week, we are highlighting a narrative ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives This week, we are highlighting a narrative from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York. Adapting to life in a 30-man communal ...

October 12, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin; Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: October 05, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin; Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the barbed wire fence at Folsom State Prison was supposed to mark the end of a grueling 22-year se ...

October 05, 2020
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State Prison Transport Delays and Pandemic Cause Convicted to Do More Time

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 27, 2020
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State Prison Transport Delays and Pandemic Cause Convicted to Do More Time

By Susana Jurado SACRAMENTO – It’s a little like a higher math problem—the bottom line, as Assistant Publ ...

By Susana Jurado SACRAMENTO – It’s a little like a higher math problem—the bottom line, as Assistant Public Defender Pamela Dominisse explained here in Sacramento County Superior Court, is that becaus ...

September 27, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: September 20, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner This visualization is created by the Covid In-Custody Project - ...

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner This visualization is created by the Covid In-Custody Project -- an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on ...

September 20, 2020
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Families of Those Who Died of COVID-19 in San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits; Outbreak in Folsom State Prison Continues

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: September 20, 2020
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Families of Those Who Died of COVID-19 in San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits; Outbreak in Folsom State Prison Continues

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marsh ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marshall Project, incarcerated writer Michele Scott testifies to the conditions within the world’s l ...

September 20, 2020
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CDCR Inmate to Face Trial after Bunk Mate Found Unresponsive in Cell

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 20, 2020
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CDCR Inmate to Face Trial after Bunk Mate Found Unresponsive in Cell

By Danae Snell SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court preliminary hearing here exposed the parti ...

By Danae Snell SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court preliminary hearing here exposed the particular circumstances of inmate Darryl Staples, who was found unresponsive in a pool of his own b ...

September 20, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19; Gov. Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: September 13, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19; Gov. Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For th ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For the past three days, Thanh Tran laid in a fetal position fighting off COVID-19. In Tran’s buildin ...

September 13, 2020
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Quarantine Becomes Solitary Confinement at San Quentin; Two More Deaths This Week

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: September 06, 2020
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Quarantine Becomes Solitary Confinement at San Quentin; Two More Deaths This Week

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband contracte ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband contracted COVID-19 back in July while serving time at San Quentin Prison. Although he has since recover ...

September 06, 2020
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Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Claims Jail Population is Increasing as CDCR Refuses Transfers

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 31, 2020
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Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Claims Jail Population is Increasing as CDCR Refuses Transfers

By Linh Nguyen Jail News At the beginning of the week, the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, burning about 20 m ...

By Linh Nguyen Jail News At the beginning of the week, the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, burning about 20 miles from Santa Rita Jail, threatened the safety of the population with smoke that made breathi ...

August 31, 2020
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San Quentin News Relaunched, Victims Raise Concerns As CDCR Continues To Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 30, 2020
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San Quentin News Relaunched, Victims Raise Concerns As CDCR Continues To Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Aug. 28, there ar ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Aug. 28, there are a total of 10,377 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the CDCR system - 859 of them emerged in the la ...

August 30, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 30, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, fil ...

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, filling his 250-year-long sentence with art as an illustrative journalist and comic book artist. T ...

August 30, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 23, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas recently shared an excerpt with Business Insider discussing the state of COVID-19 inside San Qu ...

August 23, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 20, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 ...

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 has an enhanced chance of spreading, it didn’t help San Quentin State Prison on June 1 when 122 ...

August 20, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the Califo ...

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the California Dept. Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) ignored the Marin County Health Official warni ...

August 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 16, 2020
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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narrati ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narratives Despite the outbreak raging through San Quentin, several journalists from the San Quentin n ...

August 16, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San ...

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San Quentin and CDCR as a whole has emerged with a public health crisis—critics charge largely of ...

August 13, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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