Central Valley, California, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Our bus hurtled along in the downhill grade into the Central Valley."

"They kicked him down the Central Valley like a can down a hallway."

"…men in construction and farming, who made it seem as if the Central Valley was not about prison."

"The whole world, at least this one, the Central Valley, from the mountains to the western horizon, was a gigantic prison."

"2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley."