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• Significantly Reduces Prison Operating Costs.
• (NASDAQ: ALAN) announced today the completion of a comprehensive Cost Reduction Planning Guide (CRPG) to assist prison administrators in calculating operating cost reductions made possible by Alanco’s TSI PRISM™ system.
• The CRPG was developed after two years of TSI PRISM testing in a California State Prison. ... Small has had a distinguished career, spanning over twenty-eight years with the California Department of Corrections and was the principal design manager on several major California prison sites including Pelican Bay State Prison, Corcoran State Prison and the Richard J. ... Small served as a member of the California Department of Corrections Technology Transfer Committee for six years.
• Analysis of the testing data revealed that the TSI PRISM system technology can provide a dramatic reduction in prison operating costs in the areas of staff overtime, medical expense, investigations, litigation costs resulting from injury or sexual abuse, workers’ compensation and inmate food costs. ...
• Small said, “The California experience clearly demonstrates the potential of the TSI PRISM™ system to make our nation’s prisons not only a much safer place for both staff and inmates, but also significantly reduce operating costs. ...
• TSI has developed a state-of-the-art wireless RFID tracking technology featuring proprietary software and patented hardware components, marketed as the TSI PRISM system. The TSI PRISM system is utilized for area security management and personnel monitoring with present market focus on the corrections industry, where the system provides continuous, real-time prison inmate and officer identification and tracking capabilities indoors and out. ...

• Corcoran State Prison Links.
• (CBS) If you're interested in finding out more about Corcoran State Prison, there is plenty of information on the Web. ...
• AZ Prison Reform Committee: This site is dedicated to prison reform, and provides a close look at the history of prisons and inmate abuse. ...
• California Department of Corrections: This is the home page for California's Department of Corrections. It provides an in-depth look at Corcoran and the California prison system. ...
• The Corcoran Prison Fact Sheet: The Sonoma County Free Press created this comprehensive fact sheet about Corcoran and its history. ...
• California Prison Focus: This is the online home for a community of groups working for prisoners' rights, alternatives to incarceration, prisoner support and prison abolition. ...

• US Global Lead in Imprisonment Still Safe: State Prison Populations Begin to Decline but Feds Make Up Difference 8/17/01 .
• According to a report released this week by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of state prison inmates declined in the last six months of 2000, marking an end to three decades of unbroken increases: The last such decline was in 1972. But because of the continuing rapid growth of the federal prison system, the number of people behind bars actually increased, although only by a sluggish 1. ...
• Whether the relative stagnation in the US jail and prison population is a fluke or represents the beginning of the end of America's decades-long prison binge remains to be seen. ...
• But University of California-Berkeley criminologist Franklin Zimring was more upbeat. "There are young adults who have never drawn a breath in the United States during a period when the prison population wasn't growing," he told the Associated Press. "Until now, the full-time business of prisons has been the growth of the prison population. ...
• The actual decline in state prisoners in the last half of last year comes amid slowing rates of increase for the last few years. For the 1990s as a whole, the annual growth rate was 6%, but by the end of the first half of 2000, state prison population growth was virtually nil (http://www. ...
• Others, such as changes in the likelihood of parole -- up from 1-in-6 of those eligible to 1-in-4 during the mid-1990's -- and the emerging trend toward less resort to parole violation for picayune offenses, reflect growing concern over the cost of housing prisoners, as evidenced in legislative debates across the country this year over sentencing policy and prison costs. ...
• Pointing to the experience of Arizona, which has diverted more than 2,500 drug offenders from prison into treatment, the Sentencing Project wrote: "While it is too early to evaluate the impact of these sentencing options nationally, some state programs appear to be diverting offenders from incarceration. ...
• With California's Proposition 36 now in effect -- it alone is predicted to divert 25,000 people from California prisons each year -- and organizers vowing similar efforts in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida, the impact of the turn to "treatment not jail" on prison populations should increase. ...
• Despite the headlines about declining state prison populations, the BJS report still paints a grim picture. ...
• The federal prison system, driven by mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws and "truth in sentencing" no-parole schemes, continues its rapid growth. As the Justice Policy Institute noted in its response to the report, "The federal prison system, which is now the third biggest prison system in the United States, grew at 10 times the rate of the state prison systems in 2000. Over the last twenty years, the number of people under the jurisdiction of the federal prison system has soared from 24,363 to 145,416 today. Recently, the executive director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that 30 new federal prisons would open in the next seven years, adding about 50,000 prison beds to this system. ...

• Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year.
• If sweeping changes in prison visitation rules proposed by the California Department of Corrections (CDC) become law, Marie's experience is likely to be repeated in state prisons across the state, where prisoners with drug-related convictions will be barred for the first year of their terms from contact visits with anyone, including their children. Often a rule of incarceration in county jails, a ban on contact visits in state prisons, where inmates serve much longer sentences, is rare. ...
• Decades of research, including at least one study commissioned by the CDC, have concluded that prison inmates do better when they get visits with the ones they love. In terms of both rehabilitation and development, incarcerated parents and their children benefit from time together: The adults are less likely to return to prison; the children do better with emotional adjustment, behavior, even with I. ...
• But a baby looking at himself in a glass partition cannot smuggle drugs to his parents, say California prison officials, who maintain that visitation is a point of transfer for drugs from outside. ... In fact, additional changes proposed by the CDC include a rule that would limit kisses between inmates and visitors to five seconds or less, and another that would prohibit fathers in prison from holding children older than 7 on their lap at any time, a step that officials say is aimed at preventing potential molestation. ...
• She testified that her husband is serving a life sentence at Folsom State Prison on a third-strike burglary conviction. ...
• Adds Donna Wilmott, family advocacy coordinator at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children in San Francisco and herself a former prisoner: "These new regulations criminalize family members, saying that if you care about somebody in prison, you're suspect. ...
• The California crackdown on contact visits comes at a time when state prisoners are being held mainly in remote rural areas, and visitation already has dropped off dramatically nationwide due to the inability of inmate relatives to get to their loved ones behind bars. According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, 60 percent of parents in state prison nationwide report being held over 100 miles from home. ...
• By 1999, when the Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted its own major survey, 54 percent of mothers in state prisons -- nearly all of which allow contact visits, reported never having had a visit from their children. ...

•  • California & the West .
• Report alleges state prison coverup.
• Citing evidence of a massive coverup within the highest levels of California's corrections department, a court-appointed investigator has found that the state's prison system has ``lost control'' of its ability to investigate and discipline guards for abusing inmates and is in dire need of major reforms.
• The 80-page report, prepared for a San Francisco federal judge and released Thursday, is a scathing denunciation of the California Department of Corrections. ... , could be prosecuted for defying court orders to clean up Pelican Bay State Prison and for lying during a probe into how the CDC handled ongoing misdeeds by prison guards at the state's toughest maximum-security prison, located near the Oregon border.
• The report describes a CDC administration under the control of the state's powerful prison guard union and willing to abdicate its internal discipline procedures to maintain a dangerous ``code of silence'' about inmate abuses such as beatings and staging fights among prisoners.
• ``It's a shocking document,'' said state Sen. ...
• Hagar said the ``code of silence'' hinders the ability of investigators to pursue claims of prison guard misconduct, a problem not just at Pelican Bay but at prisons throughout the state.
• The report's release comes at a time when the state's prison system and its leadership are under increased scrutiny -- and the report places the onus for reforms squarely on the new administration of Gov. ... Without reforms, Henderson, who has overseen conditions at Pelican Bay for more than 10 years, could force changes upon the state if he accepts Hagar's findings.
• As a cost-cutting measure, Schwarzenegger has recommended folding an independent watchdog office responsible for investigating complaints against prison guards into California's adult and youth authority. That move, however, is strongly opposed by Speier and state Sen. ...
• Schwarzenegger's staff referred questions about the report to the prison authority, which oversees the corrections department and is under the leadership of a new secretary, Rod Hickman. ...
• Hagar's report found that the code of silence is carried out, unchecked, by the state's politically influential prison guards' union, a strong supporter of former Govs. ...
• The perjury allegations arose during the 2002 trial of two former Pelican Bay guards, Edward Michael Powers and Jose Garcia, who were convicted and sentenced to federal prison for violating inmates' rights by attacking them or letting other inmates attack them. ...
• ``It's a total indictment of their integrity and ability to police themselves,'' said Don Specter, lead attorney for the Prison Law Office, which has pressed the long-running civil rights case against Pelican Bay.

• Ninth Circuit Rejects State Officials’ Challenge to Muslim Prison Inmates’ Friday Prayers.
• Muslim prison inmates will continue to be able to attend Friday afternoon religious services over the objection of California state prison officials under a ruling Friday by the Ninth U. ...
• The court rejected the state challenge to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, which Congress passed in part to allow prisoners the right to participate in worship services while incarcerated.
• Karlton of the Eastern District of California. Karlton blocked prison officials from denying good time credits to inmates at the state prison in Solano who attended Friday Jumu’ah services.
• “The federal government also has a strong interest in monitoring the treatment of federal inmates housed in state prisons and in contributing to their rehabilitation. ...

• State Regulation of Private Schools - June 2000.
• California.
• California provides significant educational opportunities and health programs to private school students. ...
• The record is subject to inspection by the Department of the California Highway Patrol. ...
• The affidavit must contain the following information: 1) all names under which it has done and is doing business; 2) address of every place of business in California; 3) location of records and custodian of records; 4) names and addresses of directors and principal officers; 5) school enrollment by grades, number of teachers, coeducational or enrollment limited to boys or girls and boarding facilities; 6) that school attendance records, courses of study, and faculty information records maintained by the school are true and accurate; and 7) that criminal record summary information for employees has been obtained pursuant to Section 44237. ...
• The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing must forward to private schools on a monthly basis a list of all teachers who have had their state teaching credential revoked or suspended. ...
• Curriculum: Students attending private schools are exempt from California's compulsory attendance law if the schools offer instruction in the several branches of study required in the public schools of the state. ...
• Special Education: California's Community Mental Health Services publicly place students with serious emotional disturbances in private schools. ...
• Private schools serving exceptional need students under a state contract must comply with state provisions governing the suspension of pupils with previously identified exceptional needs and the use of behavioral interventions with exceptional need students. ...
• Nonpublic schools are represented on California's Local Pilot Program Advisory Committee serving students with exceptional needs. ...
• California publicly places students with exceptional needs in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. ...
• Health: California provides financial assistance to private and parochial schools under the Child Nutrition Program. ...
• Private elementary and secondary schools cannot unconditionally admit a student unless he has been fully immunized for: diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae type b (except for children who have reached the age of 4 years, six months), measles, mumps and pertussis (except for students who have reached 7 years), poliomyelitis, rubella, tetanus and any other disease deemed appropriate by the State Department of Health Services. ...
• Under the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program for Medicaid Recipients, private schools with first grade students and/or kindergartners are required to report by January 15 of each year to the State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Education: (1) the total number of children enrolled in first grade; (2) the number of children who have had a health screening examination; and (3) the number of children whose parents waived the health screening examination. ...
• Private elementary and secondary students are eligible to receive the topical application of fluoride or other decay-inhibiting agent to the teeth through the State Department of Health Services within the school year. ...
• Safety: Private school buildings are subject to an annual inspection through the State Fire Marshall's office. ...

• Should the state buy Canadian prescription drugs for resale to citizens? .
• Bay & State.
• Prison guards formed a gang.
• SACRAMENTO - Guards at a California state prison formed their own gang-like organization, inventing hand signals and codes to telegraph their membership to inmates and other officers, state investigators concluded in a confidential report this month.
• The Office of Inspector General found that a group of correctional officers at Salinas Valley State Prison near Soledad formed an alliance in 1999 that they called the "Green Wall," after the color of their uniforms.
• "Numerous incidents" involving the group took place over the next two years, including the vandalizing of prison property with markings of "GW" and "7/23," which stood for the seventh (G) and 23rd (W) letters of the alphabet.
• Members developed a hand signal -- fingers folded into the shape of a W -- to "represent" their alliance to inmates and other employees, a whistleblower testified to a joint state Senate committee hearing last week.
• The prison's own internal investigators smuggled into the prison a green-handled knife engraved with "7/23" as a promotion gift for a sergeant, according to the report obtained by the Associated Press.
• LaMarque had a special relationship with several members of the prison's internal affairs unit, the report found: He ignored reports that they might be involved in the Green Wall, and refused to transfer them during an investigation of allegations that they used excessive force against inmates and engaged in other misconduct.
• The warden "wouldn't be able to comment because it's pending litigation right now," said prison spokesman Lt. ...
• 5 report was sent to the California Department of Corrections for "appropriate action," but department spokesman Bob Martinez said he could not comment because the report is supposed to be confidential.
• Other problems in the prison system recently have come to light.
• And in hearings before the state Senate last week in which the investigation was cited, witnesses testified that the state's prison system is "rotten," unable to reform itself, punishes employees who report corruption, is greatly susceptible to union pressure and is on the verge of a federal takeover.
• Vodicka sued the state and corrections officials in September for allegedly violating his whistleblower rights by retaliating against him with a demotion, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress. ...

• The Prison Industrial Complex .
• The Prison Industrial Complex. ...
• Up until 1970s in the US about 110 prison inmates for every 100,000 people; 1990s - 445 per 100,000; among adult men it is about 1,100 per 100,000. ...
• In 1977 the inmate population of California was 19,600. ... 2 billion on prison construction over the past fifteen years, California now has not only the largest but also the most overcrowded prison system in the United States. The state Department of Corrections estimates that it will need to spend an additional $6. ...
• 70% of the prison inmates in the United States are illiterate .
• 80% of prisoners in California are African-Americans .
• Last year California sent about 140,000 people to prison -- and released about 132,000. ...
• Almost two thirds of the people sent to prison in California last year were parole violators. Of the roughly 80,000 parole violators returned to prison. The gigantic prison system that California has built at such great expense has essentially become a revolving door for poor, highly dysfunctional, and often illiterate drug abusers. The typical offender being sent to prison in California today has five prior felony convictions. ...
• Problems Associated with prison overcrowding:.
• In 1997 2,583 staff members were assaulted by inmates in California. ...
• California prison system, especially its Level 4 facilities, is full of warring gangs -- members of the Crips, the Bloods, the Fresno Bulldogs, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Nazi Lowriders, the Mexican Mafia, and the Black Guerrilla Family. ...

• Least problematic, and often helpful, are halfway houses and work furlough programs for people coming out of state and federal prisons; they have long been operated by private, usually non-profit, agencies. ...
• In many ways, the most grotesque face of this monster is visible in privately operated secure institutions for adult state and federal prisoners. ...
• A 1998 US Justice Department report on a series of prisoner abuses at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison in Youngstown, Ohio described weapons searches that went well beyond common or necessary correctional practice and seemed intended to systematically degrade and humiliate all the inmates. ...
• Initially, for-profit prison advocates cited several major changes in the role of government to justify their cause. Beginning in the late 1 970s, government spending and revenue collection limits were established in many state and local jurisdictions. ... Finally, many state governments reached their debt limits largely due to extensive prison financing. ...
• When a state's prison operations budget begins to steal from the college.
• budget, public prison administrators just contract with a private prison operator to house prisoners. Though the costs are often higher, the state looks as though it is not expanding its prison system.
• As William Nagel, a former prison warden and author wrote in the mid- 1 970s, "As long as we continue to build more prisons we will have neither the will nor the pressure to seek more workable alternatives. ...
• California: A Privatization Study.
• California boasts the nation's biggest prison system. One in every 14 state prisoners in the US is in a California state prison. As of September 1999, over 162,000 people were imprisoned in California correctional facilities. More than 45,000 prisoners had been committed under the state's "Three Strikes" law. By the year 2006, the California Department of Corrections expects a gap between the number of prisoners and space to house them to be over 70,000.

• Folsom State Prison of .
• California Sponsors .
• Folsom State Prison in the Sacramento area of California held an Intensive Journal program on June 21-22, 1999. ...

• Report Card from California Prison Focus .
•             In March of 1999 the Data Committee of California Prison Focus sent a one-page questionnaire to all prisoners on our mailing list. ...
•             We asked the prisoners to limit their responses to descriptions of incidents and practices in the last two years (1997 and 1998) so that the information would reflect current prison conditions. ...
•             429 usable forms were received from California and 95 from outside the State.   More than 10% of the California Security Housing Unit prisoners sent in answers: 208 from Pelican Bay and 65 from Corcoran. ...   65 California prisoners not housed at Pelican Bay or Corcoran responded from 17 facilities. ...
•             The findings present disturbing news about the continuing human rights violations in California’s prisons and facilities in other states. ...
• Within California there were interesting and important differences among the various prisons. ...
• Also interesting and not unexpected was the high number of complaints received from California’s non-SHU facilities. ...
•   But this can only be understood in the context of an entire California State system that is continuing as a brutal and negligent system. ...
•   In all regards prisoners reported worse conditions than in California. ...   We do know that many are in their State’s control units and might be even more brutalized than here in California where at least there has been some long term outside pressure, newspaper exposes, legislative hearings and successful class action and individual lawsuits. ...
•   CPF has ongoing investigations that uncover various abuses in three SHU facilities in California. ...
•   The CPF report card proves that the California Department of Corrections and other DOCs are failing to uphold the civil rights and human rights of prisoners. ...

• San Quentin State Prison .
• Editor's Note: After Alcatraz, San Quentin is probably California's most famous penitentiary. ...
• Bad jokes on the prison every ten minutes throughout the day. ...
• There was a very serious-appearing country member who, with the others of a committee, visited the State Prison at San Quentin. ... He watched them enjoy the spread, and quietly remarked, "A man who wouldn't be satisfied with such food as that deserves to be turned out of the State Prison. ...
• from Prison Life is Different by James A. ...
• Everything they saw at the prison was new to them, and they were complimentary concerning the order, system, and cleanliness. ...
• Nestled at the foot of the mountains of Marin, basking in the glorious sunshine of California, fanned by the breezes of the beautiful bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, the adventure-weary are allured and captivated and find rest and solitude so satisfying that many stay for years during all the seasons, and some for life. ...

• 7-Fold Jump in Parolees Sent Back to Prison Since 1980.
• 1 in 3 State Prison Admissions Is Result of Parole Violation.
• , November 5, 2002—The number of parole violators returned to state prisons exploded from 27,000 in 1980 to 203,000 in 2000, a 652 percent increase, according to a new analysis of U. ...
• The 2000 figure surpasses 1980's total prison admissions of 169,000, say Jeremy Travis and Sarah Lawrence, researchers from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center. Parole violators, they note, made up 35 percent of prison admissions in 1999, double 1980's 17 percent.
• "Beyond the Prison Gates: The State of Parole in America" uses the latest BJS figures to document the declining role of parole boards in deciding whether prisoners are released, the increasing reliance on parole supervision, and the unprecedented growth in parole revocations leading to returns to prison. With 1,600 people leaving prison every day and $100 million in federal funds available to states for designing new strategies to help prisoners returning home, the report is an especially timely inquiry into how parole is operating across the nation.
• Parole Boards and Prison Releases Between 1980 and 2000, state prison releases grew from 144,000 to 571,000. ...
• The statistics mask vast state-level variation. ... In California, Illinois, and New Hampshire, it was less than one percent.
• Back into the Community After prison, most offenders are required to serve a period of community supervision, commonly known as parole. While the number of individuals unconditionally released from state prisons jumped from about 20,000 in 1980 to 102,000 in 1998, states increasingly rely on parole supervision as part of a criminal sentence. ...
• More and more state prisoners are back in society as conditional releases. ... Five states-California, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois-accounted for 62 percent of parolees at the end of 2000, but only 35 percent of the U. ...
• Parole Outcomes Using the BJS definition of parole success (completing the term of supervision without returning to prison, returning to jail, or absconding from supervision), the success rate in the 1990s was relatively stable, ranging from 42 to 49 percent of all parole discharges. ...
• California topped the list at 67 percent.

• By Bob Porterfield THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   SAN FRANCISCO - California has a take-all-prisoners approach to ex-convicts, a policy so tough that more than half the inmates in state prisons are behind bars for violating parole, an Associated Press analysis has found.   More than 82 percent of these returned parolees are sent back to prison for less than a year, serving new sentences for such minor violations as being drunk in public, driving more than 50 miles from home or driving with a suspended license.   The policy has proved costly for state taxpayers - returning so many parolees for such short sentences accounts for more than 20 percent of California's prison spending, which overall has busted the budget by $1. ...   The percentage of parolees in the state's prisons is 10 times higher than that of Texas, and is so out of step with other states that California accounts for 42 percent of all parole violators returned to state prisons in the United States, according to a 2002 study by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center.   Prison officials justify the huge number of parole revocations as a means of taking dangerous ex-cons off the streets. ...   California settled a class-action suit late last year that will add legal protections for parolees in hearings and substitute substance abuse treatment for prison sentences in some cases. ...   "We've got to solve the parole problem before we tackle the (prisons) budget," said Demo-cratic State Sen. ... Each of California's 33 prisons is above capacity, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in unbudgeted overtime for prison guards.   Prison officials say revoking parole in administrative hearings often buys time for prosecutors to build stronger cases.   "It's a safety net," said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the Board of Prison Terms, the agency responsible for parole revocation proceedings. ... "   But a November report by the Little Hoover Commission, a state watchdog agency, suggests that instead of being prosecuted for major new crimes, parolees suspected of serious offenses are being recycled back to the street in a matter of months.
• State:.

• Towards a Sane Budget for California.
• On June 26, 2003, Books Not Bars released a new report entitled "Towards a Sane Budget for California" that exposes the gross inequities in the budget and outlines nine new priorities for California's budget. The report was released at a press conference (click here for press release), where elected officials and community groups called for a prison guard pay freeze.
• TOWARDS A SANE BUDGET FOR CALIFORNIA.
• California is in political and financial crisis.
• In 2003, the state government failed, once again, to pass a budget by California’s July 1 constitutional deadline. The state government still has not adequately dealt with a record $38. ... And it is dealing with the worst credit rating of any state in the country.
• Sadly, neither Democrats nor Republicans have offered California a viable vision for how to resolve this crisis. Indeed, as California goes up in fiscal flames, politicians’ “solutions” have been more akin to gasoline than water so far.
• Towards A Sane Budget For California outlines real solutions to California’s current problems, solutions based on common sense and sound policy priorities.
• Governor Davis Wants To Give Pink Slips To Teachers And Pay Hikes for Prison Guards.
• Under Davis’ 2003 revised state budget proposal, almost all state expenditures are on the chopping block. ... Shielding the Department of Corrections – and thereby protecting his top donor, the California Correctional and Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) – appears to be Governor Davis’ number one priority.
• If Davis gets his way, prison spending will remain relatively steady this year. ... Prison guards would get a 7. ... Under a five-year contract that Davis signed, the average prison guard’s salary will increase by 37 percent – to $73,000 – by 2006, eventually costing $680 million a year. ...

• Prison System Killed Him.
• In a suicide note, an anguised Folsom Prison guard says his job killed him. He never got over the prison riots in April, 2002. Now the California senate will investigate the powerful prison guards' union and their "code of silence. " A former prison chief may face criminal charges.
• A federally appointed investigator concluded Thursday that the former head of California's Department of Corrections and a top deputy thwarted an investigation into prison guard misconduct and is recommending that they face charges of criminal contempt -- charges that could lead to time behind bars. ...
• Edward Alameida, who resigned last month as director of prisons, and Thomas Moore, a former chief deputy, improperly quashed a perjury investigation of guards at Pelican Bay State Prison and then misled a federal inquiry of the case, according to John Hagar, a special master assigned to a federal judge who has ordered that conditions improve at the maximum security prison. ...
• The investigative report released this weeks explains the problems with the prison guards' union:.
• A sweeping summary of corruption and cover-up among high-level administrators, Hagar's 71-page report depicts a department that has lost control of its efforts to police rogue correctional officers, in part because of the influence of the state's politically powerful prison guards union. ...
• "Rather than (prison administrators) correcting the prisoners, some correctional officers acquire a prisoner's mentality: They form gangs, align with gangs and spread the code of silence,'' according to Hagar. ...
• Don't miss this earlier post explaining how, despite the investigation into prison guards' actions, little changed:.
• Five years ago, after prison scandals gripped California with tales of guards setting up inmates in human cockfights and then shooting them dead, the state Department of Corrections vowed to change its ways. ...
• Now that Gray Davis, who was overly indebted to the prison guards' union as a result of hefty financial contributions to his campaign, is gone, it's time for Gov. ... He has proposed eliminating the state's Office of the Inspector General, the only independent agency overseeing corrections. ...
• Of course, the Stanford Prison Experiment showed that normal people will act in adnormal ways based on the expectations of the role, and the expectations at Pelican Bay was the prisoners were inhuman so inhuman treatment was okay.
• Pelican Bay and the control that corruption imposes on the previously lovely Crescent City has made California less safe and blighted both our spirit and body (northcoast). ...

• California State Prison - Lancaster .
• Stolen razor blades lead to Lancaster prison lockdown .
• - More than 1,000 state prison inmates were in the second week of a partial lockdown Tuesday as guards searched for 100 razor blades stolen from the auto shop. ...
• The single-edged blades, prized as weapons and as prison currency, were discovered missing Jan. 5 after someone forced open the door of the tool room in the auto body paint shop, prison spokesman Lt. ... The auto body paint shop is part of the vocational training program at California State Prison, Los Angeles County. ...
• "When you're living in a maximum security prison it's not uncommon for inmates to arm themselves, because you just don't know when you might be a victim of assault," he said. ...
• The prison is located about 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles. ...
• 00 to spend on my canteen when I arrive to the other prison and I should be able to make money as soon as I receive my typewriter. ...
•     As far as the books are concerned, mail them to Corcoran prison. ...
• State Capitol .
• State Capitol .
•  California State Prison - Los Angeles County - Lancaster .

• THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   SAN FRANCISCO - California has a take-all-prisoners approach to ex-convicts, a policy so tough that more than half the inmates in state prisons are behind bars for violating parole, an Associated Press analysis has found.   More than 82 percent of these returned parolees are sent back to prison for less than a year, serving new sentences for such minor violations as being drunk in public, driving more than 50 miles from home or driving with a suspended license.   The policy has proved costly for state taxpayers - returning so many parolees for such short sentences accounts for more than 20 percent of California's prison spending, which has exceeded its budget by $1. ...   The percentage of parolees in the state's prisons is 10 times higher than that of Texas, which has nearly as many inmates as California. According to a 2002 study by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, California accounts for 42 percent of all parole violators returned to state prisons in the United States.   Growing criticism   Prison officials justify the huge number of parole revocations as a means of taking dangerous ex-cons off the streets. ...   California settled a class-action lawsuit late last year that will add legal protections for parolees in hearings and substitute substance abuse treatment for prison sentences in some cases. ...   "We've got to solve the parole problem before we tackle the (prisons) budget," said State Sen. ...   The percentage of parole revocations has risen steadily in recent years and is now well over 60 percent per year, causing problems for California's overcrowded prisons. Each of the state's 33 prisons are above capacity, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in unbudgeted overtime for prison guards.   "A safety net"   Prison officials say revoking parole in administrative hearings often buys time for prosecutors to build stronger cases.
• State:.

• Home > News > California.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he will turn to a privately funded commission studded with corporate chief executives and political supporters to advise him on how to create jobs, streamline business regulation and market state products. ...
• Three California condor eggs believed laid in wild, fourth likely.
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Biologists working to save California condors from extinction believe three pairs of the giant birds have produced eggs in the wild and a fourth pair is expected to produce one soon, the U. ...
• Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he will turn to a privately funded commission studded with corporate chief executives and political supporters to advise him on how to create jobs, streamline business regulation and market state products.
• Three California condor eggs believed laid in wild, fourth likely.
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Biologists working to save California condors from extinction believe three pairs of the giant birds have produced eggs in the wild and a fourth pair is expected to produce one soon, the U. ...
• Three California condor eggs believed laid in wild, fourth likely.
• State board approves changes to dangerous schools definition.
• Veteran state prosecutor appointed prison watchdog.
• California bakes in record heat with winter still on the calendar.
• AP Analysis: California jams prisons by busting ex-cons on parole.
• California .

• Oakland School system feeds oppressed youth to California prisons.
• During the mass demonstrations opposing the U$ invasion of Iraq, MIM repeatedly criticized amerikan slogans such as "Money for Jobs, Not for War," while participating in campaigns to cut money from prison construction and put it into education. ... This served the oppressed independently of the state, therefore increasing the level of of consciousness and organization in opposition to the imperialists. ...
• This begs the question of whether revolutionaries should organize around the use of state funds at all. This is a timely issue in California where many are bemoaning the cutting of social services. ... The benefits the DOC will receive include an increase in average CO salary to $73,000 a year by 2006, a new department headquarters for $160 million and a $220 million state-of-the-art death row unit for San Quentin State Prison. ...
• So if we are asking for the money proposed for funding death chambers and increasing the pay of pigs to go to the education of predominantly oppressed nation males in prison, why not extend that to those who have yet to become caged victims of the system and preempt the oppressive cycle? The main thrust of such a campaign will be strong only to the extent that our organizing efforts to get the money allocated differently will in turn allow us to decide how that money is used. While it is unlikely that we will see MIM getting state funding for its prisoner education programs, the contradictions limiting education behind bars are different from those on the outside. ...

• Jail and prison populations have doubled in the US in the past ten years. ... As more people pass in and out of jail and prison, so too do problems and infectious diseases associated with incarceration, like HIV, tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B and C (HCV) and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). ...
• Most inmates with infectious diseases come to jail or prison already infected. ...
• A report of estimated risk behaviors among males in a California prison showed tattooing to be the most prevalent risk-related activity. ...
• The main reason for incarceration for Federal prisoners is drug offenses, increasing from 58% of the total prison population in 1991 to 63% in 1997. ...
• Many inmates have little or no access to health care outside of correctional systems and unfortunately may only have these health care needs addressed while in prison or jail. ...
• In 1997, only 13% of all State prisoners and 15% of all Federal prisoners who used drugs regularly had received drug treatment since admission. Drug treatment has declined since 1991, when 34% and 31% of State and Federal prisoners were in treatment. 2 Lack of outreach and program information to prison staff may have contributed to limited implementation. ...
• Screening for STDs or hepatitis in jail or prison systems in the US is spotty, even though inmates are disproportionately affected by these diseases. ... Testing for TB is more prevalent, with 92% of prison systems and 51% of jail systems screening all incoming inmates for TB. ...
• Laws governing prison conduct can be barriers to disease prevention. ...
• A study of Latino inmates in a California prison found that 51% reported having sex in the first 12 hours after release. ...
• At the only prison facility in the state of Rhode Island, a comprehensive program addresses prisoners' needs while incarcerated as well as after their release. ...
• Centerforce Health Programs Division works with prison staff and inmates to provide comprehensive HIV, hepatitis and STD prevention and education at two California state prisons. ...
• Also, ongoing training and education for prison staff is key for ensuring that programs are consistent and sustainable within institutions. ...

• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH PRISON PROJECT .
• Auburn Prison, state of New York .
• Fifty-three percent of all state inmates were incarcerated for nonviolent crimes, while criminal justice policies increased the length of prison sentences and diminished the availability of parole. ... 7 million people were either in prison or in jail in 1998, reflecting an incarceration rate of more than 645 per 100,000 residents, double the rate of a decade before. Approximately one in every 117 adult males was in prison. ...
• Surging prison populations and public reluctance to fund new construction produced dangerously overcrowded prisons. ...
• At the end of 1997, Human Rights Watch released a report documenting conditions in two super-maximum security prisons in the state of Indiana. ...
• Since Corcoran State Prison in California opened in 1988, fifty inmates, most of them unarmed, were shot by prison guards and seven were killed. ... In July, the state announced a new investigation into at least thirty-six serious and fatal shootings of Corcoran inmates. ...
• Guard abuse was by no means confined to California prisons. ... The state Department of Corrections fired four guards, and twenty-one others were demoted, suspended or reprimanded. ...
• In less than a year, there were two murders and thirteen stabbings at one privately operated prison in the state of Ohio. ...
• Sexual and other abuses continued to be serious problems for women incarcerated in local jails, state and federal prisons, and INS detention centers. Women in custody faced abuses at the hands of prison guards, most of whom are men, who subjected the women to verbal harassment, unwarranted visual surveillance, abusive pat frisks and sexual assault. ...
• Men in prison also suffered from prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse, committed by fellow inmates. Prison staff often allowed or even tacitly encouraged sexual attacks by male prisoners. Despite the devastating psychological impact of such abuse, there were few if any preventative measures taken in most jurisdictions, while perpetrators were rarely punished adequately by prison officials. ...

• Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles reports on California’s attempt to solve budget problems at the state level by cutting spending for prisons.
• JIM LEHRER: Now solving budget problems at the state level in this country by cutting spending for prisons. Jeffrey Kaye of KCET in Los Angeles reports on the situation in California. ...
• JEFFREY KAYE: Over the last 20 years, California state prisons have been a growth industry. As the inmate population swelled, the state built, on average, one prison a year. Today, about 160,000 inmates are packed into 33 state prisons. ... But with the California state government facing its biggest deficit in history-- it could be as much as $35 billion in the red-- many lawmakers are advocating what would have been politically unthinkable not long ago: Cutting the budget for prisons. ...
• JEFFREY KAYE: California State Sen. Gloria Romero, of Los Angeles, chairs a new legislative committee evaluating California's prison system. She says it's time to scrutinize prisons since just about every other California state program is being cut. ...
• STATE SEN. ...
• California recycles inmates at the highest rates in the nation. On a recent morning at the storied San Quentin prison in Northern California, men released on parole boarded a van bound for freedom. ...
• JEFFREY KAYE: Two-thirds of the inmates in California state prisons returned while on parole, many with new charges; most because they violated parole conditions. ... To save money, some democratic legislators favor programs that would return fewer parolees to prison. ...
• STATE SEN. ...

• The History of California's Death Penalty.
• Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by the state of California.
• Robert Lee Massie was executed by the state of California. ...
• Darrell Young Elk Rich, the first Native American to be executed by the State of California since reinstatement of the death penalty, is executed. ...
• Jaturun Siripongs, a Thai national, becomes the sixth person to be executed by the state of California.
• California resumes executions with the execution of Robert Alton Harris.
• California Supreme Court declares the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the state constitution. ...
• Ethel Leta Juanita Spinelli becomes the first woman executed in California.
• Jose Gabriel is hanged at San Quentin State Prison in the first state-conducted execution. Hangings are carried out at both state prisons: San Quentin and Folsom.
• California law is amended allowing for executions to take place inside state prisons only. ...

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