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• California Reports Record Number of Marijuana Prisoners In Spite of Proposition 215.
• May 2, 1998 Statement from California NORML.
• The number of marijuana prisoners in California has soared to record levels since passage of Prop. 215, according to a newly released report from the state Department of Corrections. The report, the first to cover the post-215 period, shows that there were a record 1,905 marijuana felons in state prison as of December 31, 1997, up over 10% from the previous year. ...
• 215 has effectively legalized marijuana in California," comments California NORML coordinator Dale Gieringer, "In fact, medical marijuana users are a minor fraction of the user population, and even many of them are being arrested by overzealous narcotics cops in defiance of Prop. ...
• The Department of Corrections report also shows that the total number of all drug prisoners has reached an all-time high of 42,998 - a record 28% of the state's prison population. ... Much of the rise is due to the state's Three Strikes law, which mandates long sentences for non-violent drug felonies by offenders with violent priors. ...
• While California now has five times as many drug prisoners as in 1986, this has had no evident effect on illegal drug use. According to the California Student Substance Use Survey, student drug use declined in the late 1980's, but has since rebounded to its previous levels, mounting steadily since 1990-1, when Attorney General Lungren and Governor Wilson took office.
• "The lock-em-up drug policy of the past decade has completely failed," argues Gieringer, "California now has 20 times as many marijuana prisoners as in 1980, yet despite this, the popularity of marijuana is increasing. ...
• This year marks the 85th anniversary of California's first law prohibiting cannabis. ... California NORML estimates the economic loss to the state from the laws against marijuana at over $100 billion.
• Contact: Dale Gieringer, California NORML: (415) 563-5858; canorml@igc. ... For the Department of Corrections report, "Characteristics of Population in California State Prisons by Institution," contact the Data Analysis Unit in Sacramento: (916) 323-8428; website.

• Three State Officials Picked for Sacramento Trial Court.
• Three high-profile California state officials were appointed yesterday to the Sacramento Superior Court.
• Gray Davis named his chief deputy legalaffairs secretary, Shelleyanne Wai Ling Chang, to the trial court in the state capital, along with California Air Resources Board Executive Officer Michael P. ...
• Chang, 42, was a lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service and a state lawyer before joining the governor’s office in 1999.
• She directed litigation, analyzed proposed legislation, and represented the state on various gambling issues involving Indian tribes.
• Chang was a deputy attorney general from 1993 to 1999, handling litigation for state officials, the pension systems and the Department of General Services. She also was bond counsel for the California Housing Finance Agency.
• Chang is a graduate of the University of Washington and earned her law degree from McGeorge Law School in Sacramento. ...
• She became a member of the State Bar of California in 1991 while working for the IRS.
• Kenny, 48, has served since 1996 as the top staff executive of the California Air Resources Board, with a staff of about 1,100 and an annual budget of $150 million. ...
• The board oversees state air pollution control and works with local air control districts to establish industrial emissions standards.
• He graduated from UCLA, earned his law degree from University of San Diego Law School and became a member of the State Bar of California in 1980. he began his law career with the Sacramento firm of James & Kilpatrick in 1981.
• Winn, 45, is a former prosecutor and state Department of Corrections lawyer who became chief counsel to the Board of Prison terms in 2000. ...
• Winn is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Boston College of Law, and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1988. He became a Sacramento deputy district attorney in 1988 and a Yolo deputy district attorney in 1990, and joined the Department of Corrections in 1993. ...

• California's State Capitol was built in the Renaissance Revival style, reminiscent of the U. ... The bronze state seal in front of the west entrance was fashioned by San Quentin State Prison inmates.
• When a powerful earthquake struck southern California in 1971, lawmakers began questioning whether the State Capitol could withstand a major tremor. ... The State Capitol reconstruction took 6 years and cost $67. ... Today, the California Department of Parks and Recreation manages the historic rooms of the State Capitol, the most significant public building in the state.
• There is a modest exhibit that outlines the history of the State Capitol located within the granite walls. A ten-minute film that examines the historical development of the State Capitol, "A Legacy Restored", is shown every quarter hour. The basement rotunda features murals depicting eras in California history. ...

• OPINION: State prison guards set to ratify rich new contract.
• By Daniel Weintraub -- The Sacramento Bee.
• California's prison guards union will almost certainly approve a new contract this week that's expected to raise salaries by 31 percent over the next five years, a deal that could cost taxpayers an additional half-billion dollars annually by the time it is fully implemented.
• Gray Davis and the union shook hands on the contract 11 days before Christmas, and friendly lawmakers from both parties rushed it through the Legislature in nearly unanimous votes last month, even as state leaders searched for ways to cut spending on health, education and other programs to close a $12 billion budget gap.
• The final total will be out of the state's hands. ...
• Like many other Davis initiatives, this deal with the California Correctional Peace Officers Association was backloaded so that it will cost the state relatively little in the first two years before ballooning significantly after the November election. In addition to the salary increase, the agreement includes a big jump in retirement benefits that could trigger an exodus of experienced guards from the state work force in 2006.
• The 27,000-member union is one of the most politically powerful in the state. ... The union has since donated at least $100,000 directly to Davis' re-election campaign -- although it has yet to endorse him -- and a similar amount to a ballot measure pushed by legislators seeking to weaken the state's 12-year-old term limits law.
• "We are betting on the state of California to recover. ...
• Marty Morgenstern, the governor's chief negotiator as director of Personnel Administration, said the raises are necessary to reduce high turnover among prison guards and a 10 percent vacancy rate, which forces the state to pay large amounts of overtime.
• The prison guard deal traces its roots to the state's contract with California Highway Patrol officers, another politically well-connected group. ...
• The working assumption in state government is that local cops will see annual raises averaging about 4 percent during that period. ...
• In the first two years of the contract, the state will pay part of the guards' pension premiums on their behalf, increasing their take-home pay by 5 percent without increasing their wages. ...
• Finally, just as the contract expires, the guards will get a big bump in retirement benefits, allowing officers to quit at age 50 and receive pensions equal to 3 percent of their salary for each year they have worked for the state. ...
• Novey says the higher salaries and retirement benefits are justified because his officers work "the toughest beat in the state. " Let's hope they do a better job guarding prison inmates than Davis and the Legislature have done protecting the state's bottom line.

• district court judge has ruled that prisoners have a First Amendment right to receive mail that contains material printed from the Internet and entered a permanent injunction barring the California Department of Corrections from "enforcing any policy prohibiting California inmates from receiving mail that contains Internet-generated information. ...
• California Department of Corrections was brought on behalf of Pelican Bay prisoner Frank Clement by the ACLU of Northern California and the Prison Law Office. Clement filed a federal court challenge to the California Department of Corrections policy prohibiting inmates at the prison from receiving any mail that contains material printed from the Internet.
• "Denying prisoners the right to surf the Internet is one thing," said Ann Brick, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. ...
• Policies like Pelican Bay's are currently in place in San Quentin State Prison; Avenal State Prison; California Correctional Center in Susanville; California Correctional Institute in Tehachapi; California State Prison, Sacramento; Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown; and Wasco State Prison. ...
• The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

• California State Prison, Sacramento ("New Folsom").
• On November 9 and November 17, 1998, the 1998-1999 Sacramento County Grand Jury toured California State Prison, Sacramento, sometimes referred to as "New Folsom. " This is a reference to the fact that the facility sits adjacent to the original Folsom State Prison, which is generally called "Old Folsom. ...
• The construction of California State Prison, Sacramento began in November 1984 and was completed October 1, 1986. California State Prison, Sacramento is located on approximately 1,200 acres in the eastern portion of Sacramento County within the City of Folsom. ...
• California State Prison, Sacramento was designed for a capacity of 1,536 inmates to be housed in its three semi-autonomous Level IV (maximum security) facilities and 192 inmates in its Level I (minimum security) facility. ... In some cases, the gymnasiums in the Level IV facilities are converted to dormitories to house overflow Level I, II and III inmates from other correctional institutions in the state.
• The Grand Jury learned that California State Prison, Sacramento was constructed using the "180" design, which is the Department of Correction's most secure prison design. ...
• In January 1995, California State Prison, Sacramento joined the Statewide Electrified Fence Project and activated a lethal, electrified fence located between the double-perimeter fences. ...
• California State Prison, Sacramento provides infirmary and administrative segregation (special secure housing) for the inmates from Folsom State Prison and the Folsom Community Correctional Facility. ...
• According to prison officials, the principal focus at California State Prison, Sacramento is to safely house Level IV, maximum security, and Level I, minimum security, inmates. ... Types of programs offered at California State Prison, Sacramento are:.
• The center will improve the prison's ability to efficiently and effectively address inmate health care and will be licensed by the state Department of Health Services. ...
• The California Penal Code requires the California Department of Corrections to respond in writing to the Grand Jury's recommendation contained in this report, and to submit its response to the presiding judge of the Sacramento Superior Court by September 30, 1999.
• 1998/99 Sacramento County Grand Jury - Final Report (Internet Version) June 30, 1999.

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• The prison guards' organization grew dramatically over the past two decades, right alongside California's prison population. ...
• While the state's prison population ballooned over the last two decades, the union's membership grew more than ten fold—to 31,000. Sources: CCPOA and the California Department of Justice .
• "We have two in-house, full-time lobbyists," Corcoran says while giving a tour of the two-story union headquarters in west Sacramento. ... " The union has emerged as one of California's biggest political donors. ...
• The average California guard now earns about $50,000 dollars a year - almost twice the national average for corrections officers. Under a new contract to take effect in 2003, California guards will earn up to $73,000. That contract was pushed through the state senate by Majority Leader John Burton and signed by Governor Gray Davis. ...
• CCPOA's two-story headquarters in west Sacramento. ...
• At the state Assembly hearing, the guard union's chief lobbyist, Jeff Thompson (speaking "on behalf of Crime Victims United of California, also with the CCPOA"), argues against any softening of Three Strikes. ...
• California's crime rate has dropped by 40% since 1994, a fact the union attributes largely to the deterrent effect of the Three Strikes law. The law's critics point out that crime dropped about as much in New York State (41%), Massachusetts (33%) and Washington D. ...
• If the law goes unchanged, a dozen years from now California prisons will hold an estimated fifteen thousand aging third strikers, most of whom would have been released years earlier without the law. ...

• News : AIDS Treatment News : Issue #125 California: State Treatment Activist Meeting May 4,5; Prison, Funding Demos Sacramento May 6 and 7 .
• Demonstrations are planned for Sacramento on the following two days, May 6 and 7. Saturday's meeting will address treatment issues (both State and Federal), while Sunday's will focus on California.
• * California's successful AIDS research program -- the only one in the country -- and the proposal for patient advocates to have input into this program.
• * Improving California's Food and Drug Branch (FDB), which could approve trials or even drug marketing in California.
• * Faster development and approval of new antivirals, on both Federal and State levels.
• * Improving the State's AIDS Drug Program, which provides drugs to people who could not otherwise afford them.
• The Sacramento demonstrations will focus on medical care for prisoners with HIV (May 6), and the AIDS Drug Program (May 7).
• All the issues are of course affected by the State's budget crisis.

• Sacramento Areas of Interest.
• Auburn State Recreationreation Area.
• Brannan Island State Recreation Area.
• California Expo & Fair.
• California Historical Landmarks.
• California State Historical Landmarks - Sacramento County. ...
• California State Capitol.
• California Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
• Folsom State Prison.
• Golden State Museum.
• The Golden State Museum brings California's rich history to life with a mix of traditional exhibits and state-of-the-art technology. Multimedia exhibits tell the stories of California's people, place, promise, and politics.
• Old Sacramento Historical Park.
• Port of Sacramento World Trade Center.
• Sacramento County Fair.
• Sacramento Zoo.

• Water Supply Systems -- Water well design for Northridge County Water District, Arcade County Water District, Sacramento County Water Maintenance Districts and the City of Galt. ... Young has been a part of the team to develop water booster supply systems for three 2200-bed prisons for the California Department of Corrections. These systems involved 2 one million water reservoirs, 2 low volume booster pumps, 4 high volume booster pumps, 2-12,000 gallon hydropneumatic tanks and operational program for a solid state logic controller. ...
• Water Distribution Systems -- Design of water distribution systems for subdivisions, commercial centers, industrial parks and California State prisons. ... Young designed the water distribution systems for the California State Prisons at the City of Lancaster and the County of Del Norte. ...
• His work includes the design of the Cordova II interceptor sewer for County of Sacramento, the sewer study and preliminary of the Laguna Interceptor Sewer for the County of Sacramento and the trunk sewer for the California State Prison at Coalinga. ...
• Some of the agencies that he has designed sewer lift stations for, include City of Sacramento, County of Sacramento, City of Ceres and California Department of Corrections. ...
• His most recent systems were designed for the California State Prisons at County of Del Norte, County of Fresno and City of Lancaster. ...
• Storm Water Detention Basins -- Design of storm water detention basins at the California State Prisons at County of Del Norte, County of Fresno and City of Lancaster. ...
•   Agencies he has designed pumping facilities for include American River Flood Control District, City of Sacramento and the California Department of Corrections.   His most recent pump station is on the California State Prison at Fresno County. ...
• Roadway Design -- Participated in the design of Fruitridge Street Assessment District, Latrobe Road and portions of Madison Avenue for the County of Sacramento, Exposition Boulevard and adjacent Point West Streets for the City of Sacramento. ...
•   Some of his more recent projects include an award winning major Sacramento auto dealership, which included the widening of two arterial streets, a flight instrument maintenance facility at McClellan A. ... , Herman Miller furniture manufacturing facility in Rocklin, and assisted in the site plans for three 2200 bed California State Prisons and three 500 bed "quick-build" prisons for C. ...
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• I am from Daly City, California. ...
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• I don't presently have any pictures of myself because they (the state) took them off the yard in 1998 and now allow pictures to be taken during a visit, which I don't get because my family lives in Los Angeles and can't afford to come up this far.
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• Proposed state budget seeks at least.
• 36 new psych positions in state prisons.
• Creating a Psychiatric Services Unit to treat mentally ill inmates at California State Prison, Sacramento is one of the highlights of the 1999-2000 budget that Governor Gray Davis has proposed for the Department of Corrections. ...
• This unit, at the prison nicknamed "New Folsom," would be staffed largely by Psych Techs, as is the one at Pelican Bay State Prison. ...

• SACRAMENTO -- Marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin flowed steadily through three state prisons. ...
• Ironwood State Prison officer Richard Melendez, 28, was arrested late last month after investigators swept through the Riverside County lockup searching for drugs. ...
• Melendez's arrest followed those of prison officers suspected of smuggling drugs into California State Prison in Sacramento, known as New Folsom, and San Quentin. ...
• "We're trying to send a message," said Dave Mansfield, an agent with the Office of Internal Affairs, created last summer after accusations of officer abuse at Corcoran State Prison. ...
• "I used to walk through the institution with $1,000 in my pocket or in my mattress," he told the Sacramento Bee  in an article published yesterday. ...

• Prison system blasted by state lawmakers, new administration .
• More California stories.
• January 21, 2004 SACRAMENTO -- The nation’s largest prison system is a "tarnished institution" from the top down, punishing employees who try to do right and protecting those who do wrong, state senators said at the outset of two days of hearings Tuesday. ...
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s newly appointed administrator will not be confirmed by the Senate until he proves he is reforming the California Department of Corrections, said Sen. ...
• Schwarzenegger’s pick, Youth and Adult Correctional Secretary Roderick Hickman told the Senate Select Committees on Government Oversight and the California Correctional System that he would clean house. ...
• But Hickman’s testimony was contradicted by the first witness, Folsom State Prison Associate Warden Max Lemon, who tearfully accused Hickman of ignoring problems and appeals, and the Schwarzenegger administration of undermining independent investigations by firing members of the Office of Inspector General at the behest of the powerful prison guards’ union. ...
• The entire Folsom administration will be temporarily reassigned during a new investigation that may involve state or federal prosecutors, said Acting CDC Director Rick Rimmer. ...
• Lemon alleged Schwarzenegger’s replacements have been approved by the wealthy and politically powerful California Correctional Peace Officers Association. ...
• Both resigned their positions -- but not their state employment -- last month before the release last week of a report from a federal court-appointed monitor that recommended they be charged with criminal contempt of court for blocking a probe of whether Pelican Bay State Prison guards committed perjury in inmate abuse trials. ...
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• California Government Organizations.
• California Army National Guard, F Battery 144th Field Artillery, Los Angeles. ...
• California Biodiversity Council, Sacramento. ...
• California CUPA Forum, Certified Unified Program agencies, Commerce. ...
• California Department of Corporations, Sacramento. ...
• California Department of Finance, Sacramento. ...
• California Housing Finanace Agency, Sacramento. ...
• California Law Revision Commission, Palo Alto. ...
• California National Guard, Sacramento. ...
• California Postsecondary Education Commission, Planning agency, Sacramento. ...
• California State Government, Sacramento. ...
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• California Trade and Commerce Agency, Sacramento. ...
• League of California Cities, Sacramento. ...
• Mule Creek State Prison, Ione. ...
• Senate Office of Research, Public policy research and data, Sacramento. ...

• Folsom State Prison.
• Old gate, Folsom State Prison, California .
• Folsom State Prison (FSP), also known as Folsom State Prison, Represa is one of 33 prison facilities operated by the California Department of Corrections (CDC). FSP is located near the City of Folsom in Sacramento County, 20 miles from the state capital of Sacramento, California. ...
• FSP is California's second oldest prison facility, long known for its harsh conditions in the decades following the California Gold Rush. ...
• After that time, executions were carried out in California were performed in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin Prison. ...
• Contrary to popular belief, Cash was never incarcerated in this or any state or federal prison, but he did spend an occasional night in jail. ...

• California medical marijuana activists are outraged over the arrest last week of two medical marijuana patients who face potential life sentences on federal drug charges after being turned over by local authorities. David Davidson, of Oakland, California and his partner Cynthia Blake, of Red Bluff, California were arrested in a state courtroom in Corning, California on January 13 as they were seeking to dismiss state charges of marijuana cultivation and distribution. ...
• Davidson and Blake, both 53, have doctor's recommendations to grow and consume medical marijuana under California's 1996 Compassionate Use Act (Prop. ... While their defense attorneys were meeting in the judge's chambers to discuss the case with Tehama County assistant district attorney Lynn Strom, Strom announced that she was dropping the state charges because Davidson and Blake were being arrested in the courtroom on a federal indictment. ...
• One of the major flaws of California's medical marijuana law is that it does not specify how many plants a patient can grow or how much marijuana they can possess. Each county or city sets its own guidelines and law enforcement around the state has widely ranging interpretations of how much marijuana patients should have. ...
• The Sacramento U. ...
• Davidson contends that his lawyers were winning his case in state court, which prompted Strom to turn it over to the federal prosecutors. ...
• "Our attorneys were lured into the judge's chambers and as soon as the doors were closed, the deputies took us in a car as fast as they could all the way to Sacramento where we spent four hours chained in the county jail and held 24 hours before we could speak to counsel," Davidson said. ...
• "This appears to be a spiteful investigation on behalf of the DA, paid for by the taxpayers of California, and if Strom would like to keep her job, she should respect the laws of the state," said Sherer. "If she did not believe this was a medical case she should have taken it to state court, and not handed over two citizens of California to the federal government for a 10-year mandatory sentence. ...
• Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that if the marijuana is not purchased, transported across state lines, or used non-medically, the federal government has no jurisdiction to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California and other states. ...
• Davidson, who says he's never been arrested or sold marijuana, is currently free on a $50,000 federal and $20,000 state bail, as is Blake. ...

• Folsom   Powerhouse State Historic Park .
• The Folsom story began with Horatio Gates Livermore, a Maine native who came to California with thousands of others gold seekers in 1850.   Livermore was elected to the State Senate in 1854.   In his visits to the state capitol, he was impressed by the possibilities of the American River for logging and for development of water power to operate sawmills and other industrial plants. ...
• In order to minimize remaining construction costs, in 1868 the Livermores entered into a contract with the State Prison Board under which convict labor would be used to complete the dam. ...
•   The state sued and lost in an attempt to force the company to abide by its old offer, and work on the dam was stopped. ...
• In late 1880s, Livermore began to realize that instead of using water power as a direct motive force, the water of the American River could turn generators for electricity in Sacramento, 22 miles downstream. ...
• In 1892, he incorporated the Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company to build the Powerhouse and construct the long-distance power line and a distribution station in the Capital City.
•   Gallatin became a major stockholder and president of Sacramento Electric. ...
•   A transmission line to a new substation at Sixth and H streets in Sacramento was completed and equipped to deliver direct current to a street railway system for which Livermore had obtained the franchise.   During work on the powerhouse, Sacramento Electric also purchased street railways from the Central Electric Railway, which had been operating its cars on batteries. ...
• in Sacramento when a 100 gun salute shattered the quiet. ...   It was when electric power arrived in Sacramento over 22 miles of lines from the new Folsom Powerhouse. ...
• A more extensive celebration was held on September 9, 1895, in conjunction with the annual State Fair and California Admission Day. ...
•   Sacramento Electric's increased business during this time made it necessary to construct an additional powerhouse in 1897 to produce more electricity by taking advantage of the 28-foot drop between the tailrace and the river. ... Consolidation of the related Livermore companies was accomplished in 1896 under the newly incorporated Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway Company, and a bond issue of $1,500,00 was authorized.   But the move failed to cure the financial ills of the business or lessen the increasing pressure of competition from the well-established Capital Gas Company and the newly formed Central California Electric Company. ...

• VACAVILLE -- Chet Goldstein checks the Internet every day to see if he will still be able to make the monthly mortgage payment on his West Sacramento home.
• Goldstein, who taught the X-ray program at California State Prison, Solano, recently received a layoff notice in early June stating his program was surplus and would immediately be cut. ...
• Most of the vocational teachers who once instructed inmates at the prison were sent packing in January, when the state quietly dismantled most of its educational programs.
• Like countless other Californians, inmates and prison officials at CSP Solano are trying to figure out how to make do with less as politicians in Sacramento try to close a $38 billion budget shortfall.
• The state has told about 325 of the 1,500 prison educators in California, or roughly 25 percent, they could lose their jobs because of a state budget proposal to cut $46. ... CSP Solano has already laid off more than 10 percent of its 96 teachers - when only one-third of eligible inmates can find room in the classes currently, said Linda Lundholdm, California State Employees Association spokeswoman.
• Officials with the CSEA, which represents 140,000 state workers including prison educators, said inmates who don't receive job training or education when they are behind bars are more likely to return to a life of crime once they're released.
• The California state prison system offers 46 vocational trades ranging from mechanical drawing to silk screening to horticulture to small engine repair. With many of these programs, inmates can become state licensed or go through apprentice programs - most of which will be discontinued.
• VACAVILLE -- Chet Goldstein checks the Internet every day to see if he will still be able to make the monthly mortgage payment on his West Sacramento home.

• A SPECIAL REPORT BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE .
• California ignores its own at .
• out-of-state prison camps.
• There are more than 1,000 of them, California youngsters spread around the country ostensibly for their own good -- and ours.
• Each of these teenagers is subject to rules of physical discipline that, if used in California, could land people in jail.
• There is virtually no oversight from California over how these programs are run, or how they spend the $45 million each year they get to deal with the state's troubled youngsters, a three-month investigation by The Bee has found.
• The investigation -- which follows the March 2 death of 16-year-old Nicholaus Contreraz of Sacramento in one of these programs -- found that the only Californians regularly checking on the welfare of youths spread over eight states are individual probation officers. ...
• With California's group homes besieged by overcrowding and other troubles, private, out-of-state programs have become increasingly critical to the state's juvenile justice system. They are billed as the last stop before the California Youth Authority or CYA, the state's prison for juveniles.
• But The Bee's review of thousands of pages of documents; visits to 11 youth programs or prisons in California, Arizona and Colorado; and dozens of interviews with investigators, probation officers, program staff members and juvenile offenders has found myriad problems, including:.
• A series of state regulations so lax that California authorities leave the monitoring of these youths to individual probation officers who fit it in as they can, sometimes visiting only every few months.
• A reliance by California officials on other states to monitor these programs, meaning some can run virtually unchecked and abuses go unreported.
• "You can't do this type of humiliating punishment in California, that's why you don't see these facilities operating here," said Larry Bolton, chief counsel for the California Department of Social Services.
• There are countless examples of youths whose futures have been saved by these programs, youths who were considered midlevel offenders and were given a last chance in an out-of-state program rather than be incarcerated inside a CYA prison.
• "They are good, very good," added Gloria Scott-Powell, a Sacramento woman with a son in the Arizona Boys Ranch, the largest private agency that receives California youth. ...
• But since the death of Contreraz four months ago at the Arizona Boys Ranch, state officials have been reviewing California's out-of-state placement program and wondering whether to do away with it.

• SACRAMENTO - The state's independent prison watchdog agency, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to eliminate because it's a "waste," has uncovered tens of millions in potential savings and exposed dangerous conditions in the state's prisons. ...
• In the past two weeks, a federal court monitor declared the Department of Corrections had "lost control" of its ability to discipline guards for abusing inmates, and lawmakers held hearings on an inspector general's report that raised questions about a possible cover-up after a 2002 riot at Folsom State Prison. ...
• Schwarzenegger, who campaigned on ridding the state bureaucracy of waste, charged last week that the Inspector General's Office had not "done the job they were supposed to do. ...
• Some lawmakers see the office as an unneeded bureaucracy and, with the state bleeding red ink, targeted it for elimination. ...
• "The governor obviously has been misinformed," said Chen, a veteran state auditor. ...
• California, the nations's largest state prison system, has about 161,000 inmates. ...
• After reports of widespread brutality and cover-ups at Corcoran State Prison, Gov. ...
• The Inspector General's Office in California was led by Steve White, a former Sacramento County district attorney, from 1999 to last November and became an irritant to prison administrators. ...
• The Inspector General's Office also found last year that $48 million was being spent every year to give some of the state's toughest criminals required academic and vocational classes. But, the report concluded, "with lock-downs frequently lasting several months," classes at the state's 11 most secure lock-ups operate an average of only 25 percent of the time. ...
• The report urged the state to replace classroom instruction with in-cell study. ...
• Officials from those two systems estimated California could save at least 20 percent on drugs with more effective controls, and a private vendor estimated it could save even more -- up to $77. ...
• Schwarzenegger appointed Roderick Hickman, a rising star in state corrections, as his secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency. ...

• California.
• California's state and local governments are involved in a vast array of telecommunications projects, ranging from education to public benefits to teledemocracy. This flurry of activity is hardly surprising given the size of the state and the number of telecommunications companies based in California.
• In July 1994 Governor Pete Wilson created the Governor's Council on Information Technology to study telecommunications applications that help state and local governments address such issues as education, worker training, government regulation and services, and access to information. ...
• State technology agencies.
• The Department of Information Technology, established in 1995, reports directly to the governor and is responsible for providing guidance to state agencies that implement information technology programs. Chief Information Officer John Thomas Flynn encourages state agencies to outsource as much of their telecommunications needs as possible to speed up the acquisition and implementation of new technologies, to limit technology obsolescence, to avoid the costs of in-house technology experts, and to enable agencies to focus on their core missions. ...
• The division administers the California Integrated Telecommunications Network, the State Data Network, public safety radio systems, emergency telephone services, the Shared Mobile Radio Relay System, and other programs helping the state's law enforcement departments. ...
• Although it has left the development of networks for nongovernmental use to the private sector, in 1986 California created the California Integrated Telecommunications Network (CalNet) to provide local and long-distance telephone service to state and local governments. This network will be the backbone of the state's telecommunication programs once additional capabilities (including transmission of voice, data, and video) are available to allow for videoconferencing. With 225,000 phones connected, CalNet is currently the third largest phone system in California -- only Pacific Bell and General Telephone's systems are larger. ...
• California's largest government telecommunications project -- and perhaps its biggest disappointment -- is the Statewide Automated Welfare System. Created in 1984, the system is supposed to link county welfare offices in California's 58 counties and to track as many as 2. ... A state-funded audit of the program criticized the Department of Social Services for mismanaging the system and failing to adequately evaluate the pilot sites. Shortly after the audit, the California Health and Welfare Data Center took over management of the project. ...
• The state also recently had problems with a new computer system for the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). ... After spending $49 million on the system, the state has gone back to the drawing board. The problems with the system became a political issue during California's most recent gubernatorial election. ...

• The Office of the Inspector General has achieved a long list of accomplishments since 1999 when it was transformed by the Legislature from a small agency with limited responsibility to an independent agency with a broad mandate for overseeing California's youth and adult correctional agencies. ...
• : The Office of the Inspector General has completed 16 management review audits, evaluating the performance of nine Department of Corrections wardens, six California Youth Authority superintendents, and one community correctional facility director. The audits have resulted in detailed recommendations for improvements to be made by the institutions and state correctional agencies. ...
• California Institute for Men, Chino - Warden Larry Witek (February 2000) .
• Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla - Warden Teena Farmon (February 2000) .
• California State Prison, Sacramento - Warden Cheryl Pliler (September 2000) .
• Valley State Prison for Women, Chowchilla - Warden Raymond Middleton (January 2001) .
• High Desert State Prison - Acting Warden David Runnels (November 2001) .
• California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison - Warden Derral G. ...
• California State Prison, Solano - Warden Thomas L. ...
• The Office of the Inspector General has completed 32 major special reviews, audits, and surveys of state correctional agencies and programs at the request of the Governor's office and members of the Legislature and at the Inspector General's own initiative. ...
• Review of the Process Used by the California Youth Authority and the Youthful Offender Parole Board to Establish Ward Program Requirements (December 2002) .
• Audit of the California Department of Corrections Jobs Plus Program (November 2002) .
• Review of the Intensive Treatment Program, California Youth Authority (November 2002) .
• Management Review of the Audit Functions of the California Department of Corrections Office of Compliance (October 2002) .
• Special Review of the Medical Contracting Process, Health Care Services Division, California Department of Corrections (October 2002) .

• State Senator Threatened During Prison System Investigation.
• SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An autopsy report on two teens who committed suicide in a California Youth Authority facility showed something that came as a big surprise to one of teen's parents.
• Feaster's mother, Gloria Feaster, said neither she nor her husband ever gave the California Youth Authority permission to administer such a drug.
• California Youth Authority officials did not comment specifically about the case Thursday, but they did explain their psychotropic drug policy for minors. ...
• It is a policy that is again in the crosshairs of outspoken CYA critic, state Sen. ...
• State Senator Threatened.
• Romero also announced Thursday that she was the victim of a death threat during the middle of her investigation into the California prison system. ... 13, a letter addressed to Romero and containing white powder was sent to a correctional training facility next to the Salinas Valley State Prison, according to officials. ...
• The California Highway Patrol and the FBI are investigating the possibility that the letter was sent by a state employee, possibly a prison guard.
• Romero released a statement Thursday, saying she remains steadfast in her effort to clean up California's corrections system.
• "It is a shameful day in California when a Senator and her family are threatened with death for doing the work of the people who elected me to serve them. ...
• February 3, 2004: Reports Call State's Youth Authority 'Barbaric' .
• January 29, 2004: Report Critical Of California Youth Authority .

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