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• List of California state prisons.
• This is a list of state prisons in California. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of California. ...
• Avenal State Prison California Correctional Center California Correctional Institution California Institution for Men California Institution for Women California Men's Colony California Medical Facility California Rehabilitation Center California State Prison, Los Angeles County California State Prison, Sacramento California State Prison, Solano California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran Calipatria State Prison Centinela State Prison Central California Women's Facility Chuckawalla Valley State Prison Corcoran State Prison Correctional Training Facility Deuel Vocational Institution Folsom State Prison High Desert State Prison Ironwood State Prison Mule Creek State Prison Northern California Women's Facility North Kern State Prison Pelican Bay State Prison Pleasant Valley State Prison R. ... Donovan Correctional Facility at Rock Mountain Salinas Valley State Prison San Quentin State Prison Sierra Conservation Center Valley State Prison for Women Wasco State Prison .
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• The state for years willfully ignored its obligation to provide kosher meals for Orthodox inmates, according to the lawyers of a Jewish prisoner who this week won that right via a legal settlement. ...
• The California Department of Corrections agreed Wednesday, Dec. 10, to provide kosher meals to Victor Wayne Cooper and his fellow inmates at Solano State Prison. The settlement further stipulates that the state must make “good faith efforts” to provide kosher programs in all state prisons by 2006. ...
• The state was eager to settle the case because, in refusing to provide Cooper with meals, “they knew they were breaking the law,” said Cooper’s co-counsel, Shinyung Oh. ...
• Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 1997 ordered the state of Arizona to provide kosher meals to a Jewish inmate and should have pertained to California as well. ...
• “The problem was, the law has been very firmly established since 1997, and the California Department of Corrections has been ignoring it all these years. ...
• Before suing the state, Cooper, a convicted child molester decades into a 60-year sentence, spent years exhausting the prison’s administrative remedies in his quest for kosher food. ...
• Greg Fayard, a deputy state attorney general, strongly denied that the state was knowingly violating a 9th Circuit ruling. ... ” Instead, they adhered to an earlier state law declaring that a special meal for observant prisoners cannot cost more than a regular meal. ...

• California State Prison Sacramento .
• Folsom State Prison(Old Folsom) .
• Folsom State Prison (Camp) .
• CSATF State Prison (Corcoran) .
• Salinas Valley State Prison .
• Mule Creek State Prison .
• Chuckawalla Valley State Prison .
• Pleasant Valley State Prison .
• Solano State Prison .
• California Medical Facility .
• California Medical Facility - DMH .
• Centinela State Prison .

• CSEA’s newly formed Correctional Institutions Committee (CIC) is meeting with workers in the state’s 33 correctional facilities and 15 California Youth Authority (CYA) facilities to help improve working conditions and identify issues to refer to bargaining unit chairs for upcoming negotiations.
• “Members in prisons and youth authority facilities face different challenges than other state workers,” says Marc Bautista, alternate deputy division director of CSEA’s District Labor Councils. ...
• Lamarque, who was confirmed as warden for Salinas Valley State Prison, Soledad.
• Members include Richard Rios, teacher at the California Youth Authority (CYA) in Sacramento; Joyce Thomas-Villaronga, office technician at California State Prison-Solano; Robyn Sherles, supervising cook I at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione; V. Mari Goodman, health records technician I at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi; Priscilla Rippetoe, vocational instructor at Substance Abuse and Treatment Facility in Corcoran; Elaine Hill, registered nurse, California State Prison-Sacramento/Folsom; Bobby Hall, supervising cook I at R. ... Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego; and Mary Jane Davis, a radiology technician at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

•    Repercussions resulting from the California budget crisis have raised big questions in costly prison spending at both state and county levels. Proposed expenditure reductions have resulted in a review of the California parole system and imprisonment for low-level drug offenders and other non-violent offenses. ...
•    The California Department of Corrections operates all the state¹s prisons and supervises all parolees during their re-entry into society. ...
•    California presently has more than 116,000 parolees. ... California¹s recidivism rate is almost double the national average in part due to technical violations of parole terms. ...
•    State officials are taking a look at proposals for early release of nearly 100,000 nonviolent and more than 500 elderly prisoners. A significant reduction in California’s prison population would allow for the closure of San Quentin prison and the women¹s facility in Stockton. ...
•    In addition to saving San Quentin¹s annual operating budget of more than $11 million, the sale of the San Quinton site to private developers would make millions of dollars available immediately to ease the financial crisis in the state. ...
•    California Gov. ... The California Supreme Court recently affirmed the Governor's parole veto power. ...
• Solano State Prison.
•    The Ninth Circuit Court has held that Muslim prisoners at Solano State Prison may attend Friday services and wear short beards. ...
•    The state's religious freedom law stipulates that no one should be denied a reasonable opportunity to exercise his religious ceremony unless it jeopardizes security. ...

• When he returned to the United States, settling in California, he continued his involvement with this issue. In 1985 he drafted a bill to outlaw school corporal punishment in California and teamed up with California Assemblyman Sam Farr (now the Congressman representing California’s 17th District) who introduce the bill. On January 1, 1987, Assembly Bill 1617 became law, protecting all children enrolled in California public schools from being beaten on their buttocks with wooden boards — a practice euphemistically called, “paddling,” which, at the time of this writing, is still widely practiced in 23 states. ...
• Riak, 67, resides in Alamo, California where he works as Executive Director of Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education, and manages their Web site, Project NoSpank at www. ... He is a frequent guest on television and radio, lectures widely, and teaches the principles of non-punitive parenting to inmates in the Pre-Release Programs at California State Prison - Folsom and California State Prison - Solano. ...

• CSP Solano teachers in budget crunch limbo.
• 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. ...
• "I'm completely in limbo," said Goldstein, who has been teaching at CSP Solano for more than 20 years. ...
• 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.
• Vocational instructors will get hit the hardest at CSP Solano, and Senior Union Steward Mike Mostafenjad attributed it to the increasing costs involved with vocational classes.
• "I only have to buy textbooks, paper and pens," said Mostafenjad, who teaches educational classes at CSP Solano. ...
• CSP Solano teachers in budget crunch limbo.
• FAIRFIELD -- Yellow starthistle, arundo, medusa head and perennial pepperweed are among the weedy invaders trying to take over Solano County.

• Supreme Court held that the "proportionality" test under the 8th Amendment "cruel and unusual" clause was not a "clearly established" rule and therefore Andrade's sentence affirmed by the California appellate process should have been upheld--thus basically only allowing for a direct writ to the U. ...
• The section particularly important for persons in state custody is section 2254. ...
• the state court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or .
• the decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the state court proceeding. (The state court's determination of a factual issue will be presumed to be correct, however, and you have the burden of rebutting that presumption by clear and convincing evidence. ...
• The petitioner must have presented every claim in the petition to the state court first, and have pursued each claim all the way to the California Supreme Court. ...
• The petition must be filed in federal court not later than one year from the date that the California Supreme Court made its decision (which will usually be the Supreme Court's decision to deny review of your case, but in some cases will be the Supreme Court's decision made after it has reviewed the decision of the Court of Appeal. ) The clock stops running while a state habeas corpus petition is pending in the state court. ...
• There are some exceptions to the rule that each claim must have been presented in state court first. If the state doesn't have a process available to hear the claim and correct the error complained of, you don't have to take your claim to state court first. You are also excused from presenting your claim in state court first if the state's process is ineffective to protect your rights. ...
• Sometimes you will not have exhausted all your claims in state court at the same time. ...
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• HEC Software's Reading Horizons was selected by California State University from among 24 other vendors for use in the California Inmate Literacy Project 1994-1997. ...
• Avenal State Prison.
• California Correctional Institution, Susanville**.
• California Correctional Institution, Tehachapi.
• California Institute for Men, Chino.
• California Institution for Women, Frontera.
• California Medical Facility, Vacaville.
• California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo.
• California Rehabilitation Center, Norco.
• California State Prison, Corcoran.
• California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
• California State Prison, Solano.
• California State Prison.
• Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla.
• Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Blythe.

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• In September 1998, the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center teamed up with California Department of Corrections personnel in an effort to train future trainers in the area of substance abuse and treatment for the correctional client. ... In attendance were parole agents, correctional staff, and treatment providers from California and the Arizona Department of Corrections. ...
• Donovan State Prison .
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• Central California Women's Facility.
• California State Prison, Solano.
• California State Prison, Lancaster.
• California State Prison, Calipatria.

• California to serve kosher meals to Jewish inmates .
• — California prison officials have agreed to serve kosher meals to Jewish inmates, settling a federal First Amendment lawsuit brought by a man serving a 60-year sentence for child molestation.
• The settlement arrived at this week requires the Department of Corrections to make kosher meals available at California State Prison Solano by Jan. ...
• As part of the agreement, the state also must make good-faith efforts to make kosher food available at its other prisons by 2006.
• The reason, said state prison spokesman Russ Heimerich, is the department's rules forbade providing special meals that cost more than regular meals. ...
• Nolan said that in California, the response until now had been for prisons "to offer another helping of mashed potatoes" instead of a balanced diet to an inmate whose religion does not permit eating pork.
• "It's too bad it took this kind of effort to get (the state) to comply with existing (legal) authority," she said.
• The state's 160,000 prisoners include about 300 identified as Jewish, and perhaps 40 observant Jews who would want a kosher diet, said Nolan.
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• San Quentin, Frontera, Blythe, Imperial and Vacaville, California.
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• Ninyo & Moore was retained to perform geotechnical evaluations for proposed new facilities and building additions at five existing State of California prisons located at San Quentin, Frontera, Blythe, Imperial, and Vacaville, California. ... Proposed facilities include the construction of an approximately 32,000-square-foot, one-story Correctional Treatment Center with adjacent parking and paved access driveways at California State Prison in San Quentin. The construction of an approximately 31,000-square-foot, one-story Correctional Treatment Center with adjacent parking and paved access driveways at the California Institute for Women in Frontera. The renovation of existing Central Infirmary buildings, which includes the construction of 3,000-square-foot, one-story additions with slab-on-grade floors, fenced activity areas with canopy covers and nearby storage buildings at the Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, Centinela State Prison in Imperial and the California State Prison in Solano (Vacaville).

• 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) .

• SEIU Local 1280 Fairfield, California.
• Assist Solano County, Napa/Solano Headstart and homecare employees in employer/employee relations matters. ...
• California State Employees Association Sacramento, California.
• Same as above and in addition representation services before the State Personnel Board, Public Employees Relations Board, Department of Personnel Administration for bargaining unit employees in State Civil Service.
• State of California, Dept. of Health Services Sacramento, California.
• Analyze, plan and develop change order directives and insure timely and cost effective changes to the California Medi-Cal Management Information System (CA-MMIS). ...
• State of California, Dept. of Health Services Sacramento, California.
• Reviews reports for potential errors and errors referred by Medi-Cal Quality Control and the California Department of Justice. ...
• San Quentin State Prison Tamal, California .
• State of California, Dept. of Health Sacramento, California.
• Advocate for delivery of primary health care systems to rural underserved populations through out California. ... Personnel Officer for the California Health Services Corps. Author of job specifications for two classifications in California State Civil Service. Negotiate agreements between the California Nurses Association and the California Academy of Physician Assistants. ...

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• com - Friday March 12 - The man detained at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area on Wednesday night in connection with a vehicle theft was identified as Jason Dorrough 18, of Bakersfield. ...
• com - Wednesday March 10 - State statistics on student performance released this week show Central Valley schools improving in some areas, but the overall picture shows many area schools failing to keep pace with. ...
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• Commuter's worst nightmare? Solano may not be in the top ten but it shows promise.
• FAIRFIELD -- The interchange of interstates 80 and 680 is the bane of Solano County commuters, the local traffic bottleneck to end all bottlenecks.
• These are the region's biggest chokepoints out of 174 locations, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's 2003 "State of the System" report said. The state Department of Transportation collected the data in 2002.
• Solano County's traffic nightmare didn't make the Top 10. ...
• Suisun City resident Lawrence Hill returns home from his job at San Francisco State University by Highway 101 and Highway 37. ...
• No matter where the I-80 and I-680 interchange ranks in the MTC study, it looms large in Solano County. ...
• Solano County wants to fix the local interchange long before it causes gridlock as bad as on I-80 near San Pablo. ...
• And Solano County might have a new segment of freeway to add to the Bay Area congestion list. ...
• Commuter's worst nightmare? Solano may not be in the top ten but it shows promise.
• FAIRFIELD -- The interchange of interstates 80 and 680 is the bane of Solano County commuters, the local traffic bottleneck to end all bottlenecks.
• FAIRFIELD -- Solano County commuters better love their cars - they most likely spend a lot of time in them.
• FAIRFIELD -- A sexual harassment lawsuit trial for a former employee of California State Prison, Solano, in Vacaville, is scheduled to start Tuesday.

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•   #8  DNA Cold Hit Solves 1987 California Murder   .
• The ruling could nullify laws on DNA databases in states covered by the court: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Nevada and Alaska. ...
• "Background Checks for Firearm Transfer, 2002,” a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, provides data on the number of applications checked by state and local points of contact, the number of applications rejected, and the reasons for rejection. Two key findings of the report are that state and local agencies and the FBI each performed about half of the background checks for firearms applications in 2002, and 136,000 (1. ...
• The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is coordinating the state's participation in Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX), a database created after the Sept. ... Records in MATRIX -- including driver's license and motor vehicle information -- are available to state and local law enforcement in participating states for rapid and easy information sharing. ...
• DNA COLD HIT SOLVES 1987 CALIFORNIA MURDER .
• An inmate in the California State Prison at Solano, currently serving a sentence for a 1996 murder, was recently identified though a state DNA database cold hit as the suspect in the brutal 1987 rape and murder of a 69-year-old Santa Cruz woman.   California requires that blood samples of felons convicted of sexual and other violent crimes be entered in the database. ...
• Source: “DNA match may lead to death penalty for Solano State Prison inmate” by David L. ...

• Marjorie Knoller, 48, was released Thursday from Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, according to Yolanda Campo, an assistant in the warden's office.
• Knoller, a former defense attorney whose license to practice was suspended upon her conviction, was picked up by a friend and traveled to Ventura County in Southern California, where she will serve out her parole, KTVU-TV reported.
• Her husband was paroled in September to Solano County, more than 300 miles north of where his wife will be living. ...
• The couple kept the dogs for a state prison inmate and avowed Aryan Brotherhood member whom they had adopted.
• The state attorney general's office, meanwhile, is appealing a judge's dismissal of Knoller's conviction of second-degree murder in the case.
• KTVU said Knoller refused to be interviewed on-camera but that she told the station she was unhappy about being released because she did not know what she would do in Southern California.

• Just hours before Robert Massie faced execution at San Quentin State Prison on March 27, 2001, reporters still did not know whether they could witness the full execution.
• Upholding rulings by two lower courts, Justice O’Connor denied the state’s emergency stay application to overturn an injunction against new prison restrictions that place part of the execution behind closed curtains. The injunction was granted after a trial last year in California First Amendment Coalition v. ... That right is now secure while the state’s appeal on the merits of the case goes forward.
• When flight attendants Kimberly Reed and Rita Jamerson filed a misconduct complaint against a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer who stopped them on I-80 at two o’clock one February morning, they did not imagine they could face criminal charges. ...
• In October, Solano Superior Court Judge Ramona Garrett agreed, stating: “I formally declare that statute to be unconstitutional. ” The statute’s constitutionality is now before the California Supreme Court in a case in which the ACLU will participate. ...
• The federal government cannot revoke the prescription drug licenses of California doctors who recommend medical marijuana to their patients, thanks to an injunction granted in September 2000 by the United States District Court in Conant v. ...
• This year, the ACLU-NC continued to challenge an effort by Intel Corporation to curtail email freedom, urging the California Supreme Court to review an appeal court’s decision to uphold an injunction that prohibits former Intel employee Ken Hamidi from emailing Intel employees at their work addresses. ...

• Pure Release Tim Sakoman (San Quentin State Prison), Feb 10, 2004 With all your pain inside You’ll never know How it goes I’ve nothing left to hide.
• A World Away Michael Markhasev (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Feb 03, 2004 In fact and in reality, I’ll be more bold And leave behind the childish world of old, Where faces, places, pathways lay forever cold -- And are no gold!.
• Life In My Cell William Thurston (California State Prison Solano), Jan 08, 2004 We stayed online day in and day out, talking for hours at a time. ...
• Amber Tears Israel "Wardog" Perez (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Nov 21, 2003 I drove her away from the only city she had ever known. ...
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• I'm a Correctional Sergeant with the California Department of Corrections. ... You can say I'm state raised. ...
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• CCPOA - Solano Chapter .
• Get up-to-date information from the California Department of Corrections on job opportunities, training, pay benefits, and much more. ...
• For information on California Code of Regulations CCR research the DOC Frame Page. ...
• Check our California State Personnel Board SPB , and CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE lots of good information. ...
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• " Burchfield was a California Peace Officer killed in the line of duty, read her beautiful memorial page at Sgt HDB's Homepage she authored in memory of her late husband Hal. ...

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• 1998 by Dan Morain SACRAMENTO -- California prison officials are moving to erase some of the last vestiges of the prisoners rights movement, laying plans to revoke privileges long cherished by inmates.
• The California Department of Corrections is removing weights that many inmates pump to bulk up muscles. ...
• The extraordinary moves come as officials issue increasingly strident warnings about overcrowding in California's 33 prisons, and as prisoners and their advocates say the tense atmosphere behind the walls is getting worse.
• "We're going to drag them out of their drums cells and shave their heads?" asked Don Novey, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn. ...
• Lawyers representing prisoners and other advocates are trying to block the moves, and state Sen. ...
• Officials say California's prisons can house no more than 178,000 inmates. ... Maddock predicts that without new prisons, by the year 2000 judges may intervene and force the state to free some inmates.
• Matthew Jay, 30, serving 15 years to life at Solano State Prison for a second-degree murder conviction in Los Angeles, is one of thousands of prisoners whose home is a bunk in a prison gym. ...
• Taken together, the steps hark back to the era before the prisoners rights movement of the 1960s, when inmates gained expanded privileges, and prison officials, especially in California, placed a far greater emphasis on rehabilitation.
• California lawmakers gave civil libertarians one of their most far-reaching victories on behalf of prisoners by approving the so-called Inmates Bill of Rights.
• The state attorney general has sued to block only three inmates from profiting from their crimes, and dropped two of the cases because the inmates made no money.
• Iron pits in exercise yards have been part of California prisons at least since the 1950s, though officials began limiting inmates' access two years ago and reduced the level of weights to 165 pounds. ...
• Perhaps more surprising, and fundamental, is the proposal, now pending before the state office of administrative law, to remove lawbooks.
• California prisons had been under a 1972 federal court order to maintain full law libraries. The libraries include complete sets of casebooks containing state and federal court opinions, books of state and federal legal codes, and assorted other lawbooks and legal periodicals.

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• (AP) - A Solano County jury deliberated less than 10 hours before convicting a man for the murder of Vallejo Police Officer Jeffrey Azuar.
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• Bob Ray, a graduate student in political science, commented on the lack of racial diversity at Chico State.
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• Two Chico State students were charged Monday with felony vandalism and a hate crime enhancement in connection to one of the incidents. ...

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