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• Facility:CA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility State Prison.
• Address:Corcoran.
• City:Corcoran.
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• Well, I just want you to know that I’m paroling next month in August on the 26th and I'm going back to Oroville and I’m still gonna keep in touch with you when I'm out there, okay? Well let me see what else I have to say, oh yeah, my mom said I have a cousin living in Los Angeles, her name is Madie, and I was very much relieved that I have a family member here in California for me to go visit now. ...
• Alcohol has been a problem on every Indian Reservation all over the United States, but now there are more and more treatment programs on the reservations, so it's a good thing. ...
• If I have not told you yet, I’m in a 6-month residential treatment program and I’m learning a lot of things here. ...
• This place where I’m at is way in the California Hills. ... Well did I send you a picture of me? I can’t remember if I did or not, So what’s new in your life? So how’s your friend stormy doing now a days? Well, a couple of weeks ago, the staff here took us guys to the state capital in Sacramento, and we had a great time there. ...
• Corcoran, CA. ...

• In the quest for "punishment," the state of California has given very little effort to try to rehabilitate or educate offenders. ...
• California has a few education and rehabilitation programs--unfortunately, only a few. If California really wants to do something about crime, they should expand these programs. ...
• While we encourage the teaching of new skills so prisoners have a better chance for employment when they get on the "outside," we are concerned that the prison system and society will look at prisoners as cheap labor and therefore abuse prisoners (and even look at increasing our population of prisoners as a good thing). ...
• While there are signals that California politicians may be more willing to put in place rehabiliation and prevention programs, keep an eye on the actual numbers of prisoners affected and also recognize that these programs do nothing for the 3-strikers who have already received unjust sentences. ...
• Due to lack of treatment programs, California is one of the leaders in recidivism rates.
• Treatment will slash drug use and crime much more than mandatory minimums.
• Public-health experts say medical treatment dramatically reduces crime much cheaper than prisons.
• In recent years, California has slashed educational and rehabilitative programs for prisoners.
• Legislative Analyst critical of California parole because of lack of rehabilitation programs.
• Only about 1/2 of California inmates in rehabilitation, education or work programs.
• Less than 1/4 of California inmates are receiving the kind of education and vocational training that might enable them to get a job and integrate into the community.
• Only 3,000 of 120,000 California inmates with substance abuse problems receive substantial treatment.
• San Diego's Donovan Facility has 17% recidivism rate compared to state 66% rate for those receiving no treatment.
• Study estimates that additional 5,000 inmates in treatment programs could save California $40 million a year and $110 million in capital outlay expenses.
• 90% of chronic heroin and cocaine users released from prison are expected back in custody within 3 years--with treatment, only 25% would return.

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• A Corcoran man wants to try to help an ailing 8-month-old boy he's never met who's in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant.
• He is an inmate at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran.
• But he did not say why he is in prison, and spokesmen for the state institution could not shed any light Friday on Platou's background.
• The facility, which opened in 1997 and is adjacent to the maximum-security California State Prison, Corcoran, houses the largest correctional substance abuse treatment center in the world.
• Romie's 49-year-old grandmother, however, said Friday that she is wary of Platou's offer because of his possible substance abuse problem.
• Davis, was unaware of Platou's letter Friday, but said he would be better off seeking the assistance of his parole board or the state attorney general's office.

• Current estimated construction costs for this facility are $47. ...
• Before the Governor and Legislature commit to finance this costly facility, a review of the reasons for building such a facility is warranted.
• Although there is no nationally accepted definition of a Special Management Unit (or supermax), in general, it is described as "a highly restrictive, high-custody housing unit within a secure facility, or an entire secure facility, that isolates inmates from the general prison population and from each other due to grievous crimes, repetitive assaultive or violent institutional behavior, the threat of escape or actual escape from high-custody facility(s), or inciting or threatening to incite disturbances in a correctional institution. ...
• In the concentration theory, problematic inmates are located at one facility in order to make the rest of the system manageable. ...
• This facility went to a total lockdown status after the death of two officers and an inmate. ...
• States cited violent or threatening behavior by inmates which won’t allow for housing them in the general population as the need for such a facility in their respective systems. ...
• Located at Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman, the Special Management Units I and II have a combined capacity of 1,728 single cells. ...
• California Department of Corrections.
• California operates two security housing units (SHU): one at maximum custody Pelican Bay State Prison and the other at Corcoran State Prison, which also houses inmates in protective custody. ...
• Inmates housed in another portion of the facility cook the meals, provide routine maintenance, and operate the canteen. ...
• Medical care is provided in each SHU housing unit, but if more complex treatment is needed it is provided through the prison’s infirmary, or by a community hospital.
• Interestingly enough, inmates housed at the SHU unit at Pelican Bay State Prison filed and won a lawsuit in 1995, Madrid v Gomez, which challenged the conditions of confinement, and alleged a pattern of brutality by staff on inmates, inadequate medical and psychiatric care, and inhumane housing conditions. ...
• Colorado State Penitentiary.
• Although referred to as a supermax facility, this 504-bed facility houses administrative segregated inmates as well as those in protective custody and in transition to the general population. ...
• This 480-bed facility also houses a number of high-profile prisoners such as Theodore Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Eyad Ismoil. ...
• The $190 million supermax facility was completed in 1994, and is ringed by guard towers, razor wire, and electronic surveillance cameras. ... The three-year program, which goal is to house prisoners in a less restrictive facility, keeps inmates in their cells for 23 hours per day during the first year, and then slowly lets inmates socialize with other inmates based upon good behavior. ...

• Bush: No help from Washington for California power crunch.
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• SANTA MONICA, California, (Reuters) -- Troubled actor Robert Downey Jr. checked himself into a residential drug rehabilitation facility immediately after being freed unexpectedly from a California prison, his lawyer said Thursday. ...
• He had been housed since August 1999 in a substance abuse treatment facility at the Corcoran State Prison in central California. ...
• Unless state prosecutors challenge Wednesday's ruling, Downey will remain free on bail, with no court-imposed restrictions, for 40 days, at which time the appellate decision becomes final, and he would be placed on parole, Waters said. ...
• For now, Downey has voluntarily submitted to a residential "after-care treatment" program, Waters said, adding that Downey would live at the undisclosed Southern California facility until his "parole kicks in. ...

• After 3 violations of "probation" for drug and alcohol abuse in a three year span of time since he was spared a prison sentence and placed on probation, Malibu Judge Lawrence Mira stated that he was out of options and that he was sentencing Downey to prison to save his life because Downey would not take the responsibility of refraining from alcohol and drug use on his own. The Judge invoked the 3 years sentence in state prison that had been suspended in 1996. Downey, Dept of Corrections # P50522, spent 2 weeks in a state prison Reception Center at Wasco, California for orientation, and on 8/25/99 he was transferred to a Dept of Corrections prison named "SATF" (Substance Abuse Treatment Facility) for drug dependent prisoners in Corcoran California. ... SATF is across the street from the other Corcoran Prison where inmates were shot to death on the exercise yard during fights in the 1990's. ...
• Downey's lawyers petitioned the State Court of Appeals in Los Angeles stating that Downey has already served enough time because the Malibu judge made errors in calculating his sentence by failing to give him credit for the several times Downey spent in lockdown rehab units and pre-sentencing confinement. ...
• Arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance in Los Angeles after he was found wandering in an alley. ...
• He lived at various points in Conneticut, New York, California, London, Paris, and Woodstock.

• Corcoran  Kings County, California.
• LOCATION: Corcoran, is located on California Hwy 43, 178 miles north of Los Angeles,230 miles south of both San Francisco and Sacramento. ...
• Corcoran.
• Corcoran.
• Corcoran.
• SOURCE: * CA Dept of Finance   ** CA State Board of Equalization   *** Kings County Planning.
• Several inter and intra state companies, as well as local contract haulers, serve Corcoran with overnight delivery to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
• Air: Airports within 30 miles include Corcoran Private Airport, Hanford Municipal Airport and the Visalia Municipal Airport. ...
• Bus: Corcoran Dial-A-Ride and Kings Area Rural Transit.
• Highways: Highway 41 and 43 connect with State Hwy 99 and 198. Corcoran is 15 miles west of Highway 99 and 18 miles south of Highway 198 on Hwy 43.
• Name of Supplier: City of Corcoran.
• Corcoran has five producing water wells with a combined pumping capacity of nearly 8,700 gallons per minute. ...
• Name of Supplier: City of Corcoran.
• Type of treatment plant is secondary. ...
• For special industrial rates contact the Pacific Gas and Electric Company office located at 951 Chittenden, Corcoran, CA 93212. ...

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• Little treatment programming has been developed for gang members in juvenile detention and correctional facilities. ...
• When I think about what could be done in the field of corrections to reduce gang activity and youth violence my mind goes back to an interview with Jose, a former Hispanic gang member from Santa Anna, California. ...
• Confinement in a juvenile correctional facility is a strong predictor of adult prison gang membership. ...
• All steps necessary should be taken to reduce gang activity and violence within the facility, regardless of its source. ...
• Identify violent- and gang-affiliated individuals as soon as possible upon entering the facility and put the policy into effect immediately.
• To achieve the best match between their treatment needs and available interventions, needs assessments should be made for all inmates. ...
• , dining, recreation, treatment, education, visitation) and in housing. ...
• The core of a gang may need to carved out and offered treatment or confinement in special facilities which do not allow association. Treatment and diversion may then be offered remaining gang members.
• Gang members who assault other inmates and prison staff are the most violent and predatory in California prisons. These predators are removed from general population and placed in Security Housing Units at Pelican Bay State Prison and Corcoran State Prison or in Administrative Segregation units at each of California's 32 prisons. ... Gomez, Director of the California Department of Corrections. ... " (California Department of Corrections, News Release, August 22, 1996, page).
• , their nature, structure, types and names, activities, relationships with each other, initiation rites) and be trained to recognize signs of gang involvement and gang activity inside the facility. Training should be on-going throughout one's career in the facility.
• Connecticut, Texas, California, New Mexico) and in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons.

• ·      South central Georgia has a contiguous string of fourteen rural counties with new prisons, and 24 altogether in the state. ...
•             The county economic development director in the small New York town of Romulus, for example, states that economic development experts throughout the state consider correctional facilities to be positive contributors to local economies, providing good-paying jobs and benefits in communities where employment is scarce. ...
• The purported benefits are described by a California Department of Corrections official who states that “Prisons not only stabilize a local economy but can in fact rejuvenate it. ...
•             In the all-out contest spurred by New York Governor George Pataki’s 1996 proposal to build three new maximum-security state prisons, the rural town of Altamont set aside 100 acres of land to entice the state to locate a prison there. Antwerp, another small community in northern New York, applied for a $600,000 federal grant to rebuild their water supply system to increase their chances of winning a state prison. ...
• In 1997, Pennsylvania offered up to 200 acres of prime state-owned farmland in rural Wayne County to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) for a dollar. When a rural citizens group legally challenged the sale, the land --also evaluated as eligible for status as a National Historic Register District due to historic remains on the site-- was again transferred by the state to the FBOP as part of a ‘friendly condemnation. ...
• Gilmore’s study of prison towns in California shows that less than 20% of jobs on average go to current residents of a town with a new state prison. While over time that percentage increases, it is below 40% for all of California’s new rural prison towns. ...
•             The findings of Gilmore’s study in California are echoed in reports from disappointed local officials in prison towns across the country. The 750 jobs that a state prison opened in 1999 brought to the tiny rural town of Malone, New York went mostly to people from outside the town because of prison system seniority rules. ...
• This rapid turnover can create staffing problems that play out in understaffed shifts, low morale, and a sense of instability in the facility and the surrounding community. ...
• In Tehachapi, California, home to two state prisons, 741 locally-owned businesses failed in the last decade of the 1990s, while box-store chains absorbed the local markets. ...
• But because today’s prison employees often choose not to live in small rural towns, opting instead to commute from urban and suburban areas, speculation in housing development can end in disaster both for the speculator and for the town, as happened in the prison towns of Corcoran and Avenal, California. ...
• This happened in Crescent City, California, when a state prison opened in 1989. ...
• In Coxsackie, New York, home to two state prisons and 3,000 prisoners, work performed for the community varies widely according to the prison guard coordinator of the inmate work crew: “We’ve done a lot of painting this year, painting a community center building in Athens, painted the inside of a church parish hall, put a roof on the town of New Baltimore town hall, had them sealing blacktop. ...

• Adopters Who Abuse & Kill.
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• MULE CREEK STATE PRISON .
• Throughout his formative years, Noah was abused -- physically, probably sexually, certainly emotionally, and with prescription drugs-- by those charged with his care, education and counseling; more recently, he was briefly introduced to heroin at California's 'model' Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF) at Corcoran State Prison. ...

• New York, Mar 2: Khem Singh, a 72-year-old Sikh priest serving a prison term on charges of molesting an eight-year-old girl, starved himself to death in a California prison, the Los Angeles Times reported.
• Claiming that he was innocent and wrongly convicted by the Stanislaus County Superior Court, Singh, who did not speak or understand English, had been on and off hunger strikes ever since he was lodged at the Corcoran State Prison.
• Officials with the California Corrections Department were quoted as saying that Singh was so emaciated that he weighed less than 40 kg. ...
• Yet his death reportedly came as a surprise to the staff of the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran.

• DN Dehumanization of Juveniles in California State Facilities.

• For more comprehensive information, visit the Secretary of State's website at www. ... gov and the California Voter Foundation's website at www. ...
•  This initiative authorizes the issuance of a $500 million general obligation bond to finance the California Veteran Farm, Home and Mobilehome Purchase Assistance Program (Cal-Vet Program). The Cal-Vet Program was established after World War I to help California war veterans purchase farms and homes. ...
• The State Department of Veterans Affairs projects that these remaining bonds will be sold in the summer of 2001 and that the bond proceeds will be depleted by the summer of 2002. ...
• In past years, the Cal-Vet Program has lacked the efficiency and consistency necessary to be considered a viable source for providing home and farm loans to California's veterans. ...
• In May 2000, the Bureau of State Audits released an audit of the Cal-Vet Program subtitled Changing Demographics and Limited Funding Threaten the Long-Term Viability of the Cal-Vet Program While High Program Costs Drain Current Funding. ...
• The State Department of Veterans Affairs; .
• The California Veterans Board; and .
• While there would be no direct effect on local governments if the state issues a general obligation bond, this initiative would require the state general fund have monies available to repay the long-term debt. This could result in less funding available from the state for local governments in future years. ...
• In November 1990, California voters approved a measure that prohibited legislators from accruing pension or retirement benefits (other than Social Security) as a result of their service. ACA 12 would amend the state constitution to allow a legislator to elect to participate in the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS). ...
• The California School Employees Association; and .
• The California State Dept. ...
• 33 applies only to state legislators. ...

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• "He is currently in the general inmate population," says Manuel Porras, community resources manager for the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, in Corcoran, California. ...
• Downey is one of 700-some inmates in one of two, dorm-style rehab units at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility. ...
• Confusion over Downey's status seems to have stemmed from erroneous initial reports that placed the Less Than Zero star at Corcoran State Prison, home to inmates such as mass-murder mastermind Charlie Manson. The California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison is located next door to Cororan. ...
• site was appealing to visitors to lobby California officials, even President Clinton, to get the actor out of lock up--and into a locked-down treatment program. ...
• At the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, inmates such as Downey spend their days in counseling and drug treatment (four hours per day), and undergoing schooling and/or job training (another four hours' worth). ...
• "There is no special treatment for Downey ," Porras say. ...

• CALIFORNIA.
• TRADITIONS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH is the largest provider of psychiatric services to adult and older adult populations in institutional and clinic settings in California. ...
• The Behavioral Health Division seeks psychiatrists to perform difficult, professional-level diagnoses and psychiatric treatment within an innovative, community-based treatment system. ...
• California physician's license.
• Participation in California public employees retirement system.
• Fresno County is located in the heart of California, the San Joaquin Valley. ... , offers many cultural activities, sporting events, numerous recreational opportunities, arts, and excellent educational institutions, ranging from our elementary schools to the California State University, Fresno. ... All positions are complemented with an excellent salary and benefits package, including one of the best retirement plans in the state. ...
• CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS NOW HIRING.
• Avenal State Prison (Avenal, Calif. ...
• California Correctional Institution (Corona, Calif. ...
• California Institution for Men (Chino, Calif. ...
• California Men's Colony (San Luis Obispo, Calif. ...
• Central California Women's Facility (Chowchilla, Calif. ...
• Valley State Prison for Women (Chowchilla, Calif. ...
• California State Prison, Corcoran (Corcoran, Calif. ...

• , inmate number P50522, had been a prisoner at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran, since August 25,1999- He lived in Building F-1 with several cellmates: Big Al, Figueroa Slim, Timmons and Sugar Bear. ...
• It slipped away from the high fences of Corcoran, from Building F-1, from Sugar Bear and Timmons, and sped toward Los Angeles. ... There, Downey dashed into another waiting vehicle and made the drive toward a Fajita Pita, and then to a 12-step meeting before settling into an unassuming residential treatment center in the suburbs outside Los Angeles. ...
• at his feet, Downey says the nexus of his self-improvement campaign is his dedication to the recovery program Walden House, which he has followed since beginning his stint in the state pen. Walden House is a thirty-year-old regime devoted to breaking the cycle of drug abuse in prisons by surrounding patients with therapists and mentors who are recovered addicts. Downey began Walden when he got to state prison; by the time he left, he was counseling cons (and he will soon be giving speeches to wayward teens as well). He expresses measured hope that this time, he will finally stop the cycle of drug abuse that has continually stunted his career. ...
• "By the time I got to see him, a few months after he got in, Robert's mental state had turned around," says Hanson. ...
• Downey wasn't thrown by such treatment: "I'm proud of the way I've conducted myself since my incarceration and proud of the choices I've made since I've been released. ...
• ' You're talking to a guy who had blue jeans, a blue shirt, some gray Ts, four pair of socks, a pair of sneakers and state boots. ...
• When he was sentenced to Corcoran State Prison, a platoon of Hollywood colleagues and directors who'd worked with Downey, like Robert Altman, decried his punishment as barbaric and unjust. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the post-prison Downey is his attitude about what his supporters called punitive treatment for a victimless crime. ...
• "I always had a feeling that things would never really pan out for me until I had some resolution with drug abuse," says Downey. ...

• "10 Guards Injured in Corcoran Melee" .
• "California Wiretapping Bill Dealt Legal Setback" .
• In another move to assert the authenticity of the campus police authority, University of Iowa President Mary Sue Coleman and Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy are recommending that regents permit security officers to carry the title of "police officer. ...
• "10 Guards Injured in Corcoran Melee" .
• Two recent disturbances at California's Corcoran State Prison led to the injury of 10 correctional officers. ... Officers were called twice to the prison's substance-abuse treatment center to return prisoners to their cells after fights broke out. ... California Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Heimerich said seven other prisoners also joined the attack, and that 16 of the inmates are suspected of being involved with a Los Angeles street gang. Corcoran State Prison spokeswoman Rhonda Frost said officers later found weapons discarded on the ground by the inmates, but that none of the weapons were used in the attack. ... Prison officials kept part of the facility under lockdown into the following day after the attacks. ...
• Officers put pepper spray onto peaceful protestors' eyes with swabs and sprayed the substance into the eyes of others at a closer range than recommended by the spray manufacturers. ...
• "California Wiretapping Bill Dealt Legal Setback" .
• ) bill to expand wiretapping powers of state and local law enforcement officials was offered, after changes were made to quiet complaints from the legislative counsel that the original proposal might violate federal law. ... Both civil liberties groups and state legislators have opposed the California bill, which they fear would trample privacy rights and broaden the authority of law enforcement agencies that have been known to abuse wiretapping powers. ...
• A state administrator's group has established a task force to develop a system the links all state databases and makes a majority of the regulations uniform. ...
• State Department, and overseas embassies have expressed interest in the military's armored SmarTruck concept vehicle, which possesses offensive and defensive capabilities, since the Sept. ...

• Does anyone know anything about Corcoran State Prison or Mule Creek State Prison .
• I too need information on Corcoran State Prison. ...
• Quote: Originally Posted by grammykCorcoran State is listed as #2 of the 5 worse prisons in CA for Inmate abuse at the hands of some of the C/O's and "other" Personnel. ... Corcoran is going through an adjustment period of having level 4 inmates housed there, before it just went up to level 3. ... This has been a constant struggle at corcoran. ...

• Haunted by drug abuse for years and several related arrests, the actor has collectively spent more than two years behind bars, including a consecutive 12 months at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California before being released in November of 2000. ...

• Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, has been charged with double murder by prosecutors in California, which has a fetal homicide law. ...
• Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, has been charged with double murder by prosecutors in California, which has a fetal homicide law. ...
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•  • California & the West .
• , where a bishop was forced to resign last week, to Los Gatos, where a priest and a brother allegedly had sexual contact with two mentally retarded men, the persistent tales of sexual abuse that have dogged the Roman Catholic Church are shocking.
• In March 2000, he was sentenced to serve six years and eight months in the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and California State Prison at Corcoran.
• Paul Gaspari, the San Francisco attorney who represented the church and the diocese in the lawsuit, and Mary Watson, the Southern California attorney for Fiat Voluntas Tua, did not return calls Monday.

• In 1998 and 1999, two California appellate courts rejected the teachers' arguments, siding with a 1995 Attorney General's opinion. ...
• State and federal law require that schools keep identifiable student information confidential except in very limited situations. ...
• California Department of Corrections (2000) 24 PERC ¶¶ 31111, 31112, and 31113.
• These three cases involved work at High Desert State Prison, California Substance Abuse Treatment Center at Corcoran, and Salinas Valley State Prison. ...
• In 1994, the California State Employees Association filed an unfair labor practice challenging the CDC's failure to assign an SCI at each satellite kitchen at the California State Prison, Sacramento. ... While that decision was pending in April 1997, the CDC notified CSEA of the impending opening of satellite kitchens at High Desert State Prison. ...
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a public employee "whistleblower" who is subjected to ongoing harassment by co-workers may pursue damages against his employer under federal law for violation of civil rights and under California law for intentional infliction of emotional distress and for injury caused by the co-workers acting within the course and scope of their employment. ...
• " Although Caudle did testify that she would "feel very awkward" to have incidental contact with her former supervisor, the Ninth Circuit did not feel compelled to change the district court's judgment, finding no abuse of discretion in its decision not to find liability for back or front pay beyond September 1995.
• A California Court of Appeal ruled that police officers' speech, though of some public concern, involved mostly internal office matters and thus did not outweigh the city's need to preserve discipline and harmony in the police department. ...
• Cochran felt that Age was giving preferential treatment to black officers. ...
• He made several reports against Age for giving white officers less favorable treatment than black officers and further requested an investigation of Age. ...
• However, courts must strike a balance between the interests of the employee, as a citizen in commenting upon matters of public concern, and the interest of the state as an employer in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees. ...
• The California Court of Appeal recently confirmed several Attorney General opinions holding that a public employee whose spouse is a member of the board of trustees of the employing public entity may not be promoted, in light of the conflict of interest prohibitions of Government Code Section 1090. ...
• However, while Attorney General opinions are entitled to weight by the courts, they are not binding in California. ...
• School District That Has Fiscal and Political Connection With State May Not Be Sued Under 42 U. ...
• A California Court of Appeal held that a California school district is an arm of the state for Eleventh Amendment purposes and therefore enjoys the state's immunity from liability under 42 U. ...

• These items are arranged chronologically by state. ...
•                  California                           Michigan                           Tennessee        .
• A bill calling for a private prison in Whittier cleared its first hurdle Thursday, passing the House State Affairs Committee 4-2. ...
• The cash-strapped city of Delta Junction has a $1 million debt due soon for its settlement of a private prison lawsuit and is lobbying the state to foot the bill. ...
• The Kenai prison project was the third to fail to win local support since the state legislature began pushing private prisons in 1996. ...
• State senators rejected an amendment Tuesday that would have required a proposed Kenai Peninsula Borough prison to be put bid competitively. ...
• Some Republicans lawmakers from Kenai Peninsula have blasted a plan, supported by a bill in the legislature that would allow a joint venture to build and operate the state's first private prison near Kenai. ...
• This time the state is also a defendant. ... The state Department of Corrections was named as a defendant because Cornell operates Tundra Center under a state contract, the Tundra Drums newspaper reported. ...
•   In 1998 Valcarce and another Bethel lawyer filed suit against Tundra Center on behalf of 63 former residents of the state-funded halfway house. ...
• The House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would force boot camp owners to get state certification. ...
• the private operator for a proposed Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, extended an option to buy on 17 acres of land adjacent to the facility. City Manager Larry Rains said the City of Willcox is currently working with legislators to keep a bill introduced into the State House of Representatives from "slipping through. " House Bill 2473 is designed to require cities and counties to receive state approval prior to contracting or constructing a security correctional facility in their city or county, Rains said. ...
• The state's prison director wants lawmakers to give him more control over private prisons following reports that a Hawaii gang had effectively taken over a Florence prison. Hawaii auditors determined in late April that a gang called United Samoan Organization was essentially running the Florence Correctional Facility, which houses 550 of that state's inmates -- 300 of whom are sex offenders. ... Two female auditors were not allowed to tour the facility because of fears for their safety. ...

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