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• The strange case of Ronald Herrera, a former resident of Santa Paula who became infamous for not only his violent crime spree but for also being the first person returned to prison under the state’s sexual predator law, became even stranger with his death in Corcoran State Prison.
• The strange case of Ronald Herrera, a former resident of Santa Paula who became infamous for not only his violent crime spree but for also being the first person returned to prison under the state’s sexual predator law, became even stranger with his death in Corcoran State Prison.
• He bled to death in either an act of suicide or criminal negligence by the prison guards who did not respond to Herrera’s screams as they watched the Super Bowl game on television.
• Herrera had been returned to prison under the three-strikes law after he was arrested about three years ago in Carpinteria for shoplifting lip balm, breath freshener and wine from a grocery store.
• Herrera was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison; he already had 19 serious felonies under his belt.
• Later, Herrera shot a Virginia police officer in the face, a state where he committed six armed robberies after he escaped from jail in California.
• Although Herrera had also received a sentence of 50 years in prison in Virginia, a 1986 mix-up led to his release. He returned to California and was arrested and committed to state prison to serve time on his 1971 convictions.
• He was finally released from Atascadero State Hospital in November 2001. ...
• Herrera had deliberately or accidently removed his diabetes shunt and covered his Corcoran State Prison cell window with blood-saturated toilet paper while the guards watched the Super Bowl. ...
• Herrera was found Monday morning slumped over on the floor, lifeless and within days Kings County and state investigators began a probe to determine if his death resulted from criminal negligence.

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• LOS ANGELES –The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has received notice from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that it succeeded in challenging the retroactive application of a Prison Litigation Reform Act provision in Chappell v. Dickerson, a civil rights case brought by an inmate at the notorious Corcoran State Prison. The prisoner, Rex Chappell, sued for violation of his constitutional rights and psychological injury after he was deliberately placed in danger by a Corcoran prison guard. The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), which became law in 1997, restricts prisoners' civil rights lawsuits for psychological injury to those in which a prisoner can show physical injury. The lawsuit alleged that a Corcoran guard locked Chappell in a recreation yard with other inmates. ... "Every law passed that limits individuals' civil rights carries with it a shadow of animus," said Rocio Cordoba, staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, which represented Chappell in his appeal, "and that shadow tends to show up in actions such as the state's attempt to apply the PLRA retroactively to bar Mr. ...

• LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious mass murderers, was denied parole on Wednesday for the 10th time at a hearing before a prison board at Corcoran State Prison in California where he has been jailed for masterminding a bloody 1969 rampage, prison officials said.
• Johnny Castro, a spokesman at the Corcoran State Prison where Manson is being held about 150 miles (240 km) north of Los Angeles.
• Castro said Manson, 67, who is currently being held in solitary confinement to keep him away from the general prison population, was refused parole because he has had 17 "serious" infractions on his record since his last parole hearing five years ago, including "possession of a (blunt object) weapon and threatening to hurt or kill peace officers. ...
• Prior to the hearing, which Manson refused to attend, Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney Stephen Kay said Manson has been a "terrible prisoner" in recent years, and that his record shows multiple incidents in which he hit, spit at, or threw coffee on prison guards and other employees.
• His sentence, and those of other Death Row inmates, was later reduced to life in prison when the state Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. ...
• Prison officials said that for years he has been in and out of solitary confinement, commonly referred to by inmates as "the hole. ...

• The Escape Of Seven Armed Convicts From A Texas State Prison Raises the Question. ...
• maximum-security prison in Texas. ...
• While much of the coverage has centered on the dramatic escape and the weaknesses of the prison--how they easily seized uniforms, keys to a prison truck, even guns and ammunition--you do not hear demands that the state government get out of the prison business.
• Had the escape occurred at a privately operated prison, a chorus of voices would no doubt argue the event was proof positive that private companies should not be given such an important task.
• If a private prison permitted this escape, heads would roll across the state like tumbleweeds. ...
• At public prisons, by contrast, the state department of corrections monitors itself.
• By putting the government in the role as independent monitor with the power to fire poor-performing companies, states have a more powerful hand than if it is the state department of corrections that is failing.
• After allegations of guard-organized "gladiator fights" between inmates came to light at California's Corcoran Prison, only the whistleblower lost his job.
• Due to protective labor laws that shield even the most egregious violations, and a general lack of accountability in public institutions, this is the state of affairs at many public prisons.
• Clearly, the Connally prison needs serious reforms. ...
• While the escape may have occurred at another facility, even a private one, we can be sure of one thing: A private prison would not walk away from this a mere slap on the wrist.

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

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• He seeks a federal probe of riot, won't cut state watchdog office.
• Stung by a recent barrage of bad news concerning the state's prison system, Gov. ...
• attorney in Sacramento to investigate a 2002 riot and administrative cover-up at Folsom State Prison.
• And, Schwarzenegger backed off his earlier plan to diminish the independence and budget of the Office of the Inspector General, which is charged with investigating prison mismanagement and corruption.
• Earlier in the week, Schwarzenegger said he will soon appoint a commission of experts to study the state's prison system and recommend reforms.
• "I am gravely concerned with what I have recently learned about internal operations within the California prison system," Schwarzenegger said in a prepared statement about his request to U. ...
• "Prison employees who engage in misconduct bring disgrace and dishonor to the many hard-working professionals who daily go to work and do their best to serve the public and effectively manage this state's criminal population.
• "It is a priority of my administration to reform the California prison system and bring to justice those individuals who do it dishonor by their misconduct. ...
• attorney to investigate the riot, rather than the state attorney general or the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office, because the federal office has broader investigative authority and can pursue criminal charges regarding civil rights violations.
• Schwarzenegger, who's trying to focus almost exclusively on his "Fiscal Recovery Plan" on the March primary ballot, has been hit recently with a series of highly critical state reports, hearings and news accounts that have shown California's prison problems in stark terms.
• A Senate committee held hearings last month on the Folsom riot, which began when supervising officers released rival gangs into a prison yard en masse. ...
• A few weeks before that, a Senate committee held hearings on the state's much-criticized parole system, called "a billion-dollar failure" in one recent analysis.
• In mid-January, a federal court monitor issued a report that recommended perjury charges against the state's former prisons chief and said the system's discipline process is so corrupt that whistle-blowers are punished and correctional officers live by a "code of silence" that fosters cover-ups.
• There was also a report in the Los Angeles Times this week that an inmate at Corcoran State Prison near Fresno bled to death in his cell, after howling much of the afternoon. ...
• He also proposed putting that office under the Youth and Adult Corrections Agency, which oversees all state prison-related programs.

•   Lockyer Takes On Prison Guards And Loses!.
• Last year, the CCPOA (Prison Guard Union) spent more than $2 million on Gov. ...
• "The Kings County DA (who tried to prosecute rogue prison guards) got taken out by CCPOA. ...
• LOCKYER TAKES ON PRISON GUARDS AND LOSES .
• The Bee had criticized what it called a lackluster state investigation into a series of spectacular abuses by correctional peace officers against prison inmates at Corcoran State Prison.
• Over a seven-year period, guards killed or wounded some 50 inmates in the deadliest prison in America. ...
• Among them was dealing with the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association, one of the state's most powerful unions, which aggressively defended its members.
• Another was that district attorneys in small, rural counties, where many state prisons are located, often lack the resources to mount complicated prosecutions. ... A dew weeks later came state legislative hearings into the Corcoran prison incidents. ... The prison guards' union said it backed his opponent because Strickland was "inept. ...
• To cure this problem, state Sen. ...
• What made the hearing extraordinary was the degree to which Attorney General Bill Lockyer advocated for the bill, laid out the politics and made explicit - in ways not often heard by politicians in the state Capitol - just how the special-interest money game is played. ...
• Four Assembly members who directed hostile questions at Lockyer and Schiff are running for the state Senate next year: Democrat Carl Washington and Republicans Jim Battin, Jim Cuneen and Rico Oller. ...
• "This year," Lockyer said in the hearing, "seven Corcoran cases were referred to my office. ...

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• Arnold Struggles With Prison Crisis .
• (AP) -- While prison guards allegedly watched the Super Bowl and ignored his screams for hours, an inmate on dialysis died as most of his blood drained from his body. ...
• The death last month was just the latest horror story to come out of the California prison system and confront Gov. ...
• Among other things, two teenagers hanged themselves last month at a juvenile prison. And in a recent series of scathing reports and hearings, legislators, outside experts and whistleblowers have charged that the nation's biggest prison system is plagued by out-of-control spending, inhumane discliplinary practices, and outright brutality on the part of guards. ...
• "Most people in California aren't sent to prisons on death sentences," said state Sen. Gloria Romero, a Democrat from Los Angeles who is co-chairing legislative hearings now under way on the 160,000-inmate prison system. ...
• Last month, sobbing witnesses at Senate hearings told of a systemwide "code of silence" among guards and accused top Folsom State Prison officials of covering up their mishandling of a 2002 riot. ...
• Twenty-five inmates and one guard were injured, and a second guard committed suicide months later, complaining of his treatment by prison officials in the riot's aftermath. ...
• In recent weeks, a federal monitor said the state's former corrections director and chief investigator should be charged with contempt for blocking a probe of whether Pelican Bay State Prison guards lied to protect co-workers convicted of soliciting inmates to attack child molesters and others they disliked. ...
• The California Youth Authority, which is responsible for 4,600 juvenile offenders, came under fire recently from state-funded experts who said authorities overuse Mace, drugs, physical restraints and wire-mesh cages on misbehaving youths while ignoring or delaying mental or physical health treatment. ...
• Last month, Deon Whitfield, 17, and Durrell Tadon Feaster, 18, used bed sheets to hang themselves in their cells at a juvenile prison in Ione. ...
• 25 in his cell at Corcoran State Prison. The Los Angeles Times quoted unidentified prison officials as saying guards were busy watching the game and ignored his cries for help. ...
• It was only the latest in bizarre allegations at Corcoran, where eight guards accused of staging gladiator-style fights among inmates were acquitted of civil rights violations in 2000. ...
• In a confidential report obtained by The Associated Press, state investigators said guards at Salinas Valley State Prison formed a gang-like organization, called the Green Wall, to intimidate inmates and fellow employees, and even devised gang-style hand signals and codes. ...

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• Why? Sir Turtle (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Oct 07, 2003 My brother, I love the same type of music as you do, so why would you shoot a projectile into my head where the music plays just because I live on the other side of town?.
• My Guns Wardog (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Sep 11, 2003 The pain I seen him go through at that moment I have never seen any one else go through, ever. ...
• Thirty Year Plan HH Dominguez (SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison, Sep 04, 2003 For the first time I could see the pain in their eyes and knew that I was to blame. ...
• The Story Of A Gun Michael Markhasev (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Sep 04, 2003 Not kill, I mean, but to protect! A safeguard against crime erect! (At least thus says the Constitution, Which makes it legal distribution. ...
• Weaponry Daniel Rowe (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Aug 26, 2003 Youngsters, put down the guns and pick up a book. ...

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• FEDERAL INDICTMENTS against eight Corcoran State Prison guards for staging gladiator fights among inmates should be just the beginning of a thorough investigation of the California Department of Corrections. ...

• Will Y2K wreak prison havoc? .
• When it comes to year 2000 compliance, Corcoran State Prison officials can point to a good news-bad news scorecard: No, they don't expect cell doors to spring open when the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve 1999. ...
• Only two out of every three embedded systems in the prison are ready for the big day, according to California's Department of Information Technology. As the Year 2000 ticks closer, the prison -- and others like it -- will not be able to fix every potential glitch, officials said. ...
• The department recently tested a maximum security prison and a hospital, the Sonoma Developmental Center, to assess their ability to handle the year 2000 glitch and try to gauge the state's readiness for any possible glitches.
• The study found that 67 percent of the prison's embedded systems were compliant, and fewer than half of the hospital's systems were prepared.
• Researchers gleaned the data by talking to the companies that make the systems and hospital and prison administrators.
• According to the report, the embedded microprocessors can be found in things such as emergency power supplies, water and sewage treatment systems and security and surveillance systems in the prison. ...
• The state said it chose to study Corcoran because it represents a microcosm of a small city, with housing, fire and hospital facilities. The maximum-security penitentiary also houses some of the most infamous criminals ever to pass through the state, including Charles Manson. ...
• Some state officials have expressed concerns about embedded systems in prison doors during meetings about the year 2000 issue, but department of corrections officials said the doors aren't date-sensitive.
• Technology experts throughout the state's departments are in the process of prioritizing the systems that need fixing because they won't have time to repair all of them. ...

• CERJ: Video of Guards Killing Inmates at Corcoran State Prison .
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• Prison medical care suit settled .
• State Corrections Dept. ...
• Prison advocates yesterday announced a tentative settlement of a class- action lawsuit that they say will improve medical care for the 160,000 inmates in California's 33-prison system. ...
• For Mary Kelly, whose 32-year-old son, James Anthony Kelly, died of tongue cancer that had gone untreated at Corcoran State Prison, it is too late. ...
• The Simi Valley mother said one prison doctor had told her Tony's pain came from his biting down on his tongue. Her son was in prison on a two-year sentence for possession of psychedelic mushrooms. ...
• The Prison Law Office in San Rafael filed the lawsuit on behalf of nine plaintiffs, including a paraplegic inmate whose catheter went unchanged for months and a prisoner with AIDS whose pain medications were cut off eight times. ...
• The lawsuit alleged that prison officials relied on inadequately trained and poorly supervised medical technical assistants; failed to provide adequate nursing coverage on evenings and weekends; and failed to treat prisoners with chronic conditions such as AIDS and kidney disease. ...
• Donald Specter, director of the Prison Law Office, said the agreement had been reached Monday afternoon after working more than two years to settle the case. ...
• "By the dollar figures alone, we've dedicated ourselves to improving health care in the prison system. ...
• Among other provisions, the settlement requires that registered nurses be available in prison emergency rooms on a 24-hour basis, establishes time limits for prisoners to receive medical care and creates a panel of clinicians to audit the Department of Corrections' progress. ...
• Heimerich says prison officials are pleased that the settlement, which is for injunctive relief and does not cover any damages sought by the nine plaintiffs, allows them to put the program together without the outside intervention of a federal master. ...

• 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,' reads the hand-painted sign in the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, a reminder written by inmatesthemselves that becoming productive citizens means completely changingtheir lives. ... It also applies to our federal and state prison systems that ignore rehabilitation, forcing Americans to live with a 75-percent recidivism rate -- all because we refuse to accept that substance abuse is the root cause of most crime, and one that can be treated.
• A short drive outside the dusty central California town of Corcoran, a seemingly endless procession of guard towers, concertina wire and flat, block buildings presents the depressing face of a modern American prison. ...
• Most prison blocks actually foster the criminal mentality through the daily interaction of criminals waiting out their sentences with almost no rehabilitation. ... Strict gang allegiances based on racism are the rule in most prison yards. Black, Latino and white gangs are in a virtual state of war in prisons. ... These attitudes, which landed inmates in prison in the first place, are reinforced every day. ... He rarely learns anything about normal life from his time in prison.
• But in the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF), which is blocks F and G of this prison, life is very, very different. For inmates released from this treatment center within a prison, preliminary evidence shows that the recidivism rate is almost the mirror opposite of regular prisons: Instead of one-quarter going straight and three-quarters returning to crime, three-quarters go straight and only one-quarter returns to crime.
• Rather than menacing each other, as in most prison yards, they actually join together to help each other get well, which is the basis of the therapeutic community approach. Not only is this the opposite of normal prison life, it's the opposite of life on the streets, which taught them criminal behavior in the first place. ...
• This is one of the first time that groups from outside the state prison system have been brought inside to provide such in-depth services.
• Begun less than three years ago, this treatment facility wasn't well accepted at first by inmates or the prison system. ... Most prisons are focused on security and control, which the prison staff maintains over the inmates. ...
• If our policy makers pay attention to both the research on prison treatment and the experience in places like Corcoran, some day all of our prisons will be treatment centers behind bars.

• Fresno jury deliberates case against Corcoran State Prison officials .
• (AP) -- Corcoran State Prison officials did not ignore an inmate who was in multiple fights at the facility, a federal jury found Thursday. ...
• The verdict ends a lawsuit filed seven years ago by prisoner Marvin Stanton, who charged that guards and administrators at the maximum-security prison did nothing to protect him when he was beaten and shot with wooden blocks during fights on an exercise yard nearly 12 years ago. ...
• Stanton, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang who is now incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison, contended he arrived at Corcoran and was told two days later of the policy in which inmates are integrated on exercise yards. ...
• Prison officials testified that Stanton never complained or named the rival gang members as an enemy, steps that would have solved his problem. ...
• Stanton's lawsuit names former Corcoran warden George Smith, three other administrators and 11 correctional officers. It was filed in 1994, long before eight Corcoran guards were charged in a federal criminal indictment with violating the rights of prisoners. ...

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• NOWHERE IS CALIFORNIA'S highly flawed civil service system more abused and abusive than in the state's Department of Corrections and California Youth Authority. Many incompetent and unruly employees throughout state government escape firing and penalties because of cumbersome disciplinary procedures and an inept State Personnel Board. But it is in the prison system that the most egregious incidents of employee misbehavior go unpunished.
• In some instances, one wonders on which side of the prison bars workers who are spared by the personnel board belong. ...
• • A Salinas Valley State Prison guard recruited female officers for sex parties. ...
• • A Corcoran State Prison officer was demoted after he started a false rumor among prisoners that an inmate was an informant. ...
• The personnel board's overruling of disciplinary decisions by prison and CYA managers is hardly uncommon. In 2002, the board reduced or revoked 59 percent of the prison system's disciplinary cases.
• There are a large number of disciplinary cases, although the exact number is hard to determine because records become public only if the prison guard appeals to the personnel board.
• However, the State Controller's Office records show that Corrections brought 637 actions in 2002 that involved firing, suspension or salary reduction. ...
• Incompetence, laziness and a code of silence among prison guards lead to a flawed system in which major abuses go unreported and unpunished even when action is taken.
• One reason for so much unprofessional behavior in the prison system is the flawed hiring process. ...
• That is a tall order for a state Legislature that can't say no to union pressure. But with a new governor in Sacramento who says he is determined to clean up state government, this would seem to be a good place to start. Perhaps the state can at least begin revamping an overly costly and corrupt Department of Corrections.

• California incarcerates more than twice as many people as any other state. ...
• The California Department of Corrections operates 33 state prisons and a long list of smaller correctional facilities. ...
• With voter approval and adoption of the "three strikes" law - which mandates life sentences for all three-time felons - and an aggressive effort to imprison drug users and dealers, state prisons in the last 25 years have grown vastly overcrowded. ...
• Corey Weinstein, a director of California Prison Focus, a San Francisco-based prison watchdog organization, believes that the CDC has promoted an atmosphere of violence and mistreatment in state prisons far beyond what exists in other states. ...
• California has the most violent prison system in the country," Weinstein said. ...
• Incidents of violence in state prisons - between inmates and guards and among the inmates themselves - have in fact been on the rise since 1990. ... 5 incidents per 100 inmates in a typical prison population. ...
• Left out of the report - something noted by Prison Focus' Weinstein - are figures of incidents of abuse and assault of inmates specifically by prison guards. ...
• Weinstein said he believes most violence in state prisons is not documented because of a lack of oversight, and the CDC ignores almost all incidents of rape and sexual abuse. ...
• Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a prison watch organization in Fort Bragg founded by former prisoners, estimates that 80,000 unwanted sexual acts take place behind bars in the US every day, with a total of 364,000 prisoners raped every year. Of those victims, the organization estimates 196,000 are males in state prisons, 123,000 are males in county jails, 40,000 are boys in juvenile and adult facilities, and 5,000 are women in prisons. ...
• In addition, after studying results from a 1994 survey of male inmates in the Nebraska prison system, SPR revealed that prison staff were reported as perpetrators in 18 percent of sexual abuse incidents. ...
• While the Department of Corrections documented incidents of assault and battery at every state prison and correctional facility last year (except at one low-security women's camp), two state prisons have become notorious for guards' outrageous behavior: .
• At Corcoran State Prison south of Fresno, eight correctional officers in 1994 allegedly staged "gladiator-style" fights between inmates in the prison yard strictly for their own amusement. ...
• All told, guards at Corcoran - which crowds 6,286 inmates into a high-security prison that can hold just 2,916 - killed seven prisoners and wounded 43 others between January 1989 and mid-1994. While several officers at Corcoran have been found guilty of abusing inmates, no top administrators have been charged with wrongdoing. ...

• On Saturday, April 10, 2004, the United Front to Shut Down the Security Housing Units (SHUs) in California will hold its second statewide meeting at the Uhuru House at 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd in Oakland to organize legal, political and organizing efforts to shut down the security housing units in the state of California. The United Front to Shut Down the Security Housing Units recently convened a meeting hosted by the Barrio Defense Committee in San Jose included MIM (Maoist International Movement), the African People’s Socialist Party, Aztecs of North America Inc, African People’s Solidarity Committee, Justice for Palestinians, Zami! Cooperative, and California Prison Focus (CPF). ... ” Quetza’s son Jose Luis Avina has been held in the SHU at Corcoran State Prison for four years in retaliation for leading a hunger strike to expose the attacks on the Mexican prisoners at New Folsom prison in 1999. ... The United Front will hold monthly public actions on the first Saturday of the month in locations across the state and is building for a mobilization to coincide with the legal battle regarding the first amendment and the Security Housing Unit so-called “gang” classifications and regulations. ...

• The Continuing Crisis of AIDS in Prison .
• On December 9, 1998, Michael Van Straten was found dead in his cell at the Corcoran State Prison in California. ... The suicide note he left behind expressed hopes that his death would help to focus much-needed attention on the medical obstacles faced by over 200 prisoners living with HIV and AIDS at Corcoran State Prison. ...
• The medical staff at Corcoran often ignored his complaints about these and other health issues. ...
• Organizations like the American Public Health Association and the Presidential Advisory Council on AIDS' Subcommittee on Prison Issues have released recommendations on HIV/AIDS in prisons. ...
• Although prisons may have written policies that prohibit this type of conduct, current practices by prison staff are often the opposite. ...
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report, HIV in Prison & Jails, 1995, 2. 3% of all state and federal prisoners were HIV-positive. In 1995 there were over 24,000 prisoners living with HIV in state and federal prisons. ...
• A review of state prisons between 1991 and 1995 found the number of male prisoners infected with HIV increased 28%, while the number of female prisoners increased 88%. ... According to a study of HIV infection rates among prisoners in New York State from 1987 to 1997, HIV infection rates among women prisoners remained high and stable over this period. ...
• These numbers dramatically illustrate a continuing crisis in HIV/AIDS in the prison system. ...
• The prison system in Michigan tests all prisoners upon entry. ...
• In the past few years two prison systems have changed their HIV testing policies without legislative measures. ... No other state has formally reinstated segregation in over a decade. ...
• In Florida, Bill 0711 would require mandatory HIV testing of inmates in the prison system. Prisoners would be tested within 30 days of admission to a prison. ... It would also require prison officials to perform HIV testing within 60 days of a prisoners' release. ...

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