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• The prison industrial complex--one of America's costliest public institutions, fueled by billions in tax dollars and millions of devastated lives--operates largely without public scrutiny. ...
• Corcoran State Prison.
• Following in the footsteps of his Republican predecessor, on September 7 Davis vetoed a bill that would have lifted a California Department of Correction's ban on face-to-face interviews with prison inmates,instituted in 1994 after a series of high-profile prisoner abuse cases. ...
• "That's a pretty major roadblock to doing journalism about prison conditions," says Thompson. ...
• Such restrictions make it impossible for the American public to be meaningfully involved in prison-related policy decisions, says journalist and media access advocate Peter Sussman.
• "How can we decide policy or determine penalties when we're not allowed to talk to the people most affected?" asks Sussman, past president of the Northern California SPJ chapter and co-author, with prisoner-journalist Dannie Martin, of Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog. ...
• Some of the prison system's most compelling and undercovered stories take place in Security Housing Units--"the SHU. ... Thanks to the determination of prisoner rights lawyers and activists, former inmates, journalists, and whistle-blowing corrections officers, eight guards have been indicted for staging "gladiator-style" fights between inmates in Corcoran State Prison's SHU, and four more are currently on trial for setting up the 1993 prison-cell rape of Eddie Dillard.
• Mary Rubach of California Prison Focus, while pleased that the Corcoran story hit the mainstream press, is quick to point out that the CDC's human rights violations are not isolated incidents. ... "General prison conditions in California's SHUs aren't getting the media coverage they deserve," Rubach says.
• A prison within a prison, the SHU is ostensibly designed to protect the general prison population from the "worst of the worst. " While prisoners are put into Administrative Segregation--"the hole"--for allegedly violating prison regulations, to get into the SHU inmates need only be associated with a gang. ...
• Prisoner rights activists point to the CDC's integrated yard practice as an example of prison officials using policy to administer racist and brutal violence against prison populations. ...
• Since Corcoran State prison opened in 1988, guards have killed seven inmates and injured hundreds more through the use of excessive force in breaking up staged fights. California is the only state that allows the use of deadly force to break up fights.
• While the exposure of some Corcoran State Prison atrocities is an important victory for prisoner rights advocates, it is not necessarily the result of great journalism. Most of the reporting on Corcoran came after the fact. This is significant because many of the incidents central to civil rights suits based on prisoner abuse at Corcoran happened prior to the CDC's implementation of the ban on face-to-face inmate interviews. Were it not for the dedicated work of prison rights lawyers, it is unlikely that the institutional violence at Corcoran would ever have reached the public.

• Prison guards acquitted of staging gladiator-style prison fights.
• Corcoran Prison surveillance video shows a fight that ended with guards shooting and killing an inmate in 1994 .
• Prison has other problems.
• LOS ANGELES -- Eight prison guards at Corcoran Prison near Fresno, California, were acquitted Friday of setting up gladiator-style fights among inmates. ...
• In a trial that lasted 31 days, the eight guards were accused of conspiring to violate prisoners' rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by intentionally pitting warring prison gangs against one another in the prison yard. ...
• Filed by the federal government, the charges stemmed from a 1994 incident at the state prison in which inmate Preston Tate was shot and killed by guard Christopher Bethea, during a fight in the yard. ...
• Since the allegations were made, the California Department of Corrections revised its policy on the use of deadly force, which had resulted in seven inmate deaths and dozens of injuries during prison yard fights at Corcoran from 1989 to 1994. ...
• Truman Jennings and officers Michael Gipson, Timothy Dickerson, and Raul Tavarez faced lesser charges in connection with another prison yard fight. ...
• Steve Riggs and guard Richard Caruso, both went on disability leave for stress-related problems and also no longer work for the prison. ...
• None of the accused still works at Corcoran. Six transferred to other jobs in the prison system and two have retired. ...
• One former guard at the prison told federal authorities the fights were among rival prison gangs who were allowed into the workout yard at the same time. ...
• Defense lawyers argued that guards did not set up any fights, but that they occurred spontaneously when inmates of different ethnic and geographic backgrounds were forced to exercise together in the prison's highest-security unit. ...
• In a five- and-a-half-month period, there were 84 fights during the guards' shift -- 300 percent more than the next-most violent area of the prison. ...
• Prison has other problems .
• In November, four Corcoran guards were acquitted of setting up the rape of an inmate by a notoriously violent prisoner. State prosecutors argued that the rape was in retaliation for an attack on a female guard. ...

• Last summer, some 600 inmates in the notorious supermaximum-security unit at California's Pelican Bay State Prison stopped eating. They were protesting the conditions in which the state says it must hold its most difficult prisoners: locked up for 23 hours out of every 24 in a barren concrete cell measuring 71/2 by 11 feet. ...
• But the protest died out after two weeks, according to the jailhouse lawyer who organized it; and though a state senator promised that he would look into the strikers' complaints, so far conditions at Pelican Bay remain unchanged.
• The judge ordered California to remove any seriously mentally ill or retarded inmates from the supermax unit, and he appointed a special master to overhaul the prison.
• The supermax models emerged out of the prison violence of the 1970s and the early 1980s, when dozens of guards around the country, including two at the maximum-security federal prison at Marion, Illinois, were murdered by prisoners. First, prison authorities developed procedures to minimize inmate-staff contact; then they took to "locking down" entire prisons for indefinite periods, keeping inmates in their cells all day and closing down communal dining rooms and exercise yards. Eventually, they began to explore the idea of making the general prison population safer by creating entirely separate high-tech, supermax prisons in which "the worst of the worst" gang leaders and sociopaths would be incarcerated in permanent lockdown conditions. ... California-which had seen guards murdered by inmates between 1970 and 1973, and a staggering 32 prisoners killed by other inmates in 1972 alone- opened Corcoran State Prison and its supermax unit in 1988 and Pelican Bay the year following. ...
• Indeed, throughout the l990s, despite year-by-year declines in crime, one state after another pumped tens of millions of dollars into building supermax prisons and supermax facilities within existing prisons-sections that are usually called "secure housing units," or SHUs. Defenders of supermaxes, like Todd Ishee, warden of Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP), a supermax in Youngstown, argue that their restrictions provide a way to establish control in what is still-and inherently-an extremely dangerous environment. "In 1993," he says, "our maximum security prison at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility was host to a riot. ...
• In Ohio, for example, a special legislative committee appointed to inspect the state's prisons in 1999 concluded that fewer than half of the inmates at OSP met the state's own supermax guidelines. State correctional-department data indicate that of the more than 350 inmates currently incarcerated at OSP, 20 were ringleaders of the 1993 riot and 31 had killed either an inmate or a correctional officer while living among the general prison population; but the rest had been sent there for much less serious offenses (often little more than a fist fight with another inmate).
• According to a study issued by the state of Florida, fully one-third of the correctional departments across the country that operate supermax prisons report placing inmates in them simply because they don't have enough short-term disciplinary housing in lower-security prisons. ...
• Department of Justice's 1997 report on supermax housing (the most recent available) found Mississippi officials insisting that they needed to house fully 20 percent of their prison inmates in separate supermax-type prisons and another 35 percent in similar units within existing prisons. ... In Virginia, after Jim Austin, the state's nationally renowned consultant on prisoner classification, told officials that they needed to put more of their inmates into medium security prisons, the state instead spent approximately $150 million to build Red Onion and Wallens Ridge, two supermax prisons with a combined capacity to house 2,400 prisoners.

• Turning the Key: California's Prison Guards .
• More than 600,000 Americans work in a prison or jail - roughly the same as the number who work in the airline industry. ... In California, the prison guards' union has become one of the most powerful and politically aggressive interest groups in the state. ...
• In a crowded hearing room in the state Capitol, a middle-aged woman with red hair steps to the podium. ...
• Rash is now in a state prison and he won't be free until at least 2014. ...
• They wear black t-shirts and carry signs like, 'Stop filling prisons with non-violent offenders!' They chant, "Let the time fit the crime!" They reflect a growing push in California, by ballot initiative and in the Assembly, to limit the state's Three Strikes law to violent felons. ...
• Almost half of the state's third-strikers locked up since 1994 - more than 3,000 people - were convicted of non-violent third strikes such as drug possession, drug sales, and petty theft. ...
• He was sentenced to fifty years in prison with no chance for parole. ...
• Follow the money behind California's tough-on-crime coalition and one group looms startlingly large: the prison guards union. ...
• Every spring, the prison guards union sponsors this event, the Victims' March on the Capitol. ...
• This demonstration has amenities: a big tent for those who want shade; lunch; and, lined up at the curb, the charter buses that brought in rally participants from up and down the state. The prison guards' union pays for everything. ...
• Though the victim's movement is often called "grassroots," Crime Victims United and another prominent California victim's group, the Doris Tate Bureau, owe their existence to the prison guards. ...
• The prison guards' organization grew dramatically over the past two decades, right alongside California's prison population. ...
• Today, Union Vice President Lance Corcoran, a former guard and the union's chief spokesman, is one of 90 employees. "We have two in-house, full-time lobbyists," Corcoran says while giving a tour of the two-story union headquarters in west Sacramento. ...

• Begins Prison Term.
• CORCORAN, Calif. ... was transported Thursday to the prison facility where he will likely spend the next three years. ...
• Downey, 34, was sent to the Corcoran State Prison where he will be housed in a dormitory setting. There, he will be treated in a prison substance abuser unit along with 7,000 other inmates. ...
• When asked if the Oscar-nominated actor will receive special treatment, prison spokeswoman Belle Call told reporters, "Negative. ...
• Downey was sentenced earlier this month to a maximum term of three years in state prison for violating his probation on drugs and weapons charges. ...

• The Corcoran Way 1999.
•               In mid-April ’99 California Prison Focus conducted an investigative visit to Corcoran State Prison seeing 37 men. ...
•   One man describes Corcoran as a place of “aggravation, degradation and humiliation. ... ”  And as the examples below illustrate “at Corcoran common sense is not tolerated. ...
• Certainly any well run prison trying to earn the respect and cooperation of the men would be clean and well kept.   But not Corcoran. ...
•   Corcoran is in the process of desecrating the Indian holy ground that has existed at that prison for many years. ...
•             While the days of the officially authorized “gladiator fights” are past, there are still frequent setup fights at Corcoran. ...
•             At Corcoran the staff talk loudly and disrespectfully about each other in front of prisoners. ...
•   The prison recently changed its policy on cell searches. ...
•             Corcoran prisoners use all of the various means at their disposal to bring grievances forward over conditions of confinement. ...   The prison often just sends a prisoner a letter stating that they are delayed in response, and that letter magically fulfills the prison’s legal responsibility to make a timely response to these grievances.
•             Corcoran has continued to be unable to serve its stated function as a medical facility.  Prisoners are transferred to Corcoran for care, but are ignored, neglected and mistreated. ...
•   But not at Corcoran. ...   The ICU released him back to custody assuming that he would be admitted to the hospital inside the prison for continued care.   But not at Corcoran. ...   It was only after protest by the HIP Committee of CPF that after two horrifying days in his cell he was admitted to the Corcoran hospital for a five-day stay. ...

• 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 State Prison, Corcoran.
• California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
• California State Prison, Solano.
• California State Prison.
• Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Blythe.
• Folsom State Prison.
• Ironwood State Prison, Blythe.
• Mule Creek State Prison, Ione**.
• North Kern State Prison, Delano.
• Wasco State Prison.

• Story: CORCORAN GUARDS ARE ACQUITTED IN PRISONER RAPE TRIAL .
• Four Corcoran State Prison guards were acquitted this Monday of setting up the March 1993 rape of a prisoner, a verdict that was immediately praised by the prison guards union and condemned by prisoners rights advocates. ...
• The five week trial - the first criminal trial of Corcoran guards in a decade - included testimony from Dillard and Robertson, as well as a whistle blowing guard who participated in the brutal incident. ...
• The stakes were high not only for the guards, but also for the guards union and the attorney general's office, which was criticized in legislative hearings last year for ignoring numerous incidents of brutality at Corcoran. Another group of Corcoran prison guards face trial this coming March for setting up "Turkey shoots" in the prison yard, putting prisoners who are known enemies together, waging bets on the outcome of their fights and shooting them. ...
• Katherine Campell, Director of California Prison Focus. ...
• Detention centers around the state, according to Human Rights Watch, lack adequate education, medical care and mental health programs. ...
• He died in prison on the eve of his release. ...

• THERE'S a place where racists, rapists, bigots and gay bashers can go in modern America and feel at home in an environment untouched by the rights revolution of the 1960s: the American prison system.
• Due to tougher drug sentencing in the never-ending "War on Drugs," and parole-eliminating legislation like that in Virginia, surging prison populations have forced states to find means of dealing with those incarcerated.
• Private prisons have become an increasingly more popular alternative for controlling prison overcrowding and costs. The international monitoring group Human Rights Watch notes in its 1999 report on human rights developments in the United States that 100,000 adults are incarcerated in 142 private prison facilities.
• Basically, the private prison can do whatever it wants to prisoners, with dubious ramifications for those under lock and key.
• At a private prison in Ohio, Human Rights Watch reports, two inmates were murdered and 13 stabbed in one year. ... Without proper supervision, each private prison can turn into the equivalent of a pre-civil rights movement sheriff's district in the South, free to abuse minority inmates with impunity.
• Many states have entered into weak agreements with private prison contractors, enabling such contractors to wriggle out of the watchful eye of state prison regulators. ... Under lax supervision, therefore, a private prison can hire an all-white, racist guard staff and can place such persons around a prison population that is becoming increasingly black, through inconsistent drug sentencing laws and few, if any, guidelines towards guard conduct.
• Essentially, if a Bull Connor-type figure in the rough-and-tough realm of prison administration secured a state contract, he could run a prison that systematically abused its minority population with little fear of state reprisal. Considering the racial charge that already exists to crime and punishment, most state administrators probably wouldn't react stridently even if such civil rights abuses were discovered. ...
• Even at state-run facilities, prisoners face possible civil rights abuses from guards. At super-max prisons-those designed to handle the most violent and troublesome inmates in a state system-guards can use extreme violence on inmates for a number of transgressions. Guards at the super-max Corcoran State Prison in California have shot 50 inmates-seven fatally-since its opening in 1988.
• Human Rights Watch discovered that even in states with such legislation, few prison administrators properly trained their guards to refrain from sexually abusing female prisoners.
• It returns society to a generation we left behind, where minorities can expect no sympathy from the state and no justice from the justice system. ...

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• Donovan State Prison .
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran.
• Corcoran, CA 93212.
• California State Prison, Solano.
• California State Prison, Lancaster.
• California State Prison, Calipatria.
• Corcoran, CA 93212.

• of Corrections in defense of the 1999 New Folsom Prison hunger strikers. ...
• A letter campaign is organized in defense of the Corcoran Prison B Facililty Raza prisoners exposing the brutality in that prison. ...
• The letter campaign in support of Raza prisoners in Corcoran B Facility Prison continues. ...
• of Corrections in support of the Raza Prisoners in Corcoran State Prison. ...
• of Corrections and rally in support of the close to 1,000 hunger strikers of Pelican Bay and Corcoran State Prisons. ...
• The Barrio Defense Committee does a letter campaign protesting the brutality against Raza prisoners in High Desert, Susanville and Corcoran State Prisons. ...
• A Barrio Defense Committee member visits Jose Luis Aviña in Corcoran State Prison. ...

• State briefs for Sunday, Dec. ...
• FRESNO -- An inmate who lost his lawsuit against three state prison guards he claimed punished him by arranging his rape by a notorious sexual predator known as the "booty bandit" lost his bid for a new trial on civil rights charges. ...
• District Judge Anthony Ishii ruled this week that jurors did not made a mistake in October when they cleared the Corcoran State Prison guards of violating Eddie Webb Dillard’s civil rights. ...
• Dillard, who stood at 5-foot-7 and weighed 118 pounds, claimed the guards and a medical technician set up and then covered up his rapes in retaliation for kicking a female guard at another prison. ...
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• ALERT LOCATION: CORCORAN STATE PRISON.
• CORCORAN CA 93212 .
• CORCORAN CA 93212-8309 .
• STATE CAPITAL BUILDING .
• GENEVA (AP) - Electroshock devices to restrain prisoners, ``excessively harsh'' prison conditions and police ill-treatment of civilians were cited by a U. ...
• In assessing federal and state compliance with the convention, the panel expressed concern over cases of abuse involving people arrested or imprisoned in the United States, and said ``much of this ill-treatment by police and prison guards seems to be based upon discrimination. ...
• under the Prison Litigation Reform Act'' of 1996. ...
• It said that female detainees are ``very often held in humiliating and degrading circumstances'' and expressed concern over alleged cases of sexual assault by law enforcement and prison officers. ...
• The committee also expressed concern over the use of chain gangs, in which prisoners perform manual labor while shackled together, and at keeping juveniles among the regular, adult prison population. ...
• Assistant Secretary of State Harold Koh last week told the committee Washington is ``utterly committed'' to wiping out torture, but admitted its record is not perfect. ...

• Prison Information and Contact - California .
• Avenal State Prison (ASP).
• II Calipatria State Prison (CAL).
• I, II, III, IV RC, Condemned California State Prison, Centinela State Prison .
• I, II, III California State Prison, Corcoran (COR).
• Corcoran, CA 93212-8309.
• RC Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP).
• RC Folsom State Prison (FSP).
• 300 Prison Road.
• I, II High Desert State Prison (HDSP).
• RC, Ad Seg Ironwood State Prison (ISP).
• I, III California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC).
• I, IV Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP).
• RC (Females) North Kern State Prison (NKSP).
• RC Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP).
• SHU Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP).

• Corcoran State Prison.

• News : AIDS Treatment News : Issue #288 HIV/AIDS in Prison Project Threatened: Interview with Judy Greenspan, Director .
• Judy Greenspan, director of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project of Catholic Charities of the East Bay, is widely recognized as a leading authority on HIV/AIDS and correctional policy, and testifies before state, national, and international scientific and government bodies on this topic. She is one of the founders of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners; previously she was AIDS Information Coordinator of the ACLU National Prison Project. ...
• Lifesaving advocacy work for thousands of persons with HIV or AIDS in California prisons will end this year unless the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project in Oakland can find new funding. ...
• Judy Greenspan and the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project have been critically important in improving the medical care of the ever-increasing number of California prisoners with HIV: .
• Greenspan worked through the Prison Issues Committee of ACT UP in San Francisco and helped obtain the groundbreaking investigation by the Assembly Public Safety Committee of the California legislature, which exposed appalling medical care at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville (CMF-Vacaville)--improving that institution to the point where it has become a model for prison HIV/AIDS care. This facility now has infectious disease specialists, uses protease inhibitors, has an in-prison hospice, peer education on HIV prevention and care, and pastoral counseling services. The Vacaville medical prison cares for over 500 of the 1,500 known HIV-positive men in California prisons--but none of the 200 known HIV-positive women. ...
• Mistreatment of the women with HIV--mostly at the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) at Chowchilla, the largest women's prison in the country with over 3,600 prisoners--led to a class-action lawsuit with the assistance of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project, to improve medical care for these women. ...
• Another major accomplishment of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project has been its help in securing a new law to improve the procedures for compassionate release of dying prisoners. ...
• A critical issue today is the grossly inadequate medical care at Corcoran prison, the newest HIV/AIDS unit maintained by the California Department of Corrections. We interviewed Judy Greenspan about Corcoran and other unfinished work of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project. ...
• AIDS Treatment News: What are some of the problems at Corcoran State Prison today? .
• Judy Greenspan: The major problem is that Corcoran was set up as a maximum security punishment prison; it was not originally set up as a medical facility. This is the prison that was spotlighted on 60 Minutes, and there has been much information in the local papers about an FBI investigation several years ago. ... Two years ago there were more shootings at Corcoran than in all the prisons in the country combined. Corcoran is where prisoners are sent when they disobey the rules, or the prison system doesn't like them. ...

• California State Prison, Corcoran (CSP-C).
• Corcoran, CA  93212.
• Corcoran, CA  93212-8309.
• California State Prison, Corcoran - Mission Statement.
• The California State Prison-Corcoran is committed to ensuring and instilling the public and inmates' families with the confidence that CSP-C is committed to providing the best medical, mental health, education, vocational and self help programs for all inmates confined to Corcoran.
• CSP-Corcoran not only meets this commitment by providing it's employees with the proper training, tools and safe working environment, but also by encouraging ideas and collaboration between all departments.
• CSP-Corcoran is a complex, multi-mission institution comprised of the following facilities:  Level 1, Level III,  Level IV,  Security Housing Unit,  Protective Housing Unit,  Prison Industry Authority and a fully licensed Acute Care Hospital.
• The Minimum Support Facility (MSF) Level I at CSP-Corcoran consists of five buildings; four are dormitories housing up to 192 inmates each, and one E-dormitory housing 100 inmates. ...
• CSP-Corcoran's Level III consists of one facility designated as III-C which houses inmates with a classification score of 28-51. ...
• CSP-Corcoran also serves as the hub for Level IV Enhanced Out Patient (EOP) inmates. ...
•   Facility 4B houses validated prison gang members, i. ...
• The California Department of Corrections opened the Acute Care Hospital (ACH) at Corcoran in June 1993. ...
• Prison Industry Authority (PIA).
• The Prison Industry Authority administers a work program for inmates in California correctional institutions to improve their job skills and reduce idleness. ...
• PIA is composed of the "Century 2000" modular office system manufacturing facilities, an institutional laundry, agribusiness enterprises, a warehouse/freight distribution center, industrial maintenance and repair in addition to providing Administrative functions to the PIA farm and laundry located at the Wasco State Prison/Reception Center.   PIA employs 601 inmates in a private business-like setting throughout CSP-Corcoran.

• Corcoran Abuses .
• Corcoran Inmate Starves to Death .
• FRESNO — An elderly prison inmate in Corcoran starved to death last week without medical or corrections staff recognizing that he had begun the last of several hunger strikes, authorities said. ...
• Officials with the state Department of Corrections said the death of 72-year-old Khem Singh, who was so emaciated that he weighed less than 80 pounds, came as a surprise to staff at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran. ...
• "He came to prison in August of 2001 and he's been on and off hunger strikes ever since," Bach said. ...
• A corrections administrator who asked not to be named said that Singh's death was the result of "deliberate indifference" by the prison staff. ...
• Because Singh was a sex offender, he was being housed for his own safety at the substance abuse facility, which sits adjacent to Corcoran State Prison and is considered a less hostile environment. ...
• 1 incident at Corcoran State Prison in which a 58-year-old inmate on dialysis was allowed to bleed to death in his cell during the Super Bowl. ...
• Corcoran prison guard arrested in alleged murder-for-hire plot  .
• (02-19) 04:29 PST CORCORAN, Calif. ...
• A guard at Corcoran State Prison was arrested on suspicion of conspiring with an inmate to use drugs to pay someone outside the prison to kill her husband. ...
• Corrections investigators and county authorities arrested Brock on Saturday at the prison, and later found more than a pound of marijuana and 7 ounces of heroin at her Bakersfield home. ...
• Corcoran State Prison has been troubled in recent years with a number of incidents that have prompted calls for reform at prisons statewide from lawmakers and activists. ...
• A news report said prison guards busy watching the Super Bowl ignored his cries for help. Eight prison guards accused of staging gladiator-style fights among inmates were acquitted of civil rights violations in 2000. ...
• Corcoran prison abuses alleged .

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• State Whitewashed Fatal Brutality and Mismanagement at Corcoran .
•  Agents say investigation was thwarted by top leaders and prison guard union. ...
• —For seven years, the state of California turned a blind eye to the deadliest prison in America, where 50 inmates were wounded or shot dead by guards.
• Dan Lungren, finally examined Corcoran State Prison last year. ...
• Guard towers along the perimeter of Corcoran State Prison.
• The agents said the powerful prison guard union, which has contributed nearly $1 million to Wilson and Lungren since 1989, was allowed to stymie almost every attempt to question key officers about a broad range of alleged crimes at Corcoran.
•       Top state officials deny any cover-up, each one pointing the finger at another, although aides to both Wilson and Lungren now concede that their administrations didn't do nearly enough to watch over the nation's most violent prison. ...
•       Tucked away in the middle of California's cotton fields, this prison is where 43 inmates were wounded and seven were killed by officers firing assault rifles from 1989 to 1995. While local and state watchdogs looked the other way, rival gang members were pitted against each other in human cockfights watched over by guards—and then shot if they didn't stop fighting.
• George Galaza, warden of Corcoran State Prison.
•       Wilson declined requests for an interview, but his top aides said they were surprised to hear that agents were hamstrung in their attempts to investigate the prison.
• " When asked why his office had delved into just a single case, he cited an FBI probe into civil rights abuses at Corcoran that has been ongoing since 1994.
•       But federal authorities say their probe was focused on only one shooting death and that there was a broad range of alleged misconduct at Corcoran—enough to keep both state agents and the FBI busy.
•       The Times has since obtained 10,000 pages of internal corrections reports and has interviewed dozens of guards, state investigators and others whose insider accounts provide new and disturbing details of Corcoran's violent breakdown and cover-ups. A three-month Times investigation shows a pattern of neglect at every level of the local and state bureaucracy responsible for overseeing this prison carved out of an old lake bottom in the San Joaquin Valley.
• Charles Manson, one of the more famous residents of Corcoran's high security area.

• Should the state buy Canadian prescription drugs for resale to citizens? .
•  • Bay & State.
• State's prison budget short $544 million.
• SACRAMENTO - The California Department of Corrections is overspending its budget by more than $544 million, and perhaps far more, largely because of pay hikes, overtime and other benefits granted to prison guards by Gov. ...
• 6 million -- had they not moved to cut other costs associated with running the nation's largest prison system.
• 8 million deficit is the largest ever registered by the prison system, and is believed to be the largest deficit ever incurred by a state department.
• 1 billion that Davis and the Legislature earmarked earlier this year for the state's adult prison system. ...
• The department attributes the largest single chunk -- $184 million -- to increases of nearly 7 percent this year in salaries for prison officers and raises for other prison employees. ...
• By 2006, prison officers are expected to be making $73,000 a year.
• The prison guards union is one of the most influential forces in Sacramento, in part because it is a major donor to state political campaigns. ...
• Unlike several other state employee unions, the prison guards refused Davis administration efforts to renegotiate their contract in light of state budget deficits.
• Lance Corcoran, executive vice president of the union, said the officers union was willing to work with the next governor. ...
• "We make no apologies for success," Corcoran said. "We understand the state is in a dire fiscal situation. ...
• Only one state legislator -- Sen. ... On Friday, McClintock said he was not at all surprised by the latest run-up in prison costs.

•   Because the death sentence was abolished in the state of California his sentence was changed to life in prison.   He is currently being held at Corcoran State Prison. ...
•      Charles “Tex” Watson is currently serving a life sentence at Mule Creek State Prison in Northern California. ...
•   She is now living approximately twenty miles away from Corcoran Prison, and maintains a Charles Manson website.

• (STATE BUILDING) .
• No Time to Lose for State Nurses!.
• District Labor Council 702 representing rank-and-file state workers from Orange County, Ca re: DMV in Irvine David V. ...
• District Labor Council 743 representing rank and file state workers in San Francisco, California.
• District Labor Council 744 representing rank and file state workers in Oakland California.
• District Labor Council 771 representing rank and file state workers from the CA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF), Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP), Corcoran State Prison, Avenal State Prison, North Kern County State Prison and all state offices in Visalia, Corcoran, Avenal, Delano, Huron and Pleasant Valley.
• District Labor Council 782 representing rank-and-file state workers from the State Board of Equalization (BOE), Dept. ...

• 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. ...

• Prison: California State Prison(at Corcoran).
• In 1940, Kathleen was convicted of Strong Armed Robbery and sentenced to 5 years at Moundsville Sate Prison. ...
• Charlie briefly lived with his mother after she was released from jail, but was given up to the state after his mother's boyfriend said he'd didn't like having Charlie around. ... He was arrested in Utah, and because he had taken a stolen car across state lines, Charlie had violated the Dyer Act, a federal law. ...
• He was sentenced to 3 years at Terminal Island Prison. ... On June 1, 1960, Charlie was arrested in Laredo, TX for violating the Mann Act (crossing state lines for the purposes of prostitution). ...
• Charlie was sent to McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington State. ... Charlie moved up state to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. ...
• Through a prison friend, Manson had some contacts at Universal Studios; the family soon found themselves bumping elbows with the rich and famous at posh parties in the Hollywood hills. ...
• Charlie has bounced around the California prison system throughout the years; from San Quentin, to Folsom State Prison, to the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, back to Folsom, back to San Quentin, back to Vacaville, back to San Quentin, on to the California State Prison at Corcoran, to Pelican Bay State Prison and finally back to Corcoran. Manson spends 23 hours a day in his cell, he is always hand cuffed while being moved throughout the prison, and doesn't get to interact with any other inmates. ...

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