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• The would-be reformers include two advisers who have been criticized for their handling of violent prison incidents, one who relies on prison officials to pay him for consulting work and a fourth who has strong ties to the politically powerful correctional officers union. ...
• Anybody have a link to the Canadian prison guard story?.
• <p>No one is held accountable for budget overruns at the state Department of Corrections, which has already overspent its nearly $6 billion budget by more than $500 million this year, Department of Finance officials said Thursday. ...
• CA: Prison chief denies union influence .
• Prison chief denies union influence San Quentin's first female warden condemns 'code of silence' within Corrections Department SACRAMENTO -- The new chief of the nation's largest prison system says it will take years and wholesale ethics retraining to end a corrosive "code of silence" that she has experienced within the California Department of Corrections. ... Woodford blamed the prison system's chronic overspending on unrealistic underfunding by the previous administration as costs soared to meet federal and state laws and the requirements of running an around-the-clock operation. ...
• High Court To Review Prisoner Segregation In State .
• California routinely assigns black prisoners to bunk only with other black prisoners for three months or more, a practice prison officials say helps keep prisoners safe from racial violence. A black prison inmate challenged the practice as a violation of his constitutional right to equal treatment, and argued it flouted previous Supreme Court rulings striking down segregation in other areas. "Intentional state racial segregation has been outlawed in this country for over half a century," lawyers for Garrison. ...
• Nation's high court to hear prison segregation case.
• Supreme Court-AP -- The U-S Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether state prisons may separate new inmates according to race for safety reasons. California has routinely assigned newly arrived prisoners to share prison cells with members of their own race for at least their first three months behind bars. ...
• <p>The California state prison system provides a poignant example of how a government agency became dominated by a special interest. </p> <p>Over the past 20 years, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has held the state's correctional system in an ever-tightening grip. The union's control of state criminal justice policy has produced mismanagement and abuse that waste tax dollars and compromise the public interest. ...

• Story: CLOSING ARGUMENTS END IN CORCORAN PRISON BRUTALITY TRIAL .
• Closing arguments ended yesterday in the trial of four prison guards accused of setting up the rape of a prisoner in the state's notorious Corcoran State Prison near Fresno, California. ...
• The trial has included testimony from Dillard, as well as from a whistleblower - former prison guard Roscoe Poindexter, known as the "Bone Crusher," who participated in many incidents of brutality. ...
• The outcome of this case could have implications for the upcoming trial of several other Corcoran Prison guards accused of setting up "turkey shoots" in the prison yard. ...
• Tom Quinn, investigator who has worked on cases around brutality in Corcoran Prison. ...

• A Ceres man died after a hunger strike at Corcoran State Prison last week. ... Talking to the Los Angeles Times, an unidentified prison administrator called it death by "deliberate indifference" of prison employees.
• With recent reports of intimidation, corruption and a complete lack of control by prison administrators, California's corrections system is irreparably broken. ...
• Either the state makes prison reform an immediate priority or the federal court should take over operation of the entire system as it has done, or threatened to do, in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and numerous other states.
• At the invitation of the governor, state government is giving itself a report card -- and the public is welcome to comment. ...
• The California Performance Review comes at a difficult time -- when the state has a record debt and no clear way out. ...

• Designed electrical and control systems to reroute Soledad State Prison flows around the prison treatment plant to the City treatment plant. ...
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• In the past 30 years, the violent crime rate has increased from 300,000 to over 1,300,000 incidents per year - a tribute to national and state criminal justice systems mocking God. ...
• The California prison system is in crisis. ...
•   There is no mention for prison - you can't carry out the sentence quickly. ...
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•   The nation state - the challenge for AI.
• Head of state and government: William Jefferson Clinton.
• Areas of concern highlighted by the Committee included torture and ill-treatment by police and prison guards - much of it racially motivated; the sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards; prisoner chain gangs; and the ''excessively harsh regime'' of supermaximum security (isolation) units. ...
• Two New Jersey state troopers faced trial in connection with the 1998 shooting and wounding of three unarmed black and Hispanic men during a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. ...
• Earlier studies, showing that state troopers practised racial profiling, had forced the department to reform its practices and to monitor stops and searches for racial and ethnic bias.
• In September the US Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into Red Onion State Prison, one of two supermax prisons in Virginia where there had been persistent allegations of excessive use of force by guards, including misuse of firearms, restraints and electro-shock weapons. AI renewed its call for the suspension of the use of all electro-shock weapons in Virginia prisons following the death in Wallens Ridge Prison, the state's other supermax prison, of a diabetic prisoner shocked with a stun weapon in July (see below). The Department of Corrections refused to ban the equipment and turned down a request by AI to tour Wallens Ridge Prison.
• In February a lawsuit was filed alleging widespread abuse at the State Training School in Plankinton, South Dakota, a juvenile detention facility. ...
• In October a state legislative committee held hearings on ill-treatment in two California prisons, Valley State Prison for Women and the California Institute for Women. ...
• Deaths in prison.
• Lawrence Frazier, a diabetic, died in July after being restrained by guards and zapped with a 45,000 volt electro-shock stun gun after becoming delirious and ''combative'' in the Wallens Ridge Prison infirmary where he had been taken for hypoglycemia. Although the prison authorities said afterwards that a doctor had ruled out the stun weapon as a cause of death, this was discounted by many observers as the doctor had had no access to the autopsy results. ...
• In October a state jury acquitted a former prison guard on a charge of aggravated battery and coercion to falsify reports in the case of Frank Valdez who died in Florida State Prison in July 1999. ...
• In June, eight prison guards accused of staging ''gladiator style'' fights among prisoners at Corcoran State Prison, California, between 1989 and 1995, were acquitted of criminal charges after a jury trial. ... Although the guards were acquitted, the state had earlier been forced to change its policies after an independent panel found that 80 per cent of the shootings had been unjustified. State legislative hearings in 1998 had found a pattern of brutality at the prison. ...

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•   He is currently being held in California’s Corcoran State Prison.   Although Manson, who turns 67 in November 2001, has been in prison for the last 33 years, his notoriety has not diminished as he has the dubious distinction of having received more mail than any other prisoner in the United States prison system.
• According to a report on the Access Manson website, one of the many such sites dedicated to the subject, Charles Manson is currently under “disciplinary custody” in the prison’s Security Housing Unit, known as "The Hole. "  He has been housed in the unit since February 2000 after he allegedly threatened prison staff. Being housed in the Security Housing Unit means Manson is kept isolated in his cell 23 hours a day, forbidden to interact with other prisoners and kept handcuffed while being moved within the prison. ...
• The first was in 1989 when he was transferred to Corcoran from San Quentin State Prison after guards found a bullet in one of his visitor’s pockets during a routine search. ...
• During that time his period of detention was extended for “destruction of state property” when he allegedly tore a telephone receiver from the wall unit and “assaulted” a prison officer. ...
• Following his release in May, 1994 he was transferred to the prison’s Protective Housing Unit (PHU) and was allowed contact with other inmates and restricted privileges. ...
•   In June 1995 he returned to the PHU for over a year until he was given a further two weeks detention for threatening a prison staff member with a chair. ...
• In March 1997 he was charged with “conspiracy to distribute narcotics” and transferred to Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, one of the toughest institutions in the country. ...   After serving 14 months he was transferred back to PHU at Corcoran. ...
• "would pose an unreasonable risk and danger to society and a threat to public safety if released from prison. ...
• During the following eight months in PHU, he was placed on “restricted status” for refusing to conform to prison regulations and had his visits and phone calls restricted. ...
• He refused to attend it -- allegedly because he insisted upon not attending the hearing shackled and the prison would not allow him to attend without handcuffs. ...
• Is also serving a life sentence for the Tate/LaBianca murders, and is currently housed in Mule Creek State Prison in Northern California.   During his time in prison, Watson has converted to Christianity, written several books, married, fathered four children and trained as a minister of religion. His wife, Kristin and their family live close to the prison where she operates a Web site for their ministry called Abounding Love Ministries, Inc.

• In 1951, after a string of arrests and escapes Manson was sent to prison for driving a stolen car across state lines. ... He was arrested again for driving stolen cars across state lines, this time receiving probation. This was revoked in 1956 when he missed a court date and he was back in prison until his parole in 1958. ...
• The death sentence was later automatically commuted to life in prison after the United States Supreme Court's Furman decision resulted in the invalidation of all death penalty laws in force in the United States prior to 1972. ... Manson has in time in prison received more mail than any other prisoner in the United States prison system. He currently resides in California’s Corcoran State Prison. ...

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• The California Prison Dharma Walk is an interfaith pilgrimage to the major prisons of California to vigil, pray, and seek a more humane alternative to imprisonment. ...
• We – all citizens – are responsible for the policies of punishment carried out by the state. ...
• She will likely not be giving speeches during this prison walk, but offering her prayers and ceremonies. Therefore, she is asking local activists to help organize and speak their messages at local events along the way to bring public, media, and government attention to the many prison-issue related social justice and global peace issues. ...
• Please join the CA-prison-walk eGroup to post your ideas and commitments for local events along the walk route. ...
• More people are being sent to prison for drug and other non-violent offenses than for rape or murder. ...
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• 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. ...
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• 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. ...
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• Crips Target of Prison Lockdown.
• SACRAMENTO - Authorities at Corcoran State Prison have locked 1,300 African.
• are conspiring to attack prison staffers in retaliation for the anticipated.
• Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 49, has been on death row at San Quentin State.
• Prison since 1981, condemned after his conviction in the 1979 murders of.
• Last month, correctional officers at Corcoran discovered a so-called "kite,".
• or written message, directing Crips to attack and kill high-ranking prison.
• Corcoran officials say the anonymous kite may have been sent.
• Johnny Castro, a Corcoran spokesman. ...
• Locking down inmates by race is a common practice within the prison system,.
• African Americans locked down at Corcoran make up about 35% of the general.
• prison population. ...
• the prison's most dangerous inmates. ...
• that Williams might direct Crips systemwide to attack prison officials when.
• The investigation was spawned by a series of events at Corcoran on June 19,.
• Initially, Corcoran officials locked down, or placed on cell restriction,.

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• State corrections system cries out for reform .
• On Super Bowl Sunday, a seriously ill inmate at Corcoran State Prison was left in his cell to bleed to death from an open medical shunt while guards watched the game. This followed a series of damning reports showing a state penal system plagued by profound problems.
• It was bad enough to learn that prisoners at Corcoran have been pitted against each other, gladiator-style, for the guards' entertainment, that rampant violence and drug trafficking are commonplace behind bars, that prisoners are denied medical attention and that officials at Folsom State Prison may have helped trigger a riot there two years ago and then conspired to cover it up. ...
• His biggest challenge will be to corral the politically powerful prison guards union, which has an inordinate influence over the system. In fact, the union can determine how a prison is run and influence warden assignments.
• Don Specter, who represents a nonprofit group that provides legal aid for prisoners and is suing the state over the agency's dismal conditions, says: "I've never seen an institution this out of control with so much violence. ...
• In addition, Schwarzenegger said he was reversing an earlier decision to cut back the inspector general's office for the state correctional agency and would restore its funding and expand its law enforcement powers.
• If not, the federal government, which has been investigating the state's penal system since the early 1990s, may be compelled to step in.

• Lack of oversight led to prison woesReporter Editor: .
• Do California's state legislators bear a responsibility for the deterioration of the prison system currently witnessed?.
• John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, responding to an inquiry, invited our attention to his commentary, "Corcoran State Prison Hearings," published on the senator's Web page (www. ...
• "We have now concluded this round of hearings on the abuses which occurred at Corcoran State Prison. ...
• "The Department of Corrections' abject failure to exercise this power responsibly has been a failure of leadership that has allowed a culture to grow and operate which tolerates such prison brutality. ...
• "Most persons sentenced to prison are not sent there for life without parole or to await capital punishment. The vast majority of our prison inmates will serve their time and then be released back into our communities. ...
• Vasconcellos was a 1997 member, exercises direction of our state auditor, sole duty of which is investigative.

• the phone company and the state. ...
• ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I began accepting collect calls from prison. ...
• In the state of California, however, there is a single type of phone service for which there is no competition, no lowered rates, absolutely no alternative: collect calls from California correctional institutions. If you have the misfortune to have a friend or family member serving time in a California state prison or an L. ...
• As of June 10, there were 161,187 inmates housed in California's 33 prison facilities. ... But unlike other public pay phones, which allow the caller to choose between various rate-reducing options, state-prison phones offer only one way out. ... Nor can one's incarcerated loved one dial 1-800-COLLECT or 10-10-321 from a prison phone. Inmate calls operate on a collect-only basis, and are administered exclusively by the vendors who've won contracts with the state -- currently, MCI WorldCom and Verizon. ...
• If you accept collect charges made from a pay phone just outside Corcoran State Prison to your home in, say, Santa Monica, MCI WorldCom will bill you approximately $4. ... ) But if an inmate at Corcoran makes the identical 15-minute call from inside the prison's walls, MCI WorldCom will charge you $7. ...
• An additional element that drives up the cost is the fact that state prisoners can only make 15-minute calls. ...
• Although telecommunications vendors assuredly reap healthy returns from prison phones (and compete aggressively for the privilege), the real beneficiary is the state of California. Unlike other state concessions, prison phone contracts are not awarded to the vendor with the lowest bid, or with the most service to offer for the money. Instead, they are predicated almost entirely on who gives the state the biggest commission. Right now, MCI WorldCom and Verizon pay Sacramento 43 cents for each dollar they collect from state-prison calls. Last year, close to $30 million made its way into the state treasury courtesy of prison phone commissions.

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• prison employees found not responsible for inmate's rape .
• FRESNO –A jury has found that three guards and a former medical assistant at a California state prison were not responsible for the rape of an inmate by another prisoner known as the "Booty Bandit. ...
• Dillard claims the guards and the medical technician at California State Prison, Corcoran set up and then covered up his rapes by convicted murderer Wayne Robertson, who was notorious for his sexual assaults on fellow inmates. ...
• Dillard claims the guards arranged the assault to punish him for kicking a female guard at another prison. ...
• Dillard filed the federal civil rights lawsuit in 1994 against Decker, Sylva, Sanchez and Horton-Plant, a prison medical assistant at that time who has since retired from the California Department of Corrections. ...
• According to affidavits by CDC's own investigators, Robertson was listed in prison records as an enemy of Dillard. ...
• Prison officials refused to settle the civil case even though their own investigators found the guards liable in the criminal case. ...
• Corcoran was the nation's most deadly prison from 1989 to 1995, when 43 inmates were wounded and seven shot to death by guards. Since 1990, at least a dozen Corcoran guards have been prosecuted on criminal charges and found innocent. ...

• Promises to fix state prisons have been heard before .
• Sacramento -- Riveting testimony before state senators revealed a prison world enshrouded in fear and a pervasive code of silence -- a penal system in which investigations of staff misconduct were stymied, and ostracized whistle- blowers awaited reprisals by rogue guards. ...
• Progress in changing the culture entrenched within the state prison system has been lurching and incremental, say prison critics and former administrators, as California prisons trudge through a history of scandal and reform. ...
• Over the years, a powerful state prison guard union has blunted the impacts of those promised reforms, spreading influence along with more than $5 million in political contributions to former Govs. ...
• The union seized opportunities created by the rapid growth in prison construction -- 21 prisons were built in 13 years starting in the mid-1980s. The prison system went on a hiring binge, and fresh recruits learned the ropes at 33 far-flung prisons. ...
• And there has been little continuity at the top echelons of state corrections: There have been seven directors under Wilson, Davis and the nascent administration of Gov. ...
• Decrying the vacuum of leadership, a former watchdog of the state's correctional system this week told lawmakers they needed unrelenting scrutiny by the independent Office of Inspector General. ...
• The 1998 hearings -- which focused on problems at Corcoran State Prison -- spawned legislation that increased prison guard training from six weeks to 16 weeks, expanded the prison ombudsman program from two to seven positions and funded the Office of Inspector General with a confidential hotline for staff and inmates. ...
• Former Corrections Director Cal Terhune is credited with fostering an environment that encouraged positive changes in how the $5 billion prison system operated. ...
• Corcoran a turning point .
• In 1998, in the wake of the legislative hearings, Terhune declared, "The California correctional system is never going to be the same after Corcoran. ...
• The Corcoran prison hearings were a turning point, Terhune said recently, but there is still room for improvement on how the state penal system polices itself and breaks the code of silence. ...
• At Capitol hearings this week, Mike Jimenez, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, said that the union strongly supported reporting of any misconduct at prisons and that any allegations otherwise "unfairly tarnishes the rights of prison guards. ...
• State prison ombudsman Ken Hurdle said initially he had been met with hostility by managers at the Corcoran prison. At the time, the prison was the nation's most violent with seven inmates fatally shot by guards since it opened in 1988, and it followed a controversial practice of mixing gang members on small exercise yards. ...

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• The prison holds 5, 500, including those on death row. ...
• Fred Short spoke about Leonard Peltier, who remains in prison after President Clinton denied his clemency application. ...
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• Twenty walkers walked through the rain to Corcoran State Prison.
• I got them some hot tea for the last two miles to the prison. ... The Corcoran paper came out and cover the walk. And the Corcoran mayor came to the house where the walkers were staying to wish us luck. ...
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• I live in Santa Monica and went to visit my boyfriend at Corcoran State Prison so I could be there to welcome the walkers. ... After my Sunday visit, I drove around looking for the walkers, but all I saw were 4 or 5 unmarked prison cars patrolling the area.
• What a welcome sight it was to finally see the walkers heading toward the prison with their colorful banners and signs!! I was so overcome, I just parked, got out and stood there smiling as they approached. ...
• When we did, the walkers still hadn't reached the prison, so we parked near the entrance and awaited their arrival. ...
• We then stood in a line facing the prison entrance while Buddhist prayers were chanted and drums were beaten. ...
• When we reach a prison, we drum and chant for about half an hour, Nam Mu Myo Ho Renge Kyo, which is a way of saying that all life is sacred. ...
• Since most of the people in prison these days are people of color, it is especially appropriate for us to carry that flag. ...

• Behind the Bars: An ongoing Times-Tribune investigation of the Lackawanna County Prison .
• Two local state legislators suggested Thursday a state investigation of the ailing county prison system, two days after four Lackawanna County Prison officials were arrested for theft of services and ethics violations   Deputy warden stripped of badge.
• Prison problems growing statewide.
•   The arrests of four Lackawanna County Prison officials for theft of service and ethics violations Tuesday is just the latest in a growing list of scandals in county prisons across the state.
• Politics came into play Tuesday as the former warden, deputy warden and two guards at the Lackawanna County Prison were arrested and charged for using inmate labor for their personal benefit. ...
•   Experts say state fails with jails.
• Corcoran knew more about misconduct at the county prison than they previously admitted, according to a grand jury report.
• County prison guards indicted on abuse charges.
• Prison Board suspends indicted guards.
•   The Lackawanna County Prison Board decided unanimously Friday to suspend without pay three corrections officers indicted by the county's grand jury earlier in the day.
• 3/31/04: County Prison Board fails to communicate.
• 12/21/03: An Enlightened Prison Policy Would Save Money and Lives.
• Bill Risse: County Responds Fairly, Promptly on Prison  .
• 8/11/03 State drops ball.
• 8/09/03 Plantation or prison ? It seems the line has blurred Email letters to letters@timesshamrock. ...
• 8/19/03 Photo gallery: Prison Board Meeting/Swan vigil.

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