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• My son has spent time in two California prisons, Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown and Folsom State Prison. ... In fact, his time in prison was extended because it took more than two months before he was given "double-time". He also ended up in Ad Seg at Jamestown because a prison employee knew the family of his victim and he was segregated for "his own protection". ... After about 40 days in Ad Seg he was transferred to Folsom. He is a Level I offender and the facility at Folsom has worked out very well. ... He is not behind the walls at Folsom now, but he was for a brief period and that didn't sound very good. I am only talking about the Level I facility at Folsom. ... I think it would be interesting for others to write about what some of the prisons around the state are like. ...

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• Folsom State Prison (FSP), also known as Folsom State Prison, Represa is one of 33 prison facilities operated by the California Department of Corrections (CDC). FSP is located near the City of Folsom in Sacramento County, 20 miles from the state capital of Sacramento, California. ...
• As of the 2000 United States Census, FSP had an inmate population of 7,246 housed at level 1 and 2 security, the two lowest levels of security for prison facilities operated by the CDC. ...
• FSP is California's second oldest prison facility, long known for its harsh conditions in the decades following the California Gold Rush. Prison construction began in 1878 on the site of the Stony Bar mining camp along the American River. ...
• Although Folsom now houses primarily medium security prisoners, Folsom was one of America's first maximum security prisons, and a total of 93 prisoners were hanged at Folsom between December 13, 1895 and December 3, 1937. After that time, executions were carried out in California were performed in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin Prison. ...
• Folsom Prison was made famous by country music singer Johnny Cash, who performed a live concert at Folsom Prison in 1968 and narrated a fictional account of an outlaw's incarceration in his song Folsom Prison Blues. Contrary to popular belief, Cash was never incarcerated in this or any state or federal prison, but he did spend an occasional night in jail. ...

• Christopher McElvana was in Patton State Hospital because he had pled not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI). ... Some of his treatment team members wanted to transfer him to a state prison; others asked the executive director to let him stay at the hospital. ...
• Then, with no advance notice to him, his attorney, the courts, or the hospital, authorities sent McElvana to New Folsom State Prison. To do so, they relied on Welfare & Institutions Code section 7301, which they said allows such transfers if the patient can best be treated "under conditions of prison security. ...
• After transferring McElvana to Mule Creek State Prison, defendants offered to settle the lawsuit. They offered to transfer McElvana to California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, and then to Atascadero State Hospital, within six to nine months. ...
• Transfer him to Atascadero within six to nine months if he does not commit any serious violations of prison rules; .
• Allow him to reapply for transfer to Atascadero every year, even if he does violate prison rules; and .

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• Prison overtime blues: Personnel crisis brewing at Corrections Department .
• A fight breaks out on a prison exercise yard; an inmate deliberately plugs a toilet, flooding his cell; another blocks his cell window so that guards can't see inside. Each of these small crises occurred at about the same time at New Folsom Prison, the maximum security lock-up just outside the city of Folsom. ...
• Lack of supervisorial help with the prison chaos, described by The Bee's Andy Furillo, is a far too common occurrence at New Folsom and prisons around the state. The supervisors' union within the state prison system correctly blames a severe shortage of supervisory personnel. ...
• A state audit released the other day found that 5,000 prison guards earned more in 1998 than superiors in the rank immediately above them. ...
• The state audit found prison guards use 72 hours of sick leave a year on average, more than twice the 31 hours of sick leave used by California Highway Patrol officers. ...
• Beyond sick leave, auditors found that the department failed to keep track of large and growing balances of holiday and vacation leave accumulated by prison officers. If vacation is not used, the state eventually has to pay for those holiday hours. The current liability for the state for unused vacation pay is $72 million. ...
• In today's roaring economy, recruitment of peace officers at every level -- including comparatively well-paid prison guards -- has been difficult. ...
• As the recent problems at New Folsom show, that crisis puts more than just taxpayers at risk; the lives and safety of inmates and staff are endangered, as well.

• Mueller, a founding Director of the CPOF, began his Correctional career in 1968 as a Correctional Officer in the California Department of Corrections at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, California. He has worked at three other State Prisons in California, promoted through the ranks, and was the former Warden of Folsom State Prison. ...
• Osuna, a founding Director of the CPOF, began his Correctional career in 1972 as a Correctional Officer in the California Department of Corrections at Folsom State Prison, Folsom California. ...
• During his meritorious career, Ed has received numerous awards and commendations from Federal, State, County and Municipal agencies for his professional and dedicated commitment to Law Enforcement and the Community.
• Corby, a founding Director of the Correctional Peace Officers Foundation, began his career in 1969 as a Correctional Officer in the California Department of Corrections (CDC) at Folsom State Prison in California. He has worked at two other State facilities in California and was promoted through the ranks. ...
• Captain Subia began his career in corrections in 1986 as a Correctional Officer at Folsom State Prison located in Folsom, California. He has worked at three other state facilities in California. Captain Subia was promoted through the ranks and is currently a Correctional Captain at Mule Creek State Prison located in Ione, California. ...

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• Despite a failure to obtain executive approval in the past, California lawmakers are once again pushing a bill that will grant journalists better access to prison inmates. ...
• 10, 2004 -- Two California lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to allow more media access to inmates, following state Senate committee hearings on allegations of prisoner abuse, corruption and coverups among prison officials. ...
• Legislators are pushing for more scrutiny of the state's $5. 3 billion prison system by rescinding strict rules that limit journalists' ability to interview prisoners. ...
• According to the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Senate hearings focused on problems at several prisons, including Folsom State Prison in Represa, where whistleblowers said an investigation into a 2002 riot had been covered up. ... District Court in San Francisco released a report about Pelican Bay State Prison guards who committed perjury during a federal trial on inmate abuse. ...
• Gloria Romero (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Mark Leno (D- San Francisco), who told the Chronicle that the need for more oversight of the state's corrections department is evident. ...
• Schwarzenegger has proposed eliminating a state agency that serves as an independent watchdog of California's prison system. The state currently has a $15 billion budget deficit this year. ...
• Prison rules created by Wilson in 1996 have made it difficult for reporters to set up interviews with specific inmates. ...
• Governor vetoes bill to allow journalists access to state prisons (10/2/2000) .

• Folsom Prison Museum Johnny cash sang about it, others tried to escape it, but most just had to sit and suffer through it. With its heavily guarded walls and monstrous size, Folsom Prison is the last place you might think of visiting - But not for John Fratis and Gordon Henry. ...
• Jennifer Fischer interviews the duo, which have been friends for 70 years and volunteer their time at the Folsom Prison Museum. Gordon & John grew up right on the prison grounds. ... Folsom Prison houses medium-security inmates, but when it was built in 1878, it was one of the nation's first maximum-security prisons. The museum is just the place to learn about Folsom's lurid Legacy. ...
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• California State Prison, Sacramento ("New Folsom").
• On November 9 and November 17, 1998, the 1998-1999 Sacramento County Grand Jury toured California State Prison, Sacramento, sometimes referred to as "New Folsom. " This is a reference to the fact that the facility sits adjacent to the original Folsom State Prison, which is generally called "Old Folsom. ...
• The construction of California State Prison, Sacramento began in November 1984 and was completed October 1, 1986. California State Prison, Sacramento is located on approximately 1,200 acres in the eastern portion of Sacramento County within the City of Folsom. The area in Folsom where the prison is physically located is known as Represa.
• California State Prison, Sacramento was designed for a capacity of 1,536 inmates to be housed in its three semi-autonomous Level IV (maximum security) facilities and 192 inmates in its Level I (minimum security) facility. ... In some cases, the gymnasiums in the Level IV facilities are converted to dormitories to house overflow Level I, II and III inmates from other correctional institutions in the state.
• The Grand Jury was informed that the current ethnic composition in the prison was as follows:.
• Reasons for incarceration at this facility, as presented by prison officials, are:.
• The Grand Jury learned that California State Prison, Sacramento was constructed using the "180" design, which is the Department of Correction's most secure prison design. ...
• Prison officials explained to the Grand Jury that the prison is comprised of three similar but separate self-contained facilities. ...
• The prison has an 8,950-foot double-perimeter fence enclosing inmate housing and industry support facilities. ... In January 1995, California State Prison, Sacramento joined the Statewide Electrified Fence Project and activated a lethal, electrified fence located between the double-perimeter fences. ...
• The Grand Jury learned that while "New" and "Old" Folsom prisons are separate, there are certain functions carried out jointly. California State Prison, Sacramento provides infirmary and administrative segregation (special secure housing) for the inmates from Folsom State Prison and the Folsom Community Correctional Facility. ... The kitchen at "New" Folsom prepares more than 20,000 meals daily for its own inmates as well as for "Old" Folsom and the Folsom Community Correctional Facility.

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• State asks federal prosecutors to probe 2002 Folsom Prison riot.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a federal prosecutor to probe the 2002 Folsom State Prison riot Friday, two weeks after witnesses told state Senate committees that prison officials helped trigger the 90-second gang fight and then covered up their mishandling of the riot and its aftermath. ... attorney for the Eastern District of California that includes Sacramento and neighboring Folsom, said in a statement he will consult with other agencies before deciding whether to conduct an investigation. ...
• Excluding California's massive budget deficit, the state's adult and juvenile prison system has flared as Schwarzenegger's largest and most unexpected policy crisis since he took office in November. Within the last month the system has been criticized by a federal overseer, national experts, state Senate witnesses, all amid reports of rampant overspending.
• The administration also said Friday it has ended the California Youth Authority's practice of using wire cages to contain misbehaving youths after criticism from national experts and state senators last week. ... The administration said Schwarzenegger's call for a federal probe of the Folsom riot is "unprecedented" in California. "I don't remember a governor ever asking the federal government to come in and review a prison. ... He spent 14 years as top deputy to state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and heading the attorney general's correctional law section before joining Schwarzenegger's new administration. Acting Department of Corrections Director Rick Rimmer told senators two weeks ago that he was temporarily reassigning the entire Folsom administration during an independent investigation of the April 2002 riot, a probe he said could involve state or federal prosecutors. ... attorney has powers such as federal civil rights laws that aren't available to state or county prosecutors, and doesn't have the potential conflicts that the state attorney general would while acting as the state's lawyer, Siggins said. ... Folsom's warden was fired last year. Rimmer said the new investigation will probe allegations by Folsom guards that the acting warden on the day of the riot had ties to the Southern Mexicans, or Mexican Mafia, one of the two gangs involved in the brief battle. Twenty-five inmates were wounded, one correctional officer suffered a permanent disability as he helped break up the fight, and another committed suicide after complaining about his treatment by prison officials in the riot's aftermath. The gangs, which had been separated for 12 weeks because of a previous incident, were supposed to be released into the prison exercise yard in small groups to prevent another fight. ... State Sen.

• California State Prison, Represa ("Old Folsom").
• On January 13, 1999, the 1998-1999 Sacramento County Grand Jury toured California State Prison, Represa ("Old Folsom").
• The facility was built in 1878 along the American River, and received its first 44 prisoners from San Quentin Prison in 1880. ... Since then, all executions by the State of California have been conducted at San Quentin.
• The facility, located on 882 acres within the City of Folsom, houses 3,850 male inmates. The following statistics, provided to the Grand Jury by prison officials, identify the demographics of the inmates:.
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• By accomplishing this, they avoid being incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento ("New Folsom"). ...
• The Prison Industry Authority operates three factories inside Old Folsom. The license plate factory sells from five to six million California vehicle license plates each year, serving the entire state. ...
• A shop located outside the prison gate and open to the public sells arts and crafts made by the inmates.
• Prison officials are concerned with the age of the buildings at Old Folsom. ... The Grand Jury was told by prison officials that the Department of Corrections believes maintenance of the existing structures is less expensive than building a new prison. Currently, the prison is undergoing an earthquake retrofitting program as required by the State of California. ... 5 years to retrofit Old Folsom structures at a cost of $11 million. ...

• State Senators Gloria Romero and Jackie Speier vowed change for Folsom State Prison and other state penitentiaries after allegations of corruption and criminal misconduct by prison guards. Governor Schwarzenegger proposed eliminating the Office of the Inspector General, an independent agency that serves as a watchdog over the state corrections system, but hearings in the legislature brought on calls for a stronger office and increased oversight of the prisons. ...
• Prison Guard Union Called Too Powerful; As Senate inquiry ends, former watchdog of state prisons cites 'vacuum of leadership' and urges independent scrutiny of the system.
• Prison union's power detailed.
• Governor's pledge could collide with prison union's power.
• Tales of threats at state prison hearings; Corrections officials pledge reform as Senate inquiry opens .
• Guards Tell of Retaliation for Informing; Whistle-blowers testify before Senate panel on how their reports of misconduct at state prisons are received.
• State prison system called a 'tarnished institution'.
• Prison's top brass to be reassigned, The goal is an unimpeded inquiry of Folsom's management after riot.

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• San Quentin guard turns down state settlement offer.
• A San Quentin prison guard whose anti-Semitism charges against the prison and California Department of Corrections are pending has turned down an offer from the state.
• In the settlement offer, the guard, Alan Ashenfarb, was given the option of transferring to Folsom State Prison if he dropped his lawsuit.
• Ashenfarb, 44, who has worked as a corrections officer at San Quentin since January 1994, declined the proposition from the state attorney general's office, calling it "a slap in the face. ...
• Ashenfarb's attorney, Stanley Hilton, agreed and said the state's offer to transfer the guard may indicate a belief that the case has no merit.
• Ashenfarb is seeking monetary damages but said he is unsure if he would accept a settlement offering money, since he felt it would not adequately punish those responsible for fostering the bigoted prison climate. He would like to see the prison change its response to anti-Semitic behavior and actions, requesting that the department implement better diversity training.
• "The policy for dealing with discrimination in the prison is weak; it's more lip service than actual policy. ...
• According to policy, the prison and CDC will not comment on pending litigation.
• At that time he described a series of "embarrassing and demeaning" situations ranging from anti-Jewish jokes to neo-Nazi and SS graffiti around the prison. ...
• On the other hand, he also "gets vibrations" that some working in the prison are "not thrilled about the negative publicity. ...

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• (city of Folsom, California)Sunset, March, 2001, by John PoimirooContinued from page 1.
• The discovery of gold by African-American miners at Negro Bar--not far from the foundations of the new bridge--and other nearby discoveries quickly made Folsom a jumping-off point for gold seekers, By 1856, the first railroad west of the Mississippi was bringing miners here from Sacramento.
• Folsom's influence solidified when the first long-distance commercial powerhouse in the West was built alongside the river. ... The hydroelectric plant, now a National Historic Landmark, was closed in 1952; Folsom Dam and its powerhouse were finished in 1956, creating Folsom Lake, a 12,000-acre reservoir park with boating, fishing, hiking, camping, and biking.
• Water has attracted many new businesses to Folsom, including Gekkeikan Sake, maker of the venerable Japanese sake. ... However, the location most identified with Folsom isn't as Zen-like.
• For a place so difficult to get out of, Folsom State Prison, just east of the city hall, is relatively easy to enter. A small museum is open for public visits, as is an arts and crafts store manned by low-risk inmates, who might explain how Johnny Cash got it right in his 1968 ballad, "Folsom Prison Blues. ...
• In preserving its past as it plans for the future, Folsom, too, seems to be getting it right.
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• Contact the Folsom Chamber of Commerce in the old Southern Pacific Depot at 200 Wool St. ...
• Folsom Dam tours. ... 7794 Folsom Dam Rd. ...
• Folsom Lake Recreation Area. ...
• Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park. ...
• Folsom Prison Museum and Inmate Handicraft Store. The tiny museum's cell mock-up and displays depict prison life. ... Prison Rd. ...

• , Dominguez walks past three barbed-wire fences to his classroom where he teaches inmates at San Quentin State Penitentiary. ... Dominguez is one of a handful of instructors who volunteer their time and energy toward teaching inmates in this medium-security prison.
•     California has 33 prisons scattered throughout the state. The California State Prison Literacy Act requires these prisons to offer educational programs to inmates who test poorly academically. But a study conducted by the Little Hoover Commission, a 13-member advisory board authorized by the state to evaluate the efficiency of prison agencies, was critical of the education program.
•     The commission, which investigates the operation of state government agencies, found that the California Department of Corrections has no responsibility to get actual results from these programs. According to the study, the CDC has no proven method to help meet the goal of educating prison inmates. The report goes further to say that the Prison Literacy Act "lacks focus" and "has a faulty management structure. ...
•     The report also calls the sentencing structure of California's prison system an impediment to inmate rehabilitation. In 1977, Determinate Sentencing, whereby inmates are given a fixed number of years or months in prison for a given crime, went into effect in the state of California. ...
• The Hoover commission report states that the number of former inmates returning to prison has doubled since the implementation of Determinate Sentencing.
•     Although the California Prison system has not stressed the education of inmates over the last twenty years, the idea hasn't been lost. Terry Lee Guilford recalled the economics class he took while an inmate at Folsom state prison. ... It was only a requirement of the prison which was connected to Sacramento City College. Later he was told by his instructor that he did better in the class than other students she taught outside of prison.
•     "I just took to it like a duck in water," says Guilford, who went on to get his bachelor degree after being transferred to Soledad State Prison, where he was involved in an education program developed between Soledad and San Jose State University. ... " Two years after Guilford received his degree, the San Jose State University-Soledad program was dismantled.

• Students spend break in prison.
• DOIN' TIME: Twenty-four criminal justice students pose before San Quentin prison as part of a tour organized by SDSU Professor Paul Sutton. ...
• The sounds of iron bars slamming shut not the ocean crashing on the beach is what 24 San Diego State University students experienced during Spring Break.
• Paul Sutton, a criminal justice professor at SDSU, has been setting up these prison tours for 15 years.
• The itinerary included the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, Salinas Valley State Prison, San Quentin, Federal Correctional in Dublin, California State Prison in Sacramento, Folsom State Prison and Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
• She knew she couldn't ask them why they were in prison because the guards said that would be rude.
• He said state-prison tours are possible because tax payers pay for the facilities and therefore have a right to see how they are maintained and run.
• Brown said that before the tour, she signed a release that stated the prison doesn't negotiate for hostages and that family members couldn't sue the prison if something were to happen to her.
• Ray Stercl, a public administration senior, said he had a stereotypical picture of what a bad guy in prison would be like: mean, ugly and rude.
• Stercl said drugs are a part of prison life. ...
• Brown said what surprised her most was the lack of privacy in prison. ...
• Stercl said about 40 percent of women in prison are HIV positive and there are very few programs for these women. ...
• Brown, Ramos and Stercl all said they were surprised to see how nice the Women's Federal Correction prison in Dublin was. The prison offers aerobics and pottery classes. ...
• Brown plans to educate inner-city school children on what prison life is really like. ...
• Students also run into former classmates who are serving time in prison, Sutton said.

• The Prison-Industrial Complex.
• Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. ...
• The cells in Housing Unit 1 (Folsom State Prison, California) are stacked five stories high, like boxes in a vast warehouse; glimpses of hands and arms and faces, of flickering TV screens, are visible between the steel bars. ... "The prison boom has its own inexorable logic. ... "The prison-industrial complex includes some of the nation's largest architecture and construction firms, wall street investment banks, and companies that sell everything from security cameras to padded cells available in a "vast colour selection". ... " "The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. ...

• Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary, serving time at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. ... When prison authorities learned of the book they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. ...
• A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. ...
• Surely the great American prison novel.
• A handful of authors have portrayed the human condition of prison life with the indelible stamp of authenticity —Dostoevski, Alexander Solzhenitisyn, Brendan Behan, and Genet are among them. ...
• Life in prison is the subject of Braly’s 1967 classic, now back in print with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. ...
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist By Alexander BerkmanIntroduction by John William Ward No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. ...

• State Issues Scathing Report on Folsom's City-run Prison.
• Life behind bars is not supposed to be pleasant, but a new state report says conditions at the Folsom Community Correctional Facility are actually dangerous.
• The prison, which is run by the city of Folsom, houses 380 inmates, mostly non-violent offenders. It is separate from the two state prisons in Folsom.
• The state inspector conducted the audit and found widespread mismanagement, deteriorating buildings, and dangerous conditions for both inmates and Folsom residents.
• The report also expressed concern that about half the inmates work recycling garbage which gives them access to bank statements and credit card information that residents of Folsom discard.
• State officials say conditions are so bad that they are considering closing the prison.
• Folsom city officials, however, deny the state's findings, claming the review is incomplete and biased.

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• Planned Folsom bridge financing switch angers area congressman.
• <p>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration raised the ire of the Sacramento-area congressional delegation this week when it said it is rethinking how to finance a much-needed bridge over the American River at the base of Folsom Dam, an issue the lawmakers thought they settled last year. ...
• </p> <p>The Sacramento is already up, and federal officials have been releasing extra water down the American to maintain some empty capacity up at Folsom Reservoir. ...
• Governor wants 2002 Folsom prison riot investigated.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, hit with a barrage of negative reports and criticism of the state prison system, Friday asked the U. ... Attorney's office in Sacramento to investigate a 2002 riot at Folsom State Prison. </p> <p>He also reversed course on his earlier move to limit the independence of the Office of Inspector General, which investigates prison corruption and other problems. ...
• CA: Prison's top brass to be reassigned (Folsom State Prison).
• <p>The top brass at Folsom State Prison -- from the interim warden down to its captains -- will be re-assigned during a broadened investigation of the facility's management, the director of the California Department of Corrections said Tuesday at a legislative hearing. ...
• <p>WASHINGTON -- The battle to authorize a 7-foot raising of Folsom Dam, regarded by the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency as the last major piece of flood-control work needed to fully protect the city from the American River, appeared to have ended Thursday without the project getting out of the starting gates. ...

• My Crusade for Justice in the murder/ execution of my son Angry Bear Nieto by Folsom State Prison correctional officer Moses Guerrero on June 2nd, 1988 has now extended through ten years of cover-ups.
• On June 2nd, 1988 I received a telegram from Folsom Prison warden, Robert Borg informing me that my son Angry Bear had died from a gun-shot wound to the chest. After I made arrangements with the mortuary where my son's body lay,I called Folsom Prison. ... " I asked her, "What purpose was that?" She said that my son had stabbed another inmate during a prison melee between cliques on the yard. ...
• On June 5th, or 6th, I received a letter from his cell partner, the Sioux Indian Brother George Walker saying,"The word is out that the prison is saying that Angry Bear was shot through the chest-it is a lie. ...
• This letter was followed by others from inmates who had witnessed the execution by this prison guard who had a vendetta to kill my son for making a fool out of him before his superior, Lt. ...
• After some weeks of collecting inmates' letters I went to see the reporter Don Babwin (Riverside Press Enterprise) in hope of showing that the prison had lied to the media and to me and my family. The reporter told me that inmate letters weren't sufficient proof that the prison had lied, but if I got the Coroner's Report showing that the entry wound was in the back, then we could do a story. ... These are prison doctors called for all shooting incidents at Folsom State Prison. ... " The Prison Administration Investigation Report included a photo simulating a male with a front view and alongside of this was a back view which showed the wounds. It had my son's name and his prison number (C-35888. ...
• The spokeswoman for the prison, Lt. ...
• District Attorney's office, the California State Attorney General's office and the F. ... who twice abetted the original cover up by the Folsom State Prison Administration. ...
• The original state investigation was conducted by District Attorney Al Locher. Upon receiving the District Attorney's investigation report which supported the Prison Administration ruling I noticed that the State Independent Investigation was not even conducted by District Attorney Al Locher, nor someone from his office, but rather District Attorney Locher called a prison guard to interview my inmate witnesses as well as the guard who took my son's life. This was not just any prison sergeant but the same sergeant that was instrumental in assisting Capt. Joe Gonzales in the sham Prison Administration investigation. ... As Professor of Criminology, Arnold Binder at University of Irvine in California stated in the Orange County Register, " I cannot see how the District Attorney in Sacramento could reach a justifiable ruling in using a prison sergeant to do the investigation. When conducting a state independent investigation you want someone who is not biased. ...

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