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• The High Desert State Prison is the largest major institution in the Department of Corrections. It is the first institution in what will become a large southern Nevada prison complex. High Desert was designed to incorporate much of the best technology available to corrections to provide for officer safety and the management and control of inmates. ...

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• High Desert State Prison is a new-generation design correctional facility capable of handling multi-classifications of new inmates and custody levels of medium, close, and maximum lock-up or segregation. ... The housing units are designed to accommodate a wide range of services and will provide staff a resource to manage inmates who range from high-medium security to those who are at risk to themselves and others. ...
• Additionally, High Desert State Prison contains all necessary support services including, but not limited to, Chapel, Culinary, Infirmary, Intake Processing, Education, Law Library, Laundry, Inmate Store, Coffee Shop and a Visitation Center. ...
• As the reception and intake center, High Desert State Prison processes all inmates from the jails and courts of the southern part of the state. ... High Desert State Prison has incorporated a level management system that places personal responsibility on the inmate for his own behavior. ...
• High Desert is designed to meet the department's operational philosophy to ensure a safe secure environment for the community, staff responsible for inmate management, and for the inmates assigned to the facility. The first phase of the prison consists of four (4) Lovelock-style housing units. ...

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• Phase Two of the High Desert State Prison was 99-C1 and the project contract award was for $41,814,000. ...

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• Hello, Is there anyone on this list who has a friend/loved one at High Desert? My penfriend, Richard Haberstroh, was justed moved from Ely SP to High Desert. ...
• Hi Karin~ Great name! I actually just received a letter from an inmate at High Desert asking me to be his pen pal. ...
• hi karin, my boyfriend is in high desert. ...
• Hi Alicia, My penfriend, Richard Haberstroh, is presently at High Desert awaiting a new sentencing hearing. I spoke with him on Friday and he told me that he couldn't wait to be returned 'home' to Ely SP as he's being held in admin seg being considered a high risk prisoner = DR prisoner. ...
• i do live in las vegas about 30 mins or so from high desert. ...
• What type of sentence is your friend serving? Richard's death sentence was overturned last year and he was moved to High Desert to await a new sentencing hearing. ...
• QUOTE=Karin Hello, Is there anyone on this list who has a friend/loved one at High Desert? My penfriend, Richard Haberstroh, was justed moved from Ely SP to High Desert. ...
• Hi Cindi-Lu, My penfriend, Richard, was just shipped back to Ely SP, from High Desert a few months ago. ...
• Cindy-Lu, Actually Ely SP doesn't seem to be that bad as far as prison goes; the prisoners don't spend 23 hours a day in their cells and they do receive contact visits. ...

• $100 million prison to open Sept. ...
• Leading a tour of the new High Desert State Prison at Cold Springs on Monday, Jackie Crawford, the new director of the Nevada Department of Prisons, recalled how her career almost got derailed at the beginning.
• A warden in the Arizona prison system in 1978, she had to move 400 women prisoners to a motel in Phoenix while construction on a new prison was being completed. ...
• Crawford did not exempt even this newest and largest prison in Nevada, situated 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas just southeast of Indian Springs off of U. ...
• Looking out of a small, $2,000 window -- designed to be resistant against bullets and escapes -- in the conference room at the new prison, Crawford said, "I will be saddened if it does happen. ...
• The $100 million, 576,000-square-foot High Desert State Prison will open Sept. 8 to inmates from seven other overcrowded state correctional centers that house about 9,500 prisoners.
• About 1,000 prisoners, 600 of them from the Jean prison that will be closed, will arrive in the first phase. ...
• When the third phase is completed, date pending, the prison will house 3,000 prisoners and cover just short of 1 million square feet.
• Monday's tour was to show reporters the layout of the high-medium security prison, explain its mission, and to get the word out about job opportunities there.
• Six dining rooms, sharing a 77,000-square-foot kitchen, are capable of feeding all 3,000 prisoners in an hour and a half, prison officials said. ...
• The prison also has an education building with two libraries -- one of them a law library. ...
• Electrified fences measuring 13 feet high -- guarding the interior rim of the prison -- will jolt inmates with 5,000 volts if they try to escape. ... Because this is a lethal dose, inmates may want to comprehend a sign at a prison exercise yard: "You are in prison. ...
• Dan Dailey of state public works board called the fence a "lethal electric fence. ...
• 9 million, and it is fashioned after California prisons, which have eight or nine of the fence systems, Daily said, noting that the prison used the fence system at the direction of the Legislature.

• EXPANSION PLAN SCRATCHED: State to save on prison construction.
• CARSON CITY -- Slower inmate growth and an increase in nonviolent offenders means that Nevada's 15-year, multi-million dollar prison construction boom finally might be over. ...
• A $49 million, 1,000-bed expansion of the High Desert State Prison approved by the 2001 Legislature is not needed, she said. ...
• The money, less about $6 million needed for some additions to the existing 2,000-bed prison, will be returned to Gov. ...
• But projections show that the state won't have to build another "hard bed" for higher-security male inmates for at least another seven years, and an expansion for female inmates won't be needed before 2008, prison officials told the state Board of Prison Commissioners. ...
• "That's extraordinarily good news," said Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, a member of the board along with Guinn and Secretary of State Dean Heller. ...
• Guinn agreed, saying the change in prison growth and demographics will mean major changes in the way the state funds and operates its expensive prison system. ...
• A mental health facility will help the prison system by allowing it to offer appropriate programs and treatment, rather than sending the mentally ill to jail or prison or taking up hospital beds in emergency rooms, Guinn said. ...
• Any money returned to the state may be used for other building projects, but because it comes from bonds, it may not be used to ease the state's current budget shortfall. ...
• After the Legislature funded the construction of the first phase of Ely State Prison in 1987, construction of new prison beds has continued virtually unabated. More beds have been added at Ely; Lovelock Correctional Center was built and expanded starting in 1995; and work to build and later expand High Desert State Prison began in 1999. ...
• But in the past year, inmate growth projections have been revised dramatically downward, prison officials told the board. ...
• Rex Reed, administrator of the Offender Management Division, said that as of the end of July, there were 621 fewer male inmates in the prison system than had been projected only a year ago. ...
• The slowing growth of the population means that 500 of the 2,000 beds already constructed at High Desert State Prison are being mothballed right now, Reed said. ...
• But Crawford said one reason is the use of drug courts, which has reduced the number of people going to prison with drug convictions. ...
• Although the slower growth is one reason the state might go out of the prison construction business, the other is the change in the makeup of the prison population, with fewer inmates requiring highly secure traditional prisons with razor wire and guard towers around them, she said. ...

• Harch Reprisals for Those Who Try to Talk Through Prison Walls.
• California's prison system has barred any face-to-face contact between prisoners and any member of the media. ...
• Shearwood Fleming spent 44 days in solitary confinement pending investigation of a "conspiracy to mastermind a sabotage effort" at a San Diego prison. Charles Irvin spent 44 days in solitary confinement for "attempting to impugn the credibility" of that prison.
• The two men had publicly criticized a business program sponsored by the California Department of Corrections (CDC) called "CMT Blues" -- a garment sewing operation inside the prison. ...
• Shortly after the two were put in the hole, a staffer at the prison, who has worked for the CDC for 19 years, confirmed these allegations in a phone call to the Prison Law Office, a prisoners' rights legal organization. ...
• It bans face to face media contacts with any of the state's more than 160,000 prisoners, and punishes any prisoner with the temerity to criticize their keepers in the media.
• Tom McClintock, a strong law and order Republican, supported the bill because he thinks the media should keep the public informed about the state's largest public employer. ...
• He was then fired from his position as editor of the state's last remaining prison newspaper when he objected to the media ban. ...
• California is not the only state to have revived the crime of sedition for prisoners. ...
• "We look for compelling reasons why the interview should take place," Idaho's prison spokesperson wrote, "how will the interview benefit the department?".
• The state's prison spokesperson Tip Kindel has dismissed protests of the ban as the complaint of a "special interest group" unhappy at losing its "perks. ...
• Del Norte County's district attorney has accused prison officials of attempting to block an investigation of eight killings in Pelican Bay in recent weeks.
• Tensions are so high at the new High Desert State Prison in Susanville that the 4,000 men imprisoned there are in virtually total lockdown most of the time.
• With more than a million people locked behind our prison walls, we can only guess how large and how ugly that iceberg really is.

• Lay Offs, Downsizing & Closing Of Prison Facilities Just The Tip Of The Iceberg.
• In several states across this Nation, state Governors, prison administrators, and ultimately Correctional Officers and support staff are finding out that they have to do more with less, a lot more with a lot less.
• Facilities are being shut down, newly built prisons are standing empty, or being partially opened and Correctional Officers are being laid off by the hundreds in several state DOC's.
• Indiana has one facility, the Newcastle Correctional Facility, which has been partially opened due to funding problems in the state. ...
• The ongoing lack of money plagues many state Department of Correction agencies.
• To the west of Indiana, Illinois has a complete brand new prison, the $143 million dollar Thompson Correctional Center, a maximum-security level facility, which at this time sits empty. ...
• Further west, Nevada has closed a wing of the Nevada State Prison, and the Director of NDOC is recommending canceling a planned $35 million dollar expansion of the High Desert Prison to save up to $3 million dollars a year in operating costs.
• Looking north, Wisconsin has a new $48 million dollar prison sitting empty and it's future is uncertain. With a state projected budget biennium deficit of $2. ...
• The state is facing a projected $1. ...
• To the east, Ohio closed one (1) prison in 2002 and laid off hundreds of Correctional Officers, and the Governor is recommending the closing of two (2) additional prisons in 2003. ...
• With an inmate population exceeding 40,000, Pennsylvania has delayed the opening of one (1) new prison until later in 2003, and another new prison won't be opened until at least 2004. ...
• One southern state has a reported 66% turnover in staff at just one "Company Owned" facility. With a staffing level of just 115 total, more than 250 employees have walked out of this prison in the last three years.
• 00 dollars and upwards a day to house a state offender in a county jail. In Indiana for instance, putting 500 inmates in state facilities would save at least  $17,500. ... 3 million dollars a year the state could save. ... At the Federal and state levels. Every state in the Union has thought about this. ...

• Union protests prison conditions.
• Martin Nustad, a corrections officer at High Desert State Prison, said there aren't enough staff members to keep the prison safe and secure and at times some of the guard towers aren't manned.
• "This place is a time bomb waiting to happen," Nustad said of the high-medium security prison.
• Glen Whorton, assistant director of the state Department of Corrections, said that's not true.
• The protesting guards say that is not enough and that prison officials are not telling the whole story.
• Whorton cautioned, however, that such national and state-to-state comparisons "are so difficult to get your arms around because every state is different. ...
• And Samuel Covelli, president of the State of Nevada Employees Association and an employee at High Desert, said that Sunday night there were only eight officers available to respond to emergencies in the 1,800-inmate prison. ...
• Covelli also said he didn't know exactly how many guards the prison should have, but he said it should be higher than it is now. ...
• About 130 people protested along the road leading to the High Desert and Southern Desert prisons near Indian Springs, about 30 miles from Las Vegas, on Monday afternoon. ...
• The State of Nevada Employees Association has about 3,700 members among all the state agencies, Covelli said.
• Putting corrections officers on paid leave is part of High Desert Warden James Schomig's strategy to scare employees away from the union and from speaking out on the department, Covelli alleged. ...
• State officials have said previously that no employees' rights have been violated and said that no one is being targeted because they belong to a union.
• Covelli said the unions problems are not limited to High Desert, but that is the facility where anti-union efforts seem to be focused.

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•      High Desert Rebuilders – Lovelock Correctional Center.
• Status Report from Prison Industries and Committee Recommendations Regarding the Following Items:.
•   Ahern Rentals – Southern Desert Correctional Center.
• Review of Proposed Cook–Chill Process- High Desert State Prison.
•      Request for Information Memo dated March 18, 2002, From Robert Guernsey and Response from Howard Skolnik Regarding Inmate Clothing, Costs Associated with M‑Truss & Components, LLC, Financial Statements Presented at the March 12, 2002, Meeting, Construction at the High Desert State Prison, the Cook-Chill Program, the Number of Inmates Employed, and Deductions from Inmate Wages.
•     C15324 to Reimburse Prison Industries from Jacob’s Trading and Increase.
•     C15325 to Increase Revenue and Expenditure authority for Prison Industries.
•     C15361 to Provide Additional Expenditure Authority for the Prison Dairy.
•      Worker’s Compensation Coverage for Inmates Employed in Horse Gentling Program Prison Industries Programs.
•      Article entitled Employing Prison Inmates: Does it Work?.
• Notice of this meeting was posted in the following Carson City, Nevada, locations:  Blasdel Building, 209 East Musser Street; Capitol Press Corps, Basement, Capitol Building; City Hall, 201 North Carson Street; Legislative Building, 401 South Carson Street; and Nevada State Library, 100 Stewart Street.   Notice of this meeting was faxed for posting to the following Las Vegas, Nevada, locations:  Clark County Office, 500 South Grand Central Parkway; and Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 East Washington Avenue. ... state. ...

• Prison gym funding locked up elsewhere .
• Money ticketed for prison recreation goes to upgraded locks and a high-voltage fence.
•       The chairman of the Legislature's Interim Finance Committee said Friday that the agency that oversees state construction projects broke the law when money earmarked by lawmakers for inmate recreation at the new superprison was spent elsewhere. ...
• 4 million appropriated by the 1999 Legislature for an inmate gymnasium at High Desert State Prison was illegally diverted by the Nevada Public Works Board to pay for upgraded cell locks and a perimeter fence that would deliver a 20,000-volt lethal shock to prisoners trying to escape. ...
•       But Friday, Legislative Counsel Brenda Erdoes said it appears officials would have had to move money appropriated for prison construction to a completely different project for Nevada statutes to have been violated. ...
•       High Desert State Prison, called a superprison because it will have a capacity of 3,000 inmates and nearly 1 million square feet when completed, is 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas near Indian Springs. ...
•       She said Bayer's directive to use state-of-the-art $3,000 rack-and-pinion locks on every cell at High Desert, rather than the less expensive ones originally budgeted, pushed costs up nearly $500,000 in four of the prison's housing units. ...
•       Dow said that when Guinn announced a state budget shortfall in December 1998 and directed state agencies to cut spending, the Public Works Board returned nearly $4 million in construction funds Raecke didn't think would be needed to complete the prison. ...
•       Members of the state chapter of CURE, a prisoners' rights advocacy group, were disappointed when they learned three months ago that contractors were not building the gym. ...
•       "We have this certain amount of money and you take a shopping cart and you go through and get what's required for the prison to function," Crawford said. ...
• A correctional officer walks beside rack-and-pinion locks over the doors of cells at High Desert State Prison. The state Public Works Board said the locks cost $3,000 each, part of the reason there was not enough money to build a gym at the prison. ...

• When I felt the call to do jail and prison ministry two-and-a-half years ago, I thought to myself that God had picked the wrong person. ... I am also a volunteer chaplain at High Desert State Prison in Susanville California.
• One thing that God has shown me since I began doing jail and prison ministry is that most of the men who come to my church services are Christians. ... Others were delivered from the bondage of drugs and alcohol by God, walked with God for a while, and then like the Israelites of old, longed to go back to their place of bondage when the testing in the desert got to be more than they thought they could handle. ...
• Jail and Prison is a good place to get close to God if one chooses. ... There are many in prison who will never see the outside of the prison walls, yet some will tell you that they are freer now than they have ever been. ...
• When the day is over at High Desert State Prison, and I get on my bike or hop in my truck to return home to my wife and kids, I reflect on the events of the day and the inmates I came in contact with. ... I recently gave a message at the prison about how much God loves them and that unlike a lot of family and friends, God does not forget them. ...
• This is especially true for the Prison ministry. There are over 5,000 inmates at High Desert State Prison and one full time chaplain. And the State of California has recently made it clear that when the current chaplains retire, their positions will not be re-filled. We need to pray hard that we elect Godly men and women to office and that the State’s position changes as we do so. ...

• Conference to discuss HIV schooling in prison .
• Desert AIDS Project classes target inmates about to be released .
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• March 11th, 2000 The prevalence of HIV among prison inmates is 7. ...
• Don Wardell, community health educator at the Palm Springs-based Desert AIDS Project, is scheduled to discuss that with those who attend a national AIDS conference in San Francisco next week.
• Wardell will speak about "HIV education in prisons" at the National AIDS Conference that runs Tuesday through Friday, according to a Desert AIDS Project press release.
• High risk: Wardell said aggressive education efforts are necessary in prisons because inmates have such a high risk of being infected with the virus.
• "The prisoners really want to know the facts and have been exposed to so much misinformation within the prison walls. ...
• Staff from the Desert AIDS Project now offer monthly HIV education classes to prisoners at Eagle Mountain Correctional Facility, Chuckwalla Valley State Prison and Ironwood State Prison. ...
• The Desert AIDS Project provides service to HIV/AIDS patients in the Coachella Valley. ...
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• Giving Birth to Justice in the Desert.
• No one is in charge today!", the security guard barked at the protesters at the gate of the Skilled Nursing Facility of the Central California Women's Facility, a state prison in Chowchilla. ...
• On April 27, 2002, over 75 former prisoners, family members and advocates from around the state gathered at the gates of CCWF to protest the health care crisis and deaths of women prisoners. ... Speakers who represented a coalition of organizations including Critical Resistance, Out of Control, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Prison Focus, Queers United to Fight Israeli Terrorism, Prison Moratorium Project, Death Penalty Focus, Amnesty International, and Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization, and other community activists took the mike to talk about what was going on inside. ... Two years ago the high death rate at Chowchilla got the attention of the Los Angeles Times. ... Beloved activist Yuri Kochiyama rolled her walker up to the mike and told her story about the racist, sexist and classist prison industrial complex that is becoming home to so many in our diverse society. ... Our mothers, sisters and grandmothers are joining forces with spirits of our ancestors, goddess, Mother Earth and Mother Nature to give birth to JUSTICE in the desert. ...
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• SAN FRANCISCO - The man reviled in this city after blaming dog mauling victim Diane Whipple for her own death is expected to be released from prison Friday after serving little more than half his four-year sentence, but he won't be returning here.
• Robert Noel, whose behavior was called "despicable" by the judge who sentenced him to prison, had been sentenced to four years for involuntary manslaughter in the 2001 death of neighbor Whipple, a former Penn State lacrosse star.
• Knoller, 48, has refused to work during her incarceration at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla and won't be released until early March, the San Francisco district attorney's office said Wednesday.
• Noel, 62, who served most of his sentence in Oregon because of his past experience as a lawyer representing both inmates and prison guards in California, was transferred last week to High Desert State Prison in Susanville. He's been separated from the general population at his own request, according to Margot Bach, spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department.
• Noel also will be considered a high-control parolee, which means he'll need to check in with his parole officer at least four times each month, Bach said.
• "She did share with me that her inner peace isn't tied to him or the time that he spent in prison or how he lives the rest of his life. ...
• Under state law, same-sex couples are forbidden from marrying.
• The state Attorney General's office is appealing the dismissal of Knoller's second-degree murder conviction. ...
• The State Bar of California has temporarily suspended his license to practice law and will do its own investigation into whether he should be disbarred permanently once his appeals are completed, according to a spokeswoman.

• CHICO ---- Curtis Scott is a 45-year-old prison guard who really wants to teach third grade. ...
• So he's spending several weeks this summer in Cal State Chico's Flex plan, which allows him to take to take evening, weekend, Internet or summer classes and get a teaching credential while still working at High Desert State Prison in Susanville. ...
• It is one of dozens of programs created in recent years as the state struggles to put fully trained teachers in every classroom. ...
• Recent statistics show encouraging signs, although the state's poorest schools still remain the worst off. ...
• However, state records show the less-than-fully qualified teachers still tend to be in schools with high poverty levels and low test scores. ...
• In May, school board members from around the state met and told of how they competed with each other for the small pool of credentialed teachers and even for those with emergency permits, said Phillip Escamilla, a consultant for the California School Boards Association. ...
• The state responded. California State University, which produces nearly two-thirds of the state's teachers, set a goal of increasing its output of teachers by 25 percent by 2000. ...
• National University, the state's largest private producer of teachers, has seen its teacher enrollment increase from 4,636 in 1995-96 to 8,901 in 1999-2000, says spokesman Hoyt Smith. ...
• State colleges, such as CSU Chico, are taking lessons from private colleges and offering more flexible programs to make it easier for prospective teachers to graduate and get a full credential. ...
• Since 1972, the traditional path to teaching has taken five years in a state college, four for a bachelor's degree and another for teacher classes and student teaching. ...
• To boost its recruitment efforts, the state in 1998 opened the California Center for Teaching Careers, or CalTeach, a one-stop information and referral service. Its state-funded budget was $11 million in 2000-01; the pending budget for this year contains the same. ...
• More than 3,000 out-of-state students have showed some interest in teaching in California, although the state does not yet know how many have actually applied and gotten jobs, said Marubayashi. ...
• The Grant Joint Union High School District in north Sacramento received a $402,866 TAP grant. ...
• He's been busily recruiting teachers all around the state and in New York. ...

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• SACRAMENTO -- A day after five prison guards were charged with helping to arrange the rape of an inmate at maximum-security Corcoran State Prison, Attorney General Dan Lungren on Friday announced an investigation at a second prison, High Desert State Prison near Susanville. ...
•   Nor would he discuss details of the High Desert investigation. ...
• However, the Department of Corrections said six guards at High Desert were suspected of verbally intimidating an inmate and filing false reports.   A prison spokesman said the officers had been placed on administrative leave. ...
•   He also declined to comment on the powerful prison guards union's endorsement of his rival in the governor's race. ...

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• Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.
• Description - Yuma Territorial Prison is living proof that there really was a wild west. Over 120 years ago, prison experts considered Yuma Territorial Prison one of the most modern prisons in the United States. It was the first prison in the Arizona Territory. ...
• A fascinating museum details that prison's development and tells stories of the desperado's, including 29 women, who did time there. Visitors may view a selection of videos highlighting prison life, walk through the actual strap iron cells and the "dark hole" punishment cell. ... Nearby, Yuma Crossing State Historic Park is one of the Southwest's richest historical sites.
• Climate - Yuma has a low elevation of 140 feet and experiences a hot desert climate. ... Daytime high temperatures can exceed 115 degrees. ... Fall and spring are transitional periods and can also be nice times to visit these desert regions. Be prepared for cool temperatures at higher elevations and dress in layers for your travels in this state of varying climates.
• Location - Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park is located in the southwest corner of Arizona in the town of Yuma. ...
• Yuma Territorial Prison State Historical Park, P. ... state. ...
• Arizona State Parks - Arizona's State Parks feature lakes, reservoirs, caves, mountains, unique geologic formations and significant historic sites. From pine forests to spectacular deserts, the State Parks offer something for just about everyone.

• Spotlight on Lompoc United States Penitentiary, California - the state with the highest prison population .
• He is serving his sentence in Lompoc US penitentiary in the state of California. ...
• Bernie Dwyer takes a look at Lompoc prison in California, the state with the highest prison population in the western world, and where the money from the state budget spent on keeping people locked up far outstrips that spent on education.
• California: The Sunshine State.
• California, popularly known as the Sunshine State, has the highest prison population in the western world. ...
• Figures show that as recently as 15 years ago the state spent six times as much on higher education as on prisons. Last year the prison budget was larger, and according to local sources the disparity is going to grow. ...
• In the 132 years between 1852 and 1984, the state of California built twelve prisons. In the eleven year period between 1985 and 1996, the state built sixteen more. ...
• The increase in the long-term prison population is due to the flood of inmates serving 25 years to life under the three strikes law. ...
• Currently, the state of California incarcerates one out of every eight prisoners in the United States. Even though the growth in prison facilities is phenomenal, there is still severe overcrowding and bad conditions. ...
• Gerardo Hernández is being held at USP Lompoc, California, a high security prison holding 1,583 prisoners. The prison was built to house 980 prisoners. ...
• After a visit to Gerardo Hernández in prison last year, Father Geoffrey Bottoms, a catholic priest from England, gave the following description: "Lompoc is 170 miles north of Los Angeles, and the prison is one of three in a complex about five miles out of town. Gerardo is in the maximum security prison, which, of course, is where the most hardened criminals are, so it's a pretty grim and grey place¨.

• RECENT STORIES BY THIS AUTHOR High-profile cases draw 'stealth jurors'.
• State law fails sex offenders, communities.
• SAN FRANCISCO -- The man reviled in this city after blaming dog mauling victim Diane Whipple for her own death is expected to be released from prison Friday after serving little more than half his four-year sentence, but he won't be returning here. ...
• Robert Noel, whose behavior was called "despicable" by the judge who sentenced him to prison, had been sentenced to four years for involuntary manslaughter in the 2001 death of neighbor Whipple. ...
• Knoller, 48, has refused to work during her incarceration at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla and won't be released until early March, the San Francisco district attorney's office said Wednesday. ...
• Noel, 62, who served most of his sentence in Oregon because of his past experience as a lawyer representing both inmates and prison guards in California, was transferred last week to High Desert State Prison in Susanville. He's been separated from the general population at his own request, according to Margot Bach, spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department. ...
• Noel also will be considered a high-control parolee, which means he'll need to check in with his parole officer at least four times each month, Bach said. ...
• "She did share with me that her inner peace isn't tied to him or the time that he spent in prison or how he lives the rest of his life. ...

• Are You Still Down With Him? D-Boy (Soledad State Prison), Mar 04, 2004 "Well, I’m just gon’ tell you that Our Father said that if you keep going 100 mph he gone call yo’ name much sooner than he planned to. ...
• Behind These Walls Fish (San Quentin State Prison), Feb 29, 2004 Don’t let these cells stress you out You know what you abou The only thing that matters is how you walk out. ...
• I'm Fighting For Nothing More E-Money (Folsom State Prison), Feb 29, 2004 Do you think it would be a tad bit stingy to just live for yourself when the world has been living for you even when you were in your mother’s womb?.
• That's How The Story Goes Michael Markhasev (SHU at Corcoran State Prison), Feb 23, 2004 A wasted life is much more tragic than an unfulfilled one. ...
• Dread Brandon Martinez (Lancaster State Prison), Feb 23, 2004 You got to dream when it looks silly. ...
• End Of The Road HH Dominguez, Jr (SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison), Feb 23, 2004 They’re propagandized as the “worst of the worst,” deserving of their grim fate. Most often it’s Latinos and Blacks from thirty-two other prison compounds who’ve been selected as leaders / members or associates of a prison gang based on informants, tattoos, group photos, innocent correspondences, possession of artwork or political / revolutionary propaganda, etc. ...

•  Bounty Rumors Prompt Prison To Isolate Tabish.
• Rick Tabish has been moved to a more secure area of High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs following a report Friday that someone may be offering a cash reward for his murder. ...
• Tabish, who was convicted in May of killing former casino executive Ted Binion, was moved Friday afternoon to an isolated part of High Desert's intake unit while the Nevada Department of Prisons investigates the rumor of a bounty on Tabish's head. ...
• The email reportedly was written by a woman who has a relative incarcerated at Ely State Prison, the state's maximum-security facility. ...
• Tabish is only being kept temporarily at High Desert, which is about 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas, for routine medical and psychological tests that are performed on all convicts entering the state prison system.

• High schools have a new star to follow .
• • Lawmakers agree that prison populations are too large, but balk at an $81 million fix. ...
• January 27, 2004 OLYMPIA -- Washington's prisons are so crowded that some inmates are sleeping on the floor and some have been shipped out of state under a rent-a-cell program.
• Lawmakers are being asked to approve an $81 million budget increase, expand a prison in Franklin County and let some convicts out of prison early. ...
• Due to tougher, longer sentences and a new trend for counties to send more prisoners to state facilities, state prisons are growing faster than normal.
• "It simply is a growth industry, whether we like it or not," state prison chief Joseph Lehman said Monday.
• The state corrections system, which includes large institutions at Purdy, Shelton, Walla Walla, Monroe, McNeil Island, Clallam Bay, Airway Heights and Aberdeen, houses nearly 16,300 inmates. ...
• The state sent 240 inmates to Nevada's High Desert State Prison near Las Vegas last May.
• The state Senate Ways and Means Committee learned Monday that the number of rent-a-cell inmates could balloon to 1,000 by year's end.
• The state also is paying King County to house 200 inmates. ...
• Some inmates are sleeping on mattresses on the floor at the Shelton prison's reception center.
• The Legislature last year approved construction of 868 new cells at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
• Gary Locke has asked lawmakers to accelerate a similar expansion at Coyote Ridge prison at Connell. ...
• "We won't build a new prison this year," said Sen. ...
• He said the trend is made even worse by the demand by King and other counties for compensation for housing people who violate their terms of release from state prison.
• "Next to health care, this is our largest long-term increase in state spending," Van Wagenen said in an interview.

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