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• SACRAMENTO - California's powerful prison guards union is trying to kill one of only two programs in the state allowing inmates to earn college degrees, angering advocates who say that educating felons prevents many of them from committing crimes after their release. ...
• The popular program at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe enrolls 280 inmates pursuing a two-year associate of arts degree through the local community college. ...
• Can we, like, ship the leadership of the prison guards union to Baghdad to that mental hospital I was talking about? One way or another, these guys would be right at home: They'd have jobs and they'd be receiving treatment! (Via Busy, Busy, Busy. ...
• from the Newspeak: prison guards union). The State of California is facing a bugetary crisis and the organization is trying to keep too many of the cuts from falling on their members and their salaries. Nonetheless, programs allowing inmates to earn college credits while doing time reduce the rate of recidivism by about a third, and also such prisoners behave better while still in prison. ...
• Cuts aimed at increasing job security amoung prison guard should come from elsewhere.
• About the prison guards: I intended to volunteer to teach at the local women's prison. ... Over the last 10 years, prison programs have been dismantled with no regard for the benefits you mentioned. ...

• lbo-talk prison guard union at it again.
• My colleague Jenifer Warren's story about how the state's prison .
• of one of the two programs in the state prisons that let inmates earn .
• enrolled at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, that's $210,000. ...
• About the salary of two of the 110 prison guards who earned .
• that whisked the state's political leaders off to Maui last winter for a .
• educational program at Chuckawalla Valley state prison in Blythe. ...
• gunning for Ironwood. ...
• Graduation day at Ironwood is June 13. ...
• As the college students file in wearing the caps and gowns the prison .
• keeps for its high school GED graduates, the prison band will play the Elgar .
• Arizona cons who earned the kind of two-year degree that Ironwood inmates .
• creeps in prison. ...
• In his 28 years working in the state's prisons, Hall has watched attitudes .
• There are people who think it's Christmas year-round for prison inmates. ...
• Don't e-mail me about how hard it is to be a prison guard. ...

• Thirteen California Department of Correction facilities throughout the state participate in the innovative program which uses an efficient pick-up and distribution network to spread the rejuvenated computers to schools throughout California. ...
• Computer refurbishment at CCWF begins with the receipt of the computers at the prison. ...
• The program at CCWF has been one of the more productive in the state. ...
• It also gives the educational institution the opportunity to thank the prison. ...
• Another correctional facility refurbishing computers is Ironwood State Prison, a medium security prison located in the deserts of inland Southern California. ... Jeff Hill, Ironwood spokesperson, who explained the inmate selection and screening process. ...
• Supervising the Ironwood program is an electronics technician named George Stanley who described for CTM Magazine how the computer refurbishment program works. ...
• Recently, the schools have sometimes picked up the computers and Ironwood sometimes delivers the computers to the schools," related Stanley. ...
• " According to Stanley, the inmates are shown newspaper clippings about the computer program and if the kids send back thank you letters, the prison posts them so they can be seen. ...
• " At press time, Ironwood program had turned out over 1,500 refurbished computers, approximately 20% of which have gone to schools in areas near the prison. ...
• One local school which benefited from Ironwood's computer program was Eagle Mountain School in the Desert Center Unified School District. ... When ten computers refurbished by Ironwood Prison became available, the school jumped at the chance to upgrade its computer labs. "They were very well received," said Trudy Stanley, administrative secretary for the school and, coincidentally, the wife of Ironwood's George Stanley. ...
• "The correctional facilities are getting all these PCs that are either broken or used and they've been sent to the prison to be refurbished. ...
• "When we're all working together, when we've got businesses, the school system, the Department of Corrections all working together, leveraging state dollars, we can really accomplish the goal of making sure that our kids have quality computers and are computer literate going into the 21st century," said Gayle Wilson. ...
• Prison inmates utilize the refurbishment process to develop new and marketable skills. As one New York prison employee said, "They have all heard of Bill Gates. ... Overall, the programs are a major step beyond the old prison standby-producing license plates. ...

• A coalition of business, environmental, ranching, development and education groups delivered a long-awaited State Trust Land reform package to Gov. ... The product of more than three years of negotiations, the proposal aims to resolve ongoing problems with more than 9 million acres of land owned by the state in trust for certain beneficiaries, primarily schools. Under the current constitutional mandate, the land must be sold for "highest and best use," meaning lots of crappy stucco homes and strip malls, even it means bulldozing an ironwood forest or two. The new proposal would allow some state trust land, which is scattered across Arizona, to be set aside for conservation, while earmarking other parcels for development. ...
• Since elements of the reform involve amending the state Constitution, the final say would belong to voters if lawmakers agree to put it on the ballot in November. ...
• The bill, already passed by the state Senate, could still end up stillborn if Gov. ...
• Arizona Department of Corrections officers told a committee investigating the recent Buckeye hostage situation that low pay, aging equipment and unsafe working conditions were leading to high turnover and inexperienced staff guarding the state's prison system, according to The Associated Press. The inquiry into the Buckeye hostage incident, in which two inmates held a male guard for a week and a female guard for 15 days before surrendering, comes as state prisons become increasingly crowded and dangerous places. The state now has more than 31,000 prisoners and only 27,178 beds available, according to state officials, meaning some prisoners are kept in tents, and others are double-bunking. ...

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•   Was married, but sent her to West Virginia when I received my prison sentence. ...
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• s, judges highest-paid state workers .
• Sacramento -- As California faces its worst budget deficit in history, the number of state employees making salaries above $100,000 has grown to new heights -- a fivefold increase since 1995. ...
• Most of the state's highest-paid employees are judges, prison doctors and state psychiatrists who make between $130,000 and $200,000 a year, a Chronicle review of payroll records revealed. ...
• The state defends these salaries as competitive with the private sector, but others see the public payroll as out of control. ...
• Gray Davis is threatening layoffs if the state's payroll is not cut. Behind the scenes, state worker unions and the Davis administration are fighting over who gets the best sees their promised pay increases disappear, and who gets salary cuts or layoff notices. ...
• Amid the debate, The Chronicle obtained a list from the state controller of the 1,500 highest-paid employees, many working in some of the toughest, hardest-to-fill jobs in government. ...
• A psychiatrist working for one of the state's four mental hospitals can make a $152,988 salary and often significantly more for working late-night shifts and weekends. One doctor at Napa State Hospital made an extra $100,752 in this "medical officer of the day" compensation, the records show. ...
• Three doctors at Corcoran State Prison, for example, made $114,289, $99,857 and $99,392, respectively, on top of their base salaries. In total, three dozen other prison doctors and state psychiatrists made more than $50,000 apiece in extra-shift pay. ...
• Overall, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of state workers making more than $100,000 a year. In 1995, a little more than 1,000 government workers made six-figure salaries -- but now 5,125 employees are in the 100K club, according to Capitol Weekly, which tracks state salaries. ...
• Almost all of them are staff psychiatrists and doctors at state hospitals and prisons. The chief psychiatrist at the Ironwood State Prison, located in the desolate Sonoran Desert near the Arizona border, made only $8 less than Davis. ...
• The highest-paid state employee is Mark Anson, who made $434,526 as the chief investment officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System. ...

• SACRAMENTO -- The way Herman Atkins sees it, he wouldn't have spent more than a decade in a California prison if a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. ...
• Semen samples taken from the victim's sweater showed Atkins could not have committed the crime, and he was freed from Ironwood State Prison after 13 years, three months and six days. ...
• John Burton, D-San Francisco, makes California the sixth state to provide DNA tests to prisoners meeting certain conditions. ...
• "What good does it do crime victims and the broader community if the innocent remain in prison while the real perpetrators are free?" .
• Lobbyists for groups such as the California State Sheriffs' Association initially argued that the law would result in the court system being flooded with frivolous requests for DNA testing from inmates. ...

• At the current time Ironwood State prison has two of the five yards on lock down. ...
• They claim it will save the state money; well maybe you need to do the math. ... The college receives FTES funds from the state approximately $5,000. ... Stop the free college education in the prison system and save the state some money. ...
• Just take a look at Eagle Mountain, which is a private prison. ... The prison blew up and the officers ran to the phone and called the real officers (California Correctional Peace Officers) yes the "California Correctional Peace Officers"  went and cleaned up the mess at the private prison. ...
• You should try it one of these days, go out to Ironwood State Prison and walk the yards and do a real story.

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• As inmates from Ironwood State Prison in Blythe received their college diplomas, prison guards were protesting outside.
• a right to better themselves, but a group of prison guards say the inmates' education comes at a price. ...
• Kenneth has spent the last seven years at Ironwood State Prison, convicted of burglary. Ironically, it was inside prison that Kenneth finally got an education. But as he was being cheered inside, outside, prison guards were protesting the graduation.
•  “For every prisoner getting an education, some kid on the street not getting an education,” says prison. ...
• Kelly Breshears is a guard at Ironwood, and his union is calling for the prison to do away with their inmate college education program. The prison program is through the local community college, and the program gets its money from a state fund for students who can't pay for college. ...
• Rick Babb at Ironwood State Prison says the warden has made a promise that no student in the community will be displaced by a prisoner, like Kenneth, who will get out next month. And he says an education is what will keep him from returning to prison.
• Despite the protests, the state has just approved Ironwood for a two-year pilot program to test whether education inside prison keeps inmates from returning to a life of crime once they get out.

• We started as a prison ministry of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in 1996. ... There are not many months with five Tuesdays in them! What I am getting at is, don't be discouraged if it isn't what you would like it to be when your prison ministry first starts up. ...
• Calvary Chapel Chino Hills prison ministry now goes in with teams to three of the facilities at CIM, four times a month. They are also going into both Chuckawalla State Prison and Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, CA, twice a month. ...
• Then there were the visits back east to South Wood State Prison and Jessup State Prison, both in Maryland. ...
• It is our hope by becoming a stand alone ministry we can go to other churches and come along side them in forming their own prison ministries. Get Bibles and other Christian materials into the jails and prison. ...

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

• Kairos Prison Ministry: Ironwood State Prison, Blythe, CA.

• The students are inmates at San Quentin State Penitentiary, and they are lucky to be in the only prison in the state that offers college classes on its grounds -- though Ironwood State Prison in Blythe recently began satellite transmission of courses from a nearby community college. ...
• A succession of prison transfers brought him to the state's oldest lockup, and classroom No. ...
• I really disappointed them by coming to prison. ...
• Studies show that prison education can be the deciding factor in improving an inmate's future after parole. ...
• In 1989, Patten College -- a nondenominational Christian college in west Oakland -- began a biblical studies-ministry certificate program, offering courses in the Old and New Testaments and "Evangelism and Outreach" at prisons throughout the state. ... And in 1993, after intense lobbying, Patten won state accreditation for an associate's degree program at San Quentin in liberal studies, which includes English, math, history, psychology and philosophy. ...
• Pete Wilson signed a bill revoking state funds for inmates' higher education. ...
• These volunteers regularly brave a final warning before passing the third set of iron gates into the prison's inner reaches. ...

• Even more confined than state inmates on death row, the juveniles, mostly 16 and 17, cannot watch TV or listen to a radio. ...
• Under state law, however, those 17 and younger may be tried as adults for serious crimes and held in jail, segregated from adult inmates. ...
• He said complaints about housing minors at Central Jail should go to the state Department of Corrections, which sets the standards.
• "I have been to every prison in California, and this is by far the worst," said Father Gregory Boyle, who for years has helped steer Eastside teenagers away from gangs and into jobs.
• Inmates serving sentences at San Quentin, Pelican Bay and other state prisons spend less time in their cells than the teenagers in L. ...
• Court records and interviews suggest that authorities had reasons to monitor Vigil, who is now serving a 22-year prison sentence for armed robbery. ...
• He was sentenced to four years in prison. ...
• The teenagers were sent to the state prison in Tehachapi two weeks ago to begin their sentences. Vigil, according to officials, has been transferred from Tehachapi to a crisis care bed at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe. Broadlick is on suicide prevention watch and has been transferred to Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga. ...
• After learning of the suicide attempts, state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), who heads a committee on the state corrections system, said she will call for hearings on the treatment of juvenile offenders. ...

• GOD AT WORK IN PRISON.
• Centinela State Prison, California.
• Following are two of many accounts of changed lives that our Prison Chaplains continually witness in men who turn to God and experience His life transforming power. ...
• nineteen years ago he was sentenced to life in prison for a kidnapping. ...
• Three years ago, while at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, a man walked up to him and asked if he remembered him. ...
• There are thirty-three prisons in the State of California with approximately 165 yards. The chance of two specific inmates getting together again at another prison is not remote but there is a good chance it may not happen. ...
• While in the "hole" M prayed that if the Lord got him out of prison he would serve him in any way that the Lord led. He continued to pray that if he had to stay in prison he would serve the Lord in anyway he led. ...
• Please pray for the Prison Chaplains representing you and consider how you and/or your church can be of help in prison ministry. ... Our Prison Chaplains find that many inmates become believers through those ministries and then come to the larger institutions in which they minister. Your church can also minister to men or women who have been released from prison and want to begin a new life desiring a church home by opening the doors of their church to them. ...

• CA: Inmates' habit going up in smoke? - Bill would ban cigarettes in state prison facilities .
• LAURA EMBRY / Union-Tribune Inmates Carl Gellidon (left) and Keith Sekerke puffed away in the prison yard at the Richard J. ... About half of all state inmates in California smoke. Cigarettes are as omnipresent as tattoos in San Diego County's only state prison. ... "And then when I'm done, I light up another one," Castaneda, 25, said recently in the prison yard of the Richard J. ...
• State Court Judge J. ...
• It's a scene right out of a Grade B prison movie: An inmate gets his tray, looks with disgust at the steaming mound of chili, slams down his knife and fork and growls, "I'm not going to eat this slop! It smells like (expletive deleted)!" Well, with apologies to anyone reading this at the breakfast table this morning, an inmate said just such a thing during Wednesday night's chow Wednesday at the Cumberland County Jail. ...
• - A prison inmate due to be released Thursday after serving a drug sentence never made it to freedom because he asked friends to bring illegal narcotics when they picked him up, officials said. ... But prison officials overheard him telling associates to bring drugs when they picked him up. When two of his friends showed up at the prison, law enforcement officers were waiting. ...
• Gray Davis has rejected legislation closing the state budget gap by $70 million next year through the early release of thousands of prisoners. ...
• His lawyers asked that the sentence be reduced to life in prison. ...
• Wed Jan 22, 7:38 AM ET French police on January 22, 2003 recaptured an American male nurse who escaped from a Monaco prison where he was serving a 10-year sentence for starting the fire that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra. ...
• <p>SACRAMENTO(AP) - A 32-year-old California prison inmate has died nearly a year after receiving a heart transplant that sparked a nationwide ethical debate about the propriety of organ transplants for convicted criminals. </p> <p>State Corrections officials announced Tuesday that the inmate, who entered Stanford Medical Center on Nov. ... The prisoner, believed by state officials to be the nation's first state prison inmate to receive a heart transplant, had been in critical condition and on life support since Nov. ...

• Juveniles sentenced to California Youth Authority facilities for serious crimes are regularly locked in cages, over-medicated and denied essential psychiatric treatment, according to a report commissioned by the state Attorney General's Office.
• The scrutiny of juvenile institutions comes at a time when California's adult prisons are under intense pressure over their failure to police abuses by prison staff. ...
• Gloria Romero, D-Rosemead, who has been co-chairing hearings on problems in the state's correctional facilities. ...
• Last year, in response to legislators' inquiries and a lawsuit filed by the Prison Law Office, the Attorney General's Office sent national experts into the sprawling network of CYA facilities, which house 4,421 young people up to age 25 and cost the state $450 million a year to run. ...
• ``Rehabilitation is impossible when the classroom is a cage and wards live in constant fear of physical and sexual violence from CYA staff and other wards,'' said court documents filed by the San Francisco-based non-profit Prison Law Office.
• ``The observations of the state experts in these areas are substantially correct, and our department is reviewing each of these reports to develop a plan to correct the issues raised,'' Youth Authority spokeswoman Sarah Ludeman said.
• 19, two teens, 17 and 18, were found hanging in their rooms in Ironwood Lodge at the Preston facility in Ione.
• Ironwood came under special scrutiny in the December 2003 report, with investigators determining that guards using pepper spray were ``exacerbating symptoms of mental illness'' and youths were kept ``isolated and away from staff observation or interaction. '' Ironwood houses youths in a 60- to 90-day Special Management Program where they receive only an hour a day of education outside their cells.

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•    Nearly half the seats have been reserved for the first excursion, most by people who want to visit inmates at the Ojibway Correctional Facility in the far western Upper Peninsula, about 25 miles east of Ironwood. Other stops will be made at the Marquette Branch Prison and the Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility. ...
•    The group was born out of Rogers' own desire to see her son, who was sent to prison in 1993. ...
•    Without that contact, Banks became depressed and developed a bad attitude with prison guards, his mother said. ...
•    More than 9,700 inmates are housed in the Upper Peninsula's nine state prisons and five prison camps, The Grand Rapids Press reported Monday. ...

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• Wanderlust 6 - Ironwood, Michigan .
• The loon is the official state image, the walleye is the official state holy grail. And the mosquito is the state (attack) bird. ...
• Few words are wasted, like one I saw near Sandstone for "Litter control on this portion of highway by: Federal Prison Retirees". ...
• There is a surprising amount of granite and quarries in the center of the state. ... Although there's not much corn in the northern half of the state, Minnesota has thrown in with the corn belt ethanol faction. ...
• After following a swooping arc from the middle of the state, route 23 joins the Interstate for 9 miles, then splits off again. ...

• A small union of California prison guards wields enormous political power .
• The flyers implied that if the inmates at the county's Corcoran State Prison could vote, they would reelect Strickland. ...
• Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the state's prison guard union.
• The nearly 17,600 inmates at Corcoran's two facilities and nearby Avenal State Prison can't vote, but the 4,173 prison employees do. ...
• In 1995 he had prosecuted officers involved in the so-called Calipatria bus incident, in which some 30 guards greeted 36 inmates by allegedly choking, punching, and beating the shackled men when they got off the bus from Calipatria State Prison. Strickland was also assisting state and federal investigators looking into charges that officers had set up a prisoner for rape by an inmate known as the Booty Bandit. That case was frustrated, Strickland told a state Senate hearing on Corcoran in July 1998, because "of all the correctional officers refusing to talk. ...
• Indeed, California's prison guard union is a strange political animal. Founded in 1957, it has grown from an old boy's club to the state's largest campaign contributor in 2001-beating out the California .
• Gray Davis, the biggest contributor to state Senate speaker John Burton (D-San Francisco) in the 1999-2000 election cycle, and the largest contributor to 23 other state lawmakers. ...
• The union bankrolls a crime victims' group in Sacramento, and it has joined forces with three of the state's largest Indian gaming tribes to create the Native Americans & Peace Officers Independent Expenditure Committee, located at CCPOA's union headquarters in West Sacramento.
• The CCPOA enjoys a unique advantage in local elections: Because many of the state's 33 prisons are located in rural counties, union money and organization has an impact far greater than its membership would indicate. ... Some $15,000 went to the DA of Lassen County-home to High Desert State Prison-and $40,000 went to fend off the June 2001 proposed recall of the DA in Marin County, where San Quentin is located. ...
• "Today's DA is tomorrow's state senator," says Lance Corcoran, CCPOA's executive vice president. ...
• The union has also donated thousands of dollars to elect judges in Lassen County, Fresno County (Pleasant Valley State Prison), and Madera County (Central California Women's Facility). ...
• Breshears in 2001 for city council in Blythe (located between Ironwood State Prison and Chuckawalla Valley State Prison) and correctional officer Gary Grimm-a former Blythe councilmember-for the local school board. ...

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• Conference to discuss HIV schooling in prison .
• March 11th, 2000 The prevalence of HIV among prison inmates is 7. ...
• "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. ...

• 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. ...
• Do you know why God would condemn the California prison system?  Do you know why God would also condemn probation and parole programs?  If not, take a moment to find out about God's Criminal Justice System.
• State Prison, Warden, Address, Phone number.
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• Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP).
• Folsom State Prison (FSP).
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• High Desert State Prison (HDSP).
• Ironwood State Prison (ISP).
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