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As inmates swelter, California prisons remain unprepared for extreme heat
5 months, 1 week ago

As inmates swelter, California prisons remain unprepared for extreme heat

LA Times  

The potential heat-related death of a prison inmate in California’s Central Valley this week is focusing renewed attention on conditions within correctional institutions as extreme heat, wildfire smoke and flooding pose increasing threats to incarcerated people. Though extreme heat endangers residents throughout the state, experts say California’s prisons are uniquely unprepared for climate change because of a variety of factors, …

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Death row inmates are being transferred out of San Quentin. Chino city officials are sounding the alarm
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Death row inmates are being transferred out of San Quentin. Chino city officials are sounding the alarm

LA Times  

A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s Death Row. City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino. “The transfer of death row inmates to CIM creates tangible public safety concerns for local residents,” said San Bernardino …

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Paul Flores, Kristin Smart’s convicted murderer, attacked and stabbed in prison again
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Paul Flores, Kristin Smart’s convicted murderer, attacked and stabbed in prison again

LA Times  

Paul Flores looks on at the second day of his preliminary hearing, Aug. 3, 2021. Just eight months after being attacked in state prison, the man convicted of killing Kristin Smart was stabbed by another inmate and hospitalized again. Paul Flores, 47, was convicted in 2022 of killing Smart, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student last seen on campus …

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In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works
11 months, 4 weeks ago

In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works

LA Times  

What does something different look like when your whole life, this is all you’ve known? Corrections Officer Gonzales, left, who did not give his first name, goes over the orientation during the intake process with newly arrived Anthony Montez, 54, left, and Juan Hernandez, 28, right, at Amistad de Los Angeles, a prison reentry facility. Newsom announced that San Quentin …

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Earning a master’s degree in prison now possible in ‘groundbreaking’ California program
1 year, 1 month ago

Earning a master’s degree in prison now possible in ‘groundbreaking’ California program

LA Times  

Luke Scott, 60, an inmate at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, is one of 33 students enrolled in a new master’s degree program that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation launched with Call State Dominguez Hills this fall. Scott is one of 33 students enrolled in what the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR, has called …

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Bill to restrict solitary confinement in California stalls out in Sacramento
1 year, 3 months ago

Bill to restrict solitary confinement in California stalls out in Sacramento

LA Times  

Assemblymember Chris Holden agreed to hold a bill to limit solitary confinement in prisons, jails and immigration detention centers for the year amid opposition from sheriffs and prison officials and skepticism from Gov. Last year, Newsom vetoed similar legislation to restrict solitary confinement, also authored by Holden, saying that while he believed the issue was “ ripe for reform,” the …

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Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says
1 year, 3 months ago

Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says

LA Times  

On Aug. 18, 2022, a records department employee at the California Correctional Center emailed federal immigration authorities a list of people they believed could be subject to deportation. CDCR staff regularly put together “ICE packets” containing background information and criminal records of people they believe could be transferred to ICE custody, according to the report. If ICE believes that person …

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California refers U.S. citizen prisoners to ICE based on racist assumptions, lawsuit says
1 year, 7 months ago

California refers U.S. citizen prisoners to ICE based on racist assumptions, lawsuit says

LA Times  

California prison officials are violating the rights of U.S. citizens and other lawful residents in state custody by referring them to federal immigration officials based solely on racist assumptions about their status in the country, according to a lawsuit filed this week by current and former prisoners and their advocates. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Alameda County, …

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California to close one state prison and end its lease of private facility in Kern County
2 years ago

California to close one state prison and end its lease of private facility in Kern County

LA Times  

State authorities this week announced they will close Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County and stop using a privately owned facility in Kern County. Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement that they took into consideration a number of factors — including the cost of operating the institutions, the effect the closures would …

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Column: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it?
2 years, 4 months ago

Column: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it?

LA Times  

Kevin McCarthy enjoys the sun on his back in Laguna Beach after being held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay for 10 years. California has a long and troubled history of using solitary confinement with dubious justification, sometimes for years at a time — one reason state prisons have been under court oversight for seven years. McCarthy was in solitary …

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Newsom and guards challenge vaccine mandates at prisons, warning of staff departures
3 years, 1 month ago

Newsom and guards challenge vaccine mandates at prisons, warning of staff departures

LA Times  

A view of San Quentin State Prison, where last year 28 prisoners and one officer died of COVID-19. The arguments mirror those of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who said last week that the county’s vaccine mandate would trigger a “mass exodus” of deputies. Connie Gipson, director of adult institutions for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said …

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A champion of COVID-19 vaccines, Newsom fights plan to mandate them for prison guards
3 years, 3 months ago

A champion of COVID-19 vaccines, Newsom fights plan to mandate them for prison guards

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have continued to fight the request to mandate COVID vaccinations for all corrections guards and staff. Seeking a vaccine mandate for all state prison guards and staff, a federal court-appointed receiver overseeing the medical care of California’s prisons argued Friday that there have been 11 coronavirus-related deaths since August among …

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Prison guard’s COVID death resulted from transfer of infected inmates, family alleges
3 years, 4 months ago

Prison guard’s COVID death resulted from transfer of infected inmates, family alleges

LA Times  

The family of a San Quentin prison guard who died of COVID-19 claim in a recently filed lawsuit that his death, along with 28 others, resulted from the botched transfer of infected inmates from a Southern California prison in May 2020. Gilbert Polanco, a 55-year-old father of two, died less than three months after a bus, dubbed “the beast” by …

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‘A living hell’: Inside US prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

‘A living hell’: Inside US prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Prisoners and their families describe the emotional, physical and financial toll of the pandemic. “It’s a living hell, pretty much,” says one California prisoner, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and went seven months last year without seeing his social worker. “At one point I was quarantined in isolation and I kept asking to see mental health for …

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San Quentin prison is fined $421,880 over deadly COVID-19 conditions; 28 inmates and an officer died
3 years, 10 months ago

San Quentin prison is fined $421,880 over deadly COVID-19 conditions; 28 inmates and an officer died

LA Times  

By the end of August, 2,237 inmates and 277 staff members had been infected at San Quentin, according to a California Inspector General’s report. The Cal-OSHA report, issued Thursday, comes on the heels of a scathing State Inspector General’s report that found health officials with the corrections department ignored warnings of front-line health workers and pressured them to hastily transfer …

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Prison officials ignored warnings before inmate transfer that led to virus outbreak, watchdog says
3 years, 10 months ago

Prison officials ignored warnings before inmate transfer that led to virus outbreak, watchdog says

LA Times  

San Quentin was among prisons affected by a “deeply flawed” transfer of inmates that helped spread the coronavirus, according to a new report. California corrections officials ignored the warnings of front-line health workers and pressured them to hastily transfer 189 potentially coronavirus-infected inmates from a Chino men’s prison last May, triggering a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 at San Quentin State …

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San Quentin coronavirus outbreak: At least 15 inmates have died of apparent complications from Covid-19
4 years, 5 months ago

San Quentin coronavirus outbreak: At least 15 inmates have died of apparent complications from Covid-19

CNN  

CNN — At least 15 people incarcerated at California’s oldest prison have died since June from apparent Covid-19-related complications amid a growing coronavirus outbreak at the facility, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. San Quentin, just north of San Francisco, has witnessed the worst coronavirus outbreak in California’s prison system. Unlike some of the state’s other correctional …

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2 more death row inmates at San Quentin die from coronavirus complications
4 years, 5 months ago

2 more death row inmates at San Quentin die from coronavirus complications

CNN  

CNN — At least three death row inmates at California’s San Quentin State Prison had coronavirus and died, corrections officials says. An outbreak of the virus has overrun San Quentin since last month, with more than a third of incarcerated people there testing positive for Covid-19, according to CDCR data. A fourth death row inmate, Joseph Safarino Cordova, died Wednesday …

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Nearly half of coronavirus cases in California prisons are in San Quentin
4 years, 5 months ago

Nearly half of coronavirus cases in California prisons are in San Quentin

CNN  

CNN — Richard Stitely had spent nearly 30 years on death row when the pandemic hit California’s San Quentin State Prison. More than a third of incarcerated people in San Quentin have tested positive for the virus and nearly half of coronavirus cases throughout the state’s prison system are currently there, according to a tally from the California Department of …

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