Download or read book The California Prison System in 1979 written by State Bar of California. Criminal Law Section. Executive Committee and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of California s Radical Prison Movement written by Eric Cummins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. The book begins with the Caryl Chessman years (1948-60) and closes with the trial of the San Quentin Six (1975-76) and the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977). This was an extraordinary era in the California prisons, one that saw the emergence of a highly developed radical convict resistance movement inside prison walls. This inmate groundswell was fueled at times by remarkable individual prisoners, at other times by groups like the Black Muslims or the San Quentin chapter of the Black Panther Party. But most often resistance grew from much wider sources and in quiet corners: from dozens of political study groups throughout the prison; from an underground San Quentin newspaper; and from covert attempts to organize a prisoners' union. The book traces the rise and fall of the prisoners' movement, ending with the inevitably bloody confrontation between prisoners and the state and the subsequent prison administration crackdown. The author examines the efforts of prison staff to augment other methods of inmate management by attempting to modify convict ideology by means of "bibliotherapy" and communication control, and describes convict resistance to these attempts as control. He also discusses how Bay Area political activists became intensely involved in San Quentin and how such writings as Chessman's Cell 2455, Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Jackson's Soledad Brother reached far beyond prison walls to influence opinion, events, and policy.
Download or read book A Germ of Goodness written by Shelley Bookspan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four prisons into one adult penal system, the prisons at San Quentin and Folsom were the only places of incarceration for the state's felons. Bookspan traces the development of a system emphasizing deterrence and retribution to one receptive to reform and rehabilitation. ø "This is the story," writes Bookspan, "of the penury and personality struggle through which California developed a prison system to assess, and to address, individual needs while retaining its custodial institutions. It is a story of the West, even though eastern penology, with all of its overtones of moral duty, provided the language for prison reform. In a state where chaos preceded the assertion of normative rule, fear, not hope, formed the governing principle of penology. It is a story of America because true reform on an expanded sense of individual potential."
Download or read book Selected Statistics on the California Criminal Justice System 1979 Through 1985 written by Robert F. Wedge and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Prison and Parole Law Handbook written by Heather MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violence in California Prisons written by James Gilligan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Overcrowding in the California Prison System written by Lincoln J. Fry and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Basic s written by MacMillen & MacMillen and published by Prison Basic's. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a guide for family and friends on surviving the California prison system along with their incarcerated loved one. The authors provide information on topics such as how to visit a state prison, the intricacies of institutional mail, letter writing, and phone calls. They include advice on how to send reading materials to inmates, inter-prison politics -- including racial issues, tattoos, and the appearances of other prisoners and visitors. The sight of fences, razor wire and armed gun towers, will eventually not bother one at all, as visitors will consider it part of the process and surrounding scenery when visiting a loved one and realize that it's a small price to pay for the joy visits bring.
Download or read book Inside the Broken California Prison System written by Boston Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Broken California Prison System by veteran jailhouse journalist Boston Woodard provides an insider 's view of California's dysfunctional prison industrial complex in crisis. On May 23, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that due to massive overcrowding, California is in violation of the Eighth Amendment, which constitutionally prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Because its 33 prisons are at nearly 200 percent capacity, the state has been ordered to release or find new accommodations for more than 30,000 prisoners within two years. With the harshest sentencing laws, toughest parole policy, and highest recidivism rate in the nation, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is a failure on all counts except for those who profit from the $10 billion spent annually to maintain it. Woodard describes how it came to this, as well as the day-to-day reality of the impact on prisoners in a corrupt system effectively accountable to no one.Inside the Broken California Prison System is a collection of more than 40 articles originally published over a period of six years in the Community Alliance, a small monthly newspaper in Fresno, California. They detail subjects such as restricted media access to prisoners, the brutal impact of overcrowding, medical and mental health treatment failures, rogue prison staff, religious and racial discrimination, an omnipotent prison guard union, and shipping prisoners out of state to private prisons. At the same time he offers real solutions to the overcrowding problem that would not endanger public safety.Woodard is a writer, musician, literacy tutor, event organizer, and prisoners rights advocate who has been writing about what goes on inside the California prison system for almost two decades in both free world and prison publications. His articles have embarrassed and angered prison officials used to operating without public oversight, and he 's paid a price for exercising his First Amendment right to define his surroundings. He 's been put in the Hole, had his mail tampered with, lost his typewriter, subjected to verbal threats, had his personal property stolen or destroyed, and been illegally and adversely transferred from prison to prison. Still he refuses to be intimidated. My writing is not about prison rights, he says. It 's about the public 's right to know about the good and bad within these prison walls and how their money is being spent. It 's also about the positive efforts of men and women given up for lost by society. I just want the guards and prison officials to do what is demanded of me and every other prisoner in the system, and that is to obey the law and follow the regulations.
Download or read book Chronicles of a Prison Dirty War written by Louis C Powell, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons all across California were dangerous battle fields, as inmates waged war against one another. It was during this time period groups that such as the Black Guerrilla Family, Nuestra Familia, La Eme and Aryan Brotherhood came to prominence. The transformation of American society that was occurring outside of the prison walls was also being played out in its own way behind prison walls. Prison gangs, which largely formed along racial lines battled for respect, protection of their race and for control of pieces of the lucrative underground prison economy. Author Louis Powell takes readers on a journey into the world of prison politics. His raw telling of first hand accounts of brutal battles between inmates and incidents of treachery by prison staff that helped to fuel these battles are real eye openers. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in prison politics.
Download or read book A False Idea of Economy written by W. David Ball and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realignment in California comes at a time when the state's prison system is expensive and overcrowded; the response has been to re-evaluate and reconfigure the way counties use state prisons. This paper illustrates the way in which similar problems and solutions were present at the state's founding: issues of expense, overcrowding, and the county-state relationship help explain the origins, size and shape of the California prison system. First, California's lack of money drove it to try to house prisoners on the cheap, starting when it made county jails the state prison system by fiat, continuing through a decade of privatization and convict lease arrangements in San Quentin, and concluding with a state-administered system partly funded by prison labor. By the time the value of prison labor atrophied and the true costs of a non-remunerative prison population revealed itself, the state was locked into fiscal and administrative responsibility for prisoners. Second, California sought to relieve crowding in its prisons, though it generally did so via back-end mechanisms such as pardons and parole, justifying these moves in part on the basis that they would make rehabilitation possible and ultimately save the state money. Finally, there were concerns about whether fiscal arrangements gave local officials incentives to send prisoners to the state. In some instances, the solutions proposed resemble today's Realignment.
Download or read book Doing Crime written by Mark A. Peterson and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a survey conducted in five California prisons during July and August 1976, this study explores criminological issues concerning the number of crimes committed by offenders, the characteristics of high-rate "career" criminals, and the associations between these characteristics and the crimes themselves. The survey of 624 incarcerated male felons is the first known examination of these issues using offender-provided information from a large sample. It provides new information on offenders' descriptions of their crimes, their involvement with criminal justice agencies, the reasons they offer for their crimes, and their perceptions of and attitudes toward crime and the criminal justice system. It also describes the relationship between crime rates and three kinds of self-reported information: personal characteristics--age, race, drug use; experience with the criminal justice system--prior criminal record, current conviction offense, juvenile record; social-psychological characteristics--self-concept, motivation, attitudes about crime, perception of the payoffs of crime, and economic, residential, and marital status.
Download or read book Prison Work written by William Richard Wilkinson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know first-hand about prisons? We have accounts from many top administrators. There is a large literature of convict reports and memoirs. But we have almost no personal accounts written by the people who were engaged in the day-to-day work of guarding and keeping prison inmates. In Prison Work, former California prisons corrections officer William Richard Wilkinson candidly tells what it was like to try to handle problems that can arise in prison, from furnishing three meals a day to quelling a riot. Constructed around a series of interviews with Wilkinson, this book recounts his extensive experience with discipline problems, wrong-headed administrators, contraband, and escapes. Wilkinson's story presents a blunt, unabashed view of daily life in prison, including fascinating discussions of racial and religious conflict, gangs, and prison violence as well as the institutional culture and more human side of life as experienced by a prison employee. The duration of Wilkinson's career (1951-1981) saw the greatest change in the American prison system. He was responsible for implementing change on the level of the prison block. At the California Institution for Men in Chino, he started out under the inspiring leadership of one of the most famous reform figures in penology. At the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, he participated in one of the great prison experiments when medical officials ran a maximum security prison. And at Soledad, he experienced the reaction to earlier liberal policies. Over the years, he accumulated much wisdom concerning how to handle convicts-wisdom that still has importance for corrections workers. Book jacket.
Download or read book California Prisoners written by California. Department of Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Detective s Guide written by The Detective's The Detective's Guide and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminals lie. Do you understand what a California inmate, ex-convict, or parolee is really saying? California's inmates and parolees speak a unique language involving points, facilities, security threat groups/prison gangs, and debriefing. Understanding this language is a critical component of every interview, interrogation, field contact, and correctional classification. The Detective's Guide: California Prisons, Prison Gangs, and Parolees is an essential tool for every patrol officer, gang investigator, classification officer, and detective who needs to understand and decipher correctional history. This book fully explains: Inmates-The classification process, custody designation, rules violations, and how to decipher an inmate's points. Facilities-What does it mean to be assigned to a Security Housing Unit (SHU), Administrative Segregation (AD SEG), or a Level IV yard? A complete guide to every CDCR facility including: Avenal State Prison, California Correctional Center-Susanville, California Correctional Institution-Tehachapi, California Health Care Facility, California Institution for Men-Chino, California Institution for Women, California Men's Colony, California Medical Facility, California Rehabilitation Center-Norco, California State Prison-Corcoran, California State Prison-LA, California State Prison-Solano, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Calipatria State Prison, Centinela State Prison, Central California Women's Facility, Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Correctional Training Facility-Soledad, Deuel Vocational Institution, High Desert State Prison, Ironwood State Prison, Kern Valley State Prison, Mule Creek State Prison, North Kern State Prison, Pelican Bay State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison, San Quentin State Prison, Sierra Conservation Center, Valley State Prison, and Wasco State Prison. Also included are out of state facilities, Division of Juvenile Justice Facilities, Community Correctional Facilities, and state mental hospitals for the criminally insane. Security Threat Groups/Prison Gangs-The history, allies, enemies, markings and tattoos of: the Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family, Mexican Mafia, Nazi Low Riders, Northern Structure/Nuestra Raza, Nuestra Familia, and the Texas Syndicate. Security Threat Group II's, Gangs, and Disruptive Groups-The difference between a prison gang and a disruptive group, the history, allies, enemies, markings, and tattoos of: 2-5's, drop out/Sensitive Needs Yards (SNY) groups, Kumi African Nation (KANO), Northern Hispanics, Northern Riders, Public Enemy Number One (PENI), Southern Hispanics, and Radical/Terrorist Groups. Records and Resouces-What information does CDCR have that can help in a criminal investigation? The Central File/Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS), inmate monitoring and recording system, Parole LEADS, the Investigative Service Unit, the Institutional Gang Investigator/Security Threat Group Investigator, the Fugitive Apprehension Team, the California Parolee Apprehension Team, the Special Service Unit, the Electronic Monitoring Unit, the ID Warrants Unit, the California Gang Intelligence Initiative, and the California Gang Task Force. Parole-Parole requirements and conditions, parole violations, compliance operations, compliance check considerations and planning, parolee contact questionnaire, and debriefing topics. Slang-A dictionary of nearly 700 prison slang terms and their definitions. Don't do another field contact, interview, or classification with a California inmate, ex-convict, or parolee without first reading The Detective's Guide: California Prisons, Prison Gangs, and Parolees.
Download or read book A Germ of Goodness written by Shelley Bookspan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Germ of Goodness written by Rochelle Rae Bookspan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
