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"content": "\u003cp>CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt has spent more than three years trying to set up the first bachelor’s degree program at a maximum-security prison in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of a class in persuasive speaking, Mariscal was tasked with giving a presentation to highlight his personal growth. His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical: Just two weeks earlier, Mariscal had used his presentation time to give step-by-step directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never told this to anyone before,” the 32-year-old Mariscal said, holding back tears as he explained his feelings when he learned at his trial that the state was requesting he be put to death. “I said, ‘That’s OK, that’s cool,’” showing no outward emotion at the time, he told the class. But inside, his mind was reeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not innocent; I did everything I was convicted for,” he quickly added, referring to a gang shooting that left two people dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated college students applaud Michael Anthony Mariscal, 32, after he gave a presentation about his own journey to turn his life around during a CalPoly Humboldt class on persuasive speaking at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariscal went on to say that his brother had received a life sentence and been murdered while in prison. Mariscal himself was given five life sentences. He declared that he did not expect ever to be released but finished by saying, “I can still live a meaningful life in here. Freedom is different for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shocked silence filled the room before classmate Darryl Baca spoke up. “That’s some raw stuff right here. I recognize the potential in you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the first time I’ve cried after class,” the professor, Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth, said later, although she was teaching only her fourth session at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated college student Michael Anthony Mariscal, 32, center, leaves the education hallway with fellow classmates after school at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariscal’s speech exemplified everything officials at Cal Poly Humboldt hoped to accomplish when they set out to create a satellite campus at one of the most notorious prisons in the country. They knew that earning a degree could help some men shorten their sentences and possibly land well-paying jobs once released. But they also hoped that the classes, and the camaraderie fostered there, would pay immediate dividends, lessening violence at the prison and improving students’ daily behaviors. Seeing Mariscal address his past while both sharing his feelings and mapping out a hopeful path forward just four weeks into the semester was validating, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been a leader in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/10/prison-bachelors-degree-california-inside-out/\">prison education\u003c/a> programs, starting with a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913#:~:text=In%202014%2C%20the%20state%20approved,closed%20to%20the%20general%20public).\">2014 rule\u003c/a> authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Since then, some 25 community colleges and eight universities have established degree-granting programs that now cover every facility in the state. Humboldt’s Pelican Bay program is not only the state’s first bachelor’s initiative at a max-security prison; earlier this year, it became the first program in the country approved under new federal Department of Education rules to let incarcerated individuals access \u003ca href=\"https://now.humboldt.edu/news/prison-education-program-first-nation-receive-pell-grant-eligibility-under-new-federal-policy\">Pell Grant funds\u003c/a> to pay for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 29 years, Pell money had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/second-chance-pell-six-years-of-expanding-access-to-education-in-prison\">that debuted in 2015\u003c/a>. The new Pell rules made 767,000 people at state prisons nationwide eligible to pay for college with federal funds — starting with a handful of those at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re setting an example,” said Tony Wallin-Sato, a former Humboldt official who helped create the program. “If we can be successful at Pelican Bay, it can work anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay is one of the most infamous prisons in the country. Built in 1989 in the extreme northwest corner of California, the facility was created to isolate its occupants in two ways. Many of the men who are incarcerated there hail from the Los Angeles area, nearly 700 miles south. And nearly half of the facility’s units were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/health/solitary-confinement-mental-illness.html\">built for solitary confinement\u003c/a>, with some occupants stuck inside these 7-by-11-foot cells for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “60 Minutes” report in 1993 highlighted excessive force by guards, and a 1995 lawsuit exposed inadequate medical care. In 2013, people incarcerated there staged a two-month hunger strike that spread throughout the state’s prisons to protest the excessive use of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/09/california-solitary-confinement-bill/\">solitary confinement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program staffers and people incarcerated at the facility say day-to-day life there now bears little resemblance to those days. About 400 of the prison’s 2,200 incarcerated men currently take classes that include GED preparation, courses from four community colleges and, now, Humboldt’s new bachelor’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay “used to be one of the most violent prisons in the country. Now it’s not,” said Mark Taylor, a Humboldt official who spent more than 21 years incarcerated before helping to create this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, incarcerated students openly drop hints around Kari Telaro Rexford, the prison’s supervisor of academic instruction, telling her they hope she’ll soon bring in a master’s degree program. “I’m trying,” she tells them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humboldt prison program ‘makes people safer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Silbert, the deputy superintendent of higher education for the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, has watched every program that has started in the eight years since bachelor’s degree programs began in state prisons. “Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Silbert admitted she first tried to talk officials out of creating this program. “Are you sure?” she said she asked them. “It’s easy to be starry-eyed in the beginning, but it’s an endeavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humboldt’s provost, Jenn Capps, said she agreed with that assessment but pushed on because the program “makes people safer.” Offering bachelor’s degree classes helps “disrupt the narrative” of violence in these men’s lives, making life safer for them, their families, guards at Pelican Bay, and ultimately the public, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots of myths out there about people who are incarcerated,” Capps said. “But everybody wants community safety. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of Cal Poly Humboldt officials worked for more than two years before beginning the program in January. The university’s communications department chair, Maxwell Schnurer, taught a class at the prison through the College of the Redwoods to understand why that community college’s program had been so successful. Redwoods began with one course at the prison in 2015, and its program has since mushroomed to 43 courses serving 390 students, said Tory Eagles, the college’s Pelican Bay Scholars program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CalPoly Humboldt communications lecturer Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth discusses a presentation assignment with inmates during her persuasive speaking class at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of this semester, the university has ramped up to four classes, each of which are taken by all of the school’s 23 students. Each student had already earned associate degrees and all are now communications majors. Humboldt’s five-year plan is to add other majors and expand to two more of the prison’s four yards, said Steve Ladwig, the director of the university’s Transformative and Restorative Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being the first program the federal government authorized to use Pell Grants for incarcerated men put a spotlight on Humboldt’s work. However, actually getting those funds has proven to be hard, largely because of the federal Department of Education’s botched rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all of Humboldt’s students are eligible for Pell, only about half of the 23 have had their applications reviewed by the Department of Education so far, said Ladwig. While the university waits for approval of its students’ Pell Grants, it is covering tuition for each student, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Humboldt staged a ceremony to hand incarcerated individuals their college acceptance letters, Ladwig had to venture to the prison’s solitary confinement wing to deliver Mariscal’s letter because he was being punished for getting into a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decades in solitary confinement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Darryl Baca — the student who praised Mariscal after his classroom speech — epitomizes the entire history of Pelican Bay. He came to the prison in 1990, only months after it opened. He spent his first 25 years in solitary confinement, where many incarcerated individuals with gang backgrounds were placed. He was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905589/how-a-massive-california-prison-hunger-strike-overhauled-solitary-confinement\">2013 hunger strike \u003c/a>that led to changes in how the prison uses solitary. Now, he’s not only a straight-A student but someone both staff and fellow students look to for guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mariscal unspooled his revelation, Baca noticed the seven-minute timer the instructor had set was about to go off and interrupt his speech. From his seat at the front of the class, Baca reached over and deftly paused the timer while handing Mariscal a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca said it took him three tries to earn his GED. Later, he used correspondence courses to secure an associate degree. He continued his education with College of the Redwood’s courses and said he recently passed up a chance to transfer to a lower-security prison because of his Humboldt classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” he said. The college classes have erased the barriers that typically exist among prisoners of different backgrounds, he explained. While classmates support each other, many people at the prison “are making better choices now. The culture has evolved. We’re like a campus now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca isn’t the only person incarcerated at Pelican Bay who has rejected possible transfers to other prisons. Others said they made the difficult decision to pass up the chance to be moved closer to home and earn a lower-security designation because they wanted to continue in Humboldt’s classes. “I told my family, ‘I want to see you and get closer, but I can’t transfer,’” said Davion Holman, 35, who is originally from the Los Angeles area. Holman, sentenced to 31 years in 2013, told his classmates that before being arrested, he liked school. “I knew I was smart, but I was content being stupid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take it serious because it is serious,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humboldt Professor Roberto Mónico, who teaches a course called multiethnic resistance in the U.S., says at times, it feels more like a graduate-level seminar than an undergraduate class. Students are well prepared, he said, with “all the readings marked up,” and they drop in references to the theories of Plato and Aristotle. Yet they can be sensitive about not knowing how to create a PowerPoint presentation or other computer skills because of their lack of formal education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I tell them to read two out of five essays, they read all five,” said Hitchcock-Tinseth. Added Ladwig: “They are phenomenally well prepared to take on a bachelor’s degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in a college classroom and able to debate ideas freely is “not mirrored in a lot of other prison experiences,” said Ruth Delaney, who directs the Vera Institute of Justice’s Unlocking Potential initiative, which helps colleges develop prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014136\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Vallejo, an incarcerated college student with a passion for multicultural resistance courses, poses in front of a mural painted by inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francisco Vallejo admitted he struggled when he first began taking community college classes, dropping some before trying again the next semester. But now he hopes his academic progress will bolster his case for parole in 2026. “I had to train to be a student,” he said. “Redwoods gives you the tools, but you use them at Humboldt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Dom Congiardo said the prison environment teaches people to guard their feelings. But taking college classes shows them “you don’t have to be afraid to open up,” he said. “You won’t be judged for it. It’s all new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson Bryant is another student who declined a transfer to stay in Humboldt’s program. At 41 years old, he’s been at Pelican Bay since 2003, more than half his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said he was scared of the prison’s reputation when he came to Pelican Bay at age 19. “In the beginning, I would have left so fast,” he said. “But there’s too much positive stuff here. It changes you all the way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact editor Lawrie Mifflin at 212-678-4078 or mifflin@hechingerreport.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about prison education was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/highereducation/\">Hechinger higher education newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt has spent more than three years trying to set up the first bachelor’s degree program at a maximum-security prison in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of a class in persuasive speaking, Mariscal was tasked with giving a presentation to highlight his personal growth. His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical: Just two weeks earlier, Mariscal had used his presentation time to give step-by-step directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never told this to anyone before,” the 32-year-old Mariscal said, holding back tears as he explained his feelings when he learned at his trial that the state was requesting he be put to death. “I said, ‘That’s OK, that’s cool,’” showing no outward emotion at the time, he told the class. But inside, his mind was reeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not innocent; I did everything I was convicted for,” he quickly added, referring to a gang shooting that left two people dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated college students applaud Michael Anthony Mariscal, 32, after he gave a presentation about his own journey to turn his life around during a CalPoly Humboldt class on persuasive speaking at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariscal went on to say that his brother had received a life sentence and been murdered while in prison. Mariscal himself was given five life sentences. He declared that he did not expect ever to be released but finished by saying, “I can still live a meaningful life in here. Freedom is different for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shocked silence filled the room before classmate Darryl Baca spoke up. “That’s some raw stuff right here. I recognize the potential in you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the first time I’ve cried after class,” the professor, Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth, said later, although she was teaching only her fourth session at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-13-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated college student Michael Anthony Mariscal, 32, center, leaves the education hallway with fellow classmates after school at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariscal’s speech exemplified everything officials at Cal Poly Humboldt hoped to accomplish when they set out to create a satellite campus at one of the most notorious prisons in the country. They knew that earning a degree could help some men shorten their sentences and possibly land well-paying jobs once released. But they also hoped that the classes, and the camaraderie fostered there, would pay immediate dividends, lessening violence at the prison and improving students’ daily behaviors. Seeing Mariscal address his past while both sharing his feelings and mapping out a hopeful path forward just four weeks into the semester was validating, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been a leader in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/10/prison-bachelors-degree-california-inside-out/\">prison education\u003c/a> programs, starting with a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913#:~:text=In%202014%2C%20the%20state%20approved,closed%20to%20the%20general%20public).\">2014 rule\u003c/a> authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Since then, some 25 community colleges and eight universities have established degree-granting programs that now cover every facility in the state. Humboldt’s Pelican Bay program is not only the state’s first bachelor’s initiative at a max-security prison; earlier this year, it became the first program in the country approved under new federal Department of Education rules to let incarcerated individuals access \u003ca href=\"https://now.humboldt.edu/news/prison-education-program-first-nation-receive-pell-grant-eligibility-under-new-federal-policy\">Pell Grant funds\u003c/a> to pay for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 29 years, Pell money had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/second-chance-pell-six-years-of-expanding-access-to-education-in-prison\">that debuted in 2015\u003c/a>. The new Pell rules made 767,000 people at state prisons nationwide eligible to pay for college with federal funds — starting with a handful of those at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re setting an example,” said Tony Wallin-Sato, a former Humboldt official who helped create the program. “If we can be successful at Pelican Bay, it can work anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay is one of the most infamous prisons in the country. Built in 1989 in the extreme northwest corner of California, the facility was created to isolate its occupants in two ways. Many of the men who are incarcerated there hail from the Los Angeles area, nearly 700 miles south. And nearly half of the facility’s units were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/health/solitary-confinement-mental-illness.html\">built for solitary confinement\u003c/a>, with some occupants stuck inside these 7-by-11-foot cells for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “60 Minutes” report in 1993 highlighted excessive force by guards, and a 1995 lawsuit exposed inadequate medical care. In 2013, people incarcerated there staged a two-month hunger strike that spread throughout the state’s prisons to protest the excessive use of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/09/california-solitary-confinement-bill/\">solitary confinement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program staffers and people incarcerated at the facility say day-to-day life there now bears little resemblance to those days. About 400 of the prison’s 2,200 incarcerated men currently take classes that include GED preparation, courses from four community colleges and, now, Humboldt’s new bachelor’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay “used to be one of the most violent prisons in the country. Now it’s not,” said Mark Taylor, a Humboldt official who spent more than 21 years incarcerated before helping to create this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, incarcerated students openly drop hints around Kari Telaro Rexford, the prison’s supervisor of academic instruction, telling her they hope she’ll soon bring in a master’s degree program. “I’m trying,” she tells them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humboldt prison program ‘makes people safer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Silbert, the deputy superintendent of higher education for the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, has watched every program that has started in the eight years since bachelor’s degree programs began in state prisons. “Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Silbert admitted she first tried to talk officials out of creating this program. “Are you sure?” she said she asked them. “It’s easy to be starry-eyed in the beginning, but it’s an endeavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humboldt’s provost, Jenn Capps, said she agreed with that assessment but pushed on because the program “makes people safer.” Offering bachelor’s degree classes helps “disrupt the narrative” of violence in these men’s lives, making life safer for them, their families, guards at Pelican Bay, and ultimately the public, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots of myths out there about people who are incarcerated,” Capps said. “But everybody wants community safety. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of Cal Poly Humboldt officials worked for more than two years before beginning the program in January. The university’s communications department chair, Maxwell Schnurer, taught a class at the prison through the College of the Redwoods to understand why that community college’s program had been so successful. Redwoods began with one course at the prison in 2015, and its program has since mushroomed to 43 courses serving 390 students, said Tory Eagles, the college’s Pelican Bay Scholars program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CalPoly Humboldt communications lecturer Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth discusses a presentation assignment with inmates during her persuasive speaking class at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of this semester, the university has ramped up to four classes, each of which are taken by all of the school’s 23 students. Each student had already earned associate degrees and all are now communications majors. Humboldt’s five-year plan is to add other majors and expand to two more of the prison’s four yards, said Steve Ladwig, the director of the university’s Transformative and Restorative Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being the first program the federal government authorized to use Pell Grants for incarcerated men put a spotlight on Humboldt’s work. However, actually getting those funds has proven to be hard, largely because of the federal Department of Education’s botched rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all of Humboldt’s students are eligible for Pell, only about half of the 23 have had their applications reviewed by the Department of Education so far, said Ladwig. While the university waits for approval of its students’ Pell Grants, it is covering tuition for each student, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Humboldt staged a ceremony to hand incarcerated individuals their college acceptance letters, Ladwig had to venture to the prison’s solitary confinement wing to deliver Mariscal’s letter because he was being punished for getting into a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decades in solitary confinement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Darryl Baca — the student who praised Mariscal after his classroom speech — epitomizes the entire history of Pelican Bay. He came to the prison in 1990, only months after it opened. He spent his first 25 years in solitary confinement, where many incarcerated individuals with gang backgrounds were placed. He was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905589/how-a-massive-california-prison-hunger-strike-overhauled-solitary-confinement\">2013 hunger strike \u003c/a>that led to changes in how the prison uses solitary. Now, he’s not only a straight-A student but someone both staff and fellow students look to for guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mariscal unspooled his revelation, Baca noticed the seven-minute timer the instructor had set was about to go off and interrupt his speech. From his seat at the front of the class, Baca reached over and deftly paused the timer while handing Mariscal a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca said it took him three tries to earn his GED. Later, he used correspondence courses to secure an associate degree. He continued his education with College of the Redwood’s courses and said he recently passed up a chance to transfer to a lower-security prison because of his Humboldt classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” he said. The college classes have erased the barriers that typically exist among prisoners of different backgrounds, he explained. While classmates support each other, many people at the prison “are making better choices now. The culture has evolved. We’re like a campus now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca isn’t the only person incarcerated at Pelican Bay who has rejected possible transfers to other prisons. Others said they made the difficult decision to pass up the chance to be moved closer to home and earn a lower-security designation because they wanted to continue in Humboldt’s classes. “I told my family, ‘I want to see you and get closer, but I can’t transfer,’” said Davion Holman, 35, who is originally from the Los Angeles area. Holman, sentenced to 31 years in 2013, told his classmates that before being arrested, he liked school. “I knew I was smart, but I was content being stupid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take it serious because it is serious,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humboldt Professor Roberto Mónico, who teaches a course called multiethnic resistance in the U.S., says at times, it feels more like a graduate-level seminar than an undergraduate class. Students are well prepared, he said, with “all the readings marked up,” and they drop in references to the theories of Plato and Aristotle. Yet they can be sensitive about not knowing how to create a PowerPoint presentation or other computer skills because of their lack of formal education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I tell them to read two out of five essays, they read all five,” said Hitchcock-Tinseth. Added Ladwig: “They are phenomenally well prepared to take on a bachelor’s degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in a college classroom and able to debate ideas freely is “not mirrored in a lot of other prison experiences,” said Ruth Delaney, who directs the Vera Institute of Justice’s Unlocking Potential initiative, which helps colleges develop prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014136\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/101724-HECHINGER-Pelican-MO-CM-04-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Vallejo, an incarcerated college student with a passion for multicultural resistance courses, poses in front of a mural painted by inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francisco Vallejo admitted he struggled when he first began taking community college classes, dropping some before trying again the next semester. But now he hopes his academic progress will bolster his case for parole in 2026. “I had to train to be a student,” he said. “Redwoods gives you the tools, but you use them at Humboldt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Dom Congiardo said the prison environment teaches people to guard their feelings. But taking college classes shows them “you don’t have to be afraid to open up,” he said. “You won’t be judged for it. It’s all new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson Bryant is another student who declined a transfer to stay in Humboldt’s program. At 41 years old, he’s been at Pelican Bay since 2003, more than half his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said he was scared of the prison’s reputation when he came to Pelican Bay at age 19. “In the beginning, I would have left so fast,” he said. “But there’s too much positive stuff here. It changes you all the way around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact editor Lawrie Mifflin at 212-678-4078 or mifflin@hechingerreport.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about prison education was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/highereducation/\">Hechinger higher education newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An inaugural member of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department oversight board announced his resignation this week, citing ongoing hostilities and the board’s overall ineffectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a scathing letter to San Francisco supervisors on Thursday, Jayson Wechter criticized the oversight board for not adhering to the established recommendations for ethical conduct followed by other oversight agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very frustrated with the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board (SDOB) and its failure to follow the principles, standards and ethics of the civilian oversight field,” Wechter told KQED of his decision to leave the board. “I no longer feel I really wanted to participate in an oversight entity that will not adhere to those practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Wechter said his resignation is effective as of Saturday, although the board said it had not received any notice of his departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved the creation of the Office of the Inspector General with the \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_D,_Sheriff%27s_Department_Oversight_Board_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">passage of Proposition D\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, Wechter, who decades ago had helped form the city’s Department of Police Accountability, was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve as the new president of the seven-person oversight agency. His term ended in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new board first convened in 2022, its principal task was to appoint an inspector general overseeing investigations into misconduct within the sheriff’s office, a process that Wechter said was hindered by unnecessary delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wechter said the board made the ill-advised decision to handle the search for a new inspector general itself rather than outsourcing that task to an independent recruiting firm, as the city had recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on the SF Sheriff's Department\" tag=\"san-francisco-sheriff\"]san-francisco-sheriffs-department”]“In the end, the recruitment and hiring process for the Inspector General took a year, twice as long as the estimated time a recruitment firm said they would require, and the SDOB had only five qualified candidates to consider for interviews,” Wechter wrote in his letter to supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until December 2023, nearly a year into their search, that the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-alameda-county-da-picked-to-be-san-francisco-sheriff-inspector-general\">appointed Terry Wiley\u003c/a> — a former assistant DA in Alameda County — as its first inspector general. But since then, the agency has faced major budget constraints, limiting its ability to effectively carry out its responsibilities, Wechter said. He also noted that Wiley is considering taking a judgeship in Alameda County in January and could soon resign, leaving the post vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his decades of experience working in law enforcement oversight, Wechter said, the board has continued to ignore his recommendations and has repeatedly tabled votes on whether to adopt a code of ethics from the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, whose board he also serves on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wechter also said the board voted to restrict its members’ ability to request information from the Sheriff’s Department, which he called “a deviation from oversight values and practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was unprepared for the level of personal animosity and personal attacks,” Wechter said. “I think it created terrible optics for the public and also for people in the oversight community who looked at this newly established board and said they seem to be quite dysfunctional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wechter’s departure comes as the sheriff’s department continues to face criticism for being understaffed and maintaining perennially overcrowded jails. Last month, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008089/san-francisco-appeals-federal-court-injunction-on-warrantless-searches-shuts-down-pretrial-release-program\">announced the closure\u003c/a> of a controversial pretrial ankle monitoring program after a judge found his office violated previous court orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I have limited time, and I would rather invest it in areas of the oversight community where my work and my values are appreciated and where I feel they will have a positive effect. I don’t think that was happening on the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Wechter’s resignation, a representative of the board said in an email that because the board nor its president had received any notice, they could not comment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of criminal justice reform in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">suffered major losses in last week’s election\u003c/a>. Yet, even those who pushed to rein in the state’s progressive movement warn against seeing the election as a repudiation of those reforms entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most high-profile ballot box outcomes: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-36\">A resounding win for Proposition 36\u003c/a>, which rolled back some criminal justice reforms embraced by voters just a decade ago. And the ousting of progressive prosecutors in two of the state’s largest counties, Los Angeles and Alameda. Los Angeles DA George Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/la-district-attorney-progressive-loses-re-election-gascon-rcna175906\">was handily defeated in his reelection bid\u003c/a>, while Alameda County DA Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">was voted out in a recall just two years into her term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just a ratification that Californians are ready for something more moderate than the progressive reforms that we’ve seen in the last few years,” said Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who helped write Proposition 36. “It was too much too fast, and it resulted in a lot of negative consequences that people could see with their own eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reisig doesn’t see this moment as a return to the tough-on-crime laws that dominated California politics for decades. 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And this kind of brings it back to the middle,” he said, noting that the ballot measure emphasized treatment for drug users and gave prosecutors wide discretion to decide whether someone should face a felony charge if they repeatedly steal or are caught possessing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11975692]The measure’s passage with more than 70%of voters backing it – support that came from every corner of the state, Reisig said, “doesn’t negate the righteous arguments that the system needed to be corrected coming out of the ‘90s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the argument law enforcement and conservative politicians made for years against reform,s including Proposition 47, which made most low-level thefts and drug charges misdemeanors instead of felonies. 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And I do think there has been a problem in communicating real-world solutions to concerned Californians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Bazelon, a fellow at Yale Law School who wrote a book about prosecutor’s power, says the election results reflect public frustration with visible problems like homelessness, fentanyl use and viral videos of shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may explain why progressive district attorneys in both Los Angeles and Alameda counties lost their jobs last week. Gascón, who rode into office four years ago, at the height of the 2020 racial justice protests, promised to roll back his predecessor’s tough policies. 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Three of the deputies were also charged with falsifying documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Monk’s] family is optimistic that they’ll finally have these officers and medical professionals held responsible and accountable for a death that easily could have been prevented if not for their indifference and callousness that they displayed,” Adanté Pointer, the family’s lawyer, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family reached a $7 million settlement with Alameda County last year after filing a federal civil rights lawsuit. Pointer said the lawsuit revealed the true circumstances of Monk’s death. His family was originally told that he had died of natural causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one told them that he had been allowed to stew in his own excrement,” Pointer said. “No one told the family that the guards and the medical professionals were just throwing medications into his cell and not asking or checking in on him as if he was some animal at the zoo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blue door framed by a fence with a sign at the top saying "Alameda County Sheriff's Office"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1536x924.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intake, transfer and release area at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on Aug. 4, 2016. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges, filed nearly three years after Monk’s death on Nov. 15, 2021, come as District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">has been recalled\u003c/a> by more than 65% of Alameda County voters. She will be ousted once the election is certified, sometime before the Dec. 5 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen to the case at that point is unclear. Pointer noted that after San Francisco voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022, Brooke Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940624/blaming-boudin-sf-d-a-brooke-jenkins-wants-to-dismiss-historic-case-against-sfpd-officer-who-killed-keita-oneil\">has not prosecuted\u003c/a> some officers charged with misconduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926200/the-doors-been-shut-aunt-of-man-killed-by-sfpd-says-first-meeting-with-da-jenkins-hints-at-lighter-touch-to-prosecuting-police\">under his tenure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Board of Supervisors were to appoint a district attorney committed to the “status quo” in Alameda County, he said, it’s possible the prosecution of the Santa Rita Jail staffers would not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re charting the course of criminal justice here in Alameda County, and I would hope that they do not play politics with their selection,” Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges were filed just days before the case would have been outside of California’s statute of limitations for most felonies, which is three years. Two cases filed by Price’s office against Alameda police officers charged in the death of Mario Gonzalez were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009076/mario-gonzalez-supporters-call-das-error-a-shame-as-2-officers-avoid-charges\">recently dropped\u003c/a> after a judge ruled that it had missed the filing deadline. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011106/alameda-officer-facing-charges-mario-gonzalez-death-pleads-not-guilty\">third officer\u003c/a> is still facing trial for the death of the unarmed man who was pinned to the ground by at least one officer in an Alameda park in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies charged with dependent adult abuse in Monk’s death are Donall Chauncey Rowe, Thomas Mowrer, Ross Ohalloran Burruel, Robinderpal Singh Hayer, Andre Gaston, Troy Hershel White, Syear Osmani, Mateusz Laszuk and Christopher J. Haendel. Dr. Neal Edwards of Alameda County Forensic Behavioral Health and nurse David Everett Donoho of Wellpath, a private prison health care company, face the same charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osmani, Hayer and White are also accused of falsifying official documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wellpath’s director of external communications said the company was aware of the charges but could not comment on the situation further. Lawyers for the deputies didn’t respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of midday Wednesday, none appeared in the Alameda County jail log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the uncertainty hanging over the case, Pointer hopes it will continue past Price’s tenure, sending a message to the embattled detention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hopeful that by way of the criminal prosecution that it serves notice that Santa Rita Jail must shape up, that the community will not stand by and watch their loved ones receive substandard treatment and allow all the deaths to continue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rcooke\">Riley Cooke\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The agency also requested access to various disciplinary records, internal affairs reports, and allegations of dishonesty that were filed from 2016 to 2022, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any additional details of the investigation have not been made publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Sheriff’s Office refused the agency’s request, citing employees’ privacy protections, the oversight agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003512/judge-weighs-limits-of-sheriffs-oversight-in-sonoma-county\">asked a Sonoma County judge\u003c/a> to order Sheriff Eddie Engram to comply with the subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing IOLERO argued that the agency has the authority to issue subpoenas in whistleblower cases \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/measure-p-sonoma-county-law-enforcement-oversight-measure-sees-early-suppo/\">under Measure P\u003c/a> – passed by voters in 2020 – significantly expanding its authority and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Superior Court judge overseeing the dispute in September, however, disagreed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006338/judges-ruling-thwarts-civilian-watchdogs-investigation-of-whistleblower-claim-against-sonoma-county-sheriff\">In his ruling\u003c/a>, Sonoma County Judge Bradford DeMeo said he found no evidence supporting the agency’s claim to its subpoena powers in whistleblower cases and said that complaints of internal misconduct from Sheriff’s Office employees must be referred to other agencies for investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on the sonoma county sheriff's office\" tag=\"sonoma-county-sheriffs-department\"]DeMeo also dismissed the argument that the oversight agency’s executive director had the same authority as an inspector general, to subpoena information from the Sheriff’s Office. That title, he noted, has never been explicitly granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it had, IOLERO’s subpoena power would be further legitimized by AB 1185, a 2021 state law that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1185\">to create offices of inspector general with the power to issue subpoenas to sheriffs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alden, of IOLERO, said that under state law, his office should be able to subpoena information regardless of whether its director is assigned the title of inspector general. The idea that the oversight agency lacks the power of an inspector general is “absurd,” the appeal states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engram, however, praised DeMeo’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have always maintained that I would cooperate with a whistleblower complaint investigation, but the law does not give IOLERO the authority to investigate them,” he said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in its appeal this week, filed in California’s First District Court of Appeal, the agency argues that without the ability to fully investigate whistleblower complaints and issue subpoenas, it would be unable to follow through on voters’ demands for greater law enforcement accountability and oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The importance of this case goes beyond the subpoenas at issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story has been updated to include Wednesday’s arraignment and details from the charging documents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San José Councilmember Omar Torres, who resigned Tuesday under multiple active police investigations, is facing three charges of child molestation stemming from when he was a young man, authorities said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage relative over a period of weeks in 1999 when Torres was 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, 43, is facing charges of sodomy, oral copulation, and lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under the age of 14, according to charging documents the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shocking police report, investigators say Torres admitted to the crimes during a phone call with the victim earlier this week that police recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the bottom of my heart, I’m so sorry that I hurt you,” Torres said to his alleged victim during the call, according to the police report. “I’m in intense therapy right now to, you know, to work on myself, and I haven’t stopped thinking about the harm that I caused you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was arraigned in court in San José Wednesday afternoon, staying mostly out of view of the courtroom in a hallway where people in custody wait to appear in court. He is being held without bail, and his next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case brought by prosecutors only surfaced this week, when Torres’ alleged victim came forward to police to share their account of the abuse from Torres that they allegedly endured when they were both minors, which continued when Torres aged into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim alleged that Torres’ abuse began when they were only four years old and continued for nearly another decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a separate case from the ongoing and parallel police investigation into Torres for different allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor, which has been active since late August, authorities said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please know that this department will always support survivors of sexual violence and abuse and need to know that it’s never too late to come forward,” San José Police Chief Paul Joseph said during a news conference on Wednesday about the arrest. “Doing so takes courage, but know that you will be supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-Election-Mom-Folo-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky speaks to the press about the child molestation case against former San José Councilmember Omar Torres on Nov. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky expressed gratitude to the person who reported the alleged assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people look askance at survivors who come forward years after they were victimized and wonder what took them so long to come forward. As a sex crime prosecutor, I’ve spoken with many of these survivors. They are heroic,” Boyarsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many have lived with the pain and suffering inflicted upon them for decades, often wondering, ‘Is there anyone they can talk to? Is there anyone that will listen to them? Will anyone understand?’ We understand, and we care. We understand perfectly why they keep the violent crimes against them secret. We understand the incredible courage, the strength that it takes to finally come forward,” Boyarsky added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan said he and the entire city council are “absolutely horrified” at the allegations against Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These allegations are every parent’s worst nightmare. But you don’t have to be a parent to be sickened by the charges against Omar Torres, which are some of the most serious charges imaginable,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credited the police department for its investigation of the prior allegations against Torres and said he believes the alleged victim in the current case felt comfortable to come forward because of the diligent work by investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have full faith in our police department and the district attorney’s office to get to the bottom of this case and ensure that Omar Torres is held accountable if proven guilty,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres — who had been under mounting pressure to resign while being investigated on the prior allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor — submitted a letter of resignation to the city late Tuesday afternoon, and police arrested him the same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More South Bay News' tag='south-bay']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Torres knew he would be arrested Tuesday. His resignation letter, addressed to his council colleagues and constituents, was received by the city clerk’s office around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a copy obtained by this news organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to resign from my position as Councilmember, effective Nov. 27, 2024. This choice comes with a heavy heart, but I believe it is in the best interest of my constituents and my community,” Torres wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serving the people of San José has been one of the greatest honors of my life. Together, we have shared victories, tackled challenges, and strived for a more resilient community. I am humbled by the trust you placed in me and forever inspired by the passion and resilience of our district,” Torres wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres’ attorney, Nelson McElmurry, and Torres’ chief of staff, Kiara Arreola, both did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan, in an interview on Tuesday night, said it was “past time” for Torres to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that his final decision as a councilmember was the right one, which was to resign for the sake of the community,” Mahan said. “And it’s time for us to move forward and ensure that the residents of District 3 have representation that they can trust, that they have faith in, and that is going to be able to come to work every day and focus on their needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan shared a similar sentiment on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time,” Doan said of Torres’ resignation. “It’s about time that he allows the community to heal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shocking police report, investigators say Torres admitted to the crimes during a phone call with the victim earlier this week that police recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the bottom of my heart, I’m so sorry that I hurt you,” Torres said to his alleged victim during the call, according to the police report. “I’m in intense therapy right now to, you know, to work on myself, and I haven’t stopped thinking about the harm that I caused you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was arraigned in court in San José Wednesday afternoon, staying mostly out of view of the courtroom in a hallway where people in custody wait to appear in court. 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As a sex crime prosecutor, I’ve spoken with many of these survivors. They are heroic,” Boyarsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many have lived with the pain and suffering inflicted upon them for decades, often wondering, ‘Is there anyone they can talk to? Is there anyone that will listen to them? Will anyone understand?’ We understand, and we care. We understand perfectly why they keep the violent crimes against them secret. We understand the incredible courage, the strength that it takes to finally come forward,” Boyarsky added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan said he and the entire city council are “absolutely horrified” at the allegations against Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These allegations are every parent’s worst nightmare. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024\">Follow KQED’s live blog for the latest election updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial voting results on election night show that philanthropist and political outsider Daniel Lurie is leading the race to become \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">San Francisco’s next mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A victory for Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, would symbolize voters’ desire to shake up City Hall, a central promise of Lurie’s campaign platform. If elected, he would oversee the city’s 800,000 people and its nearly $15 billion budget at a time when tech and business leaders are pouring millions of dollars into local elections and efforts to influence public safety, housing development and accountability in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a long night nationally and locally. The first returns here in San Francisco are making us feel optimistic. But we do not need to know the final results to know what this city means to us,” Lurie told supporters from an election watch party on Tuesday night at the Chapel, a music venue in the Mission District. “We launched this campaign 13 months ago because we believe, strongly, it is time for accountable leadership in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official race outcomes have not yet been finalized. However, results released late Tuesday night had Lurie in first place with 28% of first-choice votes, followed by incumbent Mayor London Breed with 24.4% of votes. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had 21.5% of first-choice votes, and former interim Mayor and Supervisor Mark Farrell had 18.4% of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco uses ranked choice voting, where voters can list up to 10 candidates on their ballot. After accounting for ranked choice votes, Lurie and Breed led with 56.3% and 43.7% of votes, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie campaigned as an alternative to City Hall insiders. But without a track record in governing, it’s unclear exactly what his approach to leadership of a major city will actually look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point, Lurie has never held an elected office or a position in government before. The native San Franciscan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990068/daniel-lurie-runs-against-city-hall-in-quest-for-mayors-office\">leaned into that background\u003c/a> throughout his run for mayor, casting problems like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999069/what-can-the-sf-mayor-actually-do-about-homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, corruption and crime as a product of dysfunctional City Hall insiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012998\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks at an election night party at Little Skillet in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s been fighting to unseat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008296/mayor-london-breed-says-shes-just-getting-started\">incumbent Mayor London Breed\u003c/a>, a fellow moderate Democrat who has held the seat since 2018. Breed steered the city through the COVID-19 pandemic, but her opponents have attacked her for not doing enough to resolve issues around homelessness, public safety and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew this would not be easy,” Lurie said. “We see it every day on our streets. We cannot solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions.”[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s mayoral race is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">the most expensive since the city adopted ranked choice voting in 2004\u003c/a>, largely due to Lurie, who has raised more than any other mayoral candidate before him. A pro-Lurie PAC totaling nearly $10 million includes $8.7 million from his own fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her election party on Tuesday night, Breed criticized Lurie’s wealth advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is not for sale,” she said, referring to Lurie’s record-breaking campaign fundraising. “It’s really unfortunate and pretty disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent did not appear too swayed by Tuesday night’s early results. In 2018, Breed was similarly behind the leading candidate on the night of the election, she told supporters, “And you see me standing here right now as the mayor of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed faced — and at times leaned into — “doom loop” narratives casting the city as stuck in perpetual economic and social crises during her tenure. But on the campaign trail, she became the cheerleader candidate, telling voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999634/are-the-political-fortunes-of-mayor-london-breed-improving\">the city was finally on the upswing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still hopeful,” Breed said Tuesday. “It’s going to take time to count all of these votes. There are a lot of votes in the mail. There are a lot of provisional ballots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONNIGHT-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin speaks during an election night party at Bimbo’s in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s mayoral race is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">the most expensive since the city adopted ranked choice voting in 2004\u003c/a>, largely due to Lurie, who has raised more than any other mayoral candidate before him. A pro-Lurie PAC totaling nearly $10 million includes $8.7 million from his own fortune. Breed’s campaign has raised $3.1 million, including $1.45 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and $850,000 from Chris Larsen, a cryptocurrency investor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012016/aaron-peskin-sees-boost-in-final-stretch-for-sf-mayor-can-he-keep-momentum-up\">Peskin’s campaign\u003c/a> meanwhile surged in polling in the last leg of the race, but he trailed Breed and Lurie on Tuesday night. His campaign has fundraised a modest amount compared to both opponents, nabbing big donations from labor unions and a broad base of small, individual contributions totaling around $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell has received nearly $1 million from conservative donor William Oberndorf and $500,000 from real estate investor Thomas Coates. Meanwhile, billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, who penned an op-ed in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> attacking Peskin in October, has contributed nearly $3.1 million to Proposition D, a measure that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004606/commission-reform-clash-heres-how-mayoral-candidates-want-to-rewrite-san-franciscos-charter\">cut the number of city commissions in half\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell conceded the race at a watch party with supporters and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, early results are not what we want them to be in this mayoral race,” Farrell told supporters at Campus, a swanky Marina District bar. “Let’s make sure that as San Franciscans, whoever the next mayor is, we get behind him or her. It’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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