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"content": "\u003cp>A new state-funded program encourages district attorneys to resentence some incarcerated people serving long prison terms that many now consider excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine DAs throughout California — including those in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties — will receive a portion of an $18 million pot earmarked in the recently approved state budget to help identify inmates who are no longer deemed a public safety risk, but still have years left behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most prosecutors agree that if a person has transformed their life and there’s no justification for having them incarcerated, then they should be out,” said Hillary Blout, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortheppl.org/\">For The People\u003c/a>, a sentencing reform group that is working with the DAs to help identify eligible inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That prosecutor can bring the case back to the court and essentially say, ‘Your honor, our agency asked you to send this person away and we’re here now asking you to send this person home,’ ” Blout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Hillary Blout, executive director of For The People\"]‘Most prosecutors agree that if a person has transformed their life and there’s no justification for having them incarcerated, then they should be out.’[/pullquote]The funding is intended to implement \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2942\">Assembly Bill 2942\u003c/a>, a 2018 law that Blout helped draft, which allows district attorneys to recommend that courts reconsider old cases and issue new, lighter sentences — including for people convicted of violent crimes years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 75 incarcerated people in California have so far been resentenced under the law, according to Blout. In most cases, it’s led to their near-immediate release from prison and reentry back into their communities on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes about 50 people from San Francisco alone, according to Arcelia Hurtado, chief of the post-conviction unit in the San Francisco DA’s Office. She said her staff is working with the Public Defender’s Office and community groups to review the sentences of the nearly 200 people from San Francisco who have already served over 20 years — about a third of the current prison population from the city. Some of those cases, she added, are women who committed violent crimes against their abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many years ago, courts just didn’t hear that information or just didn’t give it proper weight,” Hurtado said, noting that her office will likely use the new state funding to hire a dedicated team to review the cases and develop a strong reentry program for people who are released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The state’s investment in the program signals a shift away from the harsh sentencing policies of past decades, when laws like mandatory minimums and three strikes sparked an explosion in the prison population, mushrooming from about 50,000 inmates in 1985 to a peak of 173,000 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our legacy in California has not been a great one in terms of our investment in building prisons and then filling them with people,” Blout said, noting the disproportionate impact that’s had on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, the state has advanced a slew of criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But by and large, with all of those efforts, it historically had been prosecutors that were seen as the barrier to really being able to see the promise of these initiatives,” said Blout, who worked for years as a prosecutor in the San Francisco DA’s Office. “I think that if we’re ever going to get our system to a place where we are effectively implementing all of the different laws at our disposal, we have to have one of the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system involved, and that’s prosecutors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/bay-area-counties-participate-in-pilot-program-to/embed?style=cover\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine DA’s offices in the pilot program, which also include Los Angeles, Merced, San Diego, Humboldt, Riverside and Yolo counties, were chosen to reflect California’s diverse geography and demographics, Blout said, and to show that the model can be applied across the state and the country. In just the last year, two other states — \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/06/bill-allowing-das-and-prisoners-to-ask-court-to-review-sentence-conviction-heads-to-governors-desk.html\">Oregon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Illinois-passes-new-law-prohibiting-police-from-16317669.php'\">Illinois\u003c/a> — have followed California’s lead, passing similar resentencing laws. Washington State \u003ca href=\"https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Year=2019&BillNumber=6164\">passed its own version\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After AB 2942 went into effect in 2019, Blout’s organization began working directly with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office to begin reviewing cases and develop risk-assessment protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice-reform\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/08/see-the-chapters-that-still-have-to-be-written-san-jose-mans-redemption-held-up-as-testament-to-landmark-prison-reform-law/\">Kennard Love\u003c/a>, from San Jose, was one of the inmates who quickly rose to the top of the list of eligible participants. In 2007, at the age of 19, he was convicted of multiple armed robberies and sentenced to 28 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin State Prison, he earned associate’s degrees in business, behavioral and social science, and math and joined \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\">The Last Mile\u003c/a> program, which teaches computer coding to prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with Silicon Valley De-Bug, a criminal justice reform organization that helps support incarcerated people, Blout’s group advocated for Love, and in December 2020, the Santa Clara DA’s Office recommended to a court that he be resentenced. Within days, he walked out prison, on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He decided to make a change in his life,” said Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen, who oversaw the resentencing effort. “I want to reward and incentivize other inmates to make that change, because that change is good for them and it’s good for our community, because somebody who’s now not a criminal, not robbing, not stealing means that there are fewer crime victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s office has successfully petitioned to have 12 people resentenced since 2019 – a relatively modest figure that he said reflects the time it takes to carefully evaluate cases and do thorough risk assessments to guarantee public safety. And despite the inherently politically fraught business of releasing people from prison early, particularly those convicted of violent offenses, Rosen said he hasn’t yet faced much pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, this isn’t something we do lightly. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Jan. 13, 2020, Tony and Terry Lopez’s world came crashing down around them: Their 20-year-old son, whom they called Lil Tony, had been shot in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died the next day. A year later, his family said the loss remains unbearable. The motive for the killing remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was such a beautiful soul. He had a great personality. Everybody was drawn to him,” said Terry Lopez. “He liked to make people laugh. He was goofy. You know, we’re a goofy family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nina Salarno Besselman, executive director of Crime Victims United\"]‘I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done.’[/pullquote]Ten months later, two brothers were arrested by Los Angeles officials. Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County’s tough-on-crime district attorney at the time, charged one of the brothers, the 16-year-old alleged shooter, in adult court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopezes believed he could face decades in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, at the end of the year, a new district attorney, George Gascón, was sworn in. He’d campaigned on a reform agenda, promising to decrease incarceration, and once in office immediately moved to limit the harsh sentencing practices of his predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sworn in, they automatically put a halt to any juveniles being transferred to adult court,” said Tony Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change — keeping the alleged shooter in juvenile court — means that even if the teen is convicted, he’ll face a much shorter sentence. Under state law, people charged with crimes in juvenile court can only serve until their 25th birthday, and can also qualify before that for early release. The idea is that young people’s brains are still developing and they should be given a chance at reform rather than locked up for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Lopez said the family was devastated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine committing murder, even if you get the max time, which is to the age 25, which is nine years, but to be let out from three to five years is like totally a slap in our face,” he said, noting that he understands the concept of rehabilitation, but not when someone’s life is lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the justice for Lil Tony, you know, where’s the justice for the next Lil Tony?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopez family feels burned by Gascón’s new policies, but the truth is, this debate spans far beyond Los Angeles. California has been moving to restrict long prison sentences for the past decade, and recent law changes have taken particular aim at limiting juvenile punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The changes have sparked debates about what victims want and need — and who should represent them. Do they want the government to focus on punishment? Or should the focus be crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for survivors of crime?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who have traditionally advocated for crime victims in California believe Gascón and others are forgetting about the central role of the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done,” said Nina Salarno Besselman, a prosecutor and executive director of the three-decades old Crime Victims United, and also a survivor of violent crime — her sister was murdered in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salarno Besselman’s group has historically been aligned with law enforcement, and helped push many of the state’s tough-on-crime laws, including the harsher sentences for juvenile offenders that are now being rethought by prosecutors like Gascón and a host of state lawmakers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an accountability and a justice component that seems to be getting forgotten these days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice\"]For a long time, Salarno Besselman and her group were among the loudest voices advocating for survivors of crime. But in recent years, other groups have emerged with a different approach focused less on prison sentences and more on crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins is executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, a pro-reform advocacy group that has built out a national network of more than 10,000 crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins is herself a survivor: Two of her brothers were killed by gun violence over the past decade in the largely Black San Francisco neighborhood they grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a community where the majority of us are not recognized as crime victims at all, or survivors at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins, who is a strong supporter of the kind of criminal justice reforms that leaders like Gascón are pushing for, noted that most victims don’t get any chance to demand accountability: No arrests have been made in the majority of violent crimes — including both of her brothers’ murders — over the last decade, according to state crime data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s critical for us to have a voice in this conversation. Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced. We’re the least resourced, the least responded to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said local governments have historically responded to crime and violence in those communities with more policing, which leads to more people being caught up in the criminal justice system. A \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2021-LA-Survivor-Poll.pdf\">recent survey\u003c/a> her group commissioned in Los Angeles County of more than 700 survivors of violent crime showed that most support changes to the justice system, with greater focus on rehabilitating offenders and preventing future crime, and less on simply punishing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what survivors really want, Hollins said, is help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that most survivors don’t get the support they need after experiencing a violent crime, whether that be help navigating the justice system, financial assistance to help with medical costs, property damage or lost income, or broader help like mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go back to my moment of losing my brothers. And, you know what we needed most for that moment? What we needed were people that were compassionate. We needed people that could give us the insight and understanding of how the system works or doesn’t work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins believes the poll findings show that the victims’ rights conversation has been co-opted by law enforcement and more privileged Californians who don’t suffer from either the bulk of victimization or the consequences of having community members locked up in prison.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice\"]‘Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced.’[/pullquote]“A lot of the traditional victims’ advocates have outright said that people of color, people from our communities and those who have intersections with the criminal justice system, whether they have friends or family members who have had contact, that they don’t deserve to identify themselves as crime survivors or crime victims,” Hollins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Los Angeles, critics of Gascón say that the sudden shift in policies there are leaving all mourning families in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired L.A. prosecutor Kathy Cady is one of a dozen or so former deputy DAs who have been volunteering to represent families — including the Lopez’s — in court when Gascón’s office moves to reduce criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said those on the other side of this debate are right to advocate for more victims’ services, but that shouldn’t be a substitute for appropriate consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what victims want is they want to make sure that people are held accountable. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since California started embracing changes to its criminal sentencing system a decade ago, police and prosecutors have pushed back, arguing that the reforms went too far and undermined public safety, and that voters who approved them didn’t really know what they were doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, opponents of reform went back to the electorate with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841579/prop-20-asks-should-california-rollback-recent-criminal-justice-reforms-transcript\">Proposition 20\u003c/a>, which would have made it easier to put some people in jail for theft, while making it harder for thousands of state prisoners to qualify for parole consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kate Chatfield, policy director of the Justice Collaborative\"]‘The voters are so much further along on this issue than the California Legislature or any Legislature in the country.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it wasn’t even close,” said Kate Chatfield, policy director at the pro-reform Justice Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s right — Proposition 20 has been trailing by double digits since Tuesday as the ballots continue to be tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield says supporters of the measure — largely law enforcement groups — used the traditional law and order playbook, which worked in decades past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used all their usual cards in the deck. You know, ‘crime is increasing.’ The fear-based mailers, the phony arguments,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The voters saw through them. I mean, the voters just were not persuaded,” Chatfield added. “And that to me was very, very hopeful that we may have turned this corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Proposition 20 wasn’t the only big win. Statewide, voters also gave people on parole the right to vote. And at the local level\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844487/bay-area-police-accountability-measures-draw-strong-support-across-the-board\">, a half dozen Bay Area cities passed police accountability measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the progressive district attorney candidate, George Gascón, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/election-2020-la-county-george-gascon-jackie-lacey-district-attorney-race\">appears to have defeated\u003c/a> his rival, current District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who was backed by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Jordan, executive director of the pro-reform group Californians for Safety and Justice, says the message from voters is clear: They support rehabilitation and other alternatives to incarceration, not more jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Proposition 20 \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/ballot-measures/prop/20\">lost in 50 of the state’s 58 counties\u003c/a>, including reliably red ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No longer can you just tell California voters anything,” said Jordan, whose organization wrote one of the reform measures that Proposition 20 sought to roll back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era, Jordan said, campaigns are “going to have to make the case. And, you know, the case for more prisons and more prison spending is just not one that California voters are willing to accept.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice-reform\"]But Jordan’s group did suffer one big loss:\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842445/prop-25-asks-should-california-get-rid-of-money-bail-transcript\"> Proposition 25,\u003c/a> which would have ended money bail in California, was defeated after a well-funded campaign by the bail industry and law enforcement. Those groups got a boost from an unexpected source — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841209/proposition-25-would-end-cash-bail-so-why-are-some-progressive-groups-against-it\">progressive civil rights groups, who argued that the measure’s proposed replacement for bail was unfair\u003c/a> and could lead to more people being locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Gatto, a consultant for the No on 25 campaign, says voters understood it was deeply flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the historic coalition that came together to oppose it sent a clear message to the Legislature that the people of the state want them to do better,” said Gatto, a former Democratic state lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gatto rejects the notion that the electorate sent a broader message of increased support for criminal reform, arguing that Proposition 20 — the tough-on-crime measure, which he supported — was defeated simply because its backers were outspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, Gatto adds, he doesn’t see a surge of anti-law enforcement sentiment among California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield disagrees. A former defense attorney who has worked on these issues for two decades, she says while the bail measure was complicated because of opposition from both the left and right, the rest of the statewide and local criminal justice outcomes in this election should send a message to state leaders that the public is ready to go even farther on reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The voters are so much further along on this issue than the California Legislature or any Legislature in the country,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield, Jordan and others hope the state Legislature, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2020/09/california-lawmakers-failed-to-enact-police-reform/\">failed to pass several police reform measures this past summer\u003c/a>, will hear that message and be willing to embrace reforms to both policing and criminal sentencing in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At first, John Walker wasn’t scared of COVID-19. But that changed in May when the virus infiltrated Avenal State Prison, where he’s been incarcerated for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in the block on Alpha yard that got the COVID first,” he said. “One person came in positive and then it spread around like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largest COVID-19 clusters in the country\u003c/a> are in California’s jails and prisons. At the top of the list is Avenal, located in rural Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker eventually became one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 3,000 incarcerated men\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/cdcr-cchcs-covid-19-status/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">300 employees\u003c/a> at the prison to contract the virus. Although his case was mild, others were not so fortunate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avenal’s incarcerated men say they don’t feel safe. With bunkbeds, social distancing for the prison’s 3,500 current inmates is nearly impossible, and the men must often work as janitors in each other’s living spaces. On top of that, dorm assignments keep changing. Family visits and education programs have been halted indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials have struggled to contain the outbreak and policies continually shift, those incarcerated have said the prison’s handling of the virus has been chaotic. Walker said that’s not only taking a toll on their safety, but also their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This prison has changed their mind dozens of times, and the inmates are victims of it,” Walker said. “They can’t get settled, they can’t relax, the mental health department is filled with cases of people with anxiety and depression over all this crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since March, prison administrators have responded to the pandemic with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#CFC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">variety of safety precautions\u003c/a>. They have rearranged living spaces and limited intermingling among inmates living in different buildings. Staff and the incarcerated population must wear face coverings, and hand sanitizer dispensers have been hung throughout the facility. Gyms and other facilities have been repurposed to house inmates at various stages of the quarantine process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg 505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1-160x235.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Benitez, incarcerate at Avenal State Prison, said administrators have not been as up-front about the prison’s pandemic response as his inmate-elected Men’s Advisory Council would like. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lorina Benitez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Ed Welker, also incarcerated at Avenal, said it’s impossible to keep up with the changes. After he caught the virus, he was moved to different dorms — twice — while suffering from severe fatigue and a persistent migraine. Although he and other residents of his building were moved according to their exposure and testing status, Welker said they were given little notice before moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is kept secret, they’ll come to you and they’ll say ‘Hey, pack your stuff, you’re moving,’” he said. Welker said when he asked why, he was told, “Because Sacramento says you’re moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the men say officials aren’t sharing enough information about the prison’s plan for managing the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez is an elected member of a Men’s Advisory Council made up of incarcerated representatives from throughout the prison. It’s one of the prison population’s few direct lines of communication with administrators. But since March, he said, meetings have been sporadic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big entity that we’re facing, can we at least get some transparency?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men have said they rely on their loved ones on the outside as their news sources, even when it comes to information from other parts of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wives on all six yards all communicate well with one another,” said Michelle Tran. Her husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something’s going on, somebody will ask a question or send out something on Facebook to where we all can interact with one another,” Tran said. Unlike the Men’s Advisory Council behind bars, an Inmate Family Council — made up mostly of spouses — meets with prison representatives once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal.jpg 1589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Tran, whose husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison, said her network of spouses on the outside often knows more about what’s happening within the prison’s walls than their husbands do. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office said that traditionally correctional administrators “don’t do the best job of communicating with the people who are incarcerated there.” Specter is currently involved in a number of lawsuits advocating for better medical and mental health care for those incarcerated in California’s state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absence of information about the prison’s handling of the virus, combined with the lack of control people experience in confinement, “creates an incredible amount of anxiety,” Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anxiety inmates are feeling can have very real consequences, according to UC Merced psychology professor Jennifer Howell. Her research on the effects of the pandemic in the U.S. and China has revealed high amounts of chronic stress and disrupted sleep, which not only affect eating and exercise, but can also impair immune function, cognition and long-term health. And that’s in communities outside of prison. Howell says the effects are likely much worse for those who are confined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of environment, where you have a very fixed schedule, where you’re not necessarily in control over how much space you have from other people, when you’re not necessarily in control of government policies that you are sort of being told what to do, I imagine it’s just exacerbating these effects incredibly,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11835340,news_11836868 label='Related Coverage']A representative with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) wrote that up-to-date information on the pandemic airs on television channels throughout the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Posters and handouts have also been distributed and put up for display on topics such as social distancing, proper handwashing and COVID-19 warning signs,” an email statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said that all inmates get mental health check-ins during daily COVID-19 screenings with nurses, and although the prison has paused some group treatment programs, it has increased its use of telehealth services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The well-being and safety of the incarcerated population and staff within CDCR … is our top priority,” the statement read. “We understand how vitally important it is to deliver comprehensive mental health services within our institutions at all times, but especially during these extraordinary times of heightened uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men said they’d feel better if only they could visit with their loved ones. Although the prison has discounted a messaging service used by incarcerated people and their loved ones, and offered a few free call days each month, the men at Avenal have had no face-to-face contact with family or friends for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez said not seeing his wife since March is wearing on his marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just last night I was talking to my wife and she told me that she forgot my face, she forgot what I look like,” he said. “It does put a strain on your relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Benitez said his inmate council is fighting for video visits as one way to alleviate stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gyms and other facilities have been repurposed to house inmates at various stages of the quarantine process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg 505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1-160x235.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Benitez, incarcerate at Avenal State Prison, said administrators have not been as up-front about the prison’s pandemic response as his inmate-elected Men’s Advisory Council would like. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lorina Benitez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Ed Welker, also incarcerated at Avenal, said it’s impossible to keep up with the changes. After he caught the virus, he was moved to different dorms — twice — while suffering from severe fatigue and a persistent migraine. Although he and other residents of his building were moved according to their exposure and testing status, Welker said they were given little notice before moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is kept secret, they’ll come to you and they’ll say ‘Hey, pack your stuff, you’re moving,’” he said. Welker said when he asked why, he was told, “Because Sacramento says you’re moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the men say officials aren’t sharing enough information about the prison’s plan for managing the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez is an elected member of a Men’s Advisory Council made up of incarcerated representatives from throughout the prison. It’s one of the prison population’s few direct lines of communication with administrators. But since March, he said, meetings have been sporadic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big entity that we’re facing, can we at least get some transparency?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men have said they rely on their loved ones on the outside as their news sources, even when it comes to information from other parts of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wives on all six yards all communicate well with one another,” said Michelle Tran. Her husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something’s going on, somebody will ask a question or send out something on Facebook to where we all can interact with one another,” Tran said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>We’re explaining the 12 propositions on the California ballot in our series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\">Bay Curious Prop Fest\u003c/a> (psst, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k?si=t9N5QWyuSOqBrXf6r-EUqw\">podcast\u003c/a> if you haven’t already). Today we take on Proposition 20, which revisits some recently passed legislation aimed at reducing California’s inmate population. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1788378647&light=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:00] Hello. Hello. Happy Friday, everybody. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ohubertallen\">Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/a> here, and you’re tuned in to our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\">Bay Curious Prop Fest\u003c/a> series. Twelve statewide propositions. Twelve days. Let’s go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:14] \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/20/\">Proposition 20\u003c/a> would walk back some changes made to the state’s criminal justice law over the past decade. Here’s how you’ll see it on your ballot:.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice 1\u003c/strong> [00:00:22] Proposition 20 restricts parole for nonviolent offenders, authorizes felony sentences for certain offenses currently treated only as misdemeanors, and requires DNA samples from people convicted of specified misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:38] Yes, this one has a lot of pieces to it. We’ll unpack it all today on the show. It’s Prop 20, the criminal sentencing prop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:52] Hey, everyone. Just a quick programing note in this episode, we discuss violent crime, including rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:59] Here to talk Prop 20 with us is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>, KQED politics correspondent and co-host of the Political Breakdown podcast. Good morning, Marisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:01:07] Morning, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:01:08] So, what is Prop 20 about? Why are we even voting on this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:01:12] There has been a lot of reforms in California over the past decade or so around criminal justice, and most of them were really aimed at reducing the prison population and giving people more opportunities for rehabilitation. It was sort of a reversal of the tough on crime push that we saw largely in the 1990s. And a lot of those changes have been very controversial among law enforcement. They were not pleased, particularly with two ballot measures that voters passed in 2014 and 2016. And I would say, kind of top level, Proposition 20 is aimed at rolling back some of the key portions of those ballot measures, and essentially making it harder for a lot of people to get out of prison and potentially easier for DA’s [District Attorneys] to send a lot of people to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:01:59] Now, let’s get into some of those ballot measures, because I feel like I was just voting on this, you know, during the last presidential election. You know, so, what were some those reforms? And you what happened there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:02:09] Yeah. I mean, in 2011, as Governor Jerry Brown took office, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a very long standing lawsuit that essentially challenged California’s – the way it was treating prisoners. And what the courts found was that essentially California’s prisons were so overcrowded that it was resulting in inmates dying – at one point, at a rate of like one person a day, I believe. And the court said, you, California, have to find a way to reduce the number of people in your prisons or essentially the courts are just gonna open up the doors and let prisoners out, you know, willy nilly. And so the state kind of embarked on a series of reforms. The first one, it was passed in the legislature in 2011. It’s called realignment. It was kind of the building block for some of these later reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:02:55] Right. Yeah. So, a lot of us will probably remember realignment. That is when the state changed the punishment for many crimes so that people convicted were sent to jail instead of prison. But, Marisa that was just the beginning of reforms, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:03:09] Sort of parallel to that, we have seen a real awakening around racial justice and criminal justice in California. It started to really shift public opinion and the kind of tough on crime mantra that really dominated the day during the 1990s started to slip. And I think voters were more willing to take a chance and try some new things because a lot of people felt like what was being done wasn’t working and we were just kind of burning up public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:03:41] All right, so public opinion is, is moving on some these big topics. How did they take advantage of that to bring about some reforms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:03:48] Yes, so first, there was a ballot measure in 2014. This was Proposition 47. It essentially made a lot of felonies, misdemeanors. So if you had a simple drug possession arrest on your record, if you were caught shoplifting less than $900 worth of merchandise, instead of getting charged with a felony, you could get charged with a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:04:08] All right. So that means fewer people are being sent to prison, which should mean the state saved some money here, right? What happens to the extra cash?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:04:17] It also had a provision saying, we’re going to take the savings from those lower prison and jail populations and actually put them right back into programs that will hopefully help prevent future crimes by supporting communities and kids, and rehabilitating people who have been in prison, and by spending more money on victim services. So, this was really an attempt to sort of shift the narrative and the actual money flow away from incarceration and back in to rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:04:46] All right, so that’s one set of reforms, but you said there were more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:04:50] The second measure was actually written by Jerry Brown. I think there was a sense that they had gone as far as they could in the legislature to help reduce the prison population and that they needed to ask voters to change the law so that far more felons could go before the parole board earlier. So this was a, was a measure that really allowed a broader class of prison inmates to potentially apply for rehabilitative programs and then asked the parole board to release them early. It didn’t guarantee any early releases, but it has resulted in thousands of inmates getting out, you know, in some cases years before they would have even been eligible to ask for that release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:05:34] And then we get from those to where we are today, voting on Prop 20, our criminal sentencing prop. Marissa, I understand that Prop 20 would change four things. Let’s start in on what it would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:05:47] Broadly, this is a ballot measure written by law enforcement – from their perspective, fixing some of the problems with those earlier reforms. It would reduce the number of people eligible to go before the parole board by bringing in a whole bigger group of crimes, sort of doubling the list of people that are just ineligible to ask for early parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:06:09] OK, that’s the first part. What’s the second thing it does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:12] It would also make it a lot easier to charge people with felony theft by lowering back the dollar threshold. So, this would say instead of $900 it’s at $450.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:06:23] And the third thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:24] It would also kind of, I would say, tie the board of parole hearings, hands a little bit more by requiring them to look a lot more broadly at an inmate’s history when they’re considering release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:38] And finally, and I would say this might be the least controversial aspect of it, it would reinstate DNA collection for people who have been convicted of a long list of misdemeanors. Right now, if you, if you get a misdemeanor conviction they do not collect your DNA and put it in the state and federal database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:07:00] And I know you’ve been talking with folks on both sides of this issue. You know, give me a broad sense of what people are saying on the yes side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:07:07] So, this is broadly supported by the kind of typical law and order groups that you might expect to be pushing harsher criminal sentencing laws. We’re talking police unions, we’re talking some of the more conservative prosecutors in the state. Even one victims group that was really instrumental in the 90s in pushing things like three strikes. They basically say that the reforms of the past decade or so went too far, that violent offenders are getting out of prison who shouldn’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:07:36] One of those earlier reform measures that passed relied on a list that the state has that delineates which crimes are considered violent. People convicted of those violent crimes were not eligible for early parole. But if someone’s crime wasn’t on that list, they technically were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:07:52] So that is a pretty limited list. It does include things like murder and rape, but there’s some specifics within the code, like rape of an unconscious person isn’t included on that list. And so Richard Temple, the consultant for the yes side, says that essentially voters were misled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/proposition57/\">Prop 57\u003c/a> and some of these other reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Temple clip\u003c/strong> [00:08:12] It was designed for nonviolent offenders. That’s what voters were told – that’s what the governor promised, even afterwards, if there was any situation his administration would fix it by regulations. Both did not happen. So, there are violent crimes that under California law are not classified as violence, and therefore these criminals are allowed early release, which is not what Proposition 57 promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:08:36] I think folks pushing some of these earlier reforms didn’t talk very deeply about what which statute, you know, would be considered a violent offense versus which wouldn’t. But the parole board still has a lot of discretion here, it’s largely made up of former law enforcement officials. And what the other side would say to that is, well, it’s very unusual that you would be in prison for just, say, rape of an unconscious person. There’s probably other charges, and the parole board is going to look at the whole picture, not just go kind of by the nitty gritty of what the statutes say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:09:09] And what about those who are lining up against it? What do they think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:09:12] So, the biggest name is Governor Jerry Brown, who helped draft some of these earlier reforms that this would roll back. But this is kind of also a who’s who of the Democratic establishment, including the current governor, Gavin Newsom. And additionally, a lot of the public employee unions and other big kind of left leaning labor organizations. There’s also some groups representing victims that are against this measure. And these are folks who have tried to kind of reframe the discussion around who is a victim, who is a survivor of crime – they more represent communities of color, people who maybe live in places where, yes, they’ve been victims of crime, but they or their family members have also been accused of crimes. And they see healing needs to happen at the community level and worry that locking more people up won’t actually help victims, but actually hurt them by taking money away from victim services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"KQED’s 2020 California Voter Guide\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/,All the State Props, All the Bay Area Measures\" hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-CA-Voter-Guide.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:10:04] I think I find it pretty interesting that some of the, you know, people that you spoke with are victims of crimes that I would have assumed would have been in favor of keeping people in prison longer, but they actually come out on the other side of things. Why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:10:19] Take someone like Sophora Acheson, she’s executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rubysplace.org/\">Ruby’s Place\u003c/a>, it’s a domestic violence shelter. She was on a call recently where she talked about being a survivor of child sexual abuse and domestic violence. And, you know, she felt like the idea that sending somebody who harms you to prison is not actually a long term solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sophora Acheson\u003c/strong> [00:10:41] It provided temporary sense of safety when the person that caused me harm was in jail, but it didn’t change their behavior. And where the healing really came in for me is from the services, from counseling, from shelter, from case management. And also the rehabilitation services of those that caused harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:11:07] I think that they are really a new voice in this whole debate that has been dominated for a long time by people who really favored a harsher approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:11:20] And let’s talk a little bit about the spending on this campaign. What have you seen so far?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:11:24] Proposition 20 is being far outspent and outraised so far by their opponents. They have about a million and a half in the bank, and they have not really raised a ton of money this year. On the other hand, you have, you know, Governor Jerry Brown putting a million dollars into defeating this measure. You also have some foundations and other sort of good government and civil rights groups who have put money into it. And so, the no side actually has over five million dollars in the bank, and I think we’re going to see them being, like, ramping up their campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:11:57] All right. Well, politics correspondent Marisa Lagos, thanks for your help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:12:01] My pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:12:04] A quick recap: A vote yes on Proposition 20 says you want to take early parole away as an option for some crimes. Recategorize certain types of theft and fraud crimes, so they could be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony instead, of just as a misdemeanor. And require DNA collection from people convicted of certain misdemeanors. A no vote means you think the current laws should stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:12:32] We’ll be back Monday with more Bay Curious Prop Fest. Some big ones are still on deck; props that deal with rent control, how companies like Uber and Lyft classify their workers, and whether or not California jails should use cash bail. Bay Curious Prop Fest is produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/katrinaschwartz\">Katrina Schwartz\u003c/a>, Rob Speight and me, Olivia Allen-Price, with help from all of our smart friends in the KQED newsroom. You can find audio and transcripts of these episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\">Bay Curiou.org/PropFest.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:13:07] If you want to learn more about the local measures on your ballot around the Bay Area, I highly recommend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/a>. You can select the county where you live and see all sorts of interesting stuff about what’s on the ballot there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:38] Yes, this one has a lot of pieces to it. We’ll unpack it all today on the show. It’s Prop 20, the criminal sentencing prop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:52] Hey, everyone. Just a quick programing note in this episode, we discuss violent crime, including rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:00:59] Here to talk Prop 20 with us is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>, KQED politics correspondent and co-host of the Political Breakdown podcast. Good morning, Marisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:01:07] Morning, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:01:08] So, what is Prop 20 about? Why are we even voting on this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:01:12] There has been a lot of reforms in California over the past decade or so around criminal justice, and most of them were really aimed at reducing the prison population and giving people more opportunities for rehabilitation. It was sort of a reversal of the tough on crime push that we saw largely in the 1990s. And a lot of those changes have been very controversial among law enforcement. They were not pleased, particularly with two ballot measures that voters passed in 2014 and 2016. And I would say, kind of top level, Proposition 20 is aimed at rolling back some of the key portions of those ballot measures, and essentially making it harder for a lot of people to get out of prison and potentially easier for DA’s [District Attorneys] to send a lot of people to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:01:59] Now, let’s get into some of those ballot measures, because I feel like I was just voting on this, you know, during the last presidential election. You know, so, what were some those reforms? And you what happened there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:02:09] Yeah. I mean, in 2011, as Governor Jerry Brown took office, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a very long standing lawsuit that essentially challenged California’s – the way it was treating prisoners. And what the courts found was that essentially California’s prisons were so overcrowded that it was resulting in inmates dying – at one point, at a rate of like one person a day, I believe. And the court said, you, California, have to find a way to reduce the number of people in your prisons or essentially the courts are just gonna open up the doors and let prisoners out, you know, willy nilly. And so the state kind of embarked on a series of reforms. The first one, it was passed in the legislature in 2011. It’s called realignment. It was kind of the building block for some of these later reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:02:55] Right. Yeah. So, a lot of us will probably remember realignment. That is when the state changed the punishment for many crimes so that people convicted were sent to jail instead of prison. But, Marisa that was just the beginning of reforms, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:03:09] Sort of parallel to that, we have seen a real awakening around racial justice and criminal justice in California. It started to really shift public opinion and the kind of tough on crime mantra that really dominated the day during the 1990s started to slip. And I think voters were more willing to take a chance and try some new things because a lot of people felt like what was being done wasn’t working and we were just kind of burning up public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:03:41] All right, so public opinion is, is moving on some these big topics. How did they take advantage of that to bring about some reforms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:03:48] Yes, so first, there was a ballot measure in 2014. This was Proposition 47. It essentially made a lot of felonies, misdemeanors. So if you had a simple drug possession arrest on your record, if you were caught shoplifting less than $900 worth of merchandise, instead of getting charged with a felony, you could get charged with a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:04:08] All right. So that means fewer people are being sent to prison, which should mean the state saved some money here, right? What happens to the extra cash?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:04:17] It also had a provision saying, we’re going to take the savings from those lower prison and jail populations and actually put them right back into programs that will hopefully help prevent future crimes by supporting communities and kids, and rehabilitating people who have been in prison, and by spending more money on victim services. So, this was really an attempt to sort of shift the narrative and the actual money flow away from incarceration and back in to rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:04:46] All right, so that’s one set of reforms, but you said there were more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:04:50] The second measure was actually written by Jerry Brown. I think there was a sense that they had gone as far as they could in the legislature to help reduce the prison population and that they needed to ask voters to change the law so that far more felons could go before the parole board earlier. So this was a, was a measure that really allowed a broader class of prison inmates to potentially apply for rehabilitative programs and then asked the parole board to release them early. It didn’t guarantee any early releases, but it has resulted in thousands of inmates getting out, you know, in some cases years before they would have even been eligible to ask for that release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:05:34] And then we get from those to where we are today, voting on Prop 20, our criminal sentencing prop. Marissa, I understand that Prop 20 would change four things. Let’s start in on what it would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:05:47] Broadly, this is a ballot measure written by law enforcement – from their perspective, fixing some of the problems with those earlier reforms. It would reduce the number of people eligible to go before the parole board by bringing in a whole bigger group of crimes, sort of doubling the list of people that are just ineligible to ask for early parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:06:09] OK, that’s the first part. What’s the second thing it does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:12] It would also make it a lot easier to charge people with felony theft by lowering back the dollar threshold. So, this would say instead of $900 it’s at $450.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:06:23] And the third thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:24] It would also kind of, I would say, tie the board of parole hearings, hands a little bit more by requiring them to look a lot more broadly at an inmate’s history when they’re considering release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:06:38] And finally, and I would say this might be the least controversial aspect of it, it would reinstate DNA collection for people who have been convicted of a long list of misdemeanors. Right now, if you, if you get a misdemeanor conviction they do not collect your DNA and put it in the state and federal database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:07:00] And I know you’ve been talking with folks on both sides of this issue. You know, give me a broad sense of what people are saying on the yes side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:07:07] So, this is broadly supported by the kind of typical law and order groups that you might expect to be pushing harsher criminal sentencing laws. We’re talking police unions, we’re talking some of the more conservative prosecutors in the state. Even one victims group that was really instrumental in the 90s in pushing things like three strikes. They basically say that the reforms of the past decade or so went too far, that violent offenders are getting out of prison who shouldn’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:07:36] One of those earlier reform measures that passed relied on a list that the state has that delineates which crimes are considered violent. People convicted of those violent crimes were not eligible for early parole. But if someone’s crime wasn’t on that list, they technically were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:07:52] So that is a pretty limited list. It does include things like murder and rape, but there’s some specifics within the code, like rape of an unconscious person isn’t included on that list. And so Richard Temple, the consultant for the yes side, says that essentially voters were misled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/proposition57/\">Prop 57\u003c/a> and some of these other reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Temple clip\u003c/strong> [00:08:12] It was designed for nonviolent offenders. That’s what voters were told – that’s what the governor promised, even afterwards, if there was any situation his administration would fix it by regulations. Both did not happen. So, there are violent crimes that under California law are not classified as violence, and therefore these criminals are allowed early release, which is not what Proposition 57 promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong> [00:08:36] I think folks pushing some of these earlier reforms didn’t talk very deeply about what which statute, you know, would be considered a violent offense versus which wouldn’t. But the parole board still has a lot of discretion here, it’s largely made up of former law enforcement officials. And what the other side would say to that is, well, it’s very unusual that you would be in prison for just, say, rape of an unconscious person. There’s probably other charges, and the parole board is going to look at the whole picture, not just go kind of by the nitty gritty of what the statutes say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong> [00:09:09] And what about those who are lining up against it? 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"content": "\u003cp>After years inside prison, the transition to life outside isn’t always easy. For many, the task of getting a job after being out of the workforce for several years is challenging. For others, catching up on how to use the latest smartphones or understanding social media is a difficult adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ongoing discussions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828460/california-could-release-8000-people-in-state-prisons-by-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing incarcerated people early\u003c/a> to help curb the spread of the coronavirus inside prisons — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831812/even-in-pandemic-prison-releases-pose-political-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politics behind those discussions \u003c/a>— have shined a recent spotlight on the question of what happens when people leave prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to four men who paroled from San Quentin State Prison about their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Melendez has been out a few years and has a steady job. Sumit Lal came home last year and is teaching martial arts. More recently, Jonathan Chiu paroled in May, while Stephen Wilson paroled last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perspectives are not meant to be comprehensive, but aim to provide a closer look at some of the faces of reentry, mostly in their own words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Philip Melendez: Transformative Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Philip Melendez, 42, who was serving a life sentence, the parole board mandated that he stay in a transitional home for the first six months after getting out. The home was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/Reentry-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Geo Group\u003c/a> and located in a rough neighborhood in San Francisco, where he said syringes often littered the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “not conducive to the reentry,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now a program manager for \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/ourstory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a>, an organization working toward what they call restorative policy change. The group brings together those who have been convicted of homicide to meet with family members of homicide victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When survivors of crime or people who lost loved ones to violence want to talk to the person who did it — we facilitate the actual dialogue,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834793\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by Philip Melendez at his home on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dialogues are difficult, but Melendez says it can help people take steps toward healing — a process that’s often called transformative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very rewarding for folks inside [prison] to see the actual harm,” he said. “For me personally, it broke me down and sent me on a completely different path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Re:Store Justice also works with formerly incarcerated people and their family members to have a voice in policy discussions in the state Legislature on issues such as bail and parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the skills he learned inside, like tattoo art and being able to cut his own hair, have allowed Melendez to adapt to life during the pandemic, since he doesn’t need to leave his house to get a haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez touches up a haircut that he gave to himself at his home on July 25, 2020. He learned to cut his own hair while in prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Melendez, his work is a chance to make up for his past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have remorse and shame, and we want to show up in a world in a way that is restorative versus the way that we showed up harmfully in the community,” he said. “It becomes motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal at the home he shares with his family in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sumit Lal: Education in Prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sumit Lal, 24, paroled from San Quentin in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they give you is $200 and you’re pretty much on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that he had his freedom back, he said he had to ask permission from the parole board to go back to school and continue his education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a job in San Francisco and [the parole board was] really hesitant about letting me work there,” Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal practices taekwondo in his backyard on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he feels fortunate he was at San Quentin, where he had access to programs like The Last Mile and could attend college classes through the Prison University Project as part of a program for youth offenders at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are prisons all over California and some of them are out in the middle of the desert. These people, they’re coming home and they don’t have the same resources as San Quentin does,” Lal said, emphasizing that reentry is not always the same for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal works at his home office in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lal was released last year, but he said he still talks to people in San Quentin nearly every day, where one major worry has been how to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing for me was that people were asking me if I could send a package — they weren’t getting the soap that they were issued,” he said. “For me, it was just pretty sad to think about that unsanitary environment that they are living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal recently started working for the messaging platform Slack and works from home due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Jonathan Chiu: Best and Worst Things\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Chiu paroled from San Quentin in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really felt guilty when I left, because a lot of guys didn’t get the same luck that I got,” said Chiu, 37, of his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the reality of his release didn’t kick in until he saw his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been away for about 15 years now. I was glad I missed the whole social media thing … and the whole financial crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been volunteering at a food pantry and advocating for others inside, in addition to experimenting with stand-up comedy reflecting on his life — that he is now doing via Zoom open mics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get everybody out — I left my family back there,” he said, referring to his many friends who are still incarcerated at San Quentin. The COVID-19 case rate there \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rose steadily from June to August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chiu, who said he is trying to relearn how to do many things like ride a bike and take public transit, the transition hasn’t been too rough. In some ways, he said prison prepared him for sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter-in-place kind of worked well for me, we’re kind of trained [in prison] to be very vigilant about where we are and who is walking behind us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. He’s happy to be out and spends a lot of time thinking about his friends who are still inside and working on ways to help get them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu sees the COVID-19 outbreak in San Quentin as both the best and worst thing that could happen there, because people are “shining a light on mass incarceration” and advocating with renewed effort to improve conditions inside prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of San Quentin and its design — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90539380/bad-design-kills-why-covid-19-spread-like-wildfire-at-one-of-americas-worst-prisons?partner=feedburner\">with poor ventilation and even windows that are welded shut\u003c/a> — make the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak particularly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, whatever your neighbor is cooking — you are smelling, because all that air is circulating throughout the prison. Once one person gets [COVID-19] there’s no way you can stop that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Lake_RS44281_018_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu rides his bike near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. Chiu has family in Los Angeles but chose to stay in the Bay Area to be closer to the friends and community he made in San Quentin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, most of what Chiu is doing is trying to advocate for others inside. He sees it as a matter of life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look back on this, like 10 years from now, are we going to say, ‘Did we make the right choice by not doing anything and letting people die inside San Quentin?” he asked. “By not acting, the fact is that people in prison right now are basically being sentenced to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Stephen Wilson: COVID-19 Inside, Smartphones Outside\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephen Wilson, 75, is a veteran and was paroled from San Quentin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to transition. I thought I was going to die in prison and other people thought the same thing,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, who was serving a life sentence, said that when COVID-19 cases began climbing at San Quentin, social distancing was impossible, especially because of the size of the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so small that you can lay in your bunk and put your elbow against the wall — and reach out and touch the other bunk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got sick, but “weathered the storm in my cell,” he said of his own battle with COVID-19. “Because when you get sick in prison they punish you. A lot of us that got sick didn’t say anything, we just weathered the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said that when a doctor came to check on his shoulder from a previous surgery, Wilson told the doctor his symptoms — splitting headaches for two days, lost appetite, chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor told him, “You had the COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson estimated he got it around June 20 and had it for roughly the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on August 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on Aug. 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson added that most of the staff at San Quentin was courteous and respectful and “doing time there was way better than some of the other places — but it is just so filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he’s out, Wilson attributes a cough he acquired during his time at San Quentin to the mold there. He said his new doctor even asked him if was a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they're currently staying. The two met 38 years ago and were reunited at the Veterans Transition Center. They often go to one another's house for dinner, ride their bikes or take the bus to nearby towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they’re currently staying. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson has been riding his bicycle, getting acquainted with the bus schedule and adjusting to new methods of communication. The Veterans Transition Center, which helps formerly incarcerated veterans adjust after leaving prison, gave him a smart phone, but, for now, he prefers his flip phone, because it is easier to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still a little bit overwhelmed,” he said, but added that VTC case managers have helped him tremendously. “Today I was out most of the day with a friend of mine, who I have known for 38 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two were recently reunited at the VTC and now often go to one another’s houses for dinner, ride their bikes together or take the bus to nearby towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few organizations that offer reentry services and support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/restoreadvocates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://antirecidivism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Recidivism Coalition\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bayareafreedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Freedom Collective Reentry Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reentryprograms.com/go/berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Options, Berkeley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815458/how-can-you-help-people-in-prison-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Can You Help People in Prison Right Now?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years inside prison, the transition to life outside isn’t always easy. For many, the task of getting a job after being out of the workforce for several years is challenging. For others, catching up on how to use the latest smartphones or understanding social media is a difficult adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ongoing discussions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828460/california-could-release-8000-people-in-state-prisons-by-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing incarcerated people early\u003c/a> to help curb the spread of the coronavirus inside prisons — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831812/even-in-pandemic-prison-releases-pose-political-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politics behind those discussions \u003c/a>— have shined a recent spotlight on the question of what happens when people leave prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to four men who paroled from San Quentin State Prison about their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Melendez has been out a few years and has a steady job. Sumit Lal came home last year and is teaching martial arts. More recently, Jonathan Chiu paroled in May, while Stephen Wilson paroled last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perspectives are not meant to be comprehensive, but aim to provide a closer look at some of the faces of reentry, mostly in their own words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44333_027_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez in a walk-in closet in his home, which he says is larger than the cell he occupied at San Quentin State Prison. Often those cells house two people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Philip Melendez: Transformative Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Philip Melendez, 42, who was serving a life sentence, the parole board mandated that he stay in a transitional home for the first six months after getting out. The home was run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/Reentry-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Geo Group\u003c/a> and located in a rough neighborhood in San Francisco, where he said syringes often littered the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “not conducive to the reentry,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now a program manager for \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/ourstory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a>, an organization working toward what they call restorative policy change. The group brings together those who have been convicted of homicide to meet with family members of homicide victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When survivors of crime or people who lost loved ones to violence want to talk to the person who did it — we facilitate the actual dialogue,” Melendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834793\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44218_016_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by Philip Melendez at his home on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dialogues are difficult, but Melendez says it can help people take steps toward healing — a process that’s often called transformative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very rewarding for folks inside [prison] to see the actual harm,” he said. “For me personally, it broke me down and sent me on a completely different path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44211_009_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez at his home computer, where he hosts Facebook Live shows including the Parole Show and Re:Store Survivors Live, on July 25, 2020. These shows help inform formerly incarcerated people on a variety of topics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Re:Store Justice also works with formerly incarcerated people and their family members to have a voice in policy discussions in the state Legislature on issues such as bail and parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the skills he learned inside, like tattoo art and being able to cut his own hair, have allowed Melendez to adapt to life during the pandemic, since he doesn’t need to leave his house to get a haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44207_003_KQED_Marysville_PhilipMelendez_Reentry_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Melendez touches up a haircut that he gave to himself at his home on July 25, 2020. He learned to cut his own hair while in prison. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Melendez, his work is a chance to make up for his past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have remorse and shame, and we want to show up in a world in a way that is restorative versus the way that we showed up harmfully in the community,” he said. “It becomes motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/1_RS44188_015_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal at the home he shares with his family in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sumit Lal: Education in Prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sumit Lal, 24, paroled from San Quentin in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they give you is $200 and you’re pretty much on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that he had his freedom back, he said he had to ask permission from the parole board to go back to school and continue his education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a job in San Francisco and [the parole board was] really hesitant about letting me work there,” Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/2_RS44184_011_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal practices taekwondo in his backyard on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he feels fortunate he was at San Quentin, where he had access to programs like The Last Mile and could attend college classes through the Prison University Project as part of a program for youth offenders at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are prisons all over California and some of them are out in the middle of the desert. These people, they’re coming home and they don’t have the same resources as San Quentin does,” Lal said, emphasizing that reentry is not always the same for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/3_RS44177_004_KQED_Sacramento_SumitLal_07252020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumit Lal works at his home office in Sacramento on July 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lal was released last year, but he said he still talks to people in San Quentin nearly every day, where one major worry has been how to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing for me was that people were asking me if I could send a package — they weren’t getting the soap that they were issued,” he said. “For me, it was just pretty sad to think about that unsanitary environment that they are living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal recently started working for the messaging platform Slack and works from home due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44269_005_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu holds crossword puzzles that he created. While in San Quentin State Prison, he did design work for the San Quentin News and also created crosswords — without the help of the internet to look up answers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Jonathan Chiu: Best and Worst Things\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Chiu paroled from San Quentin in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really felt guilty when I left, because a lot of guys didn’t get the same luck that I got,” said Chiu, 37, of his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the reality of his release didn’t kick in until he saw his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been away for about 15 years now. I was glad I missed the whole social media thing … and the whole financial crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been volunteering at a food pantry and advocating for others inside, in addition to experimenting with stand-up comedy reflecting on his life — that he is now doing via Zoom open mics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get everybody out — I left my family back there,” he said, referring to his many friends who are still incarcerated at San Quentin. The COVID-19 case rate there \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rose steadily from June to August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chiu, who said he is trying to relearn how to do many things like ride a bike and take public transit, the transition hasn’t been too rough. In some ways, he said prison prepared him for sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter-in-place kind of worked well for me, we’re kind of trained [in prison] to be very vigilant about where we are and who is walking behind us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Sitting_RS44279_016_KQED_Oakland_JonathanChiu_08042020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Chiu in Oakland on Aug. 4, 2020. He’s happy to be out and spends a lot of time thinking about his friends who are still inside and working on ways to help get them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu sees the COVID-19 outbreak in San Quentin as both the best and worst thing that could happen there, because people are “shining a light on mass incarceration” and advocating with renewed effort to improve conditions inside prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of San Quentin and its design — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90539380/bad-design-kills-why-covid-19-spread-like-wildfire-at-one-of-americas-worst-prisons?partner=feedburner\">with poor ventilation and even windows that are welded shut\u003c/a> — make the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak particularly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, whatever your neighbor is cooking — you are smelling, because all that air is circulating throughout the prison. 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Some technologies have been a hurdle for Wilson since his release from prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/flip_RS44285_002_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson said he feels more comfortable using a flip phone than an iPhone. 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A lot of us that got sick didn’t say anything, we just weathered the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said that when a doctor came to check on his shoulder from a previous surgery, Wilson told the doctor his symptoms — splitting headaches for two days, lost appetite, chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor told him, “You had the COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson estimated he got it around June 20 and had it for roughly the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on August 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bike_RS44291_008_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite several shoulder surgeries, Stephen Wilson rides his bicycle from the Veterans Transition Center to his transitional home located nearby in Marina, California on Aug. 5, 2020. The center offers transportation but Wilson likes to maintain his independence by riding his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson added that most of the staff at San Quentin was courteous and respectful and “doing time there was way better than some of the other places — but it is just so filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he’s out, Wilson attributes a cough he acquired during his time at San Quentin to the mold there. He said his new doctor even asked him if was a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they're currently staying. The two met 38 years ago and were reunited at the Veterans Transition Center. They often go to one another's house for dinner, ride their bikes or take the bus to nearby towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/friend_RS44294_011_KQED_Marina_StephenWilson_08052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Wilson (L) talks with his friend Dennis Barnes (R), who is also a formerly incarcerated veteran, outside of the transitional home where they’re currently staying. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson has been riding his bicycle, getting acquainted with the bus schedule and adjusting to new methods of communication. 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