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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Corey G. Johnson, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center For Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 595px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/california-institution-for-women-3-664px.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/california-institution-for-women-3-664px.jpg\" alt=\" The California Institution for Women in Corona was one of two state prisons where female inmates were sterilized without required state approvals. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules from 2006 to 2010. (Courtesy California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) \" width=\"595\" height=\"315\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Institution for Women in Corona was one of two state prisons where female inmates were sterilized without required state approvals. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules from 2006 to 2010. (Courtesy California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years – and there are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s, according to state documents and interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1997 to 2010, the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform the procedure, according to a database of contracted medical services for state prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women were signed up for the surgery while they were pregnant and housed at either the California Institution for Women in Corona or Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, which is now a men’s prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates and prisoner advocates maintain that prison medical staff coerced the women, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal Nguyen, a former Valley State Prison inmate who worked in the prison’s infirmary during 2007, said she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s not right,’ ” Nguyen, 28, said. “Do they think they’re animals, and they don’t want them to breed anymore?” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One former Valley State inmate who gave birth to a son in October 2006 said the institution’s OB/GYN, Dr. James Heinrich, repeatedly pressured her to agree to a tubal ligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102895\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/califprison.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102895\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/califprison.jpg\" alt=\" Crystal Nguyen, with her 6-year-old son, Neiko, in Pittsburg, Calif., is a former Valley State Prison for Women inmate. She worked in the prison's infirmary in 2007 and says she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized. (Noah Berger for The Center for Investigative Reporting) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Nguyen, with her 6-year-old son, Neiko, in Pittsburg, Calif., is a former Valley State Prison for Women inmate. She worked in the prison’s infirmary in 2007 and says she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized. (Noah Berger for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As soon as he found out that I had five kids, he suggested that I look into getting it done. The closer I got to my due date, the more he talked about it,” said Christina Cordero, 34, who spent two years in prison for auto theft. “He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordero, released in 2008 and now living in Upland (San Bernardino County) agreed, but she says, “Today, I wish I would have never had it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations echo those made nearly a half-century ago, when forced sterilizations of prisoners, the mentally ill and the poor were commonplace in California. State lawmakers officially banned such practices in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview with CIR, Heinrich said he provided an important service to poor women who faced health risks in future pregnancies because of past cesarean sections. The 69-year-old Bay Area physician denied pressuring anyone and expressed surprise that local contract doctors had charged for the surgeries. He described the $147,460 total as minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money,” Heinrich said, “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top medical manager at Valley State Prison from 2005 to 2008 characterized the surgeries as an empowerment issue for female inmates, providing them the same options as women on the outside. Daun Martin, a licensed psychologist, also claimed that some pregnant women, particularly those on drugs or who were homeless, would commit crimes so they could return to prison for better health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I criticize those women for manipulating the system because they’re pregnant? Absolutely not,” Martin, 73, said. “But I don’t think it should happen. And I’d like to find ways to decrease that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Former inmates and prisoner advocates say prison medical staff coerced women into getting sterilized, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Martin denied approving the surgeries, but at least 60 tubal ligations were done at Valley State while Martin was in charge, according to the state contracts database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin’s counterpart at the California Institution for Women, Dr. Jacqueline Long, declined to discuss why inmates received unauthorized tubal ligations under her watch. But the Corona prison’s former compliance officer, William Kelsey, said there was disagreement among staff members over the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one meeting in late 2005, a few correctional officers differed with Long’s medical team over adding tubal ligations to a local hospital’s contract, Kelsey, 57, said. The officers viewed the surgeries as nonessential medical care and questioned whether the state should pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just fed up,” Kelsey said. “They didn’t think criminals and inmates had a right to the care we were providing them, and they let their personal opinions be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was included, however, and Kelsey said the grumbling subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724320-federal-and-state-law-on-sterilization-using.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laws\u003c/a> ban inmate sterilizations if federal funds are used, reflecting concerns that prisoners might feel pressured to comply. California used state funds instead, but since 1994 the procedure has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724499-cdcr-excluded-medical-services-amp-other.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required approval\u003c/a> from top medical officials in Sacramento on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet no tubal ligation requests have come before the health care committee responsible for approving such restricted surgeries, said Dr. Ricki Barnett, who tracks medical services and costs for the California Prison Health Care Receivership Corp. Barnett, 65, has led the Health Care Review Committee since joining the prison receiver’s office in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard about the tubal ligations, it made us all feel slightly queasy,” Barnett said. “It wasn’t so much that people were conspiratorial or coercive or sloppy. It concerns me that people never took a step back to project what they would feel if they were in the inmate’s shoes and what the inmate’s future might hold should they do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Callison, spokesman for the state corrections department, said the department couldn’t comment because it no longer has access to inmate medical files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All medical care for inmates, and all medical files, past and present, are under the control of the Receiver’s Office,” Callison wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver has overseen medical care in all 33 of the state’s prisons since 2006, when U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of the Northern District of California ruled that the system’s health care was so poor that it violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver’s office was aware that sterilizations were happening, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2008, the prisoner rights group Justice Now received a written response to questions about the treatment of pregnant inmates from Tim Rougeux, then the receiver’s chief operating officer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724322-receiver-response-to-justice-now-on-tubal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The letter \u003c/a>acknowledged that the two prisons offered sterilization surgery to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nothing changed until 2010, after the Oakland-based organization filed a public records request and complained to the office of state Sen. Carol Liu, D-Glendale. Liu was the chairwoman of the Select Committee on Women and Children in the Criminal Justice System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by a phone call from Liu’s staff, Barnett said the receiver’s top medical officer asked her to research the matter. After analyzing medical and cost records, Barnett met in 2010 with officials at both women’s prisons and contract health professionals affiliated with nearby hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those meetings, Barnett told them to halt inmate sterilizations. In response, she said, she got an earful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year-old restriction on tubal ligations seemed to be news to prison health administrators, doctors, nurses and the contracting physicians, Barnett recalled. And, she said, none of the doctors thought they needed permission to perform the surgery on inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was operating on the fact that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk factors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin, the Valley State Prison medical manager, said she and her staff had discovered the procedure was restricted five years earlier. Someone had complained about the sterilization of an inmate who had at least six children, Martin recalled. That prompted Martin to research the prison’s medical rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the restrictions, Martin told CIR that she and Heinrich began to look for ways around them. Both believed the rules were unfair to women, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure that on a couple of occasions, (Heinrich) brought an issue to me saying, ‘Mary Smith is having a medical emergency’ kind of thing, and we ought to have a tubal ligation. She’s got six kids. Can we do it?’ ” Martin said. “And I said, ‘Well, if you document it as a medical emergency, perhaps.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinrich said he offered tubal ligations only to pregnant inmates with a history of at least three C-sections. Additional pregnancies would be dangerous for these women, Heinrich said, because scar tissue inside the uterus could tear, resulting in massive blood loss and possible death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a medical problem that we had to make them aware of,” Heinrich said. “It’s up to the doctor who’s delivering (your baby) … to make you aware of what’s going on. We’re at risk for not telling them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates tell a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Anderson, who gave birth in December 2006 while at Valley State, said she’d had one prior C-section. Anderson, 44, repeatedly was asked to agree to be sterilized, she said, and was not told what risk factors led to the requests. She refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Montano also had had one C-section before she landed at Valley State in 2008, pregnant and battling drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montano, 42, was serving time after pleading guilty to burglary, forgery and receiving stolen property. The mother of seven children, she said neither Heinrich nor the medical staff told her why she needed a tubal ligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I figured that’s just what happens in prison – that that’s the best kind of doctor you’re going to get,” Montano said. “He never told me nothing about nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montano eagerly agreed to the surgery and said she still considers it a positive in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, an OB-GYN at San Francisco General Hospital who teaches at UC San Francisco, said it is not common practice to offer tubal ligations to women who’ve had one C-section. She confirmed that having multiple C-sections increases the risk of complications, but even then, she said, it’s more appropriate to offer women reversible means of birth control, like intrauterine devices or implants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every C-section, every situation is different,” Sufrin said. “Some people with more prior C-sections have absolutely no problems and no risks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History in eugenics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, tubal ligations represented a small portion of the medical care provided to pregnant inmates. Statistics and a report from the prison receiver’s office show that from 2000 to 2010, 2,423 women gave birth while imprisoned in California, costing the state $2.7 million. Fewer than one in 10 were surgically sterilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers don’t tell the full story. California still grapples with an ugly past: Under compulsory sterilization laws here and in 31 other states, minority groups, the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill and criminals were singled out as inferior and sterilized to prevent them from spreading their genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was known as eugenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1909 and 1964, about 20,000 women and men in California were stripped of the ability to reproduce – making the state the nation’s most prolific sterilizer. Historians say Nazi Germany sought the advice of the state’s eugenics leaders in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the state Senate held two hearings to expose this history, featuring testimony from researchers, academics and state officials. In response, then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer and Gov. Gray Davis issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724326-eugenic-apologies-from-gov-gray-davis-and-ag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formal apologies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts are heavy for the pain caused by eugenics. It was a sad and regrettable chapter in the state’s history, and it is one that must never be repeated again,” Davis said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing from the hearings was the perspective of state prison officials. Then-Corrections Director Edward Alameida Jr. had informed the Senate committee that the prison system lacked records about sterilizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While obviously this was a dark chapter in our State’s history, the CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) played a minuscule role,” Alameida wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724327-state-corrections-director-snubs-eugenics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2003 letter\u003c/a>. “Thus our participation in your hearing would provide no substantial information on that role and I do not believe our presence would contribute in any way toward your objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor at the University of Michigan and leading expert on California sterilization, cited state prison activity among the lingering questions from that era. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724329-dr-alexandra-minna-stern-testimony-on-ca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stern testified\u003c/a> during the hearings that she found in private hands and university archives evidence of 600 sterilizations at San Quentin State Prison prior to 1941 that were not included in official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sterilizers, Stern told the committee, consistently viewed their work as humane and cost saving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals … and this is critical to understanding the history of eugenics in California – was to save money: how to limit welfare and relief,” Stern told them, according to a transcript of her presentation. “And sterilization is very much tied up in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking patient consent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and public outrage over eugenics and similar sterilization abuses in Alabama and New York spawned new requirements in the 1970s for doctors to fully inform patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it’s been illegal to pressure anyone to be sterilized or ask for consent during labor or childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Kimberly Jeffrey says she was pressured by a doctor while sedated and strapped to a surgical table for a C-section in 2010, during a stint at Valley State for a parole violation. Jeffrey, 43, was horrified, she said, and resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘So we’re going to be doing this tubal ligation, right?’ ” Jeffrey said. “I’m like, ‘Tubal ligation? What are you talking about? I don’t want any procedure. I just want to have my baby.’ I went into a straight panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey provided copies of her official prison and hospital medical files to CIR. Those records show Jeffrey rejected a tubal ligation offer during a December 2009 prenatal checkup at Heinrich’s office. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724494-kimberly-jeffrey-declines-tubal-ligation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A medical report\u003c/a> from Jeffrey’s C-section a month later noted that she again refused a tubal ligation request made after she arrived at Madera Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At no time did anyone explain to her any medical justifications for tubal ligation, Jeffrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience still haunts Jeffrey, who lives in San Francisco with her 3-year-old son, Noel. She speaks to groups seeking to improve conditions for female prisoners and has lobbied legislators in Sacramento. Jeffrey recently completed her ACT college-entrance test and hopes to pursue a degree at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being treated like I was less than human produced in me a despair,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials “are the real repeat offenders,” Jeffrey added. “They repeatedly offended me by denying me my right to dignity and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy Roberts, a University of Pennsylvania law professor and expert on sterilization, said courts have concluded that soliciting approval for sterilization during labor is coercive because pain and discomfort can impair a woman’s ability to weigh the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was happening in a federal prison, it would be illegal,” Roberts said. “There are specific situations where you cannot say it’s informed consent, and one of them is during childbirth or labor. No woman should give consent on the operating table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinrich considers the questions raised about his medical care unfair and said he is suspicious about the women’s motives. Heinrich insists he worked hard to give inmates high-quality medical treatment, adding that hundreds of appreciative prisoners could vouch for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all wanted it done,” he said of the sterilizations. “If they come a year or two later saying, ‘Somebody forced me to have this done,’ that’s a lie. That’s somebody looking for the state to give them a handout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that the only reason you do that is not because you feel wronged, but that you want to stay on the state’s dole somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett declined to say whether Heinrich’s practices had been reviewed by the receiver’s office, citing employee confidentially laws. Initially, she said she believed Heinrich had left the prison system. However, shortly after retiring in 2011, Heinrich returned in another role. He’s currently listed as one of the prison’s contract physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett stressed thaft she sought only to end prison sterilizations, not to investigate officials or interview inmates to discover whether abuses occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did Dr. Heinrich say improper things? I can’t say,” she added. “Is our process sufficiently draconian enough to weed out bad actors? We have a lot of civil service processes. Is it 100 percent effective? Is it the best process we can come up with? No, of course not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates and prisoner advocates maintain that prison medical staff coerced the women, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal Nguyen, a former Valley State Prison inmate who worked in the prison’s infirmary during 2007, said she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s not right,’ ” Nguyen, 28, said. “Do they think they’re animals, and they don’t want them to breed anymore?” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One former Valley State inmate who gave birth to a son in October 2006 said the institution’s OB/GYN, Dr. James Heinrich, repeatedly pressured her to agree to a tubal ligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102895\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/califprison.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102895\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/califprison.jpg\" alt=\" Crystal Nguyen, with her 6-year-old son, Neiko, in Pittsburg, Calif., is a former Valley State Prison for Women inmate. She worked in the prison's infirmary in 2007 and says she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized. (Noah Berger for The Center for Investigative Reporting) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Nguyen, with her 6-year-old son, Neiko, in Pittsburg, Calif., is a former Valley State Prison for Women inmate. She worked in the prison’s infirmary in 2007 and says she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized. (Noah Berger for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As soon as he found out that I had five kids, he suggested that I look into getting it done. The closer I got to my due date, the more he talked about it,” said Christina Cordero, 34, who spent two years in prison for auto theft. “He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordero, released in 2008 and now living in Upland (San Bernardino County) agreed, but she says, “Today, I wish I would have never had it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations echo those made nearly a half-century ago, when forced sterilizations of prisoners, the mentally ill and the poor were commonplace in California. State lawmakers officially banned such practices in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview with CIR, Heinrich said he provided an important service to poor women who faced health risks in future pregnancies because of past cesarean sections. The 69-year-old Bay Area physician denied pressuring anyone and expressed surprise that local contract doctors had charged for the surgeries. He described the $147,460 total as minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money,” Heinrich said, “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top medical manager at Valley State Prison from 2005 to 2008 characterized the surgeries as an empowerment issue for female inmates, providing them the same options as women on the outside. Daun Martin, a licensed psychologist, also claimed that some pregnant women, particularly those on drugs or who were homeless, would commit crimes so they could return to prison for better health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I criticize those women for manipulating the system because they’re pregnant? Absolutely not,” Martin, 73, said. “But I don’t think it should happen. And I’d like to find ways to decrease that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Former inmates and prisoner advocates say prison medical staff coerced women into getting sterilized, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Martin denied approving the surgeries, but at least 60 tubal ligations were done at Valley State while Martin was in charge, according to the state contracts database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin’s counterpart at the California Institution for Women, Dr. Jacqueline Long, declined to discuss why inmates received unauthorized tubal ligations under her watch. But the Corona prison’s former compliance officer, William Kelsey, said there was disagreement among staff members over the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one meeting in late 2005, a few correctional officers differed with Long’s medical team over adding tubal ligations to a local hospital’s contract, Kelsey, 57, said. The officers viewed the surgeries as nonessential medical care and questioned whether the state should pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just fed up,” Kelsey said. “They didn’t think criminals and inmates had a right to the care we were providing them, and they let their personal opinions be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was included, however, and Kelsey said the grumbling subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724320-federal-and-state-law-on-sterilization-using.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laws\u003c/a> ban inmate sterilizations if federal funds are used, reflecting concerns that prisoners might feel pressured to comply. California used state funds instead, but since 1994 the procedure has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724499-cdcr-excluded-medical-services-amp-other.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required approval\u003c/a> from top medical officials in Sacramento on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet no tubal ligation requests have come before the health care committee responsible for approving such restricted surgeries, said Dr. Ricki Barnett, who tracks medical services and costs for the California Prison Health Care Receivership Corp. Barnett, 65, has led the Health Care Review Committee since joining the prison receiver’s office in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard about the tubal ligations, it made us all feel slightly queasy,” Barnett said. “It wasn’t so much that people were conspiratorial or coercive or sloppy. It concerns me that people never took a step back to project what they would feel if they were in the inmate’s shoes and what the inmate’s future might hold should they do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Callison, spokesman for the state corrections department, said the department couldn’t comment because it no longer has access to inmate medical files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All medical care for inmates, and all medical files, past and present, are under the control of the Receiver’s Office,” Callison wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver has overseen medical care in all 33 of the state’s prisons since 2006, when U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of the Northern District of California ruled that the system’s health care was so poor that it violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver’s office was aware that sterilizations were happening, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2008, the prisoner rights group Justice Now received a written response to questions about the treatment of pregnant inmates from Tim Rougeux, then the receiver’s chief operating officer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724322-receiver-response-to-justice-now-on-tubal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The letter \u003c/a>acknowledged that the two prisons offered sterilization surgery to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nothing changed until 2010, after the Oakland-based organization filed a public records request and complained to the office of state Sen. Carol Liu, D-Glendale. Liu was the chairwoman of the Select Committee on Women and Children in the Criminal Justice System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by a phone call from Liu’s staff, Barnett said the receiver’s top medical officer asked her to research the matter. After analyzing medical and cost records, Barnett met in 2010 with officials at both women’s prisons and contract health professionals affiliated with nearby hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those meetings, Barnett told them to halt inmate sterilizations. In response, she said, she got an earful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year-old restriction on tubal ligations seemed to be news to prison health administrators, doctors, nurses and the contracting physicians, Barnett recalled. And, she said, none of the doctors thought they needed permission to perform the surgery on inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was operating on the fact that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk factors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin, the Valley State Prison medical manager, said she and her staff had discovered the procedure was restricted five years earlier. Someone had complained about the sterilization of an inmate who had at least six children, Martin recalled. That prompted Martin to research the prison’s medical rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the restrictions, Martin told CIR that she and Heinrich began to look for ways around them. Both believed the rules were unfair to women, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure that on a couple of occasions, (Heinrich) brought an issue to me saying, ‘Mary Smith is having a medical emergency’ kind of thing, and we ought to have a tubal ligation. She’s got six kids. Can we do it?’ ” Martin said. “And I said, ‘Well, if you document it as a medical emergency, perhaps.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinrich said he offered tubal ligations only to pregnant inmates with a history of at least three C-sections. Additional pregnancies would be dangerous for these women, Heinrich said, because scar tissue inside the uterus could tear, resulting in massive blood loss and possible death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a medical problem that we had to make them aware of,” Heinrich said. “It’s up to the doctor who’s delivering (your baby) … to make you aware of what’s going on. We’re at risk for not telling them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates tell a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Anderson, who gave birth in December 2006 while at Valley State, said she’d had one prior C-section. Anderson, 44, repeatedly was asked to agree to be sterilized, she said, and was not told what risk factors led to the requests. She refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Montano also had had one C-section before she landed at Valley State in 2008, pregnant and battling drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montano, 42, was serving time after pleading guilty to burglary, forgery and receiving stolen property. The mother of seven children, she said neither Heinrich nor the medical staff told her why she needed a tubal ligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I figured that’s just what happens in prison – that that’s the best kind of doctor you’re going to get,” Montano said. “He never told me nothing about nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montano eagerly agreed to the surgery and said she still considers it a positive in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, an OB-GYN at San Francisco General Hospital who teaches at UC San Francisco, said it is not common practice to offer tubal ligations to women who’ve had one C-section. She confirmed that having multiple C-sections increases the risk of complications, but even then, she said, it’s more appropriate to offer women reversible means of birth control, like intrauterine devices or implants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every C-section, every situation is different,” Sufrin said. “Some people with more prior C-sections have absolutely no problems and no risks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History in eugenics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, tubal ligations represented a small portion of the medical care provided to pregnant inmates. Statistics and a report from the prison receiver’s office show that from 2000 to 2010, 2,423 women gave birth while imprisoned in California, costing the state $2.7 million. Fewer than one in 10 were surgically sterilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the numbers don’t tell the full story. California still grapples with an ugly past: Under compulsory sterilization laws here and in 31 other states, minority groups, the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill and criminals were singled out as inferior and sterilized to prevent them from spreading their genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was known as eugenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1909 and 1964, about 20,000 women and men in California were stripped of the ability to reproduce – making the state the nation’s most prolific sterilizer. Historians say Nazi Germany sought the advice of the state’s eugenics leaders in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the state Senate held two hearings to expose this history, featuring testimony from researchers, academics and state officials. In response, then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer and Gov. Gray Davis issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724326-eugenic-apologies-from-gov-gray-davis-and-ag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formal apologies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts are heavy for the pain caused by eugenics. It was a sad and regrettable chapter in the state’s history, and it is one that must never be repeated again,” Davis said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing from the hearings was the perspective of state prison officials. Then-Corrections Director Edward Alameida Jr. had informed the Senate committee that the prison system lacked records about sterilizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While obviously this was a dark chapter in our State’s history, the CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) played a minuscule role,” Alameida wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724327-state-corrections-director-snubs-eugenics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2003 letter\u003c/a>. “Thus our participation in your hearing would provide no substantial information on that role and I do not believe our presence would contribute in any way toward your objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor at the University of Michigan and leading expert on California sterilization, cited state prison activity among the lingering questions from that era. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724329-dr-alexandra-minna-stern-testimony-on-ca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stern testified\u003c/a> during the hearings that she found in private hands and university archives evidence of 600 sterilizations at San Quentin State Prison prior to 1941 that were not included in official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sterilizers, Stern told the committee, consistently viewed their work as humane and cost saving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals … and this is critical to understanding the history of eugenics in California – was to save money: how to limit welfare and relief,” Stern told them, according to a transcript of her presentation. “And sterilization is very much tied up in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking patient consent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and public outrage over eugenics and similar sterilization abuses in Alabama and New York spawned new requirements in the 1970s for doctors to fully inform patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it’s been illegal to pressure anyone to be sterilized or ask for consent during labor or childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Kimberly Jeffrey says she was pressured by a doctor while sedated and strapped to a surgical table for a C-section in 2010, during a stint at Valley State for a parole violation. Jeffrey, 43, was horrified, she said, and resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘So we’re going to be doing this tubal ligation, right?’ ” Jeffrey said. “I’m like, ‘Tubal ligation? What are you talking about? I don’t want any procedure. I just want to have my baby.’ I went into a straight panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey provided copies of her official prison and hospital medical files to CIR. Those records show Jeffrey rejected a tubal ligation offer during a December 2009 prenatal checkup at Heinrich’s office. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/724494-kimberly-jeffrey-declines-tubal-ligation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A medical report\u003c/a> from Jeffrey’s C-section a month later noted that she again refused a tubal ligation request made after she arrived at Madera Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At no time did anyone explain to her any medical justifications for tubal ligation, Jeffrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience still haunts Jeffrey, who lives in San Francisco with her 3-year-old son, Noel. She speaks to groups seeking to improve conditions for female prisoners and has lobbied legislators in Sacramento. Jeffrey recently completed her ACT college-entrance test and hopes to pursue a degree at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being treated like I was less than human produced in me a despair,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials “are the real repeat offenders,” Jeffrey added. “They repeatedly offended me by denying me my right to dignity and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy Roberts, a University of Pennsylvania law professor and expert on sterilization, said courts have concluded that soliciting approval for sterilization during labor is coercive because pain and discomfort can impair a woman’s ability to weigh the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was happening in a federal prison, it would be illegal,” Roberts said. “There are specific situations where you cannot say it’s informed consent, and one of them is during childbirth or labor. No woman should give consent on the operating table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinrich considers the questions raised about his medical care unfair and said he is suspicious about the women’s motives. Heinrich insists he worked hard to give inmates high-quality medical treatment, adding that hundreds of appreciative prisoners could vouch for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all wanted it done,” he said of the sterilizations. “If they come a year or two later saying, ‘Somebody forced me to have this done,’ that’s a lie. That’s somebody looking for the state to give them a handout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that the only reason you do that is not because you feel wronged, but that you want to stay on the state’s dole somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett declined to say whether Heinrich’s practices had been reviewed by the receiver’s office, citing employee confidentially laws. Initially, she said she believed Heinrich had left the prison system. However, shortly after retiring in 2011, Heinrich returned in another role. He’s currently listed as one of the prison’s contract physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett stressed thaft she sought only to end prison sterilizations, not to investigate officials or interview inmates to discover whether abuses occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did Dr. Heinrich say improper things? I can’t say,” she added. “Is our process sufficiently draconian enough to weed out bad actors? We have a lot of civil service processes. Is it 100 percent effective? Is it the best process we can come up with? No, of course not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Don Clyde, Dan Brekke, Lisa Aliferis, Lisa Pickoff-White and Alex Emslie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\">Click here for BART Strike Day 3 Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/28/transportation-alternatives-during-possible-bart-strike/\">KQED's Guide to BART Alternatives \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://alert.511.org/\">511.org BART Strike Info\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/bart-strike-the-cost-of-public-employee-strikes\">Are Walkouts Worth It?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to the negotiating table\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART management and representatives from Service Employees International Union 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union 1555 resumed negotiations tonight, but neither side has released any new proposals. Last anyone has heard, BART offered an 8 percent salary increase over four years, and the unions had only reduced their offer of 23.2 percent. BART employees don't currently pay anything toward their pensions, and they pay a $92 flat fee each month for health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions argue that BART’s 8 percent offer is partially dependent on boosted ridership, and demanding more for benefit contributions would turn the pay raise offer into a de facto pay cut. The unions also have repeatedly brought up safety concerns, including what they say is inadequate track lighting and protection for station agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who is bringing the parties together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California labor secretary urged both sides to talk, and has sent in two new mediators, Anita I. Martinez, chair of the Public Employment Relations Board, and Loretta van der Pol, chief of the State Mediation and Conciliation Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials aren't the only ones concerned about ending the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group, said late yesterday the strike could have a lasting impact on the Bay Area’s economy. The council’s economic institute estimates the strike is costing the Bay Area $73 million per day in lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of money to be lost from an economy that’s just coming back,” Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman said. “This is going to have an impact. It will impact peoples’ wages. It’s going to impact tax revenues. This is serious stuff. This isn’t small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last BART strike in 1997 lasted 6 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday traffic worsens\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/almetria1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday has been a mess, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-talks-to-restart-as-commute-tightens-4642262.php\" target=\"_blank\">traffic snarling\u003c/a> the Bay Bridge before 6 a.m. Golden Gate Ferries between Larkspur and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/bart/july2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">carried twice as many passengers\u003c/a> Tuesday morning as Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eye test suggests things are about the same today, with maybe a bit more traffic,” AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson said late Tuesday afternoon. “Certainly there’s a feeling that because this is a holiday week, people may have had regularly scheduled vacations they took, so there’s the fear that the number of commuters could grow substantially in the coming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We want you (to tell us about your commute)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been following the BART strike and thinking to yourself that your commute is really newsworthy, now is your chance. KQED wants to hear your stories about a quirky or especially cumbersome commute during the BART strike. Call us at 415-553-8455. We might share your story on the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With BART workers on strike, thousands of people in the Bay Area have turned to ferries to cross the bay. This morning it took KQED's reporter Andrew Stelzer more than three minutes to bike from the beginning to the end of the queue at Oakland'd Jack London ferry terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/nkk4TA2cTrg?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Confusion at SFO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse than jetlag? Flying into a transit strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART strike is causing some confusion for travelers flying into San Francisco International. The airport is providing free shuttle service to the Millbrae CalTrain station, but finding the shuttle can be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Quinn from New York says he just arrived to visit friends in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] Kept stopping at information station [after] information station to find out where I had to go,\" he said. \"Probably been walking around for about twenty minutes or so. There's no real signage or anything telling you where to go or where things are located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said his friends sent him text messages that BART was down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many other travellers said they didn't know anything about the strike until they reached the BART entrance and found it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike and Laura Cartner just arrived from Maryland for the their 20th anniversary: \"There was nothing to tell us it was closed before we got here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a recorded voice periodically announces BART is closed and tells passengers to go to an information booth for help. But it's easy to miss in the din of the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best commute?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie spoke with a man locally known as having the \u003ca href=\"http://archive.oaklandlocal.com/blogs/2010/09/best-commute-ever\">best commute ever\u003c/a>. Stephen Linaweaver often paddles an old whitewater kayak across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco. He's made the trip about 100 times -- and says it's empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes a big difference, especially at the end of the day when you look up at the bridge or you look at BART, if there's delays or it's not running, and you just get on the water, and you're going to get across probably before most folks who are in cars,\" Linaweaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland.)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Green Party member John-Marc Chandonia was inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/05/19/the-birth-of-bart-photos-from-the-1960s-and-70s/\">photos of San Franciscans walking and biking through BART's Transbay Tube in the late '60s\u003c/a>, a few years before trains started surging through the tunnel. He jokingly tweeted that BART should reopen the tube to pedestrians during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably it would not be completely safe because there's not a railing, for example, and they'd also have to turn off the third rail,\" Chandonia said. \"But it would be nice if it were possible today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, not very plausible. ... But Linaweaver is looking for paddling companions, and he'll likely be on the water early tomorrow morning, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car-sharing companies win big\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's becoming clear that some of the big winners of the BART strike are car-sharing companies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\">Sidecar\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rtr.avego.com/rtr-desktop-web/\">Avego\u003c/a> began promoting their mobile apps and reaching out to drivers in their networks over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Allen, co-founder of Sidecar, said he saw a 50 percent increase in ridership on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see rides across the bridge and down in the Peninsula every day, and we’re seeing increased usage of that type because of the BART strike,” Allen told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get drivers to participate, Sidecar offered extra incentives such as waiving its usual 20 percent of the take and allowing drivers to keep 100 percent. Lyft also waived its surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland City and East Bay Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city employees are back at work today after their one-day strike. But union officials say they could walk out again. Negotiations are scheduled to begin on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Oakland parking enforcement officer crossed picket lines yesterday, though, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23578167/oakland-meter-maid-crosses-picket-line-tickets-unsuspecting\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>. The worker, driving a city-issued car, was spotted ticketing cars in the vicinity of Broadway and 40th Street. He refused to give his name to a reporter and said that he got paid well and didn't support the strike. All of the citations will be automatically dismissed, the city announced this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents will be happy to know that East Bay Regional Parks will be open on the Fourth of July. Cliff Rocha, president of Local 2428 of AFSCME, which represents employees of the parks, said workers and managers have reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:30 a.m. \u003c/strong>Not sure this picture needs much explanation, but that's the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza -- in case you couldn't immediately identify which toll plaza that was. The big rig got stuck around 8:45 a.m. and was pulled out by 11:30 a.m. It blocked at least three lanes of traffic at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Big-Rig-Stuck07_02_13-e1372790603320.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Matt Williams reports lines at the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal are much longer Tuesday morning than on the first day of the BART strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\" alt=\" An Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit worker monitors the capacity of an AC Transit bus on July 2, 2013 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit worker monitors the capacity of a bus on July 2 in Oakland. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer spoke with ferry commuters Dominic Young and Jessie Groat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Jack London Square, so I'm pretty fortunate that I can leave my apartment and still get right to work,\" Young said. \"But I woke up early today thinking I'd catch the 7:30, and I missed the cut by five people, and now I'm probably pushed back about a 45-minute wait. So, I'm a little frustrated, but I'm new to the Bay Area. ... Taken BART every day for a few months. Guess I really take it for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\" alt=\"Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Thank God for the ferries,\" Groat said. \"This has at least put a positive thing on a very dismal situation. I think it's unfortunate that the BART workers take it out on the backs of the AC Transit workers, the ferry workers. I know they’re getting their way, and these guys are here doing the job and picking up the pieces. So, unfortunate situation. It's time to come to the table and get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At BART's Millbrae station, commuter Carey Dare complained it was not quite clear where he was supposed to go to catch a bus to SFO. \"My biggest complaint is that SamTrans didn't tell anyone about this stop,\" Dare said. \"I had to find out about it from the SFO stop -- the SFO website.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Commuters, if you liked the commute mess yesterday, you're going to love the chaos today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-102181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear how many people are telecommuting, how many people are starting their July Fourth holiday earlier, or how many people may have decided this whole living-in-the-Bay-Area thing isn't for them and have taken to the mountains or retired into Buddhist monasteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know there are lots and lots of people out on the roads who wish they had a BART train to ride (or that some of the other people on the road were on BART). Before sunrise this morning, the Bay Bridge metering lights were turned on -- a good 40 minutes earlier than usual -- and early commute traffic immediately backed up on all the approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our personal view of the experience: One staffer who took the casual carpool from North Berkeley BART was rolling by 6:14 a.m. and exiting on the Fremont Street ramp on the San Francisco side of the bridge by 6:32. That's better than usual. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California labor secretary urged both sides to talk, and has sent in two new mediators, Anita I. Martinez, chair of the Public Employment Relations Board, and Loretta van der Pol, chief of the State Mediation and Conciliation Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials aren't the only ones concerned about ending the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group, said late yesterday the strike could have a lasting impact on the Bay Area’s economy. The council’s economic institute estimates the strike is costing the Bay Area $73 million per day in lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of money to be lost from an economy that’s just coming back,” Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman said. “This is going to have an impact. It will impact peoples’ wages. It’s going to impact tax revenues. This is serious stuff. This isn’t small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last BART strike in 1997 lasted 6 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday traffic worsens\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/almetria1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday has been a mess, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-talks-to-restart-as-commute-tightens-4642262.php\" target=\"_blank\">traffic snarling\u003c/a> the Bay Bridge before 6 a.m. Golden Gate Ferries between Larkspur and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/bart/july2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">carried twice as many passengers\u003c/a> Tuesday morning as Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eye test suggests things are about the same today, with maybe a bit more traffic,” AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson said late Tuesday afternoon. “Certainly there’s a feeling that because this is a holiday week, people may have had regularly scheduled vacations they took, so there’s the fear that the number of commuters could grow substantially in the coming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We want you (to tell us about your commute)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been following the BART strike and thinking to yourself that your commute is really newsworthy, now is your chance. KQED wants to hear your stories about a quirky or especially cumbersome commute during the BART strike. Call us at 415-553-8455. We might share your story on the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With BART workers on strike, thousands of people in the Bay Area have turned to ferries to cross the bay. This morning it took KQED's reporter Andrew Stelzer more than three minutes to bike from the beginning to the end of the queue at Oakland'd Jack London ferry terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/nkk4TA2cTrg?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Confusion at SFO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse than jetlag? Flying into a transit strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART strike is causing some confusion for travelers flying into San Francisco International. The airport is providing free shuttle service to the Millbrae CalTrain station, but finding the shuttle can be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Quinn from New York says he just arrived to visit friends in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] Kept stopping at information station [after] information station to find out where I had to go,\" he said. \"Probably been walking around for about twenty minutes or so. There's no real signage or anything telling you where to go or where things are located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said his friends sent him text messages that BART was down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many other travellers said they didn't know anything about the strike until they reached the BART entrance and found it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike and Laura Cartner just arrived from Maryland for the their 20th anniversary: \"There was nothing to tell us it was closed before we got here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a recorded voice periodically announces BART is closed and tells passengers to go to an information booth for help. But it's easy to miss in the din of the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best commute?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie spoke with a man locally known as having the \u003ca href=\"http://archive.oaklandlocal.com/blogs/2010/09/best-commute-ever\">best commute ever\u003c/a>. Stephen Linaweaver often paddles an old whitewater kayak across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco. He's made the trip about 100 times -- and says it's empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes a big difference, especially at the end of the day when you look up at the bridge or you look at BART, if there's delays or it's not running, and you just get on the water, and you're going to get across probably before most folks who are in cars,\" Linaweaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland.)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Green Party member John-Marc Chandonia was inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/05/19/the-birth-of-bart-photos-from-the-1960s-and-70s/\">photos of San Franciscans walking and biking through BART's Transbay Tube in the late '60s\u003c/a>, a few years before trains started surging through the tunnel. He jokingly tweeted that BART should reopen the tube to pedestrians during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably it would not be completely safe because there's not a railing, for example, and they'd also have to turn off the third rail,\" Chandonia said. \"But it would be nice if it were possible today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, not very plausible. ... But Linaweaver is looking for paddling companions, and he'll likely be on the water early tomorrow morning, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car-sharing companies win big\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's becoming clear that some of the big winners of the BART strike are car-sharing companies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\">Sidecar\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rtr.avego.com/rtr-desktop-web/\">Avego\u003c/a> began promoting their mobile apps and reaching out to drivers in their networks over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Allen, co-founder of Sidecar, said he saw a 50 percent increase in ridership on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see rides across the bridge and down in the Peninsula every day, and we’re seeing increased usage of that type because of the BART strike,” Allen told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get drivers to participate, Sidecar offered extra incentives such as waiving its usual 20 percent of the take and allowing drivers to keep 100 percent. Lyft also waived its surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland City and East Bay Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city employees are back at work today after their one-day strike. But union officials say they could walk out again. Negotiations are scheduled to begin on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Oakland parking enforcement officer crossed picket lines yesterday, though, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23578167/oakland-meter-maid-crosses-picket-line-tickets-unsuspecting\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>. The worker, driving a city-issued car, was spotted ticketing cars in the vicinity of Broadway and 40th Street. He refused to give his name to a reporter and said that he got paid well and didn't support the strike. All of the citations will be automatically dismissed, the city announced this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents will be happy to know that East Bay Regional Parks will be open on the Fourth of July. Cliff Rocha, president of Local 2428 of AFSCME, which represents employees of the parks, said workers and managers have reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:30 a.m. \u003c/strong>Not sure this picture needs much explanation, but that's the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza -- in case you couldn't immediately identify which toll plaza that was. The big rig got stuck around 8:45 a.m. and was pulled out by 11:30 a.m. It blocked at least three lanes of traffic at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Big-Rig-Stuck07_02_13-e1372790603320.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Matt Williams reports lines at the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal are much longer Tuesday morning than on the first day of the BART strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\" alt=\" An Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit worker monitors the capacity of an AC Transit bus on July 2, 2013 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit worker monitors the capacity of a bus on July 2 in Oakland. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer spoke with ferry commuters Dominic Young and Jessie Groat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Jack London Square, so I'm pretty fortunate that I can leave my apartment and still get right to work,\" Young said. \"But I woke up early today thinking I'd catch the 7:30, and I missed the cut by five people, and now I'm probably pushed back about a 45-minute wait. So, I'm a little frustrated, but I'm new to the Bay Area. ... Taken BART every day for a few months. Guess I really take it for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\" alt=\"Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Thank God for the ferries,\" Groat said. \"This has at least put a positive thing on a very dismal situation. I think it's unfortunate that the BART workers take it out on the backs of the AC Transit workers, the ferry workers. I know they’re getting their way, and these guys are here doing the job and picking up the pieces. So, unfortunate situation. It's time to come to the table and get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At BART's Millbrae station, commuter Carey Dare complained it was not quite clear where he was supposed to go to catch a bus to SFO. \"My biggest complaint is that SamTrans didn't tell anyone about this stop,\" Dare said. \"I had to find out about it from the SFO stop -- the SFO website.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Commuters, if you liked the commute mess yesterday, you're going to love the chaos today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-102181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear how many people are telecommuting, how many people are starting their July Fourth holiday earlier, or how many people may have decided this whole living-in-the-Bay-Area thing isn't for them and have taken to the mountains or retired into Buddhist monasteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know there are lots and lots of people out on the roads who wish they had a BART train to ride (or that some of the other people on the road were on BART). Before sunrise this morning, the Bay Bridge metering lights were turned on -- a good 40 minutes earlier than usual -- and early commute traffic immediately backed up on all the approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our personal view of the experience: One staffer who took the casual carpool from North Berkeley BART was rolling by 6:14 a.m. and exiting on the Fremont Street ramp on the San Francisco side of the bridge by 6:32. That's better than usual. 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This outrageous act tops off a chronic pattern of lawlessness, throughout this case, by judges and politicians hell-bent on thwarting the vote of the people to redefine marriage by any means, even outright corruption.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the ruling was announced, Prop. 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were at the head of the line that quickly formed at San Francisco City Hall to obtain marriage licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kamala Harris rushed to City Hall to perform the first marriage -- between Perry and Stier.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 6:30 p.m.\u003c/strong> Signing off live blog. Congratulations to the happy couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> SF Gate reports: \"San Francisco City Hall is staying open late Friday to allow couples to marry. City Hall will also stay open through the weekend for weddings.\" Get \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=16\">marriage forms online\u003c/a> from City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 p.m.\u003c/strong> LOS ANGELES -- L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa is slated to marry Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, the other two plaintiffs in the case, at L.A. City Hall at 6:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:20 p.m.\u003c/strong> SACRAMENTO – At the direction of Governor Edmund G. 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But Garcia, as usual, took the opportunity to hand out a pamphlet on sexual harassment — offering phone numbers of pro bono lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia knows that these women, many of them undocumented immigrants, are reluctant to say they’ve been sexually harassed. But seasoned members, like Raquel Sanchez, show the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a problem just recently in the peach orchards, where the supervisor was following me around,” Sanchez told the group. “He was telling me about his life and how pretty I was. And I said to him, ‘You know what, I’m married. I come here to work, not to look for a husband.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia approved of Sanchez’s defiant attitude, joking that now she intimidates her bosses, not the other way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141231\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS517312Campesinas1cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS517312Campesinas1cropped-336x225.jpg\" alt=\"Campesinas Unidas educates women workers on topics ranging from labor law to pesticide safety to domestic violence to diabetes. The women, many of them undocumented immigrants, are often reluctant to discuss the delicate topic of sexual harassment. So some of the more veteran and outspoken group members, such as Elvia Ochoa, center, lead by example. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"336\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campesinas Unidas educates women workers on topics ranging from labor law to pesticide safety to domestic violence to diabetes. The women, many of them undocumented immigrants, are often reluctant to discuss the delicate topic of sexual harassment. So some of the more veteran and outspoken group members, such as Elvia Ochoa, center, lead by example. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Group leaders like Sanchez are called promotoras. They’re trained by lawyers and health workers on everything from minimum wage laws to diabetes; then they educate other women. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2013/06/20130628dtcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guadalupe Chavez, it all started with a missing paycheck back in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was supposed to earn $245 for a week of picking pomegranates -- money the widowed mother of two needed to pay her bills. When she went to track down the check, a supervisor she'd never met before told her someone had it out in the fields. He told her to follow him there in her truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “So I followed him,” says Chavez in Spanish, recounting what happened next. “I followed him to parts of the field I didn’t recognize. It’s so easy to get lost out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says he stopped in an isolated pistachio orchard, got out of his truck, approached her vehicle and demanded her underpants in exchange for her paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said … ‘I’m the supervisor, I’m in charge here,’ ” says Chavez. “And I remembered that he had told me that he had a gun in the truck. And so when he said that, and he banged hard on the car with his hand, I thought, ‘He’s serious. If I don’t do what he says, he can kill me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Chavez says, the supervisor reached through her window and raped her with his fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hurting me,” she says. “Imagine, his fingers were all dirty with pesticides. I wanted him to stop and hoped that was all he wanted. I thought, ‘If he kills me, who will take care of my children?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those long, frightening moments, he finally gave her the check. But then, she says, he demanded oral sex before letting her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I remember,” Chavez says, “is that I drove out of there really fast, too fast, because I wanted to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Chavez went to a rural legal aid office in Fresno about another missing check. Lawyers there said she seemed distraught, and they gently encouraged her in Spanish to tell them what was wrong. Finally, she broke into tears and described the rape. The attorneys urged her to go to the hospital, and she gave them the OK to call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely, I believed her. Her story was consistent. It didn’t bounce from all over the place to all over the place,” says Kris Zuniga, then an officer with the Kings County Sheriff’s Department who investigated Chavez’s case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga is now a sergeant with the police department in Avenal, a rural town southwest of Fresno. As a former farmworker himself, he says he understands why more undocumented women like Chavez don’t call the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For one, they’re afraid they’re going to get deported,” Zuniga says. “Number two, word gets around to the other bosses in the valley that are also doing farm labor work. They’re going to say, ‘Don’t hire that person, don’t let them have a job because they’re going to report something if something happens.’ “They’ll never work out there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure it happens more than you probably know or obviously than it is reported,” Zuniga says. “My guess is the guys that are out there doing this, it’s not their first rodeo. They know exactly what they’re doing. They have the hammer over them. They have the power. They can give them a job and they can give them a check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga also points out that most farmworker women don’t get a rape exam if they’re assaulted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a week goes by,” he says, “two weeks goes by, three weeks goes by. You’ve lost that physical evidence, so now you’re down to a ‘he said, she said.’ And those are tough -- tough to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first stop for a victim often isn’t the police station. It’s more likely a place like Westside Family Preservation Services, a small domestic violence agency tucked into a run-down strip mall in the tiny farmworker town of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, women constantly stream in from the fields after work, pulling down the brightly colored bandannas that protect their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141238\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworker Amparo Yebra says sometimes the women will confide to her about sexual harassment or violence in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. They have to feel comfortable,” Yebra says. “They have to feel like they can trust that they’re going to be helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yebra says she literally holds a woman’s hand and walks with her into the police station to file a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes victims change their minds once they find out what’s involved in a criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s because of all the questions that they have to go over and over and over about your story,” Yebra explains. “Then they send her to another person. And then she has to again talk about the story. Now she has to go to court and again testify to the story. That’s very painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Mendoza agrees. She’s the Mexican government’s consul for protection of Mexican citizens in the Central Valley, and she helps crime victims navigate the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More in this series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306280850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Farmworkers Face Rape -- And a System That Doesn't Aid Them\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/e\" target=\"_blank\">One Determined Farmworker Helps Others Confront Sexual Harassment in the Fields\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307010850/a\" target=\"_blank\">ALRB Provides Unique Way to Resolve Disputes between Growers and Farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says sometimes victims of sexual harassment in the fields prefer to come to confidential settlements with farm companies rather than face a jury trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really depends on how far the victim wants to go,” she says. “You could take it to the court, send the perpetrator to jail, and set an example so that other supervisors think twice before doing this kind of thing. But a lot of times the victim wants to just wrap things up as fast as possible. And coming to an agreement with the company may do that: it’s confidential, no one else finds out about it from either the victim’s or the company’s point of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when women do pursue a criminal case, the odds are long. District attorneys have to decide there’s enough evidence to prosecute -- and prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Ciuffini, assistant district attorney for Kings County, says it’s often a matter of ‘he said, she said.’ “If the defense is, ‘she consented,’ those cases are very, very difficult,” says Ciuffini, “because it’s a credibility match, basically.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Guadalupe Chavez, Ciuffini decided there was strong enough evidence to prosecute. At the time, Ciuffini was the county’s sexual assault prosecutor. But this was her first farmworker case. And she says the language barrier can be a big hurdle for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re hearing the victim’s story in their own language,” he says, “I think it’s easier for them to understand. If they’re hearing it through an interpreter, jurors can’t make that connection with the victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to say whether that played a role in the outcome of Guadalupe Chavez’s case. The man she accused admitted sexual contact, but argued it was consensual. And the jury acquitted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even so, Chavez says she feels like she got some justice – because the man she accused of raping her had to face her in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was worth it,” she says. “And I would do it again. Because at least now (the alleged perpetrator) might think twice about doing this to somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez was eventually able to qualify for a special “U visa” for crime victims, which has allowed her to gain legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This series was reported in collaboration with Bernice Yeung of the Center for Investigative Reporting and the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. 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It’s more likely a place like Westside Family Preservation Services, a small domestic violence agency tucked into a run-down strip mall in the tiny farmworker town of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, women constantly stream in from the fields after work, pulling down the brightly colored bandannas that protect their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141238\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworker Amparo Yebra says sometimes the women will confide to her about sexual harassment or violence in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. 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But a lot of times the victim wants to just wrap things up as fast as possible. And coming to an agreement with the company may do that: it’s confidential, no one else finds out about it from either the victim’s or the company’s point of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when women do pursue a criminal case, the odds are long. District attorneys have to decide there’s enough evidence to prosecute -- and prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Ciuffini, assistant district attorney for Kings County, says it’s often a matter of ‘he said, she said.’ “If the defense is, ‘she consented,’ those cases are very, very difficult,” says Ciuffini, “because it’s a credibility match, basically.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Guadalupe Chavez, Ciuffini decided there was strong enough evidence to prosecute. At the time, Ciuffini was the county’s sexual assault prosecutor. But this was her first farmworker case. And she says the language barrier can be a big hurdle for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re hearing the victim’s story in their own language,” he says, “I think it’s easier for them to understand. If they’re hearing it through an interpreter, jurors can’t make that connection with the victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to say whether that played a role in the outcome of Guadalupe Chavez’s case. The man she accused admitted sexual contact, but argued it was consensual. And the jury acquitted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even so, Chavez says she feels like she got some justice – because the man she accused of raping her had to face her in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was worth it,” she says. “And I would do it again. 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