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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first auction is being closely watched. It will mark the start of the most comprehensive carbon trading program in American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first two years of the program, large industrial emitters will receive 90 percent of their allowances for free in a soft start meant to give companies time to reduce emissions through new technologies or other means. The cap, or number of allowances, will decline over time in an effort to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Air Board say say they’re reviewing the lawsuit and will go ahead with tomorrow’s auction. The cap-and-trade program covers 360 businesses in California, from oil refineries to food processors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This market-based approach to cutting greenhouse emissions gives businesses the flexibility to best decide how to reduce their emissions. We are going forward with tomorrow's auction,\" said Board spokesman Stanley Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Board estimates that about $1 billion could be raised from the sale of allowances in fiscal year 2012-13. About 23 million allowances will be sold for 2013 emissions, and 39.5 million allowances are being pre-sold Wednesday for 2015 emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some uncertainty about how, exactly, the money will be used. But California law dictates that it go into a greenhouse gas reduction account, and any programs that use the funds be consistent with the goals of the state's climate change law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials hope a successful rollout of its cap-and-trade system will embolden other states to follow suit. Currently, a much less inclusive cap-and-trade scheme that covers only electricity producers is in effect for northeastern states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chamber argues that California's system goes too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless we adopt the most cost effective way of reducing carbon emissions, other states will not follow us,\" Allan Zaremberg, the chamber's president and CEO, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchamber.com/PressReleases/Pages/11132012-CalChamberSuestoInvalidateCARBsCapandTradeAuction.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>. \"The current ... proposal is the most costly way to implement AB32, and it will hurt consumers, the job climate, and the ability of businesses to expand here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn more about cap-and-trade:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/09/where-do-californias-carbon-emissions-come-from/\" target=\"_blank\">Where Do California's Carbon Emissions Come From?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\" target=\"_blank\">Cap-and-Trade 101: How California's Carbon Market Works\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Passing with 68% of the vote last Tuesday, Proposition 36 softened California’s controversial three strikes law, one of the toughest sentencing rules in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/handcuffs.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80107\" title=\"handcuffs\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/handcuffs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three strikes, which voters put in place in 1994, allows for sentences of life in prison for anyone convicted of three felonies, regardless of the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 36 will let some “third strikers” out of prison if their felonies were not serious or violent. And it will shorten the sentences given for new third-strike offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how many people will get out of prison under the new measure? Not as many as you might think, California Watch investigative reporter Michael Montgomery told KQED Online Editor Jon Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks: \u003c/strong>Are we going to see a flood of felons leaving state prisons?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Inmates who were sentenced under the law, whose third strikes were not violent felonies or serious felonies, will be eligible to petition the judge in the original court for a re-sentencing. However there is a provision that disqualifies an inmate from possible re-sentencing if his first or second strike included very serious crimes such as rape or murder. There are just under 9,000 three-strikers in prison, total. Just over half of those have violent, or serious, third strikes. So, you’ve already whittled the number down to about 4,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number you sometimes hear is three- to three-and-a-half-thousand people who could be eligible. Experts who’ve looked at this say that the number is actually a lot smaller than that, maybe 2,000, but probably even smaller than that, because of various elements to people’s sentences and previous felonies. So, I think right now we can say perhaps hundreds of inmates will be eligible for resentencing. What’s interesting is that the text of Proposition 36, when you read the text, which is a very long text, you realize how careful, and in fact narrow, the measure is. Not surprising, if you’re going to get the buy-in from people like LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley and Grover Norquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Three-Strikes_Prop-36_GroupShot_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80115\" title=\"Three Strikes_Prop 36_GroupShot_\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Three-Strikes_Prop-36_GroupShot_-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of a San Quentin self-help group for three-strikers meet with reporter Michael Montgomery. Most say they are here for non-violent crimes. (Monica Lam/Center for Investigative Reporting))\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Grover Norquist supported the measure? What was his reasoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: There’s a movement among conservatives in the US called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.rightoncrime.com/\">Right on Crime\u003c/a>.” Grover Norquist is part of it, Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich. The idea, particularly with Norquist, is that mandatory minimum sentencing, which is sort of what Three strikes is, in an extreme sense, is a waste of resources, that we shouldn’t be sending away low-level drug offenders to prison at \u003cem>huge\u003c/em> cost to the taxpayers, when there are much more efficient, effective and cheaper alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: So, it’s sort of an extension of their anti-tax positions?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> For Norquist, it is. I interviewed a guy named Craig DeRoche. He’s in this Prisons Fellowship, this is the group that Chuck Coleson started – the Watergate guy – and also Pat Nolan has been involved. He was a former California lawmaker who was sent to prison on corruption charges, converted to Christianity, born again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their feeling is that conservatives have scrutinized every aspect of government except criminal justice policy. They’ve come around to the feeling that there are some things that are out of whack. And they would point to California’s three strikes as a great example of that. It’s totally interesting. Go to their web site; it’s fascinating, and look at Norquist’s statement. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rightoncrime.com/2010/11/test-gallery-post/\">“Grover Norquist’s Remarks on the Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform.”\u003c/a> He did endorse Prop 36; it’s on the Yes on 36 web site. Look at the supporters of [Prop] 36, scroll way down, and you’ll see some conservative groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Why were the backers so careful in writing the text?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conservatives have scrutinized every aspect of government except criminal justice policy. They’ve come around to the feeling that there are some things that are out of whack.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> The back story to Proposition 36 is that the group of people who put it together had to work very, very, very hard to convince Steve Cooley to sign on. And they got his agreement, his support, and I think that that was critical to 36’s success. If you had the DA’s from the biggest cities in California — San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and Jeff Rosen — you had high-profile DA’s supporting it. They made a TV ad which you can check out; it’s on \u003ca href=\"http://www.yeson36.org/\">their web site\u003c/a>. That made a huge difference at reassuring voters that this wasn’t a soft-on-crime measure, that it wasn’t going to endanger public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing that’s interesting is, you can debate, “Is the success of Prop 36 in its symbolic importance, or in its practical importance?” I would argue possibly that it’s really in its symbolism for two reasons. It shows that voters are willing to back a measure that brings more leniency into sentencing. I think the San Jose Mercury News looked at this, and they said it’s only the second time in the last hundred years that there’s been a voters’ initiative that’s actually ratcheted-down on sentencing. The other thing that’s hugely important is that this shows to other politicians that you can publicly support sentencing reform and not get burned as being called “soft on crime.” I mean, that’s the hope in any case. You know this has been one of the third rails of politics for a long time, especially in California. I mean, you had three Supreme Court judges recalled for being called “soft on crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: For the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Exactly. And so the politics of this are really interesting, maybe more than its impact on criminal justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> You were saying that some of the poster children for reforming the law — like the guy sentenced to live in prison for walking away with a slice of pizza — almost all of that sort of sentencing happened before 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> It’s not that if you qualify, you just immediately get a sentence reduction. You have to go to the judge, and there is a provision here that the judge can consider the petitioner’s disciplinary record and record of rehabilitation while incarcerated. And if a judge determines that you haven’t done well enough behind bars, they could very much deny your petition, and this “pizza thief” could remain behind bars for his 25-life sentence. So, it’s not automatic. And the judges still have a lot of discretion. One other very interesting question is, in the run up to Proposition 36, we interviewed Carl Adams, the head of the District Attorneys’ Association of California. They opposed Proposition 36, as did almost all district attorneys in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Except for the high-profile ones you talked about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Except for the three. And, will these district attorneys band together and fight these cases, these petitions? Will there be an active opposition? Will they go to the judge and really try to block, get these petitions denied? It’s going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> Are the district attorneys part of the process formally, as opposed to just weighing in? Do they need to sign off on something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: No. It’s up to the judge, but they could influence the judge, no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Let’s get back to the pre-2000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> According to the District Attorneys’ Association, around 85% of the current three strikers were sentenced before 2000. So, there’s this idea that in the first years after three strikes passed were the years when the most egregious cases happened. And since the early 2000’s, particularly when Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley adopted these reforms, he said, “Look, we’re not going to send away non-violent, low-level criminals as three-strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> So, he was already subscribing to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Absolutely. You could argue that Proposition 36 affirms the Steve Cooley approach to three strikes. And in fact, Cooley has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/23/video-george-gascon-steve-cooley-describe-their-positions-on-death-penalty-3-strikes-ballot-initiatives/\">said on KQED\u003c/a> that Proposition 36 is the best way to preserve the three strikes law and protect it from future legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/vJMvvByDEHs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his view, the way LA County approaches three strikes is “sound.” Now, there’s an interesting debate about that, because under the Cooley approach, which has now been adopted by California voters, people convicted of three so-called “serious crimes\u003cstrong>”\u003c/strong> are eligible for life sentences. But a serious crime can be a home burglary. So, we’re still in a situation where it’s possible that someone could be sentenced for 25-life for three burglaries of an unoccupied home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Is LA County so important because they send a majority of felons to prison?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Yeah, it’s huge. I don’t know the percentage, but one other thing to point out is that even though there’s the Cooley rule, which big-city prosecutors adopted, but there’s still prosecutors in smaller counties who were sending people to prison for life on fairly low-level crimes, in terms of three strikes. So, the argument in support of Proposition 36 is, “We have to have some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/30/where-does-your-county-rank-in-imprisonment/\">consistency statewide\u003c/a>.” It’s unfair to have someone convicted in San Francisco go to jail for maybe five years while if that same person was convicted for the same crimes in Kern County, they’re going to get 25 to life. That’s really not a good idea in the eyes of the supporters of Proposition 36\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks: \u003c/strong>So, as the judges have to go and sign off on this stuff, that also could be County-dependant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Right. Now opponents of 36 argue that judges already have discretion; they can knock down a strike. It’s up to the prosecutor and even the judge. If three strikes were automatic, California would have tens of thousands of people behind bars for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: That’s why I was so surprised to find out it was so few prisoners. I thought it was filling the jails up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: I think a lot of people when the see the numbers are surprised and probably thought there were more three strikers than there are. However, there is the two strike element, and this is an important thing. What mandatory minimums are about, is essentially sentence enhancements that are automatic. There’s a strong argument that a key factor in our crowded prisons are these sentence enhancements. It’s not that we’re sending more people to prison. It’s that we’re sending people to prison for longer periods of time. At least, that’s the bigger factor. And so, one element that Proposition 36 does not address is this “two strikes,” which is a doubling of your penalty, if you have a second felony. The estimates are that there are more than 30,000 people in California prisons serving two strike terms. Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Two-strikes-have-large-impact-on-prison-population-2352565.php.\">article about this by Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>, It’s the elephant in the room, or the gorilla in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> Two felonies, you double the penalty? And they don’t have to be violent felonies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: That’s right. So, if people thought that Prop 36 is going to be a major factor in reducing prison overcrowding, they’re going to need to reconsider that, because it’s not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: And Prop 36 says nothing about two strikes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Nothing. So, critics of 36, let’s say on the liberal side, will say that it doesn’t go far enough, because we still have in place this idea of very long sentences for let’s say ‘mid-level’ crimes. Do we want to do that as a society? Is it helpful or not? I don’t know how voters feel about that, but it certainly wasn’t on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Last thing, I wanted to ask about the failure of the death penalty initiative, Proposition 34. A colleague wondered if people split their criminal justice vote — if they were uncomfortable about voting to abolish the death penalty, they felt they could overturn three strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: That’s really interesting. In talking to some of the people who were involved in writing the ballot initiative for three strikes, running up to the vote, there was this idea that people were going to pass it, because it was about money, and we’re in a recession, and it was really just about saving money. If that were the case, then people would have also voted for the death penalty. What supporters of 36 say is that the money is sort of icing on the cake. You had to have a story. There had to be a story to tell that people would be engaged in. And if you look on the Yes on 36 web site, read some of those stories. They’re very moving. There is a sense of injustice. I would argue is that if it had just been the injustice, I’m not sure 36 would have passed. But because you had a sense of injustice and an incredible waste of taxpayers’ money, those things together worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of capital punishment, there are no poster cases of injustice. There’s no specific case of someone being executed who was wrongfully convicted. There are wrongful convictions, but I think people feel that there is a system to address that. We see people who’ve gotten out after being wrongfully convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another interesting element is that Proposition 36 people kept their distance from Proposition 34. They did not want people to confuse the two measures. It’s difficult when you look at some of the people who are on death row, it’s difficult for voters to sense injustice. It’s really hard, even though I think a lot of Californians are uncomfortable with state-sanctioned executions. It’s hard to get into the story of these people and not be disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other important thing about Proposition 36 is that there was no active opposition. I mean, the opponents of Proposition 36 raised about $130,000. There were no TV ads. Don’t forget last time, in 2006, a ballot measure to change three strikes, four governors went publicly against it, including Jerry Brown. There were TV ads with Arnold Schwarzenegger that he paid for himself, that came on right before the vote. That was a major push against it. And the measure wasn’t as narrowly crafted. We didn’t get any of that this time. Brown was silent, the prison guards’ union was silent. In a sense, I think Prop. 36 got either the explicit or the tacit support of the political establishment in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: And who financed it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: George Soros put in I think a million dollars. David Mills, who’s an investor, who also teaches at Stanford, put in almost a million dollars. Here’s one more thing. Part of this story is about Stanford Law School. There was a team of devoted professors and students who really took on both cases of three strikers who they’ve gotten out of prison – at least two dozen – but also getting this measure crafted, getting support. You know, without Stanford University’s law school, it may be that this measure wouldn’t have existed, or it wouldn’t have passed. So, for people who supported 36, they need to tip their hats to Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"description": "Passing with 68% of the vote last Tuesday, Proposition 36 softened California’s controversial three strikes law, one of the toughest sentencing rules in the country. Three strikes, which voters put in place in 1994, allows for sentences of life in prison for anyone convicted of three felonies, regardless of the crime. Prop. 36 will let",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Passing with 68% of the vote last Tuesday, Proposition 36 softened California’s controversial three strikes law, one of the toughest sentencing rules in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/handcuffs.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80107\" title=\"handcuffs\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/handcuffs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three strikes, which voters put in place in 1994, allows for sentences of life in prison for anyone convicted of three felonies, regardless of the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 36 will let some “third strikers” out of prison if their felonies were not serious or violent. And it will shorten the sentences given for new third-strike offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how many people will get out of prison under the new measure? Not as many as you might think, California Watch investigative reporter Michael Montgomery told KQED Online Editor Jon Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks: \u003c/strong>Are we going to see a flood of felons leaving state prisons?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Inmates who were sentenced under the law, whose third strikes were not violent felonies or serious felonies, will be eligible to petition the judge in the original court for a re-sentencing. However there is a provision that disqualifies an inmate from possible re-sentencing if his first or second strike included very serious crimes such as rape or murder. There are just under 9,000 three-strikers in prison, total. Just over half of those have violent, or serious, third strikes. So, you’ve already whittled the number down to about 4,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number you sometimes hear is three- to three-and-a-half-thousand people who could be eligible. Experts who’ve looked at this say that the number is actually a lot smaller than that, maybe 2,000, but probably even smaller than that, because of various elements to people’s sentences and previous felonies. So, I think right now we can say perhaps hundreds of inmates will be eligible for resentencing. What’s interesting is that the text of Proposition 36, when you read the text, which is a very long text, you realize how careful, and in fact narrow, the measure is. Not surprising, if you’re going to get the buy-in from people like LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley and Grover Norquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Three-Strikes_Prop-36_GroupShot_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80115\" title=\"Three Strikes_Prop 36_GroupShot_\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Three-Strikes_Prop-36_GroupShot_-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of a San Quentin self-help group for three-strikers meet with reporter Michael Montgomery. Most say they are here for non-violent crimes. (Monica Lam/Center for Investigative Reporting))\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Grover Norquist supported the measure? What was his reasoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: There’s a movement among conservatives in the US called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.rightoncrime.com/\">Right on Crime\u003c/a>.” Grover Norquist is part of it, Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich. The idea, particularly with Norquist, is that mandatory minimum sentencing, which is sort of what Three strikes is, in an extreme sense, is a waste of resources, that we shouldn’t be sending away low-level drug offenders to prison at \u003cem>huge\u003c/em> cost to the taxpayers, when there are much more efficient, effective and cheaper alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: So, it’s sort of an extension of their anti-tax positions?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> For Norquist, it is. I interviewed a guy named Craig DeRoche. He’s in this Prisons Fellowship, this is the group that Chuck Coleson started – the Watergate guy – and also Pat Nolan has been involved. He was a former California lawmaker who was sent to prison on corruption charges, converted to Christianity, born again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their feeling is that conservatives have scrutinized every aspect of government except criminal justice policy. They’ve come around to the feeling that there are some things that are out of whack. And they would point to California’s three strikes as a great example of that. It’s totally interesting. Go to their web site; it’s fascinating, and look at Norquist’s statement. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rightoncrime.com/2010/11/test-gallery-post/\">“Grover Norquist’s Remarks on the Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform.”\u003c/a> He did endorse Prop 36; it’s on the Yes on 36 web site. Look at the supporters of [Prop] 36, scroll way down, and you’ll see some conservative groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Why were the backers so careful in writing the text?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conservatives have scrutinized every aspect of government except criminal justice policy. They’ve come around to the feeling that there are some things that are out of whack.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> The back story to Proposition 36 is that the group of people who put it together had to work very, very, very hard to convince Steve Cooley to sign on. And they got his agreement, his support, and I think that that was critical to 36’s success. If you had the DA’s from the biggest cities in California — San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and Jeff Rosen — you had high-profile DA’s supporting it. They made a TV ad which you can check out; it’s on \u003ca href=\"http://www.yeson36.org/\">their web site\u003c/a>. That made a huge difference at reassuring voters that this wasn’t a soft-on-crime measure, that it wasn’t going to endanger public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing that’s interesting is, you can debate, “Is the success of Prop 36 in its symbolic importance, or in its practical importance?” I would argue possibly that it’s really in its symbolism for two reasons. It shows that voters are willing to back a measure that brings more leniency into sentencing. I think the San Jose Mercury News looked at this, and they said it’s only the second time in the last hundred years that there’s been a voters’ initiative that’s actually ratcheted-down on sentencing. The other thing that’s hugely important is that this shows to other politicians that you can publicly support sentencing reform and not get burned as being called “soft on crime.” I mean, that’s the hope in any case. You know this has been one of the third rails of politics for a long time, especially in California. I mean, you had three Supreme Court judges recalled for being called “soft on crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: For the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Exactly. And so the politics of this are really interesting, maybe more than its impact on criminal justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> You were saying that some of the poster children for reforming the law — like the guy sentenced to live in prison for walking away with a slice of pizza — almost all of that sort of sentencing happened before 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> It’s not that if you qualify, you just immediately get a sentence reduction. You have to go to the judge, and there is a provision here that the judge can consider the petitioner’s disciplinary record and record of rehabilitation while incarcerated. And if a judge determines that you haven’t done well enough behind bars, they could very much deny your petition, and this “pizza thief” could remain behind bars for his 25-life sentence. So, it’s not automatic. And the judges still have a lot of discretion. One other very interesting question is, in the run up to Proposition 36, we interviewed Carl Adams, the head of the District Attorneys’ Association of California. They opposed Proposition 36, as did almost all district attorneys in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Except for the high-profile ones you talked about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Except for the three. And, will these district attorneys band together and fight these cases, these petitions? Will there be an active opposition? Will they go to the judge and really try to block, get these petitions denied? It’s going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> Are the district attorneys part of the process formally, as opposed to just weighing in? Do they need to sign off on something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: No. It’s up to the judge, but they could influence the judge, no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Let’s get back to the pre-2000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> According to the District Attorneys’ Association, around 85% of the current three strikers were sentenced before 2000. So, there’s this idea that in the first years after three strikes passed were the years when the most egregious cases happened. And since the early 2000’s, particularly when Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley adopted these reforms, he said, “Look, we’re not going to send away non-violent, low-level criminals as three-strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> So, he was already subscribing to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Absolutely. You could argue that Proposition 36 affirms the Steve Cooley approach to three strikes. And in fact, Cooley has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/23/video-george-gascon-steve-cooley-describe-their-positions-on-death-penalty-3-strikes-ballot-initiatives/\">said on KQED\u003c/a> that Proposition 36 is the best way to preserve the three strikes law and protect it from future legal challenges.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vJMvvByDEHs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vJMvvByDEHs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In his view, the way LA County approaches three strikes is “sound.” Now, there’s an interesting debate about that, because under the Cooley approach, which has now been adopted by California voters, people convicted of three so-called “serious crimes\u003cstrong>”\u003c/strong> are eligible for life sentences. But a serious crime can be a home burglary. So, we’re still in a situation where it’s possible that someone could be sentenced for 25-life for three burglaries of an unoccupied home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Is LA County so important because they send a majority of felons to prison?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Yeah, it’s huge. I don’t know the percentage, but one other thing to point out is that even though there’s the Cooley rule, which big-city prosecutors adopted, but there’s still prosecutors in smaller counties who were sending people to prison for life on fairly low-level crimes, in terms of three strikes. So, the argument in support of Proposition 36 is, “We have to have some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/30/where-does-your-county-rank-in-imprisonment/\">consistency statewide\u003c/a>.” It’s unfair to have someone convicted in San Francisco go to jail for maybe five years while if that same person was convicted for the same crimes in Kern County, they’re going to get 25 to life. That’s really not a good idea in the eyes of the supporters of Proposition 36\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks: \u003c/strong>So, as the judges have to go and sign off on this stuff, that also could be County-dependant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Right. Now opponents of 36 argue that judges already have discretion; they can knock down a strike. It’s up to the prosecutor and even the judge. If three strikes were automatic, California would have tens of thousands of people behind bars for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: That’s why I was so surprised to find out it was so few prisoners. I thought it was filling the jails up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: I think a lot of people when the see the numbers are surprised and probably thought there were more three strikers than there are. However, there is the two strike element, and this is an important thing. What mandatory minimums are about, is essentially sentence enhancements that are automatic. There’s a strong argument that a key factor in our crowded prisons are these sentence enhancements. It’s not that we’re sending more people to prison. It’s that we’re sending people to prison for longer periods of time. At least, that’s the bigger factor. And so, one element that Proposition 36 does not address is this “two strikes,” which is a doubling of your penalty, if you have a second felony. The estimates are that there are more than 30,000 people in California prisons serving two strike terms. Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Two-strikes-have-large-impact-on-prison-population-2352565.php.\">article about this by Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>, It’s the elephant in the room, or the gorilla in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks:\u003c/strong> Two felonies, you double the penalty? And they don’t have to be violent felonies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: That’s right. So, if people thought that Prop 36 is going to be a major factor in reducing prison overcrowding, they’re going to need to reconsider that, because it’s not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: And Prop 36 says nothing about two strikes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: Nothing. So, critics of 36, let’s say on the liberal side, will say that it doesn’t go far enough, because we still have in place this idea of very long sentences for let’s say ‘mid-level’ crimes. Do we want to do that as a society? Is it helpful or not? I don’t know how voters feel about that, but it certainly wasn’t on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: Last thing, I wanted to ask about the failure of the death penalty initiative, Proposition 34. A colleague wondered if people split their criminal justice vote — if they were uncomfortable about voting to abolish the death penalty, they felt they could overturn three strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>: That’s really interesting. In talking to some of the people who were involved in writing the ballot initiative for three strikes, running up to the vote, there was this idea that people were going to pass it, because it was about money, and we’re in a recession, and it was really just about saving money. If that were the case, then people would have also voted for the death penalty. What supporters of 36 say is that the money is sort of icing on the cake. You had to have a story. There had to be a story to tell that people would be engaged in. And if you look on the Yes on 36 web site, read some of those stories. They’re very moving. There is a sense of injustice. I would argue is that if it had just been the injustice, I’m not sure 36 would have passed. But because you had a sense of injustice and an incredible waste of taxpayers’ money, those things together worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of capital punishment, there are no poster cases of injustice. There’s no specific case of someone being executed who was wrongfully convicted. There are wrongful convictions, but I think people feel that there is a system to address that. We see people who’ve gotten out after being wrongfully convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another interesting element is that Proposition 36 people kept their distance from Proposition 34. They did not want people to confuse the two measures. It’s difficult when you look at some of the people who are on death row, it’s difficult for voters to sense injustice. It’s really hard, even though I think a lot of Californians are uncomfortable with state-sanctioned executions. It’s hard to get into the story of these people and not be disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other important thing about Proposition 36 is that there was no active opposition. I mean, the opponents of Proposition 36 raised about $130,000. There were no TV ads. Don’t forget last time, in 2006, a ballot measure to change three strikes, four governors went publicly against it, including Jerry Brown. There were TV ads with Arnold Schwarzenegger that he paid for himself, that came on right before the vote. That was a major push against it. And the measure wasn’t as narrowly crafted. We didn’t get any of that this time. Brown was silent, the prison guards’ union was silent. In a sense, I think Prop. 36 got either the explicit or the tacit support of the political establishment in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jon Brooks\u003c/strong>: And who financed it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/medical-board-steps-investigations-fake-doctors-18641\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state medical board has investigated a mounting number of people posing as doctors and offering risky treatments, including a San Francisco man who performed liposuction while smoking a cigar and a San Diego woman who sickened a patient with lengthy IV infusion treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Doctor-Scrub-sGeneric.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79846\" title=\"Doctor Scrubs Generic\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/Doctor-Scrub-sGeneric-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Medical Board of California reported that its unit that investigates lay people posing as medical professionals, called Operation Safe Medicine, sent 61 cases to prosecutors for review for the fiscal year ending in June, up from 31 cases the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were released Friday in the Sunset Review Report, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbc.ca.gov/publications/sunset_report_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a comprehensive review\u003c/a> of medical board operations over recent years. The report, which is issued when the board’s charter is set to be renewed by lawmakers, calls for more staff to launch a Northern California unit in addition to the existing six-person Southern California Operation Safe Medicine team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board believes that the OSM Unit is imperative in order to protect the public from the actions of unlicensed practitioners,” Jennifer Simoes, the medical board’s chief of legislation, said in a statement. “OSM staff has the specialized training and expertise necessary to address the continued proliferation of unlicensed cases.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, an Encinitas woman, Kathleen Ann Helms, represented herself as a doctor of naturopathy at an office called BrightHouse Wellness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2012/encinitas-woman-arrested-on-charges-of-practicing-medicine-without-a-license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the FBI\u003c/a>, which probed the case with the medical board staff, Helms diagnosed patients with Lyme disease and prescribed injections of bovine stem cells and dimethyl sulfoxide, a solvent used in some medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One patient was sent to a Tijuana hospital to have a catheter line installed in her arm so she could get intravenous treatments, an FBI account of the case said. The patient paid Helms $30,000 for treatments, including an initial seven-hour intravenous session. After a fourth infusion session, the patient grew so ill that she went to an emergency room and was hospitalized for six weeks, the FBI said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helms, 57, was arrested Aug. 13 in Encinitas. Her attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges were filed in December against a San Francisco man accused of performing liposuction while smoking a cigar. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdistrictattorney.com/index.aspx?page=175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prosecutors say\u003c/a> Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, operated with no assistant and had the client hold her own IV bag while he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza assumed the identity of a physician assistant who shared a similar name and ran Derma Clinic, a dermatology office on Mission Street in San Francisco, according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an initial round of press coverage spurred additional victims to come forward, prosecutors filed amended charges against him in April. They included practicing medicine without a license, false impersonation, identity theft, rape and grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza’s attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cases investigated by the unit have focused on vendors selling “big eye” contact lenses in Los Angeles. The lenses are popular in Asia and make the iris of the eye appear larger, but they can also cause eye damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/-San-Jose-Man-Convicted-of-Posing-as-Toenail-Fungus-Doctor-160296925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another case\u003c/a> involved Cary Silberman, a Santa Clara County man who performed laser treatments to remove toenail fungus at his Shiny Toes clinics in San Francisco and San Ramon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A doctor at California Medical Facility was paid more than $410,000 last year, while a registered nurse at High Desert State Prison made nearly $236,000 — more than twice the statewide average in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59316\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pelicanbay1\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison in California\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A pharmacist at Corcoran State Prison was paid more than $196,000, nearly double what is typical across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compensation for medical providers has soared in the prison system since a federal judge seized control of inmate health care in 2006 and appointed an overseer with the power to hire and set pay levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the official begins to wind down his oversight, the medical hiring and salary increases have helped lead to an improvement in inmate care, but it has increased the bill for taxpayers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also led to criticism that the official — called a receiver — provided a “Cadillac” level of care for convicted felons. A state review found that only Texas pays its state prison doctors more that California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem that we had is that the receiver was not accountable to anybody,” said former state Sen. George Runner, a Republican who has frequently criticized the program. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the receiver could just do or choose to spend whatever amount of money he thought was necessary to solve his problem, and unfortunately now the state is stuck with that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver for medical care, J. Clark Kelso, said the state has been free to collectively bargain health care providers’ salaries since a court order increasing their wages expired three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The receiver’s goal was to correct a prison medical system that was ruled unconstitutional for its substandard care and, at one point, contributed to an inmate death each week through negligence or malfeasance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, the receivership increased salaries, created new positions at high pay and hired hundreds of employees to fill longtime vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total spending on medical, dental and mental health care for inmates, numbering 124,700, has more than doubled over the last decade, from $1.1 billion in fiscal year 2003-04 to a projected $2.3 billion this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of medical, mental health and dental workers in the prisons more than doubled over six years, from 5,100 in 2005, the year before the receivership was created, to 12,200 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 were administrators who don’t directly treat inmates, according to a state Assembly oversight committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. David M. Mathis at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, between Sacramento and San Francisco, was paid about $410,000 last year, the most of any prison doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathis treats some of the sickest inmates and is the acting medical director at the prison hospice, where terminally ill prisoners go to die. He is a board certified physician who had a solo practice for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his $239,572 base salary, Mathis was paid $169,548 for working nights and weekends. His pay topped other doctors because he also worked overnight, weekend and holiday shifts 10 to 15 times a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison doctors said they deserve higher pay because they face the constant threat of assault from inmates and because prisons, generally, are located in the most remote regions of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing it well now because we’ve got better docs who are willing to work in these less-than-ideal situations and are being adequately compensated,” said Mathis, who also worked in prisons in Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Kincaid, a spokeswoman for the federal receiver, said paying doctors to work nights and weekends is cheaper than hiring additional doctors with full salaries and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has cut its costs for outside medical care in half by having more sick inmates treated by the prison doctors instead of being sent to hospitals. That also reduces the cost of transporting and guarding them while they are treated outside of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can save the taxpayer a lot of money by coming in to handle things,” said Dr. Vache Chakmakian, who works 90 miles from Ironwood State Prison near Blythe, a southern desert city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakmakian was paid $358,645 last year — his regular pay of $239,572 plus $119,072 for frequently working overnight and holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal judges and receivers who oversee medical and mental health care said boosting pay significantly was the only way to attract quality employees to such jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result is that of the top 100 highest-paid state employees outside the University of California system last year, 44 worked in the prisons, according to an Associated Press analysis of state payroll data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They averaged nearly $379,000 in salary and were led by the $803,271 paid to a psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Base salaries for prison psychiatrists range from $126,000 to $281,952, depending on seniority and other factors, with chief psychiatrists paid more. Dentists’ salaries can be as high as $288,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the other most populous states, California had higher base salaries for prison doctors than New York, Florida and Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But base salaries for prison doctors were higher in Texas, particularly when salaries were adjusted for California’s higher cost of living, according to a state Department of Finance report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prison receiver does not control mental health or dental care, but the finance department counts those in the overall cost of providing inmate medical care, which has risen from $7,747 per inmate the year before the federal receivership began to more than $18,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts have directed the receivership to wind down while ensuring the state prison system maintains adequate health care for inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order reignited a debate between Kelso and Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Thursday the law firm O'Donnell, Clark & Crew released a database of what it says is more than 14,500 pages \"of previously confidential documents from the Boy Scouts of America's so called 'Perversion Files,' a set of files maintained by the Scouts since the 1920s that detail individual incidents of alleged sexual abuse within Scouting.\" The documents released cover the period 1965-1985.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/data/ci_21804063\">\u003cstrong>Search files by state, city or name\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kellyclarkattorney.com/files/?sort=lasts&dir=asc&page=0\">\u003cstrong>Alphabetical list of individuals' name\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/boyscouts-cases/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>LA Times database of allegations 1947-2005\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group has put the files into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/data/ci_21804063\" target=\"_blank\">database\u003c/a>. You can search for individuals who were alleged to have abused scouts by name or look for those who appear in the database by city or state. The database will then kick out individual files on the related incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Donnell, Clark & Crew have also put up an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kellyclarkattorney.com/files/?sort=lasts&dir=asc&page=0\">alphabetical list\u003c/a> of those individuals suspected of abuse nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oregon Supreme Court ordered the public release of the files as a result of a successful 2010 lawsuit in which the Scouts were ordered to pay nearly $20 million in punitive damages. At that time, a Multnomah County, Oregon jury awarded $1.4 million to plaintiff Kerry Lewis, sexually abused as a 12-year-old by an assistant troop leader. The jury then found the scouts liable for $18.5 million in punitive damages. \u003c!--more-->More from O'Donnell, Clark & Crew on the release of the files:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The files...contain detailed reports of alleged abuse by more than 1,200 different Scoutmasters and other adult volunteers from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) between 1965 and 1985, as well as the BSA's response to the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially called the Boy Scouts Ineligible Volunteer Files, but commonly known as the Perversion Files, the BSA established the national files and database to identify and track volunteers and Scout leaders who were deemed by the organization to be ineligible to participate in Scouting because of accusations of abuse. As the files reveal, in the many of cases [sic], the BSA did not share information it gathered about abuse with law enforcement. In fact in a number of cases, abusers were able to relocate, join different Scouting groups and continue abusing children.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/18/4921947/boy-scouts-release-20-years-of.html\">AP reports\u003c/a> that in \"more than a third [of the cases] according to the Scouts' own count - police weren't told about the reports of abuse. And even when they were, sometimes local law enforcement still did nothing, seeking to protect the name of Scouting over their victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(O'Donnell, Clark & Crew also says the files are just the \" \u003ca href=\"http://www.kellyclarkattorney.com/general/existing-boy-scout-%E2%80%9Cperversion%E2%80%9D-files-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-part-three-the-numbers-don%E2%80%99t-add-up/\">tip of the iceberg\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm also issued an important disclaimer about the database: many of these files only document \u003cem>allegations\u003c/em> that have not been proven in a court of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The information in the IV [\"Ineligible Volunteer\"] files concerns allegations of child sexual abuse. In a number of the cases, the allegations were later substantiated by court proceedings. However, in a great many cases no such substantiation ever occurred. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, we are in no position to verify or attest to the truth of these allegations as they were compiled by the Boy Scouts of America. The incidents reported in these documents attest to notice of potential child abuse given to the Boy Scouts of America and its affiliates and their response to that notice.''\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The LA Times has also put together what it's calling \"a larger and slightly more recent batch of files —\u003ca href=\"http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/boyscouts-cases/\">1,900 cases opened on suspected child abusers from 1970 to 1991\u003c/a>.\" The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-scouts-oregon-20121019,0,5468251.story\">Times writes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In hundreds of cases, the newspaper found, the Scouts failed to report abuse to authorities and many times covered up allegations to protect the organization's reputation. The Times also found that dozens of men who were expelled on suspicion of sexual abuse managed to reenter the organization only to face new allegations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Locally, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Decades-of-abuse-of-Boy-Scouts-detailed-3962637.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> \"at least two dozen of those attacks [happened] in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the documented incidents ranged from a scoutmaster in Sunnyvale coming on to a boy during a camping trip to an assistant scoutmaster in Fairfield molesting 13 boys during visits to his home or the troop's meeting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is a very important day, a good day,\" said John Buckland, who was one of the 13 boys abused in Fairfield. \"For nearly 30 years they had me and tons of us locked away in a little box somewhere with dust on the lid, but today with the release of all these papers we get to have our say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckland, now 42 and living in West Virginia, was 14 in 1984 when he belonged to a troop at Travis Air Force Base. His case came to light when Air Force authorities came to his home one night and showed his parents lewd photos of him and the 12 other victims that had been taken by their abuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assistant scoutmaster, then-Sgt. Curtis Knarich, 24 at the time, was court-martialed for the molestations and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. But Buckland said he still hurts knowing the Boy Scouts never contacted him to apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't get me wrong - Scouting itself is a great concept,\" he said. \"But if you're going to have a great concept, you have to have great protections in place.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121018/ARTICLES/121019517/1350?Title=Boy-Scout-leaders-parents-dismayed-by-sex-abuse-cases\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports\u003c/a> the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Boy Scout officials and parents in Sonoma County expressed dismay Thursday at new documents that revealed decades of sexual abuse, but expressed confidence that changes within the organization have made it a safe place for children.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Press Democrat article also details some of the rules the Scouts have put in place to help prevent abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Aarti Shahani today talked with Anthony DeMarco, a Pasadena attorney representing four brothers whose San Jose Scout leader allegedly molested them back in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers, now in their 40s and 50s, opened up about the abuse only after the perpetrator happened to move into their neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When they're abused as children they do their very best to try to bury it,\" said DeMarco. \"And when this man comes into their community, now all of a sudden it's right in front of them again. But now they have children of their own, families that they're around. And their able to look at what happened to them through an adult set of eyes and understanding that it wasn't their fault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose appeals court dismissed the case, citing California's statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do the Boy Scouts of America have to say about all this? Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/BSAYouthProtection/BSA_Communications/IVFileStatement.aspx\">statement\u003c/a> from the organization's president, Wayne Perry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong. Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest apologies to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is difficult to understand or explain individuals’ actions from many decades ago, today Scouting is a leader among youth serving organizations in preventing child abuse. The BSA requires background checks, comprehensive training programs for volunteers, staff, youth and parents and mandates reporting of even suspected abuse. We have continuously enhanced our multi-tiered policies and procedures to ensure we are in line with and, where possible, ahead of society’s knowledge of abuse and best practices for prevention. BSA’s standards and relentless focus on youth protection have been recognized and praised by experts in child protection - including Victor Vieth, a former prosecutor who heads the National Child Protection Training Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts have found that the BSA’s system of Ineligible Volunteer Files functions well to help protect Scouts by denying entry to dangerous individuals, and Scouting believes that they play an important role in our comprehensive youth protection system.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/BSAYouthProtection/BSA_Communications/Ineligible_Volunteer_Files.aspx\">Scouts also say\u003c/a> that \"today, any adult who wants to join Scouting must pass a criminal background check\" and that \"scouting policies require prompt reporting of any inappropriate conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/18/4922734/boy-scouts-abuse-cases-echo-catholic.html\">McClatchy Newspapers piece\u003c/a> today likens the Boy Scouts' handling of these allegations to the abuse scandals at Penn State and the Catholic Church.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The incidents reported in these documents attest to notice of potential child abuse given to the Boy Scouts of America and its affiliates and their response to that notice.''\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The LA Times has also put together what it's calling \"a larger and slightly more recent batch of files —\u003ca href=\"http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/boyscouts-cases/\">1,900 cases opened on suspected child abusers from 1970 to 1991\u003c/a>.\" The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-scouts-oregon-20121019,0,5468251.story\">Times writes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In hundreds of cases, the newspaper found, the Scouts failed to report abuse to authorities and many times covered up allegations to protect the organization's reputation. The Times also found that dozens of men who were expelled on suspicion of sexual abuse managed to reenter the organization only to face new allegations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Locally, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Decades-of-abuse-of-Boy-Scouts-detailed-3962637.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> \"at least two dozen of those attacks [happened] in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the documented incidents ranged from a scoutmaster in Sunnyvale coming on to a boy during a camping trip to an assistant scoutmaster in Fairfield molesting 13 boys during visits to his home or the troop's meeting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is a very important day, a good day,\" said John Buckland, who was one of the 13 boys abused in Fairfield. \"For nearly 30 years they had me and tons of us locked away in a little box somewhere with dust on the lid, but today with the release of all these papers we get to have our say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckland, now 42 and living in West Virginia, was 14 in 1984 when he belonged to a troop at Travis Air Force Base. His case came to light when Air Force authorities came to his home one night and showed his parents lewd photos of him and the 12 other victims that had been taken by their abuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assistant scoutmaster, then-Sgt. Curtis Knarich, 24 at the time, was court-martialed for the molestations and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. But Buckland said he still hurts knowing the Boy Scouts never contacted him to apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't get me wrong - Scouting itself is a great concept,\" he said. \"But if you're going to have a great concept, you have to have great protections in place.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121018/ARTICLES/121019517/1350?Title=Boy-Scout-leaders-parents-dismayed-by-sex-abuse-cases\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports\u003c/a> the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Boy Scout officials and parents in Sonoma County expressed dismay Thursday at new documents that revealed decades of sexual abuse, but expressed confidence that changes within the organization have made it a safe place for children.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Press Democrat article also details some of the rules the Scouts have put in place to help prevent abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Aarti Shahani today talked with Anthony DeMarco, a Pasadena attorney representing four brothers whose San Jose Scout leader allegedly molested them back in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers, now in their 40s and 50s, opened up about the abuse only after the perpetrator happened to move into their neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When they're abused as children they do their very best to try to bury it,\" said DeMarco. \"And when this man comes into their community, now all of a sudden it's right in front of them again. But now they have children of their own, families that they're around. And their able to look at what happened to them through an adult set of eyes and understanding that it wasn't their fault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose appeals court dismissed the case, citing California's statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do the Boy Scouts of America have to say about all this? Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/BSAYouthProtection/BSA_Communications/IVFileStatement.aspx\">statement\u003c/a> from the organization's president, Wayne Perry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/law/story/historic-sf-law-library-jeopardy-if-city/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert L. Ferris, an estate-planning attorney, says the documents he has accessed through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sflawlibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Law Library\u003c/a> have helped him handle cases for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78172\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>But he might be on his own next year when the \u003ca href=\"http://sfwmpac.org/vetbuilding/vb_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">War Memorial Veterans Building\u003c/a>, which houses the historic library, closes for renovation in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law library is a resource that I’ve relied on for years,” Ferris said. “The reason my office is located where it is is because the courts are close and the library is close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials are required to provide space for the library and fund its operation, but a new location has not been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former State Bar President Jon Streeter is among more than 700 lawyers, legal groups, students, judges and others who \u003ca href=\"http://sflawlibrary.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=217\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter in May\u003c/a> urging Mayor Ed Lee and county supervisors to find a new home for the library. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tragedy because people who come to court without a lawyer often turn to law libraries to navigate through the court system,” Streeter said. “It is not a matter of a stack of old dusty books being warehoused somewhere – it is a matter of providing basic access to the courthouse to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law library was established more than 140 years ago as the first county law library in the state. The nonprofit is the only law library in San Francisco that provides free access to more than 90,000 volumes, as well as online legal references, such as Westlaw, LexisNexis and other legal databases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past 18 years, the library has been housed on the fourth floor of the grand 80-year-old Veterans Building, across Van Ness Avenue from City Hall. The Beaux Arts-style building is also home to the Herbst Theatre, exhibit spaces and meeting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library serves everyone from solo-practice attorneys chasing down arcane legal materials to citizens representing themselves. Reference librarians also help residents research divorce law, city permits, building codes, traffic and parking tickets, and other legal matters. The library receives about $1.4 million a year from fees paid by those filing civil cases in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Updike, the city’s acting real estate director, said the competitive real estate market has made it challenging to find a suitable site in the same area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been difficult to find a property to accommodate the weight of the books and a site that is close to the courthouses in the Civic Center area,” Updike said. “It is always a challenge for the government to secure property in a fast-moving market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updike said the city has given library officials four new sites near the Civic Center to consider. He declined to provide details on the properties, citing the ongoing negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with the city to work out a solution for suitable quarters for the law library,” said Marcia R. 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