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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Don Thompson, Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/em>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)—California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less, according to the first report detailing the growth in that population under Gov. Jerry Brown’s criminal justice realignment strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77734\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/disabled-inmates-suffer-in-shift-to-county-jails/jail-monical-lam-cir/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77734\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monical-lam-cir-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno jail inmates. 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In addition to finding adequate space to house the new population, the sheriffs also must provide the inmates with education, treatment programs, rehabilitation services and recreation, which adds to their costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicle theft, drug trafficking, receiving stolen property, identity theft and commercial burglary were the most common crimes for jail inmates who were sentenced to 5 to 10 years in county jails, according to the report, which was obtained by The Associated Press before its public release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, covering all but six of the state’s 58 counties, was done by the California State Sheriffs’ Association and sent to the governor’s administration and Legislature.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not set up to house inmates for this period of time,” said Nick Warner, the association’s legislative director. “They’re living in conditions that they’re not designed to stay in for this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Jail is holding 35 percent of all long-term inmates. Statewide, 44 inmates already have been sentenced to more than a decade in local jails, with one Los Angeles County man serving a 43-year term for trafficking large amounts of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the association found that 1,153 inmates in county jails were sentenced to at least five years. Drug trafficking resulted in most of the sentences topping a decade, although a Riverside County inmate is serving nearly 13 years for felony child abuse and a Solano County inmate is serving more than 10 years as a serial thief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association started with inmates whose formal sentences are at least five years because most will actually be released after serving less than that. With time off for good behavior, for example, an inmate serving a five-year sentence can be released in about 2 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of long-term inmates in local jails will keep growing as the state diverts more lower-level criminals from state prisons to comply with the governor’s realignment law and federal court orders to reduce the population in the state’s 33 adult prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before lawmakers approved Brown’s law enforcement realignment in 2011, the only prisoner who might spend more than a year in a county jail would be someone awaiting trial in a complicated case such as murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the number of long-term inmates represents less than 2 percent of the 77,000 prisoners who can be housed in California’s 58 county jails, sheriffs say they command a disproportionate share of money and attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many sheriffs would like to return their long-term inmates to state prisons, Warner said, although he acknowledged that is not likely as long as the state is trying to relieve prison crowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really tough issue to resolve,” Warner said. “There are some inmates who don’t belong in county jails for this period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the state Department Corrections and Rehabilitation, acknowledged that sheriffs need a different type of facility to handle long-term inmates, but he noted that state lawmakers authorized $500 million last year to help counties renovate jails and add space for treating inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the kind of construction you’re seeing already,” Callison said. ‘The jails are getting modernized. 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It's called mortgage fraud, and while you might be inclined to pin Big Blame on Big Banks, plenty of individuals are scamming the system, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Gerding, Senior Fraud & Risk Consultant for \u003ca href=\"http://www.corelogic.com\">CoreLogic\u003c/a> in Irvine, knows a fair bit about it. He hosts a monthly mortgage fraud roundtable via telephone for everyone from loan officers to law enforcement professionals about what scams are hot and where. I talked to him recently for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201302270850/b\">The California Report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don't have all day or I'd provide a \u003ca href=\"http://www.corelogic.com/research/2012-mortgage-fraud-trends-report.pdf\">comprehensive report.\u003c/a> Here are some fascinating highlights instead:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Origination Fraud:\u003c/strong> One of the most common scams. The would-be borrower lies on the loan application – or the broker does it for her. It could be a lie of commission or omission about your income, assets and liabilities. A popular variation focuses on employment: whether you’re employed, who your employer is, and how much money you make. Or you could lie about all of those things. You’d think confirming such basic details would be easy enough for banks to catch, but CoreLogic estimates this kind of scam skims about \u003ca href=\"http://www.corelogic.com/research/2012-mortgage-fraud-trends-report.pdf\">$13 billion dollars\u003c/a> from banks a year nationwide.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think about it, the primary incentive to overstate one’s assets and income when purchasing a home would be to buy more house than one can truly afford. That takes a little bit of moxie, but you don't have to do the legwork if you get in on a conspiracy operated by a mortgage industry professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may often involve multiple loans and elaborate schemes by a group of people who play multiple roles in the transactions,” Gerding says. If someone else has already set up a conspiracy, all you have to do is join in to get your cut. It's true that sometimes an alert bank employee catches the same names popping up on \"funny\" loan applications, but he'd have to have a strong intuition to go beyond a perfunctory inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, let's imagine that you and your real estate broker are in cahoots. Your loan application might feature an “employer” phone number that leads back to somebody on the broker’s take. “Rachael? Oh yes, she’s been here X years, making Y salary. Lovely gal. So reliable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Identity fraud: \u003c/strong>This is really an umbrella term that can apply to any situation where somebody else pretends to be you. Perhaps a con artist with a prior felony gives your social security number to a prospective employer, for instance. In the real estate world, the con artist might apply for a home with your name and financial particulars. Who knows? Right now, I may be the owner of a home in Miami I have no idea about… (This is yet another reason why it's important to \u003ca href=\"https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp\">check your credit\u003c/a> reports on an annual basis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Suspicious Short Sales:\u003c/strong> \u003c/strong>Gerding says these scams are particularly hot right now. In a short sale, a bank agrees to sell a house for less than the paper value of the mortgage. It's a boon to a hard up homeowner - or someone pretending to be hard up who wants to stop paying for a house he's underwater on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flopping: \u003c/strong>In one widely publicized case, a homeowner spread \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/latest-in-mortgage-fraud_n_2004848.html\">possum urine\u003c/a> around the house, turned up the heat and closed all the windows for a few days. Why? The seller wanted to convince a bank’s appraiser the house wasn’t worth as much as it actually was ahead of a short sale. The bank is already accepting a write-down of the property's value, but the fake evidence drops the price tag even lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impression of reduced value can be gained with less aromatic strategies than urine, like ripping out ceiling fans or air conditioning. Think of it as “reverse staging.” The seller unloads the home for the discounted price to an accomplice, who can then clean it up and flip it for a quick gain. The real estate agent is typically in on this conspiracy, too. Average take: $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may notice that this list highlights scams that victimize banks. That isn’t to say there aren’t frauds that victimize buyers -- or distressed homeowners. The most common scam involves fooling people into \u003ca href=\"http://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news33975/california-attorney-general-shuts-down-online-mortgage-fraud-scam\">purchasing fake refinance relief\u003c/a>, and you do see a fair number of legal cases brought against this type of operator. Still, at $1,500 or $2,500 a pop, the aggregate value of the fraud isn’t going to be that big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that law enforcement resources are finite, Gerding explains the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/mortgage-fraud/mortgage_fraud\">FBI\u003c/a> and the IRS are likely to focus on fraud that clocks in above $1 million. Those tend to target banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. attorney's offices throughout the country run mortgage fraud task forces, and \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-creation-mortgage-fraud-strike-force\">California\u003c/a> is no exception. The Eastern District, which covers a huge swath of territory including Sacramento, boasted on one recent press release: “Last year we indicted more mortgage fraud defendants than any other U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country, and we are not done yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say mortgage fraud really peaked in 2011, and the cases we’re seeing in the courts now provide a rear view look at the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90173\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/27/mortage-fraud-in-california-a-game-of-whac-a-mole-for-law-enforcement/gerding_ed1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90173\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-90173 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Gerding_Ed1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Gerding. (Credit: CoreLogic)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Gerding. (Credit: CoreLogic)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gerding doesn’t see it that way. Fraud “peaks and then it troughs,” he says. Mortgage fraud may have dropped some compared to 2005-2008, but did we mention origination fraud alone is estimated to cost banks about $13 billion annually? What changes over the years is the form of fraud that's used the most, and Gerding says it follows the path of least resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas origination frauds have been popular, scam artists are now breeding amidst the flurry of foreclosure activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volume of foreclosures is not expected to last forever, but you can imagine that after that dust clears, there will be new ways found to skim a few grand off the top -- or bottom -- of a real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See something? Say something. The FBI is taking \u003ca href=\"https://tips.fbi.gov/\">tips\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Friends and family of two slain Santa Cruz officers offered tributes to them on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Elizabeth Butler and Loran \"Butch\" Baker died Tuesday afternoon after confronting a suspect police identified as Jeremy Goulet, who died in a subsequent shootout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Valot, a freelance reporter for the California Report, remembered Elizabeth Butler from schooldays. Butler was \"always smiling and laughing, always nice to everyone,\" Valot recalled. \"Someone at the Bishop Montgomery High School Class of 1992 page described her I think the best. He said that she had the rare gift to be 'herself' at a young age.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Elston, a community activist, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_22676928/loran-butch-baker-28-year-veteran-leaves-legacy?source=pkg\">the Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/a> Baker, a veteran near retirement from the police, \"just a salt-of-the-earth guy... very personable, thoughtful and very approachable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goulet, had a troubled past, the newspaper reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 2008, Goulet was accused and convicted of a sex crime, allegedly filming an unsuspecting Portland, Ore. woman in the shower. When the victim's boyfriend later tried to apprehend Goulet, Goulet fired a handgun during a struggle.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the Bay City News account of the killings:\u003cbr>\nSANTA CRUZ (BCN) Two veteran officers were shot and killed in Santa Cruz today, sparking a series of events that led to a fatal afternoon shootout with the suspect in what the police chief called \"the darkest day in the history of the Santa Cruz Police Department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Loran \"Butch\" Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler were both shot and killed after going to the home of 35-year-old Jeremy Goulet in the 800 block of North Branciforte Avenue at about 3:30 p.m. as part of an investigation, law enforcement officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker and Butler were dressed in plain clothes during the follow-up investigation at Goulet's home, and shortly after they arrived there was an altercation with a suspect believed to be Goulet, and eventually both officers were shot and the suspect fled, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Phil Wowak said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors quickly reported hearing the shots, prompting more police and sheriff's deputies to respond and find the two fallen officers. They set up a perimeter to search for the suspect and attempted life-saving efforts on Baker and Butler, Wowak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While searching the neighborhood, officers located Goulet who opened fire on them, leading to a shootout that left Goulet dead at the scene, Wowak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the area said that the shootout was in the 100 block of Doyle Drive near the Whole Foods Market, and that residents and businesses in the area were warned not to go outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An employee of a local business said that 20 officers were hiding outside with guns drawn and a short time later she heard gunfire down the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's deputies then conducted a door-to-door search of the neighborhood to ensure that there was not a second suspect hiding somewhere in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wowak said that search was just concluding at about 9:30 p.m. during a news conference to release details about the two shooting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No additional suspects are being sought tonight, sheriff's spokeswoman April Skalland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several schools in the area were locked down after the first shooting, and students had to stay in the school until they were able to board a school bus around 7 p.m. heading to the county building at 701 Ocean St. to be reunited with their families, Skalland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of students at the schools said that some of the elementary school children had been outside playing and waiting for their parents to pick them up at the time of the first shooting, and were quickly called back inside as the police action progressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police action involved multiple agencies, including police from Scotts Valley and Capitola, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two fallen officers both leave behind families. 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And that’s their entire day — every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRO9BHbF9GA&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay’s that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay’s is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day — every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times–day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates’ only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody…”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>–Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,” he said, using the term for the general prison population, “I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. 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Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it’s psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that’s torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. “But did we witness any torture? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California’s most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay’s that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay’s is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day — every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times–day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates’ only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody…”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>–Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,” he said, using the term for the general prison population, “I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. 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Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it’s psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that’s torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. “But did we witness any torture? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California’s most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. 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