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(Michael Montgomery)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, some 9,500 state inmates are serving sentences in prisons in Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma operated by the Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America. As part of a strategic plan announced in April, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will transfer those inmates back to California facilities by 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return of the first group, 600 inmates housed in Arizona, will begin “immediately,” said Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate. Another 4,000 prisoners will return to California in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Owen, spokesman for the Corrections Corporation, confirmed the company agreed to modify its contract to lower the total number of California inmates housed in out-of-state facilities from 9,588 to 9,038 for this year. The contract guarantees 90 percent occupancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The revised contract will reduce California’s fee to the private prison group by $67 million for the current fiscal year, according to corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas. The state will save another $14 million in 2012 by cutting staff positions for the program, which is administered in Sacramento.\u003cbr>\nCalifornia is paying the Corrections Corporation $61 to $72 per prison bed per day, making the original contract worth more than $280 million for 2012-13, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office and corrections department figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group won its first contract with California in 2006 after then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in the prison system. Schwarzenegger said the action was necessary “to prevent death and harm caused by California’s severe prison overcrowding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proclamation allowed officials to override a law that prohibits sending inmates outside the state without their consent. A year later, the Legislature also approved some out-of-state transfers as part of a prison construction bill. The Legislature’s authority for those transfers expired last year, but the state continues to rely on the 2006 proclamation to keep inmates in out-of-state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving inmates out of California against their will proved controversial. Prisoner advocacy groups said keeping inmates far away from their families could undermine their chances of leading productive lives after release. Representatives from the prison guards union complained the program was taking jobs away from Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state officials praised the Corrections Corporation for making prison beds available on short notice and helping alleviate extreme overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Emergency Services Act states that the governor “shall proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant.” Corrections officials say that while conditions have dramatically improved, they do not know when the state of emergency will be formally lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Gov. 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Since California began transferring authority over some offenders to counties as part of Brown’s public safety realignment, the state inmate population has dropped by about 25,000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cate said the return of all inmates from out-of-state facilities is still dependent on the court increasing the population threshold to 145 percent of design capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the plan is fully implemented, it remains uncertain how much money it actually will save the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/high-tech-plan-block-prison-cell-phones-unwise-report-says-16141\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A deal between Gov. 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Company officials expect to offset those costs through increased demand for the pay phones, which are available in most prison units and monitored by staff. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This groundbreaking and momentous technology will enable CDCR to crack down on the potentially dangerous communications by inmates,” corrections Secretary Matt Cate said, noting inmates “have used cell phones to commit more crimes, organize assaults on staff and terrorize victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 71-page study, produced at the request of four state senators, highlights a long list of potential problems with the proposed system, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The technology as it is currently configured cannot capture 4G, Wi-Fi, MiFi, Skype, text messages or satellite transmissions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The technology cannot “triangulate” radio signals, thus limiting the effectiveness in identifying specific phones or users.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For prisons located in or near populated areas, radio frequency “leakage” could interfere with regular cell phone communications, greatly reducing the “capability of public safety professionals to serve the community’s needs or the general public’s ability to access a 911 operator.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The corrections department has not identified the size of the contraband cell phone problem, making it difficult to assess the effectiveness of the technology when it’s deployed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Efforts by the state to test the system were “rudimentary and would, at best, constitute a proof of concept, not an acceptable operational pilot test.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The only U.S. prison that has installed managed access technology, a facility in rural Mississippi, has encountered serious operational issues, and the system is not yet fully deployed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, 15,000 contraband cell phones were discovered at prisons and conservation camps around the state, up from 1,400 in 2007, according to corrections department data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the study affirms that cell phone smuggling in prisons is a serious problem, it recommends having private carriers identify and disable illicit phones and establishing airport-style screening systems “before investing millions in untested technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A long-term statewide investment in this technology before it is proven is, in our opinion, unwise,” the report’s authors said in a May 8 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/355646-2012cell-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, California does not routinely search staff as they enter state lockups. 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