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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/tale-2-inmates-californias-security-housing-units-12609\">\u003cstrong>From California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was a petty thief mistakenly identified as a player in a violent Latino prison gang. The other was a convicted murderer whose numerous assaults behind bars and continuing influence on the streets earned him a reputation as a ruthless gang leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40086\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 304px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/califprisoner.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40086\" title=\"califprisoner\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/califprisoner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Castellanos. Photo: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that both men were locked for years in grim, windowless isolation cells at Pelican Bay State Prison illustrates the challenge that corrections officials face as they overhaul the state’s controversial Security Housing Units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay was designed to house California’s most dangerous inmates. The prison’s Security Housing Unit goes a step further, locking inmates identified as prison gang members or associates in a warren of concrete cells where the only view of the outside world is framed on small television sets. Some inmates have been housed in the units since Pelican Bay opened its gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say the lengthy confinement and extreme security measures are necessary to curb the ability of gang leaders to pass orders to subordinates in other prisons and on the streets. And they point to inmates like Arturo Castellanos to make their case. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castellanos was convicted of murder in Los Angeles County in 1979 and sentenced to 26 years to life. But his life of crime flourished behind bars, according to prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an inmate, Castellanos’ disciplinary record includes six stabbings and various drug violations. In 1990, he was sent to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit after corrections officials identified him as a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of Pelican Bay’s harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as “kites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2007 federal indictment, Castellanos guided a Latino street gang known as F13 as it launched a turf battle against African American rivals. The action triggered a wave of racial violence against African Americans living in the Florence-Firestone area north of Watts, according to court documents. More than 20 people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just amazed that an individual who no one has seen for generations was able to control the violence and illegal criminal activity of an area that he hasn't been to in more than three decades,\" said Peter Hernandez, an assistant U.S. attorney for California's Central District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors eventually indicted 104 suspects in the case, but not Castellanos. He already was serving a life sentence, and the government concluded it was safer to keep Castellanos in isolation and not pull him out of Pelican Bay for court hearings, which would have been required had he been indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that … Castellanos not be let out, because he holds sway over gang members to do things they would otherwise not want to do,\" Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2006, Castellanos has been housed in a special section of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit that is reserved for inmates deemed influential gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop him and three other inmates from organizing a three-week hunger strike to demand better conditions and changes in department policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201108180850/b\">media tour\u003c/a>, Pelican Bay acting Warden Greg Lewis claimed the four hunger strike leaders, including Castellanos, were in the upper echelons of major prison gangs and continued to pose a serious security threat. Lewis said the men are “intelligent, very manipulative and possess the intellect to orchestrate what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prisoner rights advocates concede that some inmates should be segregated from the regular prison population if they are violent or directly involved in criminal conspiracies, they say the actual number of offenders who fit that criteria is very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation always picks the worst-case scenario and uses it as the norm,” said Carol Strickman, a staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the inmates locked in the Security Housing Unit are accused of being gang bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernesto Lira was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison when he was sent to Pelican Bay for an “indeterminate” term. Authorities contended Lira was an associate of a violent Latino group known as Nuestra Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lira was not accused of doing anything tangible for the group. The key piece of evidence against him was a drawing found in his locker that allegedly contained gang symbols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first two months, it was hard to get used to the fact that I'm going to be here,\" Lira said. \"I looked and thought, maybe in a month or two, they'll realize that this is all a mistake and kick me out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira said officials offered him a quick way out of the special unit: He could debrief, or snitch, on other gang members. But as a judge later determined, Lira couldn't do that because he wasn't a member of any gang. He wasn't released from isolation until his release from prison eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira eventually won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/249372-findings-of-fact-and-conclusions-of-law-final.html\">judgment\u003c/a> in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Ernesto's case, I think it's very emblematic of the fact that people can be placed in solitary confinement for the littlest of reasons: for having a drawing, for having an address in an address book, without confirming or denying whether that address was used for furthering gang activity,\" said Charles Carbone, an attorney who has represented dozens of Pelican Bay inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials declined to discuss Lira's case. But they now are considering changes that, if fully implemented, would keep inmates like Lira out of isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/more-inmates-shorter-terms-possible-isolation-lockup-12401\">plan\u003c/a> being reviewed by department officials, an inmate would have to commit a specific offense for a gang or be involved in an active conspiracy to qualify for placement in one of the state’s four Security Housing Units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also under consideration are incentives to encourage inmates to work their way out of the units through better behavior. This is known as a stepdown program, which usually does not require inmates to debrief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former prison gang leaders like Rene Enriquez say the plan could work. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Corrections officials told state lawmakers today they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201108231704\">committed\u003c/a> to changing the state’s controversial use of isolation units at four prisons, including Pelican Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing, Michael Montgomery reports, legislators pressed prison officials on three main issues: how an inmate is put inside an isolation unit, how long they stay there and how they can get out. (The California Channel webcast the hearing live; check back here for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchannel.com/channel/videos/\">archive\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today on The California Report, Montgomery \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201108230850/a\">\u003cstrong>delved into the issue \u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of these prison quarters, called Security Housing Units (SHUs), where state prisoners are held in extreme isolation because of their affiliation with prison gangs — affiliation, at least, according to prison authorities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 199px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/CastellanosPelicanBay01.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/CastellanosPelicanBay01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CastellanosPelicanBay0\" width=\"199\" height=\"114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37935\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The criteria for sending inmates into such prisons within a prison, as well as the conditions under which they are housed, were at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/20/interview-what-is-the-hunger-strike-by-california-prisoners-about/\">heart\u003c/a> of last month’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/01/pelican-bay-prisoners-go-on-hunger-strike/\">prisoner hunger strike\u003c/a>, which at its peak was participated in by hundreds of inmates in at least four prisons. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates ended the strike when the Department of Corrections agreed to review SHU procedures and conditions, and granted some smaller \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/25/prison-hunger-strike-update/\">concessions\u003c/a>, such as providing more TV channels and art supplies, allowing different types of clothing, and allowing prisoners to receive one photo per year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37541\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/Cunitofpbshu_MichaelMontgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37541\" title=\"Cunitofpbshu_MichaelMontgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/Cunitofpbshu_MichaelMontgomery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A unit of cells in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State prison.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A unit of cells in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State prison. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By Michael Montgomery\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[original blog post available at CaliforniaWatch.org]\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials are moving forward with a major policy initiative that could improve conditions and reduce the length of time some inmates spend in controversial isolation units. The changes are being proposed amid threats of another hunger strike by inmates who spearheaded one last month at Pelican Bay State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy changes, which still are being worked out, are in line with proposals highlighted in an internal study completed in 2007 by a panel of experts appointed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to interviews and documents. The panel’s recommendations included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Moving to a conduct-based model that punishes inmates for tangible offenses, rather than for mere affiliation with a gang. This approach is widely used in other states and by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ending the practice of indefinite detention of alleged prison gang members and associates in the Security Housing Units\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ending the practice of automatically sending validated prison gang members and associates to the Security Housing Units\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating a “step-down” program inside the Security Housing Units to encourage positive behavior by offering incentives, such as special programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ending the distinction between prison gangs and other threat groups to give the department more flexibility in determining inmate placement in the Security Housing Units\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nCorrections Undersecretary Scott Kernan said the department is doing more than conducting another assessment of current policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exerciseareaforshu_Michael-Montgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37542\" title=\"exerciseareaforshu_Michael-Montgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exerciseareaforshu_Michael-Montgomery-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A bare room used for exercise by the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A designated exercise area in the Security Housing Unit (SHU). Inmates in the SHU are only permitted to leave their cells to shower and to exercise in designated areas. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not talking about another study,” he said. “I’m talking about making some changes that make the process much more in tune and in line with national best practices. And that’s what the secretary is going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan conceded there are “holes” in the department’s policies for gang management and its use of the Security Housing Units. He also said the state was wrong to deny some personal items to inmates housed in the special facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a sign of strength that the department looked at that (Security Housing Unit policy) and was able to admit their mistakes and that we’re moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy overhaul could include substantive changes in gang validation criteria and the practice known as debriefing, which requires inmates to divulge gang secrets in order to return to a regular prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come up with a justifiable due-process validation process and debriefing process that makes sense and that’s consistent with the rest of the nation,” Kernan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison experts say California’s current policy is outdated, inefficient, legally vulnerable and often targets gang associates who do not pose a major security risk while leaving more dangerous inmates housed in the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate rights groups say the policies are inhumane, leaving some inmates languishing in isolation for decades. The American Civil Liberties Union and others have called on California to adopt practices used in other states, where inmates are locked in isolation only if they commit serious, tangible offenses and for fixed terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37544\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37544\" title=\"exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An exterior shot of Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit has emergency entrance points that allow guards quick entry into the units. The entry points are often mistaken for inmate exercise yards. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kernan emphasized the changes are not a response to last month’s hunger strike and are aimed at improving security for inmates and staff. He said the department is taking a cautious approach and is not considering a mass release of inmates from the Security Housing Units into the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any (policy) modification could very well result in serious spikes in violence in the system,” he said. “So we have to do this right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan also said the changes would depend on the governor’s realignment plan being successfully implemented and would need buy-in from the Legislature, unions and other stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates and advocates said that during the hunger strike, Kernan spoke of major policy changes, but in a July 20 memo, he states only that the department was “reviewing” gang validation and debriefing policies. Department sources said the memo was intended to focus on “minor changes that did not require stakeholder review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan is expected to testify Tuesday before the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee. The hearing was called in response to the inmate hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a media tour at Pelican Bay yesterday, acting Warden Greg Lewis declined to go into detail about the new policy and said any changes would move slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is like an aircraft carrier. It takes many miles to turn an aircraft carrier,” he said. “It (the plan) is going to be thoroughly vetted, thoroughly reviewed. And I foresee some change. I really do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37551\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37551\" title=\"DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The D Unit in Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hunger strike started with prisoners in the D section of the Security Housing Unit. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kernan is scheduled to meet strike leaders at Pelican Bay tomorrow, with Donald Specter, head of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office. Kernan said he will inform inmates about the department’s long-term goals and will emphasize that it could take months to develop a detailed new policy for the Security Housing Units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within weeks, a new system could be in place to allow inmates in the Security Housing Units to earn privileges, such as phone calls to family members, craft items and exercise equipment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it remains unclear whether inmates will be swayed by the department’s new initiative. Pelican Bay inmate and hunger strike leader George Franco wrote a letter warning of new protests if corrections officials don’t move swiftly on changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only waiting to see if he (Kernan) will keep his word. If not, we will re-enact our hunger strike indefinitely and there is nothing they can say to any of us, period,” Franco wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco’s entire letter, and accompanying documents, are included and transcribed below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has not verified facts in the letter, and note that CDCR Undersecretary’s name is Scott Kernan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a transcription of Mr. Franco’s letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Montgomery,\u003cbr>\nI am in receipt of your postcard on ___\u003cbr>\nIn a few words: he promised the whole five core demands.\u003cbr>\nI thank you for taking the time out to write to me and it will be my pleasure to answer all your questions, because what we need out there more than anything is the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting 1: on 7-14-2011 we had our first negotiation with the CDCR secretary Scott Kerhan, it was me and three other negotiators. I personally represented the Mexican (Northern District – optional). Mr. Scott Kernan was very demanding and disrespectful towards us therefore, the negotiators went “no where” we explained to our mediation team what occurred and what to do as a result of this meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting II: on 7-18-2011, c/o Ellery approached one of the negotiators saying that he was sent down to ask the three negotiators if they would meet with Associate Warden K.I. McGuyer, Captain Wood, due to the New Afrikan negotiator being transferred early that morning on 7-18-2011 at 5:30 AM. We insisted that we would not go out to meet with them unless there was a New Afrikan representative. The c/o Ellery made several trips explaining our position.\u003cbr>\nThen the associate warden K.L. McGuyer came down himself along with Captain Wood.\u003cbr>\nThey asked one of the negotiators would they agree to meet with undersecretary Scott Kernan, tomorrow on 7-19-2011, the negotiators said only if a substitute New Afrikan could take the place of the one you all transferred abruptly.\u003cbr>\nHe said yes!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting III: Did not take place on 7-19-2011, because Undersecretary Scott Kernan did not show up, but he did show up on 7-20-2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting III: on 7-20-2011 in the board of prison term-room all four principal negotiators met face to face with Undersecretary Scott Kernan along with the following officials: Director George Giurbino, Warden G.D. Lewis, Associate Warden K.L. McGuyer, and eight COIS correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Mr. Kernan, asked us to do is end the hunger strike and we said, we cannot do that without our five core demands being met, Mr. Kernan said its impossible for me to meet all of your five core demands with all that’s going on with the hunger strike. We said that we are making our sacrifice due to the 25 years of torturing and suffering we have endured. Mr. Kernan then said I agree with all of your five core demands, “everything you all asked for you should of received/had a long time ago,” but I cannot give you all five core demands over night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Kernan, was very agitated/anxious, he then said I will give you all your five core demands, we said when, he said in two to three weeks I’ll come back up (from 7-20-2011) and we will progressively attack this but all five will be given. We said what can you give us right now? Before you come back up to implement 1 thru 5 he said you can have all of five. Many of us haven’t talked to our families in over 20 years and some in 10 to 40 yrs. Then he lied and propagated something else (i.e. calendar, proctor, and watch cap) this pissed everyone off but we remain united and ready. He did this to try and demoralize our support. But if he don’t keep his word all he did is played on CDCR administration. Because we’re only waiting to see if he will keep his word. If not we will reenact our hunger strike indefinitely and there is nothing they can say to any of us period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR Cate/Kernan, also put fake five core demands see enclosed memo he signed 7-20-2011.\u003cbr>\nAlso see our real five core demands that we “Pelican Bay human rights movement” stand by demands.\u003cbr>\nIt should be clear that we negotiators had a 3 ∏ hour meeting with Scott Kernan and his chronies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In respects to changing (SHU) policy he said that they were already in the process of changing policy as to long term solitary confinement he’s a joke he even went so far to tell us “let’s keep our business between us we do not need no class action lawsuit we can rectify this ourselves.” Just prisoners and officials they’re attempting to exclude our mediation team. They CDCR said they’re moving from information base placement in solitary confinement to behavior/conduct placement into solitary confinement. But he said our five core demands will be implemented bottomline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: I been in (SHU) on an indeterminate SHU since beginning of 1992. For conspiracy to commit harm to others safety. This info was given by informant(s). Every six yrs I could appear before a committee to see if I’m eligible for the six yrs. Non-active so that I can be sent to a mainline but before this six yr. period an institutional gang investigator (IGI) with search property in cell and for some reason will always use something a picture, drawing, pattern, address plus some so called valid info to use to extend the six yr non-active period all over again. It’s a cycle we all go through. If I choose to debrief: snitch-rat I would be let out to a mainline but that is not my belief. I would never have a person put in SHU. So like I said only option to get out of SHU is either snitch, die or parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions/policies are so abused I was put on mail restriction meaning I have to appear before a special committee every 6 months with a list of names/addresses so they can consider having them put on my approved correspondence list. I was put on this mail restriction back in 5-18-2011. I was not given a writeup for any so called CDCR mail violations. This is another tactic IGI uses to cut off our communications with family, relatives, and friends. Us prisoners and our families, relatives, and friends are accused/penalized for so called conducting illegal/gang activities. Children to grandparents have been accused of such “?”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With respect,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Franco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: Please send copies of our original (5) core demands also a copy of Kernan’s non-sense (5) core demands. ‘Thank you.’\u003cbr>\nOne more item of evidence to present to you this CDC 128-B chrono is what is given to us and a similar one to whoevers mail got stopped by CDCR. Shot caller press pertains to having inmates compete for a financial prize on best poems, stories, literature its harmless. You see on the left hand side all the little squares that IGI can use/abuse to cut off our communications. This tactic also scares off people to communicate with us further. This tactic also scares off people to communicate with us further. This tactic is abused it penalizes, violates peoples 1st amendment right. This form stated being used when the short corridor was established. All these different options can be fabricated for violations in order to have our mail stopped/confiscated.\u003cbr>\nYou can check with this shot caller press in Portland Or. To get a better insight of what they print. “This is it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative reporter with KQED and California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan conceded there are “holes” in the department’s policies for gang management and its use of the Security Housing Units. He also said the state was wrong to deny some personal items to inmates housed in the special facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a sign of strength that the department looked at that (Security Housing Unit policy) and was able to admit their mistakes and that we’re moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy overhaul could include substantive changes in gang validation criteria and the practice known as debriefing, which requires inmates to divulge gang secrets in order to return to a regular prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come up with a justifiable due-process validation process and debriefing process that makes sense and that’s consistent with the rest of the nation,” Kernan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison experts say California’s current policy is outdated, inefficient, legally vulnerable and often targets gang associates who do not pose a major security risk while leaving more dangerous inmates housed in the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate rights groups say the policies are inhumane, leaving some inmates languishing in isolation for decades. The American Civil Liberties Union and others have called on California to adopt practices used in other states, where inmates are locked in isolation only if they commit serious, tangible offenses and for fixed terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37544\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37544\" title=\"exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/exteriorpbshu_MichaelMontgomery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An exterior shot of Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit has emergency entrance points that allow guards quick entry into the units. The entry points are often mistaken for inmate exercise yards. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kernan emphasized the changes are not a response to last month’s hunger strike and are aimed at improving security for inmates and staff. He said the department is taking a cautious approach and is not considering a mass release of inmates from the Security Housing Units into the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any (policy) modification could very well result in serious spikes in violence in the system,” he said. “So we have to do this right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan also said the changes would depend on the governor’s realignment plan being successfully implemented and would need buy-in from the Legislature, unions and other stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates and advocates said that during the hunger strike, Kernan spoke of major policy changes, but in a July 20 memo, he states only that the department was “reviewing” gang validation and debriefing policies. Department sources said the memo was intended to focus on “minor changes that did not require stakeholder review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan is expected to testify Tuesday before the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee. The hearing was called in response to the inmate hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a media tour at Pelican Bay yesterday, acting Warden Greg Lewis declined to go into detail about the new policy and said any changes would move slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is like an aircraft carrier. It takes many miles to turn an aircraft carrier,” he said. “It (the plan) is going to be thoroughly vetted, thoroughly reviewed. And I foresee some change. I really do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37551\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37551\" title=\"DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/DUnitshu_Michael-Montgomery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The D Unit in Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hunger strike started with prisoners in the D section of the Security Housing Unit. Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kernan is scheduled to meet strike leaders at Pelican Bay tomorrow, with Donald Specter, head of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office. Kernan said he will inform inmates about the department’s long-term goals and will emphasize that it could take months to develop a detailed new policy for the Security Housing Units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within weeks, a new system could be in place to allow inmates in the Security Housing Units to earn privileges, such as phone calls to family members, craft items and exercise equipment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it remains unclear whether inmates will be swayed by the department’s new initiative. Pelican Bay inmate and hunger strike leader George Franco wrote a letter warning of new protests if corrections officials don’t move swiftly on changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only waiting to see if he (Kernan) will keep his word. If not, we will re-enact our hunger strike indefinitely and there is nothing they can say to any of us, period,” Franco wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco’s entire letter, and accompanying documents, are included and transcribed below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has not verified facts in the letter, and note that CDCR Undersecretary’s name is Scott Kernan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a transcription of Mr. Franco’s letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Montgomery,\u003cbr>\nI am in receipt of your postcard on ___\u003cbr>\nIn a few words: he promised the whole five core demands.\u003cbr>\nI thank you for taking the time out to write to me and it will be my pleasure to answer all your questions, because what we need out there more than anything is the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting 1: on 7-14-2011 we had our first negotiation with the CDCR secretary Scott Kerhan, it was me and three other negotiators. I personally represented the Mexican (Northern District – optional). Mr. Scott Kernan was very demanding and disrespectful towards us therefore, the negotiators went “no where” we explained to our mediation team what occurred and what to do as a result of this meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting II: on 7-18-2011, c/o Ellery approached one of the negotiators saying that he was sent down to ask the three negotiators if they would meet with Associate Warden K.I. McGuyer, Captain Wood, due to the New Afrikan negotiator being transferred early that morning on 7-18-2011 at 5:30 AM. We insisted that we would not go out to meet with them unless there was a New Afrikan representative. The c/o Ellery made several trips explaining our position.\u003cbr>\nThen the associate warden K.L. McGuyer came down himself along with Captain Wood.\u003cbr>\nThey asked one of the negotiators would they agree to meet with undersecretary Scott Kernan, tomorrow on 7-19-2011, the negotiators said only if a substitute New Afrikan could take the place of the one you all transferred abruptly.\u003cbr>\nHe said yes!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting III: Did not take place on 7-19-2011, because Undersecretary Scott Kernan did not show up, but he did show up on 7-20-2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting III: on 7-20-2011 in the board of prison term-room all four principal negotiators met face to face with Undersecretary Scott Kernan along with the following officials: Director George Giurbino, Warden G.D. Lewis, Associate Warden K.L. McGuyer, and eight COIS correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Mr. Kernan, asked us to do is end the hunger strike and we said, we cannot do that without our five core demands being met, Mr. Kernan said its impossible for me to meet all of your five core demands with all that’s going on with the hunger strike. We said that we are making our sacrifice due to the 25 years of torturing and suffering we have endured. Mr. Kernan then said I agree with all of your five core demands, “everything you all asked for you should of received/had a long time ago,” but I cannot give you all five core demands over night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Kernan, was very agitated/anxious, he then said I will give you all your five core demands, we said when, he said in two to three weeks I’ll come back up (from 7-20-2011) and we will progressively attack this but all five will be given. We said what can you give us right now? Before you come back up to implement 1 thru 5 he said you can have all of five. Many of us haven’t talked to our families in over 20 years and some in 10 to 40 yrs. Then he lied and propagated something else (i.e. calendar, proctor, and watch cap) this pissed everyone off but we remain united and ready. He did this to try and demoralize our support. But if he don’t keep his word all he did is played on CDCR administration. Because we’re only waiting to see if he will keep his word. If not we will reenact our hunger strike indefinitely and there is nothing they can say to any of us period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR Cate/Kernan, also put fake five core demands see enclosed memo he signed 7-20-2011.\u003cbr>\nAlso see our real five core demands that we “Pelican Bay human rights movement” stand by demands.\u003cbr>\nIt should be clear that we negotiators had a 3 ∏ hour meeting with Scott Kernan and his chronies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In respects to changing (SHU) policy he said that they were already in the process of changing policy as to long term solitary confinement he’s a joke he even went so far to tell us “let’s keep our business between us we do not need no class action lawsuit we can rectify this ourselves.” Just prisoners and officials they’re attempting to exclude our mediation team. They CDCR said they’re moving from information base placement in solitary confinement to behavior/conduct placement into solitary confinement. But he said our five core demands will be implemented bottomline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: I been in (SHU) on an indeterminate SHU since beginning of 1992. For conspiracy to commit harm to others safety. This info was given by informant(s). Every six yrs I could appear before a committee to see if I’m eligible for the six yrs. Non-active so that I can be sent to a mainline but before this six yr. period an institutional gang investigator (IGI) with search property in cell and for some reason will always use something a picture, drawing, pattern, address plus some so called valid info to use to extend the six yr non-active period all over again. It’s a cycle we all go through. If I choose to debrief: snitch-rat I would be let out to a mainline but that is not my belief. I would never have a person put in SHU. So like I said only option to get out of SHU is either snitch, die or parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions/policies are so abused I was put on mail restriction meaning I have to appear before a special committee every 6 months with a list of names/addresses so they can consider having them put on my approved correspondence list. I was put on this mail restriction back in 5-18-2011. I was not given a writeup for any so called CDCR mail violations. This is another tactic IGI uses to cut off our communications with family, relatives, and friends. Us prisoners and our families, relatives, and friends are accused/penalized for so called conducting illegal/gang activities. Children to grandparents have been accused of such “?”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With respect,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Franco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: Please send copies of our original (5) core demands also a copy of Kernan’s non-sense (5) core demands. ‘Thank you.’\u003cbr>\nOne more item of evidence to present to you this CDC 128-B chrono is what is given to us and a similar one to whoevers mail got stopped by CDCR. Shot caller press pertains to having inmates compete for a financial prize on best poems, stories, literature its harmless. You see on the left hand side all the little squares that IGI can use/abuse to cut off our communications. This tactic also scares off people to communicate with us further. This tactic also scares off people to communicate with us further. This tactic is abused it penalizes, violates peoples 1st amendment right. This form stated being used when the short corridor was established. All these different options can be fabricated for violations in order to have our mail stopped/confiscated.\u003cbr>\nYou can check with this shot caller press in Portland Or. To get a better insight of what they print. “This is it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative reporter with KQED and California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Thursday Jul 21\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe California Report’s Sarah Varney did a report yesterday on the medical ethics involved in dealing with hunger strikes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107210850/b\">Listen\u003c/a> below:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here are some numbers related to the strikes, according to California Prison Health Care Services:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tehachapi\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n228 (additional 168 joined yesterday)\u003cbr>\n40 assessed by RNs, 3 referred to PCP for evaluation; one refused\u003cbr>\n47 hunger strike participants refused assessments\u003cbr>\nAll are consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n1 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n2 referred to (TTA) clinic\u003cbr>\n0 in outside facility\u003cbr>\n20 have lost 10 or more lbs. Highest loss is 29 lbs, but that inmate was last weighed in May and staff believe some of that loss was prior to the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corcoran\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n92 on the strike (17 transferred from Pelican Bay)\u003cbr>\n42 began strike yesterday\u003cbr>\n22 assessed by nurses\u003cbr>\n10 refused (Kincaid met with several inmates who refused assessments and asked why. All said they just didn’t feel they needed one that day, and have had assessments in the past and will again if they feel they need one).\u003cbr>\nKincaid also observed assessments of Pelican Bay transfers and spoke with several inmates)\u003cbr>\nAll consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 in emergency clinic\u003cbr>\n3 referred to GACH for medical evaluation. Three were PB transfers who had some symptoms of starvation, such as dehydrated and lightheaded. All 3 are stable, with no critical health issues..\u003cbr>\n0 in outside medical facility\u003cbr>\n7 have lost 10 lbs or more\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pelican Bay\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n75 on hunger strike\u003cbr>\n75 offered assessments,\u003cbr>\n5 scheduled to see PCP\u003cbr>\n# refused assessments was unknown at time of report\u003cbr>\nAll consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 in emergency clinic\u003cbr>\n0 in outside facility\u003cbr>\n8 greater than 10 lbs lost\u003cbr>\n17 transferred to Corcoran state prison, to be near medical resources, should their condition require medical treatment for starvation symptoms or they decide to eat and need medical supervision for refeeding.\u003cbr>\nAll four institutions have incurred some overtime and registry use for LVNs and RNs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calipatria\u003c/strong> (These inmates are on their own hunger strike with issues separate from the statewide strike)\u003cbr>\n33 on hunger strike\u003cbr>\n22 assessed by RNs, 7 of those seen by primary care physician (PCP) – all stable no health issues\u003cbr>\n11 refused assessment\u003cbr>\n0 refused PCP assessment\u003cbr>\nAll are consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n1 sent to clinic for evaluation, stable and no medical issues\u003cbr>\n0 in outside medical facility\u003cbr>\nStill 12 have lost 10 or more lbs. Highest weight loss is 22 lbs. Those who have lost 10 or more lbs. are monitored regularly. Once an inmate loses 10% of their body weight, they are monitored more closely for physical signs of starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/20/interview-what-is-the-hunger-strike-by-california-prisoners-about/\">why the prisoners are striking\u003c/a>, read our interview with Michael Montgomery, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/20/interview-what-is-the-hunger-strike-by-california-prisoners-about/\">breaks it all down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/julie-small/\">KPCC’s Julie Small\u003c/a> contributed to this story.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-567\" title=\"coffee \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/10/89687195-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/05/26/MNIH1JKTS2.DTL\">Calif. prisons wrongly released risky inmates\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California prison officials wrongly left more than 1,500 parolees on the streets without supervision last year, including more than 450 with a \"high risk for violence,\" the prisons' inspector general said Wednesday. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation mishandled a new state law under which inmates who have served their sentences, and are considered low risk, are released without having to report to parole officers, the office of Inspector General Bruce Monfross said in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/lapd-satisfied-after-dodger-stadium-beating-suspect-appears-in-lineup.html\">LAPD 'satisfied' after Dodger Stadium beating suspect appears in lineup\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The LAPD said it is \"satisified\" after placing the suspect in the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow in a lineup for potential witnesses. The suspect, Giovanni Ramirez, was arrested Sunday. On Tuesday, prosecutors met with Los Angeles police detectives to review the case and determined that more investigating needs to be done before charges can be filed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/BA4T1JKI0R.DTL\">Mayor signs Yellow Pages law restricting distribution\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee quietly signed into law a ban on the unsolicited distribution of Yellow Pages in San Francisco - a regulation that already has drawn a threat of a lawsuit from the trade group that represents the commercial phone book industry. \"While we regret having to take this action and sincerely hope that litigation can still be avoided, we cannot stand idly by as our members' constitutional rights are trampled by a city once known for its tolerance and protection of civil rights,\" William Champion III, an attorney for the Local Search Association (until recently the Yellow Pages Association), wrote in a letter to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/pge/story/use-less-pay-more-pge-proposed-rate-hike/\">Use Less, Pay More under PG&E's Proposed Rate Hike\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s residential customers could be slapped with new monthly fees, and its most energy-efficient and lowest-income customers could face additional fee hikes. The California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to rule Thursday on the company’s proposal to charge all of its residential electricity customers a flat fee of at least $2.40 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/BAFP1JL420.DTL\">Muni to allow folding bikes on buses, streetcars\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Muni, the Bay Area's busiest transit system, has reversed its long-standing policy that barred passengers from bringing bicycles aboard the buses and streetcars. But there's a catch: Only folding bikes will be allowed. The policy shift, while not everything for which bike advocates have lobbied, is nonetheless welcome, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/police-sit-lie-mostly-ineffective-haight/\">Police Official: Sit/Lie Mostly Ineffective in Haight\u003c/a> (Bay City News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's controversial sit/lie ordinance has been mostly ineffective in preventing transients from loitering in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a police lieutenant said at a department meeting Wednesday. The ordinance, approved as Proposition L by 54 percent of voters in November, makes it illegal to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., with some exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_18139041\">Supervisors reject Marin grand jury's homeless plan\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Marin County officials flatly rejected the county grand jury's call for a permanent emergency shelter program for the homeless. The civil jury's key recommendation after investigating Marin's homeless — making a permanent emergency shelter program a top priority — \"will not be implemented,\" according to a staff report that county supervisors swiftly endorsed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18140765\">Florida man's drowning in Antioch lake related to Rapture prediction, detective says\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Victor Frasno thought God was on the other side of an Antioch lake, so he tried not once, but twice to get across, even though he could not swim. God would help him reach the other side of the 80-acre reservoir, he told his older brother. The brother was also \"chosen,\" so he pulled him into the frigid water, too. After a chaotic hour or so at the sprawling Contra Loma Regional Park, battling with his brother and sister-in-law in and out of the frigid water, Frasno drowned. Authorities pulled his body from the lake at 11:20 p.m. Friday, 20 minutes after the first of a series of world-ending earthquakes were supposed to have begun, according to an Oakland-based radio evangelist's Judgment Day prediction.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/culturefeed/sf-museum-modern-art-drops-first-big/\">SF Museum of Modern Art Drops First Big Reveal of Expansion Plans\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFMOMA has been gearing up for an over 225,000-square-foot expansion that will double the museum's size and create new public spaces downtown. A press release issued by the museum today was the first big reveal of what the new addition will look like. Designed by Swedish firm Snohetta (in collaboration with SFMOMA and EHDD of San Francisco), part of the expansion will run along the back of the existing building and extend from Howard to Minna, while the East Side “will feature a sweeping façade and an entrance in an area that is currently hidden from public view and largely unused.” The structure will include an open-air 18-foot-wide “pedestrian promenade” connecting Howard and Natoma streets. The promenade will “feature a series of stairs and landings terracing up to an entry court that extends from the new east entrance” and will be open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/BAAN1JKRBB.DTL\">Authorities believe Allison Bayliss killed herself\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Danville teenager who was last seen Monday is believed to have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, authorities said Wednesday. Allison Bayliss, 15, a sophomore at San Ramon Valley High School, was reported missing Monday afternoon. Early Tuesday, her mountain bike was found in the Battery East parking lot near the south end of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/BASU1JKPIL.DTL\">Raided Bay Area card clubs cut deal with state\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two Bay Area card clubs raided by law enforcement agents for allegedly allowing drug dealing and loan sharking have each agreed to pay $575,000 to state regulators. The Oaks Club Room on San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville and Artichoke Joe's on Huntington Avenue in San Bruno will each pay fines and investigative costs to the state Department of Justice's Bureau of Gambling Control and have promised to crack down on illegal activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_18138697\">Sandre Swanson bill would make nonviolent drug offenders eligible for food stamps\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Monday's U.S. Supreme Court order that California must release tens of thousands of inmates from its unconstitutionally overcrowded prisons brings new urgency to a bill to make nonviolent drug ex-cons eligible for food stamps, Assemblyman Sandre Swanson says. Swanson, D-Alameda, is the author of AB 828, the Nutritional Assistance for Families Act, which would let people convicted of certain nonviolent, drug-related felonies receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Federal law bars certain former offenders from receiving such benefits, but lets states opt out of the ban; 14 states have eliminated the ban entirely, and 21 have modified it. The Assembly voted 46-30 Monday to pass Swanson's bill; it now goes to the state Senate.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/25/SPIB1JL4F0.DTL\">Buster Posey injured in SF Giants 12-inning loss\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...The Giants scored four runs in the ninth inning to send Wednesday night's game into extra innings. 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(\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/23/scott-shafer-explains-todays-major-supreme-court-ruling-on-california-prison-overcrowding/#interview\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the interview here\u003c/strong>.\u003c/a>)The Supreme Court declared the state must shed its prison system of some \u003cdel datetime=\"2011-05-25T19:26:06+00:00\">46,000 inmates\u003c/del> (\u003cem>Update May 25:\u003c/em> That was the number cited in the decision, but the actual reductions required might be more or less depending on the prison population at any time) within two years. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shafer explains that state prisons are at 200% capacity, with twice as many inmates incarcerated as the system was built to hold. The ruling did not dictate how California should comply with the order -- whether it should release inmates, transfer them out of state to for-profit prisons, change its parole rules, or take other actions. Cash-strapped California will not be able to simply throw money at the problem, Shafer says, and will probably have to decide on a combination of policy shifts that can meet the required reduction.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nOne thing that might help expedite changes: The ruling probably didn't come as a surprise, Shafer says, as it was clear during oral arguments that a majority of justices had run out of patience with the state, giving policymakers a clear signal to start preparing for compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also of note: The majority took the extraordinary action of including three photos in the official opinion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 403px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/prisonovercrowdingSM1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-28369 \" title=\"prisonovercrowdingSM1\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/prisonovercrowdingSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"268\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Institution for Men Aug. 7, 2006.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 403px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/prisonovercrowding2sm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-28370 \" title=\"prisonovercrowding2sm\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/prisonovercrowding2sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mule Creek State Prison Aug. 1, 2008 \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 227px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/Prisonovercrowding3SM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-28372 \" title=\"Prisonovercrowding3SM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/Prisonovercrowding3SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"336\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salinas Valley State Prison July 29, 2008 Correctional Treatment Center (dry cages/holding cells for people waiting for mental health crisis bed)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the dissenting opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, Shafer called it \"bombastic and scathing.\" Scalia characterized the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/10prison.html\">2009 order\u003c/a> to reduce the number of inmates as \"perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history,\" and contended that its affirmation would put public safety at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28314\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/scotus110523a.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/scotus110523a.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Holding cages, Salinas Valley State Prison \" width=\"243\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28314\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from today's Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leafing through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">84 pages of decision and dissents\u003c/a> from the U.S. Supreme Court today, the first sign you’re in unusual territory is the pictures. The majority opinion from Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy includes three images depicting conditions in California’s prisons. Two show generic scenes of overcrowding in a system that in 2006 was packed to 185 percent of its designed capacity. (One unforgettable portrait of the overflow conditions came from NPR’s Laura Sullivan in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92296114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2008 story on San Quentin\u003c/a>.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third image (right) shows cages used to confine some mentally disturbed prisoners. Here’s how the opinion describes them: “Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets. … A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had ‘no place to put him.’ ”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n(By the way: the use of images in U.S. Supreme Court opinions: rare but not unprecedented. For instance, see the 2003 opinion \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/04pdf/03-1500.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Orden v. Perry\u003c/a>, in which the court held that a display of the Ten Commandments on the Texas state capitol grounds did not violate the First Amendment’s \u003ca href=\"http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/establishment_clause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establishment clause\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court was divided 5-4 in today’s Brown v. Plata. But even that close result masks the bitterness of the split. The 84 pages comprise Kennedy’s majority opinion—joined by Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—and two dissents: one by Antonin Scalia (joined by Clarence Thomas) and one by Samuel Alito ( joined by Chief Justice John Roberts.) The dissents are incendiary, but more on that in a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority opinion may be read as a condemnation of inhumane conditions in California prisons and as a ringing defense of the notion that under our Constitution society owes those we imprison a basic measure of rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“As a consequence of their own actions, prisoners may be deprived of rights that are fundamental to liberty. Yet the law and the Constitution demand recognition of certain other rights. Prisoners retain the essence of human dignity inherent in all persons. Respect for that dignity animates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. ‘ “The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.” ‘ (Atkins v. Virginia 2002, Trop v. Dulles 1958.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To incarcerate, society takes from prisoners the means to provide for their own needs. Prisoners are dependent on the State for food, clothing, and necessary medical care. A prison’s failure to provide sustenance for inmates ‘may actually produce physical “torture or a lingering death.” ‘ (in Estelle v. Gamble 1976, in re Kemmler 1890). … Just as a prisoner may starve if not fed, he or she may suffer or die if not provided adequate medical care. A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in civilized society.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But today’s decision actually turns on something a little more mundane than the principles underlying the Eighth Amendment. The court’s charge was to adjudicate the California’s challenge to lower federal courts’ findings and prescriptions for the prison system under a 1996 law called the\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Boston_PLRA_Treatise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Prison Litigation Reform Act\u003c/a>, or PLRA. The law seeks to make it harder for prisoners to sue over the conditions of their incarceration and requires both inmates and the courts that hear their cases to jump through a series of hoops in seeking and granting remedies to situations like dangerously inadequate mental health care—the allegation that drove the original federal court case (now known as Coleman v. Brown et al.). For instance, inmates must show they’ve exhausted every available avenue for resolving a complaint inside prison—using the prison’s grievance procedures, say—before suing. The law also requires a special three-judge panel, rather than a single judge, to pass judgment on relief for prisoner lawsuits. In granting relief, a three-judge panel is required to come up with a sharply focused remedy to fix a constitutional violation. The panel must also give “substantial weight” to how its remedy will affect public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, California argued that the federal courts where the case began overstepped their bounds when they convened a three-judge district court panel to consider the issue of medical care in the prisons; and that the three-judge panel was wrong in its conclusion that overcrowding was the cause of poor medical care, that the conclusion was based on outdated information, and that the panel’s remedy—to require the state to reduce the prison population to 137.5 percent of capacity (about 46,000 inmates)—was far too sweeping and prescribed without due consideration for public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again in short, the court majority rejected the state’s argument, flatly affirming the panel’s order to reduce the prison population—including a two-year deadline for meeting the inmate quota. The opinion comes with a long final section of advice to both the state and to the three-judge district court\u003cbr>\npanel on how to approach future handling of the case. In essence, the court tells the panel to be open to the state’s suggestions for complying with its order; the court notes the state has already made progress in reducing its inmate population and suggests it might apply to extend the deadline for complying to five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now to the dissents, which are remarkable for their predictions of a reign of terror if the court-ordered cut in prison populations is carried out. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia says that in affirming the lower court’s order, the majority is going along with “what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation’s history: an order requiring California to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia focuses much of his scorn on the opinion’s concluding passage. He calls it “a bizarre coda”—perhaps just a superfluous reminder to the three-judge district court panel that its order is subject to modification. Or perhaps something else:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I suspect … that this passage is a warning shot across the bow, telling the District Court that it had \u003cem>better\u003c/em> modify the injunction if the State requests what we invite it to request. Such a warning, if successful, would achieve the benefit of a marginal reduction in the inevitable murders, robberies, and rapes to be committed by the released inmates. … But perhaps I am being too unkind. … Perhaps the coda is nothing more than a ceremonial washing of the hands—making it clear for all to see, that if the terrible things sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order do happen, they will be none of this Court’s responsibility.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Beyond the vitriol, Scalia’s argument is that the lower court litigation failed to find any systemwide violation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, that the majority has accepted a remedy far too broadly drawn to follow the dictates of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and that the decision continues a trend toward “structural injunctions” that involve judges in supervising social institutions. Getting back to the vitriol, Scalia says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It is also worth noting the peculiarity that the vast majority of inmates most generously rewarded by the release order—the 46,000 whose incarceration will be ended—do not form part of any aggrieved class even under the Court’s expansive notion of constitutional violation. Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness; and many will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Associate Justice Samuel Alito argues the lower courts failed to establish that overcrowding in California’s prisons violates the Eighth Amendment. He, too, is appalled at the order to reduce inmate populations: “The three-judge court ordered the premature release of approximately \u003cem>46,000 criminals—the equivalent of three Army divisions.”\u003c/em> (Emphasis in original). He says he’d reverse the lower court for three reasons: the three-judge failed to look at current conditions in the state’s prisons; the panel was wrong in ruling that the massive prisoner release is necessary to comply with the Eighth Amendment; and the panel failed to adequately consider the impact of the release on public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alito focuses mostly on that last point, saying that past attempts to reduce overcrowding by releasing inmates—even those found most likely to commit violent crimes—have been a failure. His view of what lies ahead here is dire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California. Before putting public safety at risk, every reasonable precaution should be taken. The decision below should be reversed, and the case should be remanded for this to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fear that today’s decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. 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The opinion comes with a long final section of advice to both the state and to the three-judge district court\u003cbr>\npanel on how to approach future handling of the case. In essence, the court tells the panel to be open to the state’s suggestions for complying with its order; the court notes the state has already made progress in reducing its inmate population and suggests it might apply to extend the deadline for complying to five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now to the dissents, which are remarkable for their predictions of a reign of terror if the court-ordered cut in prison populations is carried out. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia says that in affirming the lower court’s order, the majority is going along with “what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation’s history: an order requiring California to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia focuses much of his scorn on the opinion’s concluding passage. He calls it “a bizarre coda”—perhaps just a superfluous reminder to the three-judge district court panel that its order is subject to modification. Or perhaps something else:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I suspect … that this passage is a warning shot across the bow, telling the District Court that it had \u003cem>better\u003c/em> modify the injunction if the State requests what we invite it to request. Such a warning, if successful, would achieve the benefit of a marginal reduction in the inevitable murders, robberies, and rapes to be committed by the released inmates. … But perhaps I am being too unkind. … Perhaps the coda is nothing more than a ceremonial washing of the hands—making it clear for all to see, that if the terrible things sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order do happen, they will be none of this Court’s responsibility.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Beyond the vitriol, Scalia’s argument is that the lower court litigation failed to find any systemwide violation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, that the majority has accepted a remedy far too broadly drawn to follow the dictates of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and that the decision continues a trend toward “structural injunctions” that involve judges in supervising social institutions. Getting back to the vitriol, Scalia says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It is also worth noting the peculiarity that the vast majority of inmates most generously rewarded by the release order—the 46,000 whose incarceration will be ended—do not form part of any aggrieved class even under the Court’s expansive notion of constitutional violation. Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness; and many will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Associate Justice Samuel Alito argues the lower courts failed to establish that overcrowding in California’s prisons violates the Eighth Amendment. He, too, is appalled at the order to reduce inmate populations: “The three-judge court ordered the premature release of approximately \u003cem>46,000 criminals—the equivalent of three Army divisions.”\u003c/em> (Emphasis in original). He says he’d reverse the lower court for three reasons: the three-judge failed to look at current conditions in the state’s prisons; the panel was wrong in ruling that the massive prisoner release is necessary to comply with the Eighth Amendment; and the panel failed to adequately consider the impact of the release on public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alito focuses mostly on that last point, saying that past attempts to reduce overcrowding by releasing inmates—even those found most likely to commit violent crimes—have been a failure. His view of what lies ahead here is dire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California. Before putting public safety at risk, every reasonable precaution should be taken. The decision below should be reversed, and the case should be remanded for this to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fear that today’s decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. I hope that I am wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a few years, we will see.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Pointedly, the court rejected California’s bid for more time and leeway. “The violations have persisted for years,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. “They remain uncorrected.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/22/MNMI1JJKJQ.DTL\">Suspect arrested in beating of Giants fan\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Carrying out a lightning raid in a scruffy East Hollywood neighborhood, police on Sunday arrested a man they believe was the \"primary aggressor\" in the March 31 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium, officials said. An emotional Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a press briefing near the stadium that investigators learned of the suspect, 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, thanks to a tip from his parole agent, then obtained a search warrant.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/23/BAM61JJ10V.DTL\">'Showtime' as deadline on pension reform nears\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It's down to the wire on Mayor Ed Lee's plan to have a consensus pension reform measure on the November ballot. Facing a Tuesday deadline to introduce his charter reform measure at the Board of Supervisors, where six votes are needed to get it on the ballot, city officials and labor leaders worked through the weekend, trying to hammer out a plan that's been months in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_18118145?nclick_check=1\">Doomsday budget forecast for schools may not materialize\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After issuing thousands of preliminary layoff notices, drafting budgets with deep cuts and listening to sky-is-falling scenarios that would shorten the school year by a month, California schools now face a startling possibility: There actually may be the same amount of money as this year. Now a preeminent school adviser, whom 90 percent of school districts pay to interpret the state budget and education laws, recommends districts add back the revenues they had planned to cut for next year. Ron Bennett, chief executive officer of the Sacramento-based School Services of California, said districts \"will be able to bring back teaching, classified and administrative positions. But the rosy advice comes with a caveat: Plan on restoring it, but don't spend it yet.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/05/riot-califs-san-quentin-leaves-4-hospitalized\">Riot at Calif's San Quentin leaves 4 hospitalized\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nearly 200 inmates at San Quentin State Prison rioted in the dining hall, leaving at least four men wounded and hospitalized. The four inmates had stab or slash wounds after the melee broke out Sunday night among 184 men, prison spokesman Lt. 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George Gascón's support of the death penalty, a position that has proved lethal for candidates here in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18120327\">San Jose: New program mediates disputes between cops and the public\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...San Jose Independent Police Auditor LaDoris Cordell, in cooperation with the Police Department, has crafted a new and unique third option for (those) who feel disrespected by officers: Talk it out in front of a retired judge, shake hands, drop their complaints and walk away. The new process, which has been used three times so far, is an attempt to alleviate the lowest level of complaints usually looked into by the department's Internal Affairs unit. It keeps such complaints out of an officer's personnel file. It saves the city thousands of dollars in arbitrations. And it gives unsatisfied residents the rare opportunity to tell law enforcement what they really think.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/gang-injunction/story/quan-gang-injunctions-over-ambitious/\">Quan: Gang Injunctions 'Over-Ambitious'\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, responding to the City Council's vote to fund gang injunctions in Fruitvale and North Oakland last week, called the measures “over-ambitious” and said she would have preferred alternative crime-fighting strategies. “I don't quite get the process except that it probably looks good in the media and you do create some sense of 'Okay, we're being serious,' ” Quan said at her Friday press briefing. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_18116228\">Fruitvale residents get behind Oakland gang injunction\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every day, Gloria Vargas keeps an eye on the young men who congregate in front of her concrete apartment complex on 28th Avenue, near Foothill Boulevard. Some of them live on the block, some don't. At least one she has known since he was in preschool. Those young men and several others create a real nuisance for the neighborhood, residents say. They smoke marijuana, flash guns and spray-paint gang tags on sidewalks, buildings and utility boxes. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/23/3646247/browns-latest-state-budget-is.html\">Brown's latest state budget is aggressive against debt\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Under the governor's new budget schedule, much of the state's tax revenue growth over the next two years would help clean up balance sheets rather than buy more school days or restore Medi-Cal cuts. The state would generally wait to pump more money into programs until 2013-14. Despite significant revenue growth in the meantime, schools and low-income residents would generally have to wait to claw back from the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/pge/story/california-resumes-diablo-canyon/\">California to Resume Diablo Canyon Hearings\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California officials will mull the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s future in early July, during the first public hearing scheduled since a Japanese nuclear power plant began melting down more than two months ago.To continue operating Diablo Canyon from 2025 until 2045, Pacific Gas & Electric needs approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a federal agency. 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It was June 5, 1981, when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a rare pneumonia struck five gay men in Los Angeles, a first account of an opportunistic infection tied to a disease later to be known as HIV/AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_18114666\">Gov. Brown taps Sausalito woman for Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kathrin \"Kate\" Sears of Sausalito, a supervising deputy attorney general in the state Department of Justice, was appointed to the Marin County Board of Supervisors this weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor's office announced the appointment of the 58-year-old Sears on Sunday morning. 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