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Of those, 10 were treated at local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State tests determined that fentanyl is the prime suspect in the apparent overdoses that occurred on April 21 and 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, when you have something like fentanyl, even a search could potentially not discover it, since such minute amounts are all that's needed\" for a user to overdose on the highly potent synthetic cousin of heroin, Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fentanyl is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/opioids/fentanyl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to 100 times more potent\u003c/a> than morphine and many times stronger than heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Treating Addiction in Prison\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state senator said she wants prison officials to consider different strategies to curb the demand for drugs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just do not use the medical treatments for addiction,\" Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes drugs like naltrexone and buprenorphine, which are used to treat opioid addiction along with methadone, are underutilized in the prison system, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical community supports using the two drugs in the criminal justice system, according to Dan Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the monthly buprenorphine injection will be a game changer for treatment of opioid use disorder in prison settings,\" Ciccarone said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR spokeswoman Vicky Waters said the agency has begun a pilot program using naltrexone for inmates at the California Institution for Women in Corona and the California Institution for Men in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials say they treat substance abuse with \"detoxification\" and \"therapeutic rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDCR does not use buprenorphine, according to Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Prisons Do Now to Combat Drugs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skinner plans to ask officials from the CDCR and the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which oversees the department, to speak to the state Senate's Public Safety Committee in the coming weeks and explain what they've done to cut down on opiates entering the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections department uses baggage and parcel scanners and metal detectors to prevent drugs from getting inside prison walls, Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the state has spent millions of dollars on drug-sniffing dogs, inmate body scans, visitor searches and restricting drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the state Legislature approved a two-year, $10.4 million pilot program at 11 prisons to intensify some of those efforts. That funding expired last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last budget cycle, the CDCR received $6.7 million to expand its drug K-9 program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drugs Still Flow In, Deadly Inmate Overdoses Increase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Methods of introduction are getting more sophisticated,\" Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 29 inmates died of drug overdoses in California's prisons, according to the CDCR. That year marked the highest rate of drug overdose deaths at state lockups since 2006. Of those cases, 27 were attributed to opioids or methamphetamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between September 2015 and July 2016, seven state inmates died from fentanyl overdoses inside CDCR facilities, according to reports compiled by the OIG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Strugar-Fritsch, a correctional health consultant with Health Management Associates, said there are several theories that could explain the rise in overdose deaths among California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be that more drugs are entering the prison system, or that the drugs getting into state lockups are stronger, like fentanyl, or that more inmates entering California correctional facilities from county jails may be already addicted, Strugar-Fritsch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Quentin Overdoses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two inmates at San Quentin State Prison died from \"multiple drug intoxication\" in 2017 and two died from drug overdoses so far this year, according to Marin County Sheriff's Capt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California prison officials need to find new ways to prevent illegal opioid drugs from entering the prison system, according to the lawmaker who runs the state legislative committee that oversees the state's correctional system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), who chairs the Senate's Public Safety Committee, says she wants the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to explain what it's doing to reduce inmate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner said she's concerned that new programs and extra funding have failed to address the problem of illegal drugs in state lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Visitors, guards, drones -- all are potential sources of bringing in drugs,\" Skinner said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner's comments follow suspected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665693/fentanyl-blamed-for-apparent-overdoses-that-killed-california-prisoner-sickened-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overdoses\u003c/a> last month at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County. One inmate died and 12 got sick. Of those, 10 were treated at local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State tests determined that fentanyl is the prime suspect in the apparent overdoses that occurred on April 21 and 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, when you have something like fentanyl, even a search could potentially not discover it, since such minute amounts are all that's needed\" for a user to overdose on the highly potent synthetic cousin of heroin, Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fentanyl is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/opioids/fentanyl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to 100 times more potent\u003c/a> than morphine and many times stronger than heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Treating Addiction in Prison\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state senator said she wants prison officials to consider different strategies to curb the demand for drugs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just do not use the medical treatments for addiction,\" Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes drugs like naltrexone and buprenorphine, which are used to treat opioid addiction along with methadone, are underutilized in the prison system, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical community supports using the two drugs in the criminal justice system, according to Dan Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the monthly buprenorphine injection will be a game changer for treatment of opioid use disorder in prison settings,\" Ciccarone said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR spokeswoman Vicky Waters said the agency has begun a pilot program using naltrexone for inmates at the California Institution for Women in Corona and the California Institution for Men in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials say they treat substance abuse with \"detoxification\" and \"therapeutic rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDCR does not use buprenorphine, according to Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Prisons Do Now to Combat Drugs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skinner plans to ask officials from the CDCR and the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which oversees the department, to speak to the state Senate's Public Safety Committee in the coming weeks and explain what they've done to cut down on opiates entering the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections department uses baggage and parcel scanners and metal detectors to prevent drugs from getting inside prison walls, Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the state has spent millions of dollars on drug-sniffing dogs, inmate body scans, visitor searches and restricting drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the state Legislature approved a two-year, $10.4 million pilot program at 11 prisons to intensify some of those efforts. That funding expired last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last budget cycle, the CDCR received $6.7 million to expand its drug K-9 program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drugs Still Flow In, Deadly Inmate Overdoses Increase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Methods of introduction are getting more sophisticated,\" Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 29 inmates died of drug overdoses in California's prisons, according to the CDCR. That year marked the highest rate of drug overdose deaths at state lockups since 2006. Of those cases, 27 were attributed to opioids or methamphetamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between September 2015 and July 2016, seven state inmates died from fentanyl overdoses inside CDCR facilities, according to reports compiled by the OIG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Strugar-Fritsch, a correctional health consultant with Health Management Associates, said there are several theories that could explain the rise in overdose deaths among California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be that more drugs are entering the prison system, or that the drugs getting into state lockups are stronger, like fentanyl, or that more inmates entering California correctional facilities from county jails may be already addicted, Strugar-Fritsch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Quentin Overdoses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two inmates at San Quentin State Prison died from \"multiple drug intoxication\" in 2017 and two died from drug overdoses so far this year, according to Marin County Sheriff's Capt. 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"disqusTitle": "1,500 Miles From Home, a Prisoner Gets a Visit From His Mom",
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"content": "\u003cp>Eleven years ago California’s prison system was bursting at the seams. Gymnasiums were being used as dormitories, and inmates were sleeping in triple bunks. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency that allowed for urgent measures to be taken to bring down the population inside, including shipping thousands of inmates to prisons in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point California was planning to bring all prisoners back in-state by 2016, but that deadline has come and gone. Governor Brown recently vetoed a bill that would have stopped California from using private out-of-state prisons by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daletha Hayden’s youngest son, William Mitchell, is one of 4,000 California prisoners currently serving time out of state. Nine years ago, he was convicted of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. He was sent to state prison in California, but then he was moved to Arizona and finally to a privately run facility in Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden hadn’t seen her son for a year, when she traveled to the Mississippi prison to visit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Daletha Hayden’s youngest son is one of more than four thousand California prisoners serving time in out-of-state prisons. This summer she went to see him for the first time in a year since he was moved out of California to Mississippi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628275\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daletha Hayden’s youngest son is one of more than four thousand California prisoners serving time in out-of-state prisons. This summer she went to see him for the first time in a year since he was moved out of California to Mississippi. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The prison is outside Clarksdale, Mississippi in the Delta. California also contracts with a prison facility in Arizona.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prison is outside Clarksdale, Mississippi in the Delta. California also contracts with a prison facility in Arizona. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Plane tickets, hotels, rental car and living expenses all add up. The entire trip cost almost $1,500. Hayden’s friends, family and a community group she’s part of all contributed to get her here.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plane tickets, hotels, rental car and living expenses all add up. The entire trip cost almost $1,500. Hayden’s friends, family and a community group she’s part of all contributed to get her here. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"In her hotel room Hayden speaks to her son, William Mitchell, from the prison. About 1,200 California prisoners are housed in Mississippi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her hotel room Hayden speaks to her son, William Mitchell, from the prison. About 1,200 California prisoners are housed in Mississippi. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"“I was just thinking about seeing him and giving him a hug and what he’s going to look like and what he’s going to think I look like after not seeing me for a whole year.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I was just thinking about seeing him and giving him a hug and what he’s going to look like and what he’s going to think I look like after not seeing me for a whole year.” \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility is owned by the company that until recently was known as Corrections Corporation of America. Now the company has a new name: CoreCivic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility is owned by the company that until recently was known as Corrections Corporation of America. Now the company has a new name: CoreCivic. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"All Hayden is taking with her is a clear plastic bag with quarters for the vending machines and her ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Hayden is taking with her is a clear plastic bag with quarters for the vending machines and her ID. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden has three days of visits with her son. They talk about everything from TV shows to spirituality. “The hardest thing was watching her leave,” said William. “I was like please take me with you.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628288\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayden has three days of visits with her son. They talk about everything from TV shows to spirituality. “The hardest thing was watching her leave,” said William. “I was like please take me with you.”\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eleven years ago California’s prison system was bursting at the seams. Gymnasiums were being used as dormitories, and inmates were sleeping in triple bunks. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency that allowed for urgent measures to be taken to bring down the population inside, including shipping thousands of inmates to prisons in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point California was planning to bring all prisoners back in-state by 2016, but that deadline has come and gone. Governor Brown recently vetoed a bill that would have stopped California from using private out-of-state prisons by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daletha Hayden’s youngest son, William Mitchell, is one of 4,000 California prisoners currently serving time out of state. Nine years ago, he was convicted of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. He was sent to state prison in California, but then he was moved to Arizona and finally to a privately run facility in Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden hadn’t seen her son for a year, when she traveled to the Mississippi prison to visit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Daletha Hayden’s youngest son is one of more than four thousand California prisoners serving time in out-of-state prisons. This summer she went to see him for the first time in a year since he was moved out of California to Mississippi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628275\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daletha Hayden’s youngest son is one of more than four thousand California prisoners serving time in out-of-state prisons. This summer she went to see him for the first time in a year since he was moved out of California to Mississippi. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The prison is outside Clarksdale, Mississippi in the Delta. California also contracts with a prison facility in Arizona.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prison is outside Clarksdale, Mississippi in the Delta. California also contracts with a prison facility in Arizona. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Plane tickets, hotels, rental car and living expenses all add up. The entire trip cost almost $1,500. Hayden’s friends, family and a community group she’s part of all contributed to get her here.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plane tickets, hotels, rental car and living expenses all add up. The entire trip cost almost $1,500. Hayden’s friends, family and a community group she’s part of all contributed to get her here. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"In her hotel room Hayden speaks to her son, William Mitchell, from the prison. About 1,200 California prisoners are housed in Mississippi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her hotel room Hayden speaks to her son, William Mitchell, from the prison. About 1,200 California prisoners are housed in Mississippi. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"“I was just thinking about seeing him and giving him a hug and what he’s going to look like and what he’s going to think I look like after not seeing me for a whole year.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I was just thinking about seeing him and giving him a hug and what he’s going to look like and what he’s going to think I look like after not seeing me for a whole year.” \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility is owned by the company that until recently was known as Corrections Corporation of America. 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Now the company has a new name: CoreCivic. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"All Hayden is taking with her is a clear plastic bag with quarters for the vending machines and her ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State9.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Hayden is taking with her is a clear plastic bag with quarters for the vending machines and her ID. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden has three days of visits with her son. They talk about everything from TV shows to spirituality. “The hardest thing was watching her leave,” said William. “I was like please take me with you.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628288\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Out-of-State99.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayden has three days of visits with her son. 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The platform helps people reduce or dismiss nonviolent convictions by submitting crime information to public defenders, streamlining a process that can take months and multiple visits to a county courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies have you run a background check,” said Castañeda. “Well, I’ve changed. I’ve reformed from my old life and I can be a productive member of society. I can be an asset to any company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clear My Record was developed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Code for America\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works to improve government services through technology. The app launched one year ago in San Francisco and now operates in 11 California counties. Nearly 2,000 Californians have reduced or cleared a criminal record using the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly we’ve seen people who were dealing with addiction in a period in their life. …They just want to erase any barriers and move on,” said attorney Jenny Montoya Tansey, director of safety and justice for Code for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to secure sustainable employment and housing is a key reason that people re-enter prison,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A string of California laws in recent years have helped individuals reduce and dismiss past convictions. Most notably, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> in 2014, a controversial ballot measure that reduced some drug and theft felonies to misdemeanors. 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"content": "\u003cp>When voters were asked to approve \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> in 2014 and reduce many drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, they were promised that the prison and jail savings generated would be spent trying to prevent future crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That promise was kept Thursday: A \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/news.php?id=125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state board awarded $103 million to 23 cities and counties\u003c/a> to provide services such as substance abuse and mental health treatment in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7QItTEGtRlKYjR3N08zS1U3Mmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">range\u003c/a> from a whopping $20 million for Los Angeles County to expand re-entry programs for offenders with mental illness and drug addiction to $1 million for the small city of Corning in rural Tehama County to connect youths who have been arrested with housing and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, 58 cities and counties submitted proposals asking for $225 million over the next three years. John Bauters — who was on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/downloads/Attachment%20K-1.%20Executive%20Steering%20Committee%20Roster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">committee\u003c/a> that decided which communities should get the money, and works for \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeandjust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the organization that authored Proposition 47\u003c/a> — said the 18-member committee had a tough job, because all of the applications were strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The best part is that we got a very diverse array (of applicants) — so the thing in common was the diversity of it,\" he said. \"Although they all provided very similar services in a way, they did so differently and they were creative, locally tailored approaches to dealing with their own constituent groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Bauters said, that's the biggest strength of the Proposition 47 grant program: The money is going to local groups that know what their community needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Smart safety begins at the local level, and when you give local communities the tools they need and the resources they need to address problems in their community, you can really yield the best results,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rialto Mayor Deborah Robertson agreed. Rialto, in San Bernardino County, is getting just under $1 million to expand a program aimed at keeping teens out of trouble. She says it’s been a huge success and can now grow to include even more youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">California for the first time is creating a treatment and prevention infrastructure that millions of Californians have wanted and needed for generations.\u003ccite>John Bauters, committee member for Proposition 47 grant awards\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Two Saturdays ago we had orientation kicking off our third year, and the room was packed,\" she said. \"It was packed from parents who were happy to still have their kids participate, and packed with newcomers that they had shared the success with, and what they saw were the benefits and positive, constructive activities for the summer. And they had invited their friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 has been controversial in some quarters, with many law enforcement leaders blaming the ballot measure for an increase in property crimes in California. The ballot measure not only reduced many drug possessions to misdemeanors but also raised the threshold for felony theft to $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry Brents, Rialto's community services director, who took the lead on the city's Proposition 47 grant, said he thinks the disbursement of funds to crime prevention programs could quiet some of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody is seeing the results of Prop. 47 like the city of Rialto, and it makes it hard to understand if you don't see the results,\" he said. \"In this case we have hard evidence of the effects of how it's working for us. ... I don't think you can be opposed if you see results.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robertson also praised the grant program for rewarding smaller cities alongside large urban centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauters agreed, saying he was particularly impressed with some of the smaller applications, including Corning's and one from the Oceanside Unified School District aimed at reaching more juveniles and young adults in the criminal justice system with a wide range of crime prevention and rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauters and other backers of Proposition 47 hope the program will grow in future years. They believe\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-proposition-47-savings-20160518-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the savings to the state from the ballot measure are even bigger \u003c/a>than the $103 million over three years calculated by the governor's office. Proposition 47 gave the governor the power to decide that amount, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Bauters said the grants from the Board of State and Community Corrections are historic, noting it's the first time that money previously spent on incarcerating criminals will go toward crime prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had an increase in corrections spending and prisons in particular. Since 1981, there's been an increase of 1500 percent,\" he said. \"Thanks to the savings from Prop. 47, California for the first time is creating a treatment and prevention infrastructure that millions of Californians have wanted and needed for generations ... this was a reprioritization of how Californians wish to see money spent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes applicants who didn’t win the grants this time around will reapply in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307877957\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\"Just One Breath\"\u003c/strong>: Read More \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/valleyfever\" target=\"_blank\">Investigations\u003c/a> About Valley Fever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/valleyfever\" target=\"_blank\">“Just One Breath”\u003c/a> project results from an innovative reporting venture, the Center for Health Journalism Collaborative, which currently involves the Bakersfield Californian, Radio Bilingüe in Fresno, Valley Public Radio in Fresno and Bakersfield, Vida en el Valle in Fresno, Hanford Sentinel, the Voice of OC in Santa Ana, the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and La Estrella de Tucsón. The collaborative is an initiative of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When the wind kicks up in the town of Coalinga, dust devils whirl over almond orchards and pumpjacks. You can even see the narrow brown funnels from the grounds of Pleasant Valley State Prison, on the outskirts of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the prison itself, there’s hardly any dust. That's evidence of years of work by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce and control the San Joaquin Valley's ubiquitous wind-borne dust. The dust carries the spores of the debilitating fungal disease known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/coccidioidomycosis/\" target=\"_blank\">coccidioidomycosis\u003c/a>, or \"valley fever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can see, it’s a slight breeze but there’s nothing blowing around,” says prison spokesman Matt Martin, gesturing toward dirt-packed exercise yards and the unpaved shoulders of nearby roads. \"It’s a dirt spray, it’ll keep the dust down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inhaling the dust can be deadly. Spores of the dangerous fungus lurk inside the dust, and if prisoners inhale those spores, they can get sick.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2011, hundreds of state prisoners were falling ill with the disease every year. Annual prisoner deaths from the disease ranged between six to nine. Pleasant Valley had the most cases; in 2011, the prison's diagnosis rate was more than 600 times the general California rate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisoners are especially vulnerable to valley fever. They can’t install new air filters or double-paned windows. And they obviously can’t leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Preventing this disease is challenging because we all breathe, and many of us live in areas where this fungus is found,” says Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dfwed/mycotics/\" target=\"_blank\">mycotic diseases branch \u003c/a>of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in the last few years, California’s state prisons have made progress. They’ve worked to screen out the prisoners most vulnerable to the disease and have taken measures to lower the risk to inmates incarcerated there. Between 2011 and 2015, while background valley fever rates in the southwest dropped by 30 to 50 percent, rates in state prisons fell close to 90 percent overall. Those improvements did not happen quickly or easily, and some required intervention by outsiders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some prisoners more vulnerable than others\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Nuwintore was barely three weeks into his sentence at Taft Correctional Institution when he began to cough and experience chest pain. Within a few days, it was obvious something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could touch my skin and I was really hot,” Nuwintore recalls. “I had the coughing, the night sweats. My appetite was gone. I couldn't eat. I couldn't swallow, and I was losing weight really, really fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valley fever is endemic to dusty areas of the southwestern United States. Most who inhale the spores overcome the disease without ever knowing it. Some develop symptoms resembling pneumonia or bronchitis. In a small minority, the disease causes severe lung infection or disseminates throughout the body, requiring lifelong treatment. In the worst cases, the infection leads to fatal meningitis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease draws its name from the San Joaquin Valley, the agricultural belt in the center of the state where the disease is concentrated. Kern County — where Nuwintore was incarcerated at Taft — has the highest valley fever incidence of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally a refugee from the east African country of Burundi, Nuwintore had never heard of the disease before arriving at Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other inmates were telling me about valley fever, and I was like, ‘What is it? What is it?’ ” he says. “It was something scary, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuwintore was a victim of confinement in an endemic area, but weather and genetics also played a role. In 2011, when he was diagnosed, valley fever rates in Arizona and California were skyrocketing — a peak experts largely attribute to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/special/just-one-breath/valley-fever-cases-spike-is-it-the-weather/article_7ce6b232-d0a0-5674-bdf6-e512a3d46d42.html\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weather cycles of rain and drought\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And research shows that individuals of African-American or African descent, like Nuwintore, are especially prone to the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taft is a federal prison and its health data have not been made available. But in state prisons all around Taft, the disease simmered. Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever — many of whom, like Nuwintore, still struggle to manage the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Prisons take steps to reduce risk\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began taking steps to prevent valley fever long before the alarming 2011 spike in cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2006, prison officials began excluding inmates with weakened immune systems — due to factors such as HIV or chemotherapy — from all eight prisons in the Central Valley. But valley fever rates still rose among prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More sweeping interventions arrived in 2013, at the behest of federal officials who by that time had taken over the administration of prison health care in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal oversight officials added a new rule specifically for prisoners who are African-American or Filipino, another group that is especially susceptible to the disease. The rule held that inmates from those two ethnic groups could \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be sent to the two most affected prisons, Pleasant Valley and nearby Avenal State Prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At those two prisons, officials have distributed dust masks that inmates can wear outside. Prisoners also have the option to stay indoors when wind speeds are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think [valley fever] is one of the biggest issues that we've had in this system,” says Janet Mohle-Boetani, a health administrator with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We're taking precautions for every prison in the Central Valley, and we're taking extra special precautions for the two prisons that have the very high rates of valley fever.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most significant change, perhaps, arrived in 2015 on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/new-valley-fever-skin-test-shows-promise-obstacles-remain\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skin test called Spherusol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that can detect valley fever immunity, and it’s offered to every inmate entering the state prison system. An individual who tests positive has already been exposed to the fungus and fought it off successfully, and is henceforth immune. Inmates who test negative are still at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If they inhale the dust with the fungus in it and they've tested negative, they're much more likely to get the disease than someone who has a positive test,” says Mohle-Boetani. “So if someone comes into the reception center and then they test negative, we put a medical restriction on those patients so they are not sent to live in Avenal or Pleasant Valley State Prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People gain immunity after successfully fighting off the disease. In a mass screening in early 2015, around 35,000 inmates in the California prison system took the test and roughly 9 percent were shown to be immune.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC recommended Spherusol to the state prison system shortly after the test became commercially available in 2014. The FDA has not actually approved Spherusol for this purpose, but like other medical products, it is being used off-label to sort the prisoners by risk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Given the fact that they were having such high rates of cocci, we knew that we needed to do whatever we could to try to help them lower the risk,” says the CDC’s Tom Chiller, referring to valley fever by its scientific nickname, cocci. “We immediately thought 'Maybe this could be used to understand which prisoners could exist in an area with the fungal spores but not get infected, or at least have an extremely low risk of getting infected.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Galgiani, director of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence, is optimistic about the decline in valley fever reported in California’s prisons, but he says it’s too early to determine the exact reasons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think they should be given credit for the drop to some extent,” Galgiani says, “but it'll take time to see if it stays low, to see if it's because of the policies that are now put in place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Health impacts linger after prison sentence\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Richard Nuwintore lives on a suburban cul-de-sac outside Sacramento with his mother and girlfriend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He may be free from prison, but he’s not free of the disease. He’s too sick to work, and he’ll probably be on antifungal medications for the rest of his life. The fat pink and blue pills keep him alive, but their side effects are almost as bad as the disease itself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wake up, you have a little bit of energy, but as the day goes by you start to just feel pain in the joints,” he says. “Of course, your stomach is still on fire because the medicine is kind of powerful. And [there's] fatigue, and sometimes you get dizzy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Nuwintore and another inmate won a landmark case that established the right of prisoners to sue the federal government for damages related to the disease, even though Taft is managed by a private contractor. They’ve now filed a second lawsuit to recoup their medical costs and lost earnings — a sum that could reach millions.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2011, hundreds of state prisoners were falling ill with the disease every year. Annual prisoner deaths from the disease ranged between six to nine. Pleasant Valley had the most cases; in 2011, the prison's diagnosis rate was more than 600 times the general California rate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisoners are especially vulnerable to valley fever. They can’t install new air filters or double-paned windows. And they obviously can’t leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Preventing this disease is challenging because we all breathe, and many of us live in areas where this fungus is found,” says Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dfwed/mycotics/\" target=\"_blank\">mycotic diseases branch \u003c/a>of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in the last few years, California’s state prisons have made progress. They’ve worked to screen out the prisoners most vulnerable to the disease and have taken measures to lower the risk to inmates incarcerated there. Between 2011 and 2015, while background valley fever rates in the southwest dropped by 30 to 50 percent, rates in state prisons fell close to 90 percent overall. Those improvements did not happen quickly or easily, and some required intervention by outsiders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some prisoners more vulnerable than others\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Nuwintore was barely three weeks into his sentence at Taft Correctional Institution when he began to cough and experience chest pain. Within a few days, it was obvious something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could touch my skin and I was really hot,” Nuwintore recalls. “I had the coughing, the night sweats. My appetite was gone. I couldn't eat. I couldn't swallow, and I was losing weight really, really fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valley fever is endemic to dusty areas of the southwestern United States. Most who inhale the spores overcome the disease without ever knowing it. Some develop symptoms resembling pneumonia or bronchitis. In a small minority, the disease causes severe lung infection or disseminates throughout the body, requiring lifelong treatment. In the worst cases, the infection leads to fatal meningitis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease draws its name from the San Joaquin Valley, the agricultural belt in the center of the state where the disease is concentrated. Kern County — where Nuwintore was incarcerated at Taft — has the highest valley fever incidence of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally a refugee from the east African country of Burundi, Nuwintore had never heard of the disease before arriving at Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other inmates were telling me about valley fever, and I was like, ‘What is it? What is it?’ ” he says. “It was something scary, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuwintore was a victim of confinement in an endemic area, but weather and genetics also played a role. In 2011, when he was diagnosed, valley fever rates in Arizona and California were skyrocketing — a peak experts largely attribute to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/special/just-one-breath/valley-fever-cases-spike-is-it-the-weather/article_7ce6b232-d0a0-5674-bdf6-e512a3d46d42.html\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weather cycles of rain and drought\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And research shows that individuals of African-American or African descent, like Nuwintore, are especially prone to the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taft is a federal prison and its health data have not been made available. But in state prisons all around Taft, the disease simmered. Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever — many of whom, like Nuwintore, still struggle to manage the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Prisons take steps to reduce risk\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began taking steps to prevent valley fever long before the alarming 2011 spike in cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2006, prison officials began excluding inmates with weakened immune systems — due to factors such as HIV or chemotherapy — from all eight prisons in the Central Valley. But valley fever rates still rose among prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More sweeping interventions arrived in 2013, at the behest of federal officials who by that time had taken over the administration of prison health care in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal oversight officials added a new rule specifically for prisoners who are African-American or Filipino, another group that is especially susceptible to the disease. The rule held that inmates from those two ethnic groups could \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be sent to the two most affected prisons, Pleasant Valley and nearby Avenal State Prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At those two prisons, officials have distributed dust masks that inmates can wear outside. Prisoners also have the option to stay indoors when wind speeds are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think [valley fever] is one of the biggest issues that we've had in this system,” says Janet Mohle-Boetani, a health administrator with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We're taking precautions for every prison in the Central Valley, and we're taking extra special precautions for the two prisons that have the very high rates of valley fever.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most significant change, perhaps, arrived in 2015 on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/new-valley-fever-skin-test-shows-promise-obstacles-remain\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skin test called Spherusol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that can detect valley fever immunity, and it’s offered to every inmate entering the state prison system. An individual who tests positive has already been exposed to the fungus and fought it off successfully, and is henceforth immune. Inmates who test negative are still at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If they inhale the dust with the fungus in it and they've tested negative, they're much more likely to get the disease than someone who has a positive test,” says Mohle-Boetani. “So if someone comes into the reception center and then they test negative, we put a medical restriction on those patients so they are not sent to live in Avenal or Pleasant Valley State Prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People gain immunity after successfully fighting off the disease. In a mass screening in early 2015, around 35,000 inmates in the California prison system took the test and roughly 9 percent were shown to be immune.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC recommended Spherusol to the state prison system shortly after the test became commercially available in 2014. The FDA has not actually approved Spherusol for this purpose, but like other medical products, it is being used off-label to sort the prisoners by risk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Given the fact that they were having such high rates of cocci, we knew that we needed to do whatever we could to try to help them lower the risk,” says the CDC’s Tom Chiller, referring to valley fever by its scientific nickname, cocci. “We immediately thought 'Maybe this could be used to understand which prisoners could exist in an area with the fungal spores but not get infected, or at least have an extremely low risk of getting infected.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Galgiani, director of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence, is optimistic about the decline in valley fever reported in California’s prisons, but he says it’s too early to determine the exact reasons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think they should be given credit for the drop to some extent,” Galgiani says, “but it'll take time to see if it stays low, to see if it's because of the policies that are now put in place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Health impacts linger after prison sentence\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Richard Nuwintore lives on a suburban cul-de-sac outside Sacramento with his mother and girlfriend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He may be free from prison, but he’s not free of the disease. He’s too sick to work, and he’ll probably be on antifungal medications for the rest of his life. The fat pink and blue pills keep him alive, but their side effects are almost as bad as the disease itself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wake up, you have a little bit of energy, but as the day goes by you start to just feel pain in the joints,” he says. “Of course, your stomach is still on fire because the medicine is kind of powerful. And [there's] fatigue, and sometimes you get dizzy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>James Houston got out of prison three years ago after serving 18 years for second-degree murder. This month he returned to San Quentin State Prison -- as a guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston was back at the prison to try to convince Silicon Valley venture capitalists to invest in an after-school program he designed called Teen Tech Hub, which aims to teach technology skills to youths in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'My goal is to get a job as a junior software developer, and I’ve got to tell you, this program has given me those skills.'\u003ccite>Aly Tamboura, program participant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Houston presented his project with still-incarcerated inmates during Demo Day, an event for inmates to present their tech projects to venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teen Tech Hub was born out of my incarceration,” said the 42-year-old during his presentation. “I came to San Quentin and I realized what it meant to be in a community, and I wanted to bring that back to my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was part of the San Quentin Coding Program, Code 7370, an initiative launched last year by a nonprofit group called The Last Mile to teach computer programming to inmates. 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And the state’s prison system is overflowing with 116,124 inmates, 33 percent over capacity as of Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the group focused on the development of entrepreneurial skills, but the program took a different turn last year when the organization partnered with the San Francisco-based coding school Hack Reactor. The two organizations worked together to create a curriculum to teach basic Web programming and advanced coding languages.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ql6jwArWC6iKBoBycJTRkyPjNaYeF3yq\"]\u003cbr>\nWes Bailey, director of operations for The Last Mile, said the move made sense because the group’s aim was to provide inmates with job opportunities after they leave prison. Not only is the technology sector a fast-growing industry, but Bailey believes that there will be a shortage of Web developers in the next five years that former inmates could fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The No.1 reason that inmates typically return to prison is if they don’t have something that is gainful employment,” said Bailey, who also worked as an instructor on the first stage of the program. “Our program is designed to prep them for really good jobs, and these are well-paying jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help ensure the program’s success, inmates have to go through a competitive selection process that includes an interview and an assessment of their behavior and expected release date. Inmates with some experience in technology who can demonstrate an ability to learn are invited into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program has had its challenges. One of the biggest hurdles in the beginning was trying to figure out a way to teach coding without Internet access because prisoners do not have permission to go online. To solve this problem, the organization built an internal system to share the projects developed by the inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another issue was how to handle the transition to the real world after prisoners have finished their sentences. The nonprofit solved this by continuing to work with their former students after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston was one of them. After being released in May 2013, he continued to develop his tech project until the organization decided to fund it this year. Now, he is seeking venture capital funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said that he was grateful for the skills he developed because so much in California is technology driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re an archaic man trying to survive in today’s society,” said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Benefit: Cost-Cutting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Last Mile’s co-founder, Redlitz, said the program has another side benefit. By reducing recidivism, it also cuts down the prison system’s cost to taxpayers, which would allow the savings to be re-invested in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end result is if we can mitigate some of the problems that are a big fiscal issue for us and take some of that cost away, [it can be] re-dedicated to other areas, especially education,” Redlitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that prison spending was “on par with higher education.” According to the state’s enacted budget, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a budget this year of $12.6 billion, while higher education has a budget of $14.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took a fraction of that budget and redirected it towards education, every young person in California could have a free college education,” Bailey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also attending Demo Day was former inmate Heracio Harts, 42, who had been convicted of manslaughter. He went through the entrepreneurial program in 2012 and developed a project called the Healthy Hearts Institute. 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(t)he entrepreneurs were the drug dealers,\" said Harts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current inmates see Houston and Harts as inspirational examples of re-entering society successfully. Four months after being released, Houston was hired as an outreach worker at the Richmond Office of Neighborhood Safety, which aims to reduce crime rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Harts stayed focused on his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aly Tamboura, a participant in the coding program, says he aspires to become a software developer when he is released next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to get a job as a junior software developer, and I’ve got to tell you, this program has given me those skills,” said Tamboura, who is serving a 12-year sentence for assaulting his wife. The 49-year-old had initially been sentenced to 14 years in prison, but the term was recently reduced for good behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Demo Day, Tamboura presented his project, Tycho, an interactive Web database for parents with children who suffer from diseases such as polio, influenza, measles and chicken pox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Last Mile’s hope is that the success stories will change society’s negative perception of ex-convicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talent and desire inside that really needs to be nurtured, and that’s really what we are doing,” said Redlitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a next step, the organization is launching its first women’s program next spring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California prison officials are setting the first standards for which transgender inmates should receive state-funded sex reassignment surgery after spending years in court fighting to block the operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a policy that took effect Tuesday and was reviewed by The Associated Press, prison mental health professionals would refer the inmates for the surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify for the surgery, inmates must be diagnosed with what is formally known as gender dysphoria; have expressed a desire for sex reassignment surgery for at least two years; and have lived as a member of the preferred gender for at least 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PTKSMyc30PihIjbhyg88h3YVpgzupgn8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes after California became the first state to agree to pay for one inmate's surgery and refused to provide the surgery to a second inmate who has since been paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines are believed to be the first in the nation by a prison system, said Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the federal court-appointed official who controls California's prison medical care. They were developed in cooperation with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which oversees inmates' mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understood there needed to be some uniform protocols in place that focused on the need for surgery when it was medically necessary, when there weren't any alternatives that were feasible,\" she said. The standards are similar to those used by medical providers outside the prison system, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-page document calls for inmates who request the surgery and meet the basic criteria to be referred for evaluation to a committee of two medical doctors, two psychiatrists and two psychologists, which would make a recommendation to another higher-level committee of medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727523\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-800x1248.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison walk the hallway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-800x1248.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-400x624.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-1440x2246.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-1180x1840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-960x1497.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison walk the hallway. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy prohibits procedures that are considered merely cosmetic, including hair removal, face lifts, breast augmentations or other implants, which Hayhoe said will help hold down the cost to taxpayers. She previously estimated the cost could near $100,000, though the \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, which has represented several inmates, said that is exaggerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently 375 males and 26 females in the prison system receiving hormone therapy that gives them the characteristics of the opposite sex. They are housed in prisons based on their birth gender unless they have surgery, with many in special protective housing or in mental health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayhoe said she does not expect a flood of applications or approvals for the surgery because many won't seek it or won't qualify under guidelines that she described as conservative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jody L. Herman, a scholar of public policy who focuses on gender identity and transgender people at the\u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Williams Institute\u003c/a>, a think-tank on LGBT issues at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the best national survey found that about 42 percent of respondents had any surgery, including some of the procedures the department defines as cosmetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new guidelines is that the inmate must have at least two years left in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That became a factor in the case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who was released from prison one day before a federal appeals court was to hear her request in August for the state prison system to pay for her sex reassignment surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the same month, the corrections department announced it would pay for the surgery for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who is serving a life sentence for a Los Angeles County murder. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines are believed to be the first in the nation by a prison system, said Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the federal court-appointed official who controls California's prison medical care. They were developed in cooperation with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which oversees inmates' mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understood there needed to be some uniform protocols in place that focused on the need for surgery when it was medically necessary, when there weren't any alternatives that were feasible,\" she said. The standards are similar to those used by medical providers outside the prison system, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-page document calls for inmates who request the surgery and meet the basic criteria to be referred for evaluation to a committee of two medical doctors, two psychiatrists and two psychologists, which would make a recommendation to another higher-level committee of medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727523\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-800x1248.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison walk the hallway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-800x1248.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-400x624.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-1440x2246.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-1180x1840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ChinoStatePrison-960x1497.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison walk the hallway. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy prohibits procedures that are considered merely cosmetic, including hair removal, face lifts, breast augmentations or other implants, which Hayhoe said will help hold down the cost to taxpayers. She previously estimated the cost could near $100,000, though the \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, which has represented several inmates, said that is exaggerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently 375 males and 26 females in the prison system receiving hormone therapy that gives them the characteristics of the opposite sex. They are housed in prisons based on their birth gender unless they have surgery, with many in special protective housing or in mental health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayhoe said she does not expect a flood of applications or approvals for the surgery because many won't seek it or won't qualify under guidelines that she described as conservative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jody L. Herman, a scholar of public policy who focuses on gender identity and transgender people at the\u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Williams Institute\u003c/a>, a think-tank on LGBT issues at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the best national survey found that about 42 percent of respondents had any surgery, including some of the procedures the department defines as cosmetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new guidelines is that the inmate must have at least two years left in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That became a factor in the case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who was released from prison one day before a federal appeals court was to hear her request in August for the state prison system to pay for her sex reassignment surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the same month, the corrections department announced it would pay for the surgery for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who is serving a life sentence for a Los Angeles County murder. She has not yet had the surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Sacramento is considering the third case, that of inmate Mia Rosati, after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in June that the state may be violating her rights by denying her sex reassignment surgery. She also is serving a life sentence for murder from Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It’s a live-in program with roughly 40 women on \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/rehabilitation/female-offender-treatment-employment-program.html\">Treasure Island\u003c/a>, halfway across the bridge that connects San Francisco to Oakland. The former navy base is close enough to school, jobs and medical care -- but far enough away from the hustle of the city. A parole officer supervises the women -- and they have to wear GPS ankle monitors at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179460252\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras says any comparison to prison ends there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is more like real life. And it’s easier to work on myself and my goals and my issues by being around people that care. In prison it doesn’t feel like anybody cares about you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras says she was surprised to find a room waiting for her that looked nothing like a prison cell. She and other women share apartments on a residential street. Each unit has a kitchen, private bathrooms, a couple of bedrooms to share and a backyard. 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She helped create the alternative custody program -- and she’s still working to improve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says one big obstacle is that the women have to volunteer -- and though it may sound counterintuitive, many won’t. “Especially if you’ve been in custody more than once, and the last time you went out it didn’t really work and you ended up back in custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another obstacle is the application process. It’s complex and time-consuming. It takes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation anywhere from six months to a year to make a decision. Christina Contreras said she waited 15 months to get into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just cringed when I heard her say that,” says Brown, who recently streamlined the process to eventually get it down to four months. “That’s just not acceptable for us. It should never take that long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a new reason to make alternative custody work better. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172648563\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making license plates is the stereotypical job for a prisoner, but in the Central Valley there's a group of inmates doing very different work -- supplying milk to almost all the prisons in the state system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low wages for the work may be shocking to people on the outside, but inmates say the job gives them something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dairy on Prison Grounds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Franco and some colleagues move 20 cows into a milking building. Wearing a prison jumpsuit, Franco stands in a kind of trough below two rows of cows, their udders easily within reach. He dips each teat in iodine and wipes it off to make sure it's clean before he attaches a pump to each udder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We milk close to 300 cows a day,\" he says. \"I like it -- milking them, going out to get them, bringing them in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco’s is serving a sentence for vehicle theft. He never had a job around animals or agriculture before, but for the past four months, he’s worked here, from 4 a.m. until noon. He earns 65 cents an hour, and that wage is much better than most jobs in prison. Even though he’s only assigned to work five days a week, Franco says he’s here every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like coming out here to be away from the people in there, in the yard,” Franco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's been a dairy on this land since the 1950s, decades before the prison was built. It sits on 30 acres, on prison grounds but outside what's called the \"secure perimeter.\" Ten guys work a shift out of about 30 assigned to the dairy. Corcoran is a high-security prison, with Level 1 to Level 4 inmates and two Security Housing Units (solitary confinement). Only inmates with the lowest security risk, Level 1, can work at the dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the milking building, inmate Tony Sao maneuvers a loader to scoop precise amounts of oats and hay that are mixed in a feeder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From there I take the feeder and dump the food to where the cows are at so they can eat\" and stay healthy, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao is serving a sentence for grand theft, and he's been at this job for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's good,\" he says. \"The days go by as long as I'm keeping busy and doing a productive program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao has also never worked in agriculture before. That's typical, says Rob Roehlk, who oversees the dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran and some prison industry programs at other Central Valley facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Job Skills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roehlk is an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority, part of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says most inmates are from urban areas. Both Franco and Sao are from L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually don't get workers out here that have any work skills,\" Roehlk says, but he adds that some come with construction experience, like Jose Franco, and some with experience operating heavy equipment, like Tony Sao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just build on it,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\"\u003ccite>Rob Roehlk, Prison Industry Authority Administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Prison Industry Authority runs like a business, selling products like the milk produced at Corcoran to other state agencies. Inmates hold lots of different jobs, but Prison Industries employees are a select group. Of California's 116,000 inmates, just under 7,000 have Prison Industry jobs. More than 10 percent of those are food-related, from coffee roasting to food packaging to almond farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Roehlk, whose family has been in the dairy business for generations, running a dairy in a prison is a little different than the private sector. He says he's only rarely had to deal with violence, but he has had to deal with whole-prison lock-downs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cows don't wait if you don't have workers,\" he says. \"They don't wait to be milked or fed.\" Non-inmate staff step in to take up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other issues: keeping a lookout for smuggled items like cell phones, and doing hourly inmate head-counts. The selection process is strict, but a number of inmates have escaped from the dairy, though they were all caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343550\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at work. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at work. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Prison Industries doesn't collect employment data on former inmates, so it's hard to tell how many get jobs when they're released, or how many are employed in field they worked in while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency reports that their former employees return to prison about 30 percent less frequently than the general prison population, though it's a little hard to compare those groups since Prison Industries workers are carefully selected in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Milk Processing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to pass through the prison's secure perimeter to get to the milk processing facility, where huge tankers deliver milk from the dairy. That's where I meet Edward Wilson and Ryan Mons who are hand-picked out of a crew of seventeen men to give me a tour of the recently-updated processor, which mirrors bigger commercial facilities. They don't talk about recidivism rates and employment data. They're confident their experience here will get them jobs on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson earned a number of licenses in prison to do this job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm the laboratory guy,\" he says. \"I test all the milk for bacteria and enzymes and things of that nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is from the Riverside County town of Hemet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of dairies down there,\" he says, and he'd like to look for similar work when he gets released in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a half-dozen supervisors, guards and public information officers surrounding us, Wilson says with a laugh, \"Hopefully I'll get a good recommendation,\" and then he turns more serious. \"I really enjoy what I do. I consume the milk, and I wouldn't want to send out milk that's not good for consumption. I take pride in what I do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Roehlk oversees dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran State Prison. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Roehlk oversees dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran State Prison. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's kind of new for Wilson, who is serving a sentence for second-degree attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've never been involved in things like this, but I would like to pursue it back into society,\" he says. \"Not just for this job, but it shows what you're capable of for any kind of job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague Ryan Mons holds a pasteurizing license, and he takes up the tour from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This guy makes sure it's good,\" Mons says. \"If he gives me the okay, I pasteurize the milk, cook it, make sure the temperature is good, make sure we can run it through our tanks and we can pack it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The milk produced at this and one other prison is sold to state institutions like veterans homes and state hospitals, according to Prison Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division also provides a carton of milk a day to almost every inmate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Show Them I Can Do It'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what are meals in the prison like, aside from the milk? I ask Mons. In a word, he says, small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't starve,\" Mons says. \"There's a store and you can go to the store and buy food. Plus if you work back here, you get to drink milk all day, chocolate milk, whole milk, non-fat milk, 1 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from staying off the yard, Mons says working here helps him pay restitution and save a little money for when he's released this December after serving a sentence for grand theft. He hopes to get a job like this after leaving prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got to go down there and apply, let them know how I work, and apply my effort,\" he says. \"Show them. Show them I can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's hoping an employer will give him a chance, based on his two years of experience at this milk processing plant.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We milk close to 300 cows a day,\" he says. \"I like it -- milking them, going out to get them, bringing them in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco’s is serving a sentence for vehicle theft. He never had a job around animals or agriculture before, but for the past four months, he’s worked here, from 4 a.m. until noon. He earns 65 cents an hour, and that wage is much better than most jobs in prison. Even though he’s only assigned to work five days a week, Franco says he’s here every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like coming out here to be away from the people in there, in the yard,” Franco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. 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Only inmates with the lowest security risk, Level 1, can work at the dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the milking building, inmate Tony Sao maneuvers a loader to scoop precise amounts of oats and hay that are mixed in a feeder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From there I take the feeder and dump the food to where the cows are at so they can eat\" and stay healthy, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao is serving a sentence for grand theft, and he's been at this job for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's good,\" he says. \"The days go by as long as I'm keeping busy and doing a productive program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao has also never worked in agriculture before. That's typical, says Rob Roehlk, who oversees the dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran and some prison industry programs at other Central Valley facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Job Skills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roehlk is an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority, part of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says most inmates are from urban areas. Both Franco and Sao are from L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually don't get workers out here that have any work skills,\" Roehlk says, but he adds that some come with construction experience, like Jose Franco, and some with experience operating heavy equipment, like Tony Sao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just build on it,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\"\u003ccite>Rob Roehlk, Prison Industry Authority Administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Prison Industry Authority runs like a business, selling products like the milk produced at Corcoran to other state agencies. Inmates hold lots of different jobs, but Prison Industries employees are a select group. Of California's 116,000 inmates, just under 7,000 have Prison Industry jobs. More than 10 percent of those are food-related, from coffee roasting to food packaging to almond farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Roehlk, whose family has been in the dairy business for generations, running a dairy in a prison is a little different than the private sector. He says he's only rarely had to deal with violence, but he has had to deal with whole-prison lock-downs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cows don't wait if you don't have workers,\" he says. \"They don't wait to be milked or fed.\" Non-inmate staff step in to take up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other issues: keeping a lookout for smuggled items like cell phones, and doing hourly inmate head-counts. 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(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's kind of new for Wilson, who is serving a sentence for second-degree attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've never been involved in things like this, but I would like to pursue it back into society,\" he says. \"Not just for this job, but it shows what you're capable of for any kind of job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague Ryan Mons holds a pasteurizing license, and he takes up the tour from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This guy makes sure it's good,\" Mons says. \"If he gives me the okay, I pasteurize the milk, cook it, make sure the temperature is good, make sure we can run it through our tanks and we can pack it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The milk produced at this and one other prison is sold to state institutions like veterans homes and state hospitals, according to Prison Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division also provides a carton of milk a day to almost every inmate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Show Them I Can Do It'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what are meals in the prison like, aside from the milk? 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