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Known by the code name given to him when he was tagged with a GPS collar, he caused \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/lone-wolf%E2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\">quite a stir\u003c/a> among everyone from environmentalists to cattle ranchers. \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/01/23/fear-and-loathing-in-wolf-country/\">Conflicting feelings ran deep\u003c/a>, rooted in various cultures and histories: some revere the wolf; many fear it. OR7 has since returned to Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our lone wolf notwithstanding, the gray wolf has made a healthy comeback since its listing under the Endangered Species Act over three decades ago — so much so that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/\">proposing\u003c/a> to remove the animal from federal protections in the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolf activists think the move to delist is premature, and are planning a \u003ca href=\"http://org.salsalabs.com/o/2167/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=81110\">rally\u003c/a> in Sacramento on Friday, Nov. 22, to voice their opposition. The rally precedes an FWS \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/\">public hearing\u003c/a> on the proposal, one of several being held across the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We need to restore the gray wolf to the numbers where it's fulfilling its ecological role.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>FWS \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/pdf/FrequentlyAskedQuestions11-19-13.pdf\">states\u003c/a> on its website that there are now 5,360 gray wolves in the lower 48, with a current estimate of 1,674 in the northern Rocky Mountains and 3,686 in the western Great Lakes. The numbers, say FWS, far exceed the minimum numbers set at the outset of the recovery plan, and it is now time to \"focus our limited resources on the Mexican wolf population in the Southwest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists say the numbers are not nearly enough to ensure full recovery. \"They're utterly deficient,\" says Amaroq Weiss of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a>, one of the groups behind Friday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to restore the gray wolf to the numbers where it's fulfilling its ecological role,\" Weiss adds. She points out what happened at \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone\">Yellowstone National Park\u003c/a>, when the gray wolf population was decimated in the 1920s. This resulted in elk — wolves' prey — proliferating and overgrazing on the area flora and fauna, which had a detrimental effect on the larger animal and plant environment. (The gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FWS says the gray wolf population is \"robust\" in eight states – Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon. If it does delist the animal, wolf recovery efforts will be left almost entirely to the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to OR7. When he crossed into California in December 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity and several other groups petitioned the state to add the gray wolf to its endangered species list. After several years of study, the prospects of state action do not look good, says Weiss. 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In fact, OR-7's historic 500-mile journey from Oregon to California makes a very strong case for why wolves need protecting here, offering on-the-ground proof of what top researchers have said for decades: Recovering populations will return to California's thousands of acres of prime, upland wolf habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, will California be prepared to manage them when they get here?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/\">California Fish and Game Commission\u003c/a> is expected to decide in February whether wolves should be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act. They’ll be using the preliminary state study that Weiss mentioned in her op-ed. 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Since then, about 1,000 people have been released. \u003cstrong>KQED’s Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong> followed three men as they left prison and adapted to their new lives outside, and interviewed multiple experts and stakeholders about the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120493008\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>onvicted of stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store, Richard Brown spent 18 years in prison under California’s notorious Three Strikes law. Then, quite suddenly, he was standing outside the gates of San Quentin earlier this year, a free man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me to get off the property,” he says. “I asked if there was a phone booth or something. They said no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Robert Watts, who served 13 years for receiving stolen property, getting out of prison involved an emotional legal tangle with local prosecutors who insisted he was an unredeemed career criminal and should remain behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was unpleasant,” he says. “But at least it’s over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure does not appear to be endangering public safety.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For both men, freedom came as the result of Proposition 36, the ballot initiative approved last year by voters in every county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure changed the 1994 law that had allowed judges to impose life sentences for low-level felonies such as petty theft and drug possession. The new law focuses on serious and violent crimes. It’s also retroactive, allowing current inmates whose third strike was non-violent and non-serious to petition the courts for resentencing and possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure have argued that the original Three Strikes law worked well and contributed to a dramatic fall in violent crime over the past two decades. Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? Are they not deserving our love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”65205eb25f5e5994cdf081bee3ffdbd1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors have challenged some Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public safety risk, few of those efforts have been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Robert Watts’ case, Kern County prosecutors sought to block his release, citing evidence of marijuana use in prison and his prior convictions for robbery and assault. But the effort failed and the judge ordered Watts’ release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after a flurry of releases earlier this year, the pace has slowed to a trickle. In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means that don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give you $200 and kick you out, and they don’t give you any type of papers to indicate that you can go down to this program or (that) program,” said Brown. He considers himself lucky to have a job, home and support network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people coming out, it’s a nightmare,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Most three strikers have served so much time they aren’t placed on parole or probation when released.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In some counties, prosecutors, public defenders and legal aid groups are starting to develop support networks for three strikers coming out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates are also supporting each other. Twice each week Pete Marin of Bakersfield checks in on his friend Eddie Alwell. 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Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. 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"content": "\u003cp>It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard has the toughest job in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117027\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/05/110028/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends\">a widespread\u003c/a> hunger \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/105074/\">strike\u003c/a> to a never-ending battle with federal judges over control of health care in California’s prisons, Beard has faced crisis after crisis since he joined the Brown Administration late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those problems, you’d forgive Beard for having second thoughts about his new job. But the secretary’s response is pretty understated. “You know, I think they make the job just – very interesting,” he told KQED during a lengthy interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical response from Beard, who developed a reputation as a policy-obsessed, always-serious technocrat over his four-decade career in corrections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard has been on the job in California since last December. But before that, he spent a decade running Pennsylvania’s prison system. There, he fought many of the same battles he’s fighting in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleaning up after a riot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard’s first big test came in October 1989. That’s when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/28/us/rioters-destroy-nearly-half-the-buildings-in-a-pennsylvania-prison.html\">inmates seized control of an overcrowded suburban Harrisburg prison during two days of vicious riots\u003c/a>. Inmates burned down more than half the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill. They took five hostages. The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. He really had a good sense of what was happening in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An uphill fight against prison overcrowding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard used his position to push for sentencing reforms – less hard time and more treatment for drug offenders. He\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was one of the first Pennsylvania corrections secretaries to say the state needed less mandatory sentencing and more treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania’s prisons were too packed. That’s a lesson Beard learned when he was rebuilding after the Camp Hill riots, which had been largely caused by overcrowding. Three years after the fact, Camp Hill was still above capacity. Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. And the secretary of corrections has no control over either bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard did play a major role in passing a slate of sentencing reforms in 2008 – the first Pennsylvania had seen in decades. But they didn’t quite work. During his last year, Pennsylvania had to export 2 thousand prisoners to other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Historically, we have overused segregation”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard, of course, is facing much larger population problems in California. He and Gov. Jerry Brown spent most of the year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/court-ruling-on-prisons-a-setback-for-gov-brown/\">losing a series of legal challenges\u003c/a> over federal control of California prisons’ health care. The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. The protest was aimed at ending California’s practice of locking up suspected prison gang leaders in segregated housing – sometimes for decades at a time. Critics call it torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he understands why segregated confinement stirs up so much anger. He defended the practice as necessary, to protect other inmates and to control gangs. But in our interview, Beard did make an admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that probably historically we have overused segregation a little too much everywhere,” he said. “I think we did back in Pennsylvania. I think there’s other states that have done it, perhaps in the past in California. And that’s why California now has the new gang management policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the new plan the state rolled out that re-evaluates who’s being kept in security housing, and provides a years’-long path out of isolation for inmates who cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caring for mentally-ill inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike is now long over, but controversies are still dogging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Sacramento trial is shining a light on how the state treats mentally ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201310020850/a\">Graphic videos aired in court recently\u003c/a>, showing guards dousing screaming prisoners with pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Beard faced similar controversy in Pennsylvania. Bob Meek is an attorney with the Disability Rights Network. He spent years investigating how Pennsylvania dealt with mentally-ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drnpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RHUFinalComplaint.pdf\">In a lawsuit\u003c/a>, the group alleged the state simply locked many of them up in segregated housing, rather than treat them. “They would just continue to act out and continue to act up, and they would never get out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard disputed the charge and pointed to programs he launched aimed at treating mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adjusting to California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard is approaching one year on the job here in California. And with all the crises on his plate, he’s yet to really put his stamp on department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/print/2013/jan/30/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130129\">Beard came to the job as an outsider and a critic\u003c/a>. He was a key witness in the 2008 trial ordering California to lower its prison population. At the time he blasted the state’s prisons as overcrowded and dangerous — conditions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/ca-corrections-chief-new-medical-center-proves-federal-judges-wrong/\">he now insists the state has since turned around\u003c/a>. After retiring from his Pennsylvania post in 2010, Beard began working with California as a consultant. (The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied KQED's public records request for copies of memos Beard produced during this period.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard admitted it’s hard to figure out a new state after 38 years somewhere else. For one thing, he says he doesn’t know the longtime staffers like he did in Pennsylvania. And the rules are different. “A lot of times when something comes up about a policy or something, I have to ask somebody or I have to go and look it up. 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The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. 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Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. 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The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. 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(Ramin Rahimian for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate to cover a $40 million shortfall in its pension fund for retired police officers and firefighters, the city of Richmond, Calif., turned to an exotic loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of tightening spending after it issued the $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999, city leaders increased the retirees’ pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Today, Richmond still owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. To narrow that gap and cover the debt, the city is dipping into proceeds from a supplemental property tax on residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s fiscal approach has residents like Joe Bako scratching their heads. “When you’re short on funds, you don’t start spending more,” said Bako, 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public officials and investment bankers have portrayed pension obligation bonds as a good way to shore up pension funds. The proceeds can be invested in the stock market, reaping returns potentially higher than the bonds’ interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that gamble is not panning out so far for at least five pension obligation bonds issued by California public agencies between 1999 and January, an analysis by The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the City of Richmond Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund, agencies with bonds in the red include Merced County and the Pasadena Fire and Police Retirement System. \u003c!--more-->Average returns on investments also have not kept pace with net interest costs on recent bonds in two other California counties: San Diego and San Bernardino. Because those bonds were issued within the past six years, it is too soon to determine how they will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Moody's has downgraded pension bonds in Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, local governments and special taxing districts in California have sold more than $11 billion in bonds to shore up their pension obligations, according to the state treasurer’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the infusion of cash from pension bonds, some municipalities have enhanced employee pensions or buttressed needs elsewhere by suspending pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is basically a principle where they’re printing money,” said Chester Spatt, a former chief economist for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a finance professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “These (bonds) strike me as irresponsible, especially in light of what we’ve learned” from the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds do not require voter approval and, by the time they are paid off, many of the public officials who approved them are long gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision happened before I got here,” said Bill Lindsay, who became Richmond’s city manager in 2005. “Applying hindsight to investment returns, I wish I could do that for my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even after the downturn, and with growing knowledge of the risk involved, many governments continued to rely on pension bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five places in California where pension bonds are underperforming so far, the shortfall also warns of deeper financial problems, said Thad Calabrese, assistant professor of public and nonprofit financial management at New York University. Residents of such areas might face service cuts and higher taxes, he said – or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of negotiating with the unions and imposing pension reforms, for example, this is a way of kicking the can,” Calabrese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pension obligation bonds figured prominently in last year’s bankruptcy in Stockton, which issued $125 million in pension bonds in 2007 – after it had improved retirement benefits and compensation several times. Stockton’s invested pension bond proceeds lost about a third of their value in the stock market crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detroit, the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy because of a shrinking tax base, declining population and other factors, failed to realize expected returns after issuing pension bonds in 2005 and 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Credit rating agencies increasingly are downgrading the creditworthiness of public agencies with pension bonds, which can make future borrowing more expensive. Earlier this year, Moody's downgraded pension bonds in California’s Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, lawmakers in Pennsylvania prohibited the state from using pension obligation bonds, citing the financial risks. And the federal Government Accountability Office has warned that pension bonds can leave some governments “worse off than they were before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s first pension obligation bond was issued in 1985 for $222 million by the city of Oakland, Calif., with the help of Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Roger Davis, a lawyer who consulted on the deal, said it was pulled together by the then-city manager and Goldman Sachs, with assistance from his firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. It may well have been conceived, he said, to enrich the pension fund without adding to the debt load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, that was a safer bet. Public agencies could issue bonds at a tax-exempt interest rate and invest in annuities, in most cases guaranteeing a rate of return higher than the owed bond interest. The following year, federal legislation removed the tax-exempt option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of jurisdictions continued to turn\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to the bonds to cover raises and benefit increases given out in flush years. Then economic downturns sapped the investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case in Oakland, which issued another pension bond for $436 million in 1997 and suffered heavy losses when the stock market plunged 11 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debt deepened when the city took a 15-year break from making police and fire pension contributions. The payments resumed\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in 2011, but last year, the city issued\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>another pension bond for $212 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re on their third credit card,” said Alameda City Manager John Russo, who voted against the 1997 bond when he was a member of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current plan is to help balance the budget by taking another pension contribution holiday through June 2017. Budget problems also have forced the city to shed a quarter of its police force since 2008\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supplementary tax on property owners in the city will generate an estimated $68 million this fiscal year, said Scott Johnson, who until earlier this month\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was Oakland’s assistant city administrator. That will help repay some of the bond and the system’s unfunded pension obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel we’re in a strong position,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Councilman Nathaniel Bates was concerned about going into such deep debt to close the gap in promised retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But minutes of a 1998 council meeting the finance director reassured him that the $36 million in pension bonds would establish a reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates joined the council in a unanimous vote. Later, he also agreed to inflation adjustments for police and firefighters, which under the city’s charter meant increases also went to the roughly 65 retirees and spouses in the city’s police and fire pension plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through 2012, the return on Richmond’s pension investments averaged 4.9 percent, falling short of the bond’s net interest costs, 7.4 percent. 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