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"content": "\u003cp>One of the first things Charlie Praphatananda did when he got out of prison was vomit. After 22 years inside, hurtling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour was overwhelming, a feeling he’d have again and again in the coming days and weeks as he learned how to send text messages, use Facebook and reconnect with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day he got out, he knew there was one place he could get his bearings: California State University, Los Angeles. After puking on the side of the road, he headed to campus, where he got his student ID. Though his hair was a mess in the photo, he was proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Daniel Whitlow, 39, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster']‘They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don’t know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.’[/pullquote]A year earlier, Praphatananda was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He was also three years into a bachelor’s degree program — one of 42 men participating in an experiment that tests the limits of the public university mission to spread educational opportunity far and wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative is the state’s only public B.A. program sending professors to teach behind bars. College programs like it were once far more common, but today advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education. \u003ca href=\"https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REAL%20Act,%20116th.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal legislation\u003c/a> that would make grant aid available has bipartisan support, and in California \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> to open the state’s financial aid program to incarcerated students has been sent to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Cal State has made its program work, mostly on private grants. And while it has provided prisoners an undergraduate education, it’s also offered men like Praphatananda something no one expected: a path to freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcending Trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More stories from 'The College Try' series\" tag=\"college-try\"]Once a month, Taffany Lim makes the 70-mile drive from L.A. to the maximum security state prison in Lancaster, a concrete island in the high desert. Lim helped create the B.A. program here and runs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching the first class four years ago she has become something between a principal and a mom figure to the men in the program. They call her Miss Taffany and treat her with a sort of saintly reverence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get over the fact that our tenure track faculty, our staff, would travel 90 minutes each way to be with them,” said Lim, senior director of Cal State LA’s Center for Engagement, Service and the Public Good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four nights a week, a Cal State professor teaches a three-hour class at the prison that builds toward a bachelor’s in communications. It wasn’t the guys’ first choice, but the business degree they lobbied for was off the table because they lacked the math coursework. Still, they’ve found unexpected meaning in the choice of major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a stroke of genius,” said Daniel Whitlow, 39, who has been in prison since he was 17. “They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don’t know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program lives at the prison’s A Yard, a place the men describe as a haven from the brutality of standard prison life, where, as Whitlow puts it: “We are not taught anything other than to perpetuate everything that made us into who we were at that moment when we committed our crime.” All he knew was survival, he said, until he came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Yard, the progressive programming facility, is a place reserved for men who have earned access to some of the state prison system’s richest rehabilitative services through good conduct. Here, men serving long, often life, sentences put on theatre productions, play music, train service dogs and embrace self-improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in this context, though, they say the B.A. program is a paradigm shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” Whitlow said. “I’ve grown decades in the space of three or four years. I’ve learned everything about myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Public Education Is Really Our Only Option’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the heyday of correctional education in the U.S. in the 1970s, school was seen as crucial for successful rehabilitation, and college-level courses played an important role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='James Cain, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster']‘If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.’[/pullquote]“There was an understanding that postsecondary education is one of the few things that really gives people enough skill to make a decent living when they get out,” said retired professor Carolyn Eggleston, who co-founded the Center for the Study of Correctional Education at CSU San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the national political climate began to change, support eroded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will soon have the best educated prison population in the world — but we will have sacrificed the hopes and dreams of hundreds of thousands of our young men and women, who always have been good citizens,” then Sen. Kay Hutchison of Texas told \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aaa93e664-6c74-475f-9f48-abce817529b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congress\u003c/a> in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the following year, Hutchison’s amendment to the federal crime bill had banned incarcerated students from accessing \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grants-scholarships/pell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pell Grant\u003c/a> aid to help pay for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that source of funding, programs began to crumble. Within a decade, the number of prisoners in college classes dropped by \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775123 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tiffany Lam, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates at Lancaster state prison in fall 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taffany Lim, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates during an event at a state prison in Lancaster in fall 2019. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, about 4% of the nation’s accredited higher education institutions \u003ca href=\"https://prisoneducationproject.utah.edu/research-collaborative-on-higher-education-in-prison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teach\u003c/a> for-credit classes in prison, according to the University of Utah’s Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison. Most are community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='inmates' label='Related Coverage']California has become a national leader in prison education since 2014, when state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened the door\u003c/a> for community colleges to begin teaching inside. There are now in-person community college classes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/About-Us/Reports/Files/CCCCO_Report_Incarcerated_Students-final-ADA.ashx?la=en&hash=D771177F2CF5EC5DBC521A18CFB0CDE8911FF365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in all\u003c/a> but one prison in the state, enrolling some 4,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections community, lawmakers and others, including some victims’ rights advocates, have generally been supportive of expanding higher education in prison in recent years. Those raising \u003ca href=\"https://prisonuniversityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PUP-Newsletter-Spring-2019-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concerns\u003c/a> about bringing back Pell often work in prison education themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Castro, who runs the University of Utah collaborative and oversees the school’s in-prison college program, points out that though many more programs existed before the ban on Pell, the quality was dubious in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports lifting the ban on Pell for prisoners, she has a key caveat: “Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it,” she said. “So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are hopeful federal aid could help more public schools reach incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the size of our criminal justice population and the scale of mass incarceration … our public higher education system is really our only option,” said Stanford Criminal Justice Center executive director Debbie Mukamal, who co-directs a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiative\u003c/a> to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA’s program is the first attempt to bring the state’s public four-year university system to bear on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrisonToCollege.mp3\" title=\"Part One\" program=\"California Dream\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39225_Roy-teaching-inmates-BA-program.026-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Other Fork in Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidhan Roy first visited A Yard as a volunteer, the Cal State English professor heard from inmates who had amassed a collection of associate’s degrees and were hungry to continue their education. As the number of students working toward such degrees behind bars in California has grown, so has the demand for bachelor’s programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roy has also come to believe the degree holds special meaning for his incarcerated students because most of them went to prison at the age other young people went away to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Praphatananda, education never felt like one. He said he was diagnosed with dyslexia and other learning disabilities in fourth grade. “School was just a constant reminder of my shortcomings and failures,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted and are finishing their degrees on the Cal State LA campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted. He is now finishing his degree on the Cal State LA campus. (This image has been altered to conceal Praphatananda’s student identification number.) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie Praphatananda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when he got kicked out during his junior year of high school, Praphatananda didn’t care. He spent his late teenage years getting in trouble. At 20, he took part in a robbery that ended in a murder and a life sentence without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Praphatananda had exhausted his appeals, he had to face down his sentence. “You come to this crossroads where you realize that when they say life without, they mean literally you’re not ever going to get out of prison,” he said. “And you have to make that choice of what you’re going to do with your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he saw it, he had two options: drown himself in drugs until he ran out of money, or try to make the best of it. He opted to earn his GED, then associate’s degree, and was one of Cal State LA’s first students behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Praphatananda’s classmates in the program have similar histories, and were convicted of equally serious crimes. The sheer number of life sentences on A Yard might have discouraged a less determined advocate, but Roy is guided by a belief that education is a universal right, and foreclosing on human potential isn’t his thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Bidhan Roy, a Cal State LA English professor teaching inmates at the California State Prison in Lancaster']‘In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option.’[/pullquote]In contrast with the victims’ rights advocates of the ‘90s who opposed investing in such programs, the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime shares that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d rather have people who are rehabilitated and can contribute to society than people who are just rotting in a prison cell,” said Mai Fernandez. While she notes she doesn’t speak for all victims, she added: “There are a lot of offenders who have severe trauma backgrounds. We need to look at them also as victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Almost Always a Backlash’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Cal State LA’s program can be scaled isn’t clear. It’s a massive logistical and financial undertaking that costs the school about $12,000 a year per student, according to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pell-secondchance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national pilot\u003c/a> that allows some prisoners to once again access Pell Grants, and as more and more students begin to use those funds, administrators may be able to rely less on private money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program coordinator Lim said basic hurdles — like finding Social Security numbers — can stand in the way of getting the funding, not to mention basic \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/eligibility/basic-criteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrictions\u003c/a> on aid that leave many inmates ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Burnett, who just had his sentence commuted after 27 years in prison, said after he started working toward a B.A., his stepdaughter was inspired to enroll at Cal State LA, and his nieces and nephews have since started going to school. “This thing right here that we’re doing,” he said, “it’s transcending this facility.” \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/investing-in-futures-education-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> from the Vera Institute of Justice estimates some 463,000 people in prisons nationwide would be eligible for Pell Grants if the ban were lifted. In California, they estimate, reduced recidivism associated with Pell access would save close to $70 million a year in incarceration costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Erin Castro, who oversees the in-prison college program at the University of Utah']‘Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it. So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.’[/pullquote]Recidivism rates in California are stubbornly high: About half of people coming out of California prisons end up getting convicted of another crime — a rate that hasn’t changed in 10 years, the state auditor \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.auditor.ca.gov%2Fpdfs%2Freports%2F2018-113.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a>, despite increased investment in rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school is a powerful tool against those odds. A major \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> by the RAND Corp. found taking classes in prison cuts the chances of getting locked up again by 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eggleston, who spent over four decades studying prison education, has watched the ebb and flow of investment over the years and is heartened by what she sees today — but worries it won’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s almost always a backlash,” she said. “We lose post-secondary first because of the idea that it’s too much to give those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrison2College2way.mp3\" title=\"Part Two\" program=\"California Dream\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39224_Roy-Lancaster_fall2019_163-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Prison Education to Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='california-prisons' label='More Coverage']For Cal State’s incarcerated students, the college experience has been transformational — one that has allowed them to believe, often for the first time in their lives, that they hold some value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been the most amazing experience of my entire life, as either a free man or as an incarcerated human being,” said James Cain, who has been in prison for 13 years. “If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the men of A Yard, education has become a kind of freedom. But it’s also led to liberation of the literal sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program began, five men have had their life sentences commuted. Three are finishing their degrees on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Praphatananda is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/August-2018-Pardons-and-Commutations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest\u003c/a>. At 43, Praphatananda has lived more of his life in prison than outside. It took him decades of good conduct and dedicated self-improvement to merit commutation, but the support of Cal State LA went a long way toward proving he should get a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in and I had life without, I had given up on trying to ever get out,” he said. “To go from that perspective to — ‘I’m out here now, I get to go to college, I get to spend time with my family, I get to work’ — that is a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California has become a national leader in prison education since 2014, when state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened the door\u003c/a> for community colleges to begin teaching inside. There are now in-person community college classes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/About-Us/Reports/Files/CCCCO_Report_Incarcerated_Students-final-ADA.ashx?la=en&hash=D771177F2CF5EC5DBC521A18CFB0CDE8911FF365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in all\u003c/a> but one prison in the state, enrolling some 4,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections community, lawmakers and others, including some victims’ rights advocates, have generally been supportive of expanding higher education in prison in recent years. Those raising \u003ca href=\"https://prisonuniversityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PUP-Newsletter-Spring-2019-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concerns\u003c/a> about bringing back Pell often work in prison education themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Castro, who runs the University of Utah collaborative and oversees the school’s in-prison college program, points out that though many more programs existed before the ban on Pell, the quality was dubious in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports lifting the ban on Pell for prisoners, she has a key caveat: “Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it,” she said. “So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are hopeful federal aid could help more public schools reach incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the size of our criminal justice population and the scale of mass incarceration … our public higher education system is really our only option,” said Stanford Criminal Justice Center executive director Debbie Mukamal, who co-directs a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiative\u003c/a> to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA’s program is the first attempt to bring the state’s public four-year university system to bear on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Other Fork in Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidhan Roy first visited A Yard as a volunteer, the Cal State English professor heard from inmates who had amassed a collection of associate’s degrees and were hungry to continue their education. As the number of students working toward such degrees behind bars in California has grown, so has the demand for bachelor’s programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roy has also come to believe the degree holds special meaning for his incarcerated students because most of them went to prison at the age other young people went away to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Praphatananda, education never felt like one. He said he was diagnosed with dyslexia and other learning disabilities in fourth grade. “School was just a constant reminder of my shortcomings and failures,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted and are finishing their degrees on the Cal State LA campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted. He is now finishing his degree on the Cal State LA campus. (This image has been altered to conceal Praphatananda’s student identification number.) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie Praphatananda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when he got kicked out during his junior year of high school, Praphatananda didn’t care. He spent his late teenage years getting in trouble. At 20, he took part in a robbery that ended in a murder and a life sentence without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Praphatananda had exhausted his appeals, he had to face down his sentence. “You come to this crossroads where you realize that when they say life without, they mean literally you’re not ever going to get out of prison,” he said. “And you have to make that choice of what you’re going to do with your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he saw it, he had two options: drown himself in drugs until he ran out of money, or try to make the best of it. He opted to earn his GED, then associate’s degree, and was one of Cal State LA’s first students behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Praphatananda’s classmates in the program have similar histories, and were convicted of equally serious crimes. The sheer number of life sentences on A Yard might have discouraged a less determined advocate, but Roy is guided by a belief that education is a universal right, and foreclosing on human potential isn’t his thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In contrast with the victims’ rights advocates of the ‘90s who opposed investing in such programs, the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime shares that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d rather have people who are rehabilitated and can contribute to society than people who are just rotting in a prison cell,” said Mai Fernandez. While she notes she doesn’t speak for all victims, she added: “There are a lot of offenders who have severe trauma backgrounds. We need to look at them also as victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Almost Always a Backlash’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Cal State LA’s program can be scaled isn’t clear. It’s a massive logistical and financial undertaking that costs the school about $12,000 a year per student, according to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pell-secondchance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national pilot\u003c/a> that allows some prisoners to once again access Pell Grants, and as more and more students begin to use those funds, administrators may be able to rely less on private money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program coordinator Lim said basic hurdles — like finding Social Security numbers — can stand in the way of getting the funding, not to mention basic \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/eligibility/basic-criteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrictions\u003c/a> on aid that leave many inmates ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Burnett, who just had his sentence commuted after 27 years in prison, said after he started working toward a B.A., his stepdaughter was inspired to enroll at Cal State LA, and his nieces and nephews have since started going to school. “This thing right here that we’re doing,” he said, “it’s transcending this facility.” \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/investing-in-futures-education-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> from the Vera Institute of Justice estimates some 463,000 people in prisons nationwide would be eligible for Pell Grants if the ban were lifted. In California, they estimate, reduced recidivism associated with Pell access would save close to $70 million a year in incarceration costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>My dad once told me the defrost button in our car would eject our seats and detonate the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would we want to do that?” I asked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In case we’re trying to get away from someone,” he answered. With mischievous eyes and a lopsided grin, he pretended to rev the engine of our beat-up Datsun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t matter where we were, life with my dad was always an adventure. Playgrounds became fortresses, buses became speeding trains. He was a creative jokester who knew how to make magic out of the mundane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753296 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Family celebrating birthday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My family celebrating my dad’s birthday at our home in National City in the mid-’90s. I’m the one giving him bunny ears. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, we operated as a normal family: The five of us went to Disneyland, we hosted slumber parties, we spent summers at the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this was only part of the picture. My dad also went in and out of prisons and jails across California. A year out, nine months in, two years out, 13 months in – a constant instability that I had no choice but to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753308 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of man with letter on the back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of my father, with a note on the back, that he sent me in 1999. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his absence, I loved harder. I wrote to him constantly, updating him on everything from newly pregnant cousins to schoolyard drama to the daily power struggles in my immediate family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every holiday and occasion imaginable was met with a personalized card as we attempted to fill the void of missed life events. During these periods of separation, nothing brightened my day more than seeing that yellow paper with his immaculate handwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cards and letters\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: An assortment of cards and envelopes my dad sent. Right: His letters often came on yellow lined paper. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was young I didn’t know exactly why he was going away. No one detailed his crimes to me. But why would they? I was a kid. My mom was transparent about the fact that my dad used drugs. I don’t recall at what age I found out. It just seemed like an ever-present fact of his existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1256px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11754883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1256\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4.jpg 1256w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dad4-1200x927.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1256px) 100vw, 1256px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My dad in the early 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In my teen years I pleaded with him to change, to get clean. My dad wrote apologetically, telling me how he really wanted to change this time. But he didn’t change that time, or the next time or the time after that. His apologies fell flat, his charm faded and his addiction, once limited to heroin, expanded to methamphetamine. By the time I turned 19, I no longer wanted to have anything to do with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753312 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"The author with her father.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-1200x867.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2.jpg 1496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dad and me during my middle school years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coexistence of love, pain, nostalgia and trauma is what this story is about — unpacking not only the complexities of my personal relationship with my dad, but that of my immediate family as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is our story — one that I used to view with shame, but now claim as proof of our emotional resilience despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Family of four smiling. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-536x402.jpeg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our family at Thanksgiving 2018. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>My dad once told me the defrost button in our car would eject our seats and detonate the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would we want to do that?” I asked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In case we’re trying to get away from someone,” he answered. With mischievous eyes and a lopsided grin, he pretended to rev the engine of our beat-up Datsun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t matter where we were, life with my dad was always an adventure. Playgrounds became fortresses, buses became speeding trains. He was a creative jokester who knew how to make magic out of the mundane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753296 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Family celebrating birthday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-2.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My family celebrating my dad’s birthday at our home in National City in the mid-’90s. I’m the one giving him bunny ears. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, we operated as a normal family: The five of us went to Disneyland, we hosted slumber parties, we spent summers at the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this was only part of the picture. My dad also went in and out of prisons and jails across California. A year out, nine months in, two years out, 13 months in – a constant instability that I had no choice but to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753308 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of man with letter on the back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/FatherCardFrontBack.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of my father, with a note on the back, that he sent me in 1999. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his absence, I loved harder. I wrote to him constantly, updating him on everything from newly pregnant cousins to schoolyard drama to the daily power struggles in my immediate family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every holiday and occasion imaginable was met with a personalized card as we attempted to fill the void of missed life events. During these periods of separation, nothing brightened my day more than seeing that yellow paper with his immaculate handwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cards and letters\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/lettersandcards.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: An assortment of cards and envelopes my dad sent. Right: His letters often came on yellow lined paper. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was young I didn’t know exactly why he was going away. No one detailed his crimes to me. But why would they? I was a kid. My mom was transparent about the fact that my dad used drugs. I don’t recall at what age I found out. 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My dad wrote apologetically, telling me how he really wanted to change this time. But he didn’t change that time, or the next time or the time after that. His apologies fell flat, his charm faded and his addiction, once limited to heroin, expanded to methamphetamine. By the time I turned 19, I no longer wanted to have anything to do with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753312 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"The author with her father.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2-1200x867.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/DadMelissa2.jpg 1496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dad and me during my middle school years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Dueñas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coexistence of love, pain, nostalgia and trauma is what this story is about — unpacking not only the complexities of my personal relationship with my dad, but that of my immediate family as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is our story — one that I used to view with shame, but now claim as proof of our emotional resilience despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Family of four smiling. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4-536x402.jpeg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Family-4.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our family at Thanksgiving 2018. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates' attorneys say the Corcoran prison targeted in the lawsuit is a symptom of a system-wide problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Roofs are failing all over the place,\" said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which is representing Escareno. \"They acknowledge the need of the roofs, (but) they're not making arrangements so people don't get hurt in the meantime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides spawning mold, leaking roofs short out electrical systems, including lights, fire alarm control panels and fire suppression systems, corrections officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roofs at eight of California's 34 prisons have been replaced, but another 20 still need to be done. Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget includes replacing roofs at two prisons, leaving 18 needing roof replacements and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's taken nearly two years just to design the Corcoran prison's new dining room roof, and prison officials could not say when construction will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led Kings County Superior Court Judge Donna Tarter to half-joke during trial that the roof \"is not getting fixed probably in our lifetime.\" She expects to decide by May whether to order the prison to close the dining hall and feed about 800 inmates in their dormitories, a stop-gap measure that officials said would cause considerable practical complications while interfering with prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader problem of leaking roofs could imperil California's efforts to keep the inmate population below a cap imposed by federal judges to improve prison conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections Secretary Ralph Diaz told legislators in March that one leaky roof could create problems if inmates have to be moved from cell houses. The state is about 3,300 inmates below the cap but expects to reduce that margin considerably when it returns 1,400 inmates from a private out-of-state prison by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cushion isn't as robust as we would like,\" Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem at Corcoran is that leaking rainwater has destroyed interior ceiling tiles so often that the prison no longer replaces them, prison Lt. Michael Owens testified on behalf of the state. Inmates then toss food onto the ventilation system through the openings in the ceiling, he said, which in turn attracts flies that produce maggots that fall from the ceiling. He also recounted how he ordered inmate workers to regularly scrub the discolored walls with bleach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate Warden Jason Collins and prison Lt. Nicholas Tyler blamed \"pruno\" — an illicit alcoholic beverage fermented from leftover fruit with a little bread to provide the yeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate workers likely climbed atop kitchen carts to hide 10 to 15 pounds of the sticky stuff atop a ventilation duct in the deteriorating ceiling area in November, said Tyler. Collins said he discovered another batch of hidden hooch in February, where it was attracting flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dining hall roof also attracts pigeons — lots of them. There they poop, and some birds die, their waste washing into the building whenever it rains, testified licensed architect, engineer and building contractor Steven Norris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all know that prison is not supposed to be comfortable,\" inmate Escareno told the judge, \"but at the same time it's not designed for me to have to go and eat in a place where I'm feet away from what I know to be bird feces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]effrey Jurgens stood in a cage in an orange jumpsuit, screaming that he was Jesus Christ. From her seat in the Sacramento courtroom, his mother watched through tears. Joanna Jurgens knew how important it was for the district attorney prosecuting Jeffrey for stealing a car—and the judge deciding his fate—to see the extent of her son’s illness. But it was torture to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, she had begged judges to steer Jeffrey, who has schizoaffective disorder, into long-term treatment. She worried he would get hurt. She feared he could hurt someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna, 56, knew Jeffrey, who was 22 at the time of that 2014 hearing, did not belong behind bars. But after struggling to stabilize him through treatment in the community, she’d become convinced the criminal justice system was her last hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the main path to treatment at a state psychiatric hospital is through jail. However controversial those state hospitals may be, many families conclude they are the best option for their loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a sad state of affairs in our society, that only when you get locked up does it become a priority to get you treatment,” said Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who said she’s heard many parents describe similar feelings of desperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps nowhere is California’s mental health crisis more evident than in its criminal justice system. After decades of failure to create and fund policies that effectively help people with serious mental illnesses, many now say the jails and prisons have become the state’s default mental institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Stanford-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close to a third of California’s inmates\u003c/a> have a documented serious mental illness, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to end up with an incarceration system that’s mainly dealing with people that have serious mental health problems,” said Democratic Sen. Jim Beall of San Jose. “It’s our own fault, in a way, for not having a good mental health system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1-.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11723765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--800x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--800x750.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1020x956.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1200x1124.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1920x1799.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years, the number of people in California who were deemed incompetent to stand trial after arrest—and ordered sent to state hospitals for treatment—increased by 60 percent, state figures show. Judges make such referrals when doctors determine that defendants are unable to understand legal proceedings or cooperate with their attorneys—the goal generally being that they get stabilized and then return to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often this leaves people who need mental health treatment stuck in county jails. Inmates in Jeffrey’s condition can wait in limbo for months, or even years, before being sent to a state hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, an average of 343 inmates with mental illness were awaiting placement. Last year, that number shot up to 819.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing number of people deemed incompetent to stand trial may also reflect changing attitudes among public defenders, who now see questioning someone’s competency as an avenue to a more therapeutic environment, said David Meyer, professor with the USC Institute of Psychiatry, Law, and Behavioral Science. Forty years ago, “we would never, ever refer somebody for incompetency proceedings if we could in any way get away with it,” he said. “People would be incarcerated for mental health treatment at a state hospital for a longer time than they would serve if they simply pled guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/629df325-41a8-4d8c-8ec9-02ce2bc573d9?src=embed\" title=\"Criminal referrals swamp state mental hospitals grouped graphics\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major reason for the growing waitlist is that, while the number of state hospital beds has increased, it has not kept pace with the need. State hospitals now have more than 6,200 beds—a significant portion of which are reserved for other needs. In recent years, the state has added about 700 hospital and “jail-based competency restoration” beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, fewer than half of state hospital patients came from the criminal justice system. Today \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsh.ca.gov/Publications/docs/ADA2017AnnualRept.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 90 percent\u003c/a> of them do—with more than a fifth of those individuals found incompetent to stand trial. The next largest group were tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have hundreds of people sitting in our (community) hospitals right now who could benefit from a long-term stay at a state hospital, but we can’t get them in there,” said Sheree Lowe, vice president of behavioral health for the California Hospital Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, many experts believe state hospital stays are so restrictive and expensive that solutions to the crisis must be found elsewhere. The broader issue is that society is “letting people get so sick” they end up in jails and emergency rooms, Lowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Mathis, director of policy and legal advocacy at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, describes state hospitals as “kind of like living in prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not really a life on a long-term basis,” she said, but added that many families have gone so long without good community mental health services for their loved ones they see no other real option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State data show that 47 percent of the inmates who were found incompetent to stand trial last year had no Medi-Cal mental health services during the six months before they landed in jail. Almost half were unsheltered; in many cases, the charges they faced were directly related to their homelessness and untreated psychosis, according to the Department of State Hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that the system didn’t know them, though. In Napa State Hospital, state data show, nearly half of the people who were incompetent to stand trial had been arrested 15 or more times before they were deemed incompetent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]oanna Jurgens’ memories of Jeffrey’s childhood—soccer games and fishing trips and visits to the snow—have been obscured by the shadow of his illness. As a little boy, he acted out so much it was hard to keep him in preschool. By middle school, she was receiving daily calls from the principal’s office. Freshman year in high school, he started getting into fights and brought a knife to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723762\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1-160x284.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Jurgens at age 5.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unable to control his behavior, Joanna—who operates a clinic for UC Davis Medical Center—and her ex-husband prevailed upon the school district to send their son to a locked residential program in Utah. The structure appeared to help. But after nine months, she said, he returned home, and the same behaviors resurfaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Thanksgiving, when Jeffrey was 17, his mother drove him to his grandmother’s house in Tahoe. He couldn’t stop obsessing about a white car he thought was trailing them, which he insisted carried either government agents or the CIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna took him to psychiatrist after psychiatrist. They put him on mood stabilizers and, eventually, anti-psychotics. He continued to spiral. Marijuana made the symptoms worse. He stole Joanna’s car again and again. Then, at 19, Jeffrey stole a friend’s parents’ car. They pressed charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs help and I don’t know what to do,” Joanna remembers telling an El Dorado County judge around 2010. “We’re waiting for a disaster to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was sympathetic, but told Joanna his hands were tied. He sent Jeffrey to jail for 90 days. After he got out, Jeffrey was on and off the streets, lost in a haze of street drugs and psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, he’d land in psychiatric hospitals. But each time he’d stabilize after a few weeks and his insurance provider would insist he be discharged, Joanna said. Joanna was certain her son needed longer-term inpatient treatment. She begged doctors to put him under a conservatorship, allowing a legal guardian to make decisions on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A doctor who saw him at Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento agreed with her, Joanna said. Jeffrey spent six weeks there while the doctor pushed for him to be conserved. The county refused—Joanna remembers being told that Jeffrey needed to fail out of community treatment once more to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Lazark, who at the time worked on the Sacramento Police Department’s mobile crisis unit, remembered the first time she came upon the disheveled-looking young man wearing tattered clothes and no shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a new guy?” she asked. Jeffrey told her his name. Lazark asked if she could call his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg 4820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1920x1303.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Lazark, a Sacramento police officer who works in the Mental Health Unit, put Jeffrey Jurgens back in touch with his mother. \u003ccite>(Randy Pench/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God,” Joanna said after she picked up the phone. “Where did you find him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Lazark would often help Joanna search for Jeffrey. Sometimes he was relatively lucid, and she’d share her sandwich with him and chat. Other times she took him to the hospital. If he was self-medicating with meth, she’d take him to jail for a few hours to sober up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to protect them and you want to take them to a safe place where they can detox,” Lazark said. “If that was jail, then that’s what I would do every time. It’s not criminalizing it, it’s keeping them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all interactions with law enforcement went well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, two CHP officers saw him driving a stolen car the wrong way down a one-way street in Sacramento. After a high-speed chase, he came to a stop. A lawsuit filed by the family in federal court said that although he was unarmed and had raised his hands, officers began kicking and beating him with their batons, leaving him with a broken hand and a traumatic brain injury—and then high-fived each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an in-car camera video of the incident came out, the district attorney dropped charges against Jeffrey. Last spring, Jeffrey received \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jurgens-CHP-SETTLEMENT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $1 million settlement\u003c/a>. (The officers involved all remain employed by the CHP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day he was discharged from jail, Jeffrey disappeared back into homelessness, said his attorney, Beau Weiner. Months later, on Dec. 5, 2013, he stole a car from valet parking in downtown Sacramento and was peacefully apprehended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, his mother visited him in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see you in here a lot,” she remembers a security officer telling her one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I visit my son,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He probably doesn’t deserve it,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Jurgens looked at him sadly. Why bother trying to explain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know the whole situation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ecause their mental illness leaves them so vulnerable, inmates in that condition are often kept in solitary confinement for their own protection. But extended stays in solitary exacerbate their mental illnesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You put a bird in a cage, you got to let him out sometime, or he’ll die,” says Samuel Mays, whose adult son, Lorenzo, has been in Sacramento County Jail for eight years waiting to be declared competent. Lorenzo Mays, who has cognitive delays as well as mental illness, is the lead plaintiff in a class action complaint being brought by Disability Rights California against Sacramento County. The complaint cites overcrowding, understaffing and “dangerous, inhumane and degrading conditions,” including use of extended solitary confinement on inmates with serious mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s suffering,” Samuel Mays said of his son. “You can only take so much of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/dc3a4f7c-1557-4c9e-a357-cd680f620e49?src=embed\" title=\"mental illness\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas Clark, who landed in jail on an attempted burglary charge in 2009, picked up a new charge in prison after throwing feces at a correctional officer. Clark, who has schizophrenia and hears spirits talking to him, was found incompetent to stand trial, said his mother Tammy Clark. He was sent to regain competency at the state hospital. He returned to jail to be tried, she said, but went off his medication, or had it changed, and then became mentally unstable again. That cycle keeps repeating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tries not to seem upset when she talks to him—she wants to be “a light” in his dark world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes he can tell she’s been crying. “It’s so disheartening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ven as the population of inmates with mental illness burgeons, some advocates see the beginning signs of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Beall, who himself has a family member with schizoaffective disorder, said the administrations of former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown rebuffed policy proposals meant to make comprehensive mental health services available in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, Brown signed a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provision\u003c/a> to allow courts to divert certain offenders with mental illness into community-based inpatient or outpatient treatment programs, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another\u003c/a> to reduce the maximum wait time for an inmate to become competent to stand trial—from three years to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg 4786w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Jurgens reflects on her son Jeffrey, who has struggled with mental illness and is now living at Atascadero State Hospital after stealing a car. \u003ccite>(Randy Pench/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a state budget that includes tens of millions of dollars for mental health programs, including training law enforcement officers on crisis de-escalation. The budget would also provide one-time grants to treat young people experiencing early psychosis and $100 million for “whole person care” programs that seek to address the housing, health, mental health and substance abuse needs of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Stephen Manley started one of the nation’s first mental health courts in Santa Clara County more than 20 years ago. In these courts, public defenders, prosecutors, judges and social service providers work together to connect people with mental illness who have been arrested for certain crimes with services and treatment, with a goal of keeping them out of jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to tell me, ‘It’s so complex, we can’t solve it.’” Manley said. “And I say, ‘No, you can. Get together and figure out what you can do.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the model has expanded to counties around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in Department 8 in the downtown Sacramento courthouse, Judge Lawrence Brown called up the mental health court participants one by one. He complimented a woman’s red hat, another man’s poncho. He ribbed those who had a lot of hair, contrasting it with his own balding pate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing alongside their public defenders, some participants beamed as he lauded their progress staying on medications and off drugs, getting jobs and doing their dishes. Others squirmed uncomfortably in the spotlight. One woman’s voice cracked as she described her troubled relationship with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that you’re taking all of these steps to take care of yourself, we’re behind you 1,000 percent,” the judge told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who has run the county’s mental health court since 2013 and has helped it to expand, says he’s been drawn to the work because of the “humanity of it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keeping them in jail once they’re back on their medication is not a very compassionate approach,” he said. “They’re living a nightmare being behind bars. That setting of being in a cell, with loud noises, is not an opportune manner in which to address serious mental illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, such courts still only serve a fraction of the ballooning need. Sex offenders, arson registrants, active gang members, those who have caused great bodily injury or death, and those arrested for driving under the influence are among those who are typically excluded. And many such courts aren’t designed to serve those who are incompetent to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]effrey Jurgens doesn’t remember much about the months he waited in jail to get a bed at Atascadero State Hospital—one of the five state hospitals that house people with serious mental illness. Reached over the phone there, Jurgens, now 27, said at first only that being in jail “doesn’t feel too good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723763\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"2208\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-675x1200.png 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Jurgens at Atascadero State Hospital couple of years ago, surrounded by his parents.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his mother prompted him, he recalled being periodically locked in solitary confinement at the Sacramento County Jail after he was arrested in December 2013, alone with the voices, emerging—in her memory—for just an hour every couple of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bummer,” he said quietly. “I was going a little stir crazy. I didn’t know what to do, what to think. Nobody would help me while I was there. They just pushed me off because I wasn’t like everyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother figures it’s good he doesn’t remember more. Because she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers the day he called her, panicked, after his heavyset new cellmate kept trying to give him bear hugs. She remembers him whispering into the phone: “I’m really scared.” With Lazark’s help, she got him moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna also remembers the night Jeffrey called her, agitated and delusional. She was so terrified of what he might do to himself or someone else that she raced to the jail and refused to leave until she spoke to a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jeffrey was arrested for stealing the car from the valet, weeks passed before he appeared before the judge, screaming that he was Jesus. In February 2014, he was admitted to a state hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of August, after six months of receiving treatment and preparing for a court appearance, he was found competent enough to have a trial. Months later, in May 2015, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He returned to Atascadero State Hospital that June. Someday he hopes he’ll be well enough to get out, so he can spend time with his family and get a job at a grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna wishes her son had received intensive treatment earlier.\u003cbr>\nIt troubles her to think about all the other inmates like him, stuck behind bars with no one to speak up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to fight,” she said. “If somebody doesn’t have someone to advocate for them, they don’t stand a chance. They don’t stand a chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first of a series exploring the challenges Californians face in the pursuit of mental health care.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jocelyn Wiener is a contributing writer to CALmatters. This story was supported by a grant from the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps nowhere is California’s mental health crisis more evident than in its criminal justice system. After decades of failure to create and fund policies that effectively help people with serious mental illnesses, many now say the jails and prisons have become the state’s default mental institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Stanford-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close to a third of California’s inmates\u003c/a> have a documented serious mental illness, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to end up with an incarceration system that’s mainly dealing with people that have serious mental health problems,” said Democratic Sen. Jim Beall of San Jose. “It’s our own fault, in a way, for not having a good mental health system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1-.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11723765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--800x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--800x750.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1020x956.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1200x1124.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Graphic-1--1920x1799.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years, the number of people in California who were deemed incompetent to stand trial after arrest—and ordered sent to state hospitals for treatment—increased by 60 percent, state figures show. Judges make such referrals when doctors determine that defendants are unable to understand legal proceedings or cooperate with their attorneys—the goal generally being that they get stabilized and then return to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often this leaves people who need mental health treatment stuck in county jails. Inmates in Jeffrey’s condition can wait in limbo for months, or even years, before being sent to a state hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, an average of 343 inmates with mental illness were awaiting placement. Last year, that number shot up to 819.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing number of people deemed incompetent to stand trial may also reflect changing attitudes among public defenders, who now see questioning someone’s competency as an avenue to a more therapeutic environment, said David Meyer, professor with the USC Institute of Psychiatry, Law, and Behavioral Science. Forty years ago, “we would never, ever refer somebody for incompetency proceedings if we could in any way get away with it,” he said. “People would be incarcerated for mental health treatment at a state hospital for a longer time than they would serve if they simply pled guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/629df325-41a8-4d8c-8ec9-02ce2bc573d9?src=embed\" title=\"Criminal referrals swamp state mental hospitals grouped graphics\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major reason for the growing waitlist is that, while the number of state hospital beds has increased, it has not kept pace with the need. State hospitals now have more than 6,200 beds—a significant portion of which are reserved for other needs. In recent years, the state has added about 700 hospital and “jail-based competency restoration” beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, fewer than half of state hospital patients came from the criminal justice system. Today \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsh.ca.gov/Publications/docs/ADA2017AnnualRept.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 90 percent\u003c/a> of them do—with more than a fifth of those individuals found incompetent to stand trial. The next largest group were tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have hundreds of people sitting in our (community) hospitals right now who could benefit from a long-term stay at a state hospital, but we can’t get them in there,” said Sheree Lowe, vice president of behavioral health for the California Hospital Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, many experts believe state hospital stays are so restrictive and expensive that solutions to the crisis must be found elsewhere. The broader issue is that society is “letting people get so sick” they end up in jails and emergency rooms, Lowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Mathis, director of policy and legal advocacy at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, describes state hospitals as “kind of like living in prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not really a life on a long-term basis,” she said, but added that many families have gone so long without good community mental health services for their loved ones they see no other real option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State data show that 47 percent of the inmates who were found incompetent to stand trial last year had no Medi-Cal mental health services during the six months before they landed in jail. Almost half were unsheltered; in many cases, the charges they faced were directly related to their homelessness and untreated psychosis, according to the Department of State Hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that the system didn’t know them, though. In Napa State Hospital, state data show, nearly half of the people who were incompetent to stand trial had been arrested 15 or more times before they were deemed incompetent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">J\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>oanna Jurgens’ memories of Jeffrey’s childhood—soccer games and fishing trips and visits to the snow—have been obscured by the shadow of his illness. As a little boy, he acted out so much it was hard to keep him in preschool. By middle school, she was receiving daily calls from the principal’s office. Freshman year in high school, he started getting into fights and brought a knife to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723762\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1.png 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-1-160x284.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Jurgens at age 5.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unable to control his behavior, Joanna—who operates a clinic for UC Davis Medical Center—and her ex-husband prevailed upon the school district to send their son to a locked residential program in Utah. The structure appeared to help. But after nine months, she said, he returned home, and the same behaviors resurfaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Thanksgiving, when Jeffrey was 17, his mother drove him to his grandmother’s house in Tahoe. He couldn’t stop obsessing about a white car he thought was trailing them, which he insisted carried either government agents or the CIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna took him to psychiatrist after psychiatrist. They put him on mood stabilizers and, eventually, anti-psychotics. He continued to spiral. Marijuana made the symptoms worse. He stole Joanna’s car again and again. Then, at 19, Jeffrey stole a friend’s parents’ car. They pressed charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs help and I don’t know what to do,” Joanna remembers telling an El Dorado County judge around 2010. “We’re waiting for a disaster to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was sympathetic, but told Joanna his hands were tied. He sent Jeffrey to jail for 90 days. After he got out, Jeffrey was on and off the streets, lost in a haze of street drugs and psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, he’d land in psychiatric hospitals. But each time he’d stabilize after a few weeks and his insurance provider would insist he be discharged, Joanna said. Joanna was certain her son needed longer-term inpatient treatment. She begged doctors to put him under a conservatorship, allowing a legal guardian to make decisions on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A doctor who saw him at Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento agreed with her, Joanna said. Jeffrey spent six weeks there while the doctor pushed for him to be conserved. The county refused—Joanna remembers being told that Jeffrey needed to fail out of community treatment once more to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Lazark, who at the time worked on the Sacramento Police Department’s mobile crisis unit, remembered the first time she came upon the disheveled-looking young man wearing tattered clothes and no shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a new guy?” she asked. Jeffrey told her his name. Lazark asked if she could call his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2-.jpg 4820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-2--1920x1303.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Lazark, a Sacramento police officer who works in the Mental Health Unit, put Jeffrey Jurgens back in touch with his mother. \u003ccite>(Randy Pench/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God,” Joanna said after she picked up the phone. “Where did you find him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Lazark would often help Joanna search for Jeffrey. Sometimes he was relatively lucid, and she’d share her sandwich with him and chat. Other times she took him to the hospital. If he was self-medicating with meth, she’d take him to jail for a few hours to sober up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to protect them and you want to take them to a safe place where they can detox,” Lazark said. “If that was jail, then that’s what I would do every time. It’s not criminalizing it, it’s keeping them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all interactions with law enforcement went well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, two CHP officers saw him driving a stolen car the wrong way down a one-way street in Sacramento. After a high-speed chase, he came to a stop. A lawsuit filed by the family in federal court said that although he was unarmed and had raised his hands, officers began kicking and beating him with their batons, leaving him with a broken hand and a traumatic brain injury—and then high-fived each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an in-car camera video of the incident came out, the district attorney dropped charges against Jeffrey. Last spring, Jeffrey received \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jurgens-CHP-SETTLEMENT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $1 million settlement\u003c/a>. (The officers involved all remain employed by the CHP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day he was discharged from jail, Jeffrey disappeared back into homelessness, said his attorney, Beau Weiner. Months later, on Dec. 5, 2013, he stole a car from valet parking in downtown Sacramento and was peacefully apprehended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, his mother visited him in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see you in here a lot,” she remembers a security officer telling her one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I visit my son,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He probably doesn’t deserve it,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Jurgens looked at him sadly. Why bother trying to explain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know the whole situation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ecause their mental illness leaves them so vulnerable, inmates in that condition are often kept in solitary confinement for their own protection. But extended stays in solitary exacerbate their mental illnesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You put a bird in a cage, you got to let him out sometime, or he’ll die,” says Samuel Mays, whose adult son, Lorenzo, has been in Sacramento County Jail for eight years waiting to be declared competent. Lorenzo Mays, who has cognitive delays as well as mental illness, is the lead plaintiff in a class action complaint being brought by Disability Rights California against Sacramento County. The complaint cites overcrowding, understaffing and “dangerous, inhumane and degrading conditions,” including use of extended solitary confinement on inmates with serious mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s suffering,” Samuel Mays said of his son. “You can only take so much of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/dc3a4f7c-1557-4c9e-a357-cd680f620e49?src=embed\" title=\"mental illness\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas Clark, who landed in jail on an attempted burglary charge in 2009, picked up a new charge in prison after throwing feces at a correctional officer. Clark, who has schizophrenia and hears spirits talking to him, was found incompetent to stand trial, said his mother Tammy Clark. He was sent to regain competency at the state hospital. He returned to jail to be tried, she said, but went off his medication, or had it changed, and then became mentally unstable again. That cycle keeps repeating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tries not to seem upset when she talks to him—she wants to be “a light” in his dark world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes he can tell she’s been crying. “It’s so disheartening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ven as the population of inmates with mental illness burgeons, some advocates see the beginning signs of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Beall, who himself has a family member with schizoaffective disorder, said the administrations of former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown rebuffed policy proposals meant to make comprehensive mental health services available in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, Brown signed a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provision\u003c/a> to allow courts to divert certain offenders with mental illness into community-based inpatient or outpatient treatment programs, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another\u003c/a> to reduce the maximum wait time for an inmate to become competent to stand trial—from three years to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3.jpg 4786w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-3-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Jurgens reflects on her son Jeffrey, who has struggled with mental illness and is now living at Atascadero State Hospital after stealing a car. \u003ccite>(Randy Pench/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a state budget that includes tens of millions of dollars for mental health programs, including training law enforcement officers on crisis de-escalation. The budget would also provide one-time grants to treat young people experiencing early psychosis and $100 million for “whole person care” programs that seek to address the housing, health, mental health and substance abuse needs of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Stephen Manley started one of the nation’s first mental health courts in Santa Clara County more than 20 years ago. In these courts, public defenders, prosecutors, judges and social service providers work together to connect people with mental illness who have been arrested for certain crimes with services and treatment, with a goal of keeping them out of jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to tell me, ‘It’s so complex, we can’t solve it.’” Manley said. “And I say, ‘No, you can. Get together and figure out what you can do.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the model has expanded to counties around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in Department 8 in the downtown Sacramento courthouse, Judge Lawrence Brown called up the mental health court participants one by one. He complimented a woman’s red hat, another man’s poncho. He ribbed those who had a lot of hair, contrasting it with his own balding pate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing alongside their public defenders, some participants beamed as he lauded their progress staying on medications and off drugs, getting jobs and doing their dishes. Others squirmed uncomfortably in the spotlight. One woman’s voice cracked as she described her troubled relationship with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that you’re taking all of these steps to take care of yourself, we’re behind you 1,000 percent,” the judge told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who has run the county’s mental health court since 2013 and has helped it to expand, says he’s been drawn to the work because of the “humanity of it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keeping them in jail once they’re back on their medication is not a very compassionate approach,” he said. “They’re living a nightmare being behind bars. That setting of being in a cell, with loud noises, is not an opportune manner in which to address serious mental illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, such courts still only serve a fraction of the ballooning need. Sex offenders, arson registrants, active gang members, those who have caused great bodily injury or death, and those arrested for driving under the influence are among those who are typically excluded. And many such courts aren’t designed to serve those who are incompetent to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">J\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>effrey Jurgens doesn’t remember much about the months he waited in jail to get a bed at Atascadero State Hospital—one of the five state hospitals that house people with serious mental illness. Reached over the phone there, Jurgens, now 27, said at first only that being in jail “doesn’t feel too good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723763\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"2208\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4.png 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Mental-health-part-1-Photo-4-675x1200.png 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Jurgens at Atascadero State Hospital couple of years ago, surrounded by his parents.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his mother prompted him, he recalled being periodically locked in solitary confinement at the Sacramento County Jail after he was arrested in December 2013, alone with the voices, emerging—in her memory—for just an hour every couple of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bummer,” he said quietly. “I was going a little stir crazy. I didn’t know what to do, what to think. Nobody would help me while I was there. They just pushed me off because I wasn’t like everyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother figures it’s good he doesn’t remember more. Because she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers the day he called her, panicked, after his heavyset new cellmate kept trying to give him bear hugs. She remembers him whispering into the phone: “I’m really scared.” With Lazark’s help, she got him moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna also remembers the night Jeffrey called her, agitated and delusional. She was so terrified of what he might do to himself or someone else that she raced to the jail and refused to leave until she spoke to a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jeffrey was arrested for stealing the car from the valet, weeks passed before he appeared before the judge, screaming that he was Jesus. In February 2014, he was admitted to a state hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of August, after six months of receiving treatment and preparing for a court appearance, he was found competent enough to have a trial. Months later, in May 2015, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He returned to Atascadero State Hospital that June. Someday he hopes he’ll be well enough to get out, so he can spend time with his family and get a job at a grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna wishes her son had received intensive treatment earlier.\u003cbr>\nIt troubles her to think about all the other inmates like him, stuck behind bars with no one to speak up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to fight,” she said. “If somebody doesn’t have someone to advocate for them, they don’t stand a chance. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,” Jones said, laughing. “I’m like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones’ first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,” Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. “That’s the one position you don’t want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she’s dying laughing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it’s all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that’s providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California’s Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates’ rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.’\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. “The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in the community — in someone’s home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,” said Lawyer. “What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to order,” said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. “I’m just like I don’t know what this food is like. I grew up eating burritos and pizza pockets at a liquor store, bologna sandwiches and Top Ramen.” Jones has enjoyed eating crab dumplings and Korean BBQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has reunited with a teenage son and a daughter. But he’s still trying to reconnect and get custody of another daughter in his hometown of Tulare. She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. “It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, if it wasn’t for this situation and the sacrifices and things that Joe and Tamiko were able to do, I don’t know exactly how far along I would be,” said Jones. “I’m only able to start work and do all this stuff because of that assistance that they gave me immediately when I got out.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,” Jones said, laughing. “I’m like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones’ first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,” Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. “That’s the one position you don’t want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she’s dying laughing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it’s all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that’s providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California’s Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates’ rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.’\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. “The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in the community — in someone’s home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,” said Lawyer. “What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to order,” said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. “I’m just like I don’t know what this food is like. I grew up eating burritos and pizza pockets at a liquor store, bologna sandwiches and Top Ramen.” Jones has enjoyed eating crab dumplings and Korean BBQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has reunited with a teenage son and a daughter. But he’s still trying to reconnect and get custody of another daughter in his hometown of Tulare. She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. “It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This was originally published Jan. 23, 2018.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty years ago this month, Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison to an audience of 1,000 convicts. The recording of the show, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-live-albums-of-all-time-20150429/johnny-cash-at-folsom-prison-1968-20150427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Live at Folsom Prison,”\u003c/a> went on to become a landmark album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It solidified Cash’s image as a champion of the downtrodden, revitalized his career and forever linked him with those behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the singer’s connection with Folsom went far beyond a triple platinum release. It was there that he met a jailhouse songwriter and career criminal named \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Sherley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Sherley\u003c/a>. Their friendship would have a profound effect on both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all begins on the morning of Jan. 18, 1968. Johnny Cash is onstage under the raw fluorescent lights in mess hall #2 at Folsom Prison. Cash is giving the convicts what they want, running through numbers like “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Dark As a Dungeon,” “I Still Miss Someone,” “Send a Picture of Mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel.jpg\" alt=\"Greystone Chapel at Folsom Prison. The granite building was the inspiration for Glen Sherley’s song of the same title.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greystone Chapel at Folsom Prison. The granite building was the inspiration for Glen Sherley’s song of the same title. \u003ccite>(Kristina Khokhobashvili/California Department of Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing tall up there, dressed in black, sweat rolling down his cheek, Cash squints through the choking haze of cigarette smoke at a prisoner in the front row with a chiseled face, a high pompadour, and a Pall Mall dangling from his mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Glen Sherley, California state convict A-59795C, a repeat offender doing a life sentence for armed robbery. He has no idea what’s about to happen, no idea his life is about to change forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the stage, Cash pauses to introduce the next and final song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This next song was written by a man right here in Folsom Prison, and last night was the first time I’ve ever sung this song. Anyway, this song was written by our friend Glen Sherley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The room erupts, Sherley’s inmate brothers clapping, whistling and hooting for their man as he beams in shock and wonder. Cash kicks the band into “Greystone Chapel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Inside the walls of prison, my body may be\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> But my Lord has set my heart free\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> There’s a grey stone chapel here at Folsom\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> A house of worship in this den of sin\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> You wouldn’t think that God had a place here at Folsom\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> But He’s saved the soul of many lost men\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cash played two sets at Folsom that day and closed both with Sherley’s raw anthem to the small, sacred building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took the Glen Sherley component out of that record there would be a big hole,” says country musician Marty Stuart. He played with Cash in the ‘80s, and Johnny introduced him to Sherley many years ago. “To me that was kind of the heart of that record. That was a great gesture, but it was also a great song and a deserving song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did this guy who’d spent most of his adult life buried in the toughest prisons California had to offer — Chino, Soledad, San Quentin and Folsom — write a song that ended up on one of the most revered and powerful albums ever?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began with a behind-bars demo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley was friendly with the prison DJ, convicted killer Earl Green. Green loved Johnny Cash, and convinced Glen to write something in Cash’s style. Thus was born “Greystone Chapel.” Green recorded Sherley’s song, and — by all accounts without his knowledge — gave the tape to the Rev. Floyd Gressett, a traveling chaplain who brought the Good Word to the incarcerated. He also had a church in Ventura where Cash, who lived in nearby Casitas Springs, was known to darken the door on Sunday mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening before the Folsom show, Cash was rehearsing in a Sacramento hotel when the Rev. Floyd dropped by with that tape straight from the big house. Cash loved what he heard, and performed the song the next morning onstage at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley’s song was a crowd pleaser. It put the spotlight on a humble prisoner, and would be a savvy promo for the release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most artists would have left it at that and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnny Cash was not most artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1968, he was getting a handle on his years of drug and alcohol abuse, resurrecting his career, and renewing his deep faith in the Lord. When he met Glen Sherley, Cash was meeting a kindred spirit, a darker version of himself, had he made slightly different life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I think it was just a country boy thing, just a Southern boy thing,” says Marty Stuart. “You see a buddy down in the ditch, you stick out your hand. They helped each other, I think they shored each other up. I think it was the best of intentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nashville pedal steel master Lloyd Green, who recorded with both Sherley and Cash, has a slightly different take on the relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was that messianic complex thing kicking into high gear,” he says. “’I’m going to save this guy, and in the process save myself.’ [Cash] looked at it like, I’ve been redeemed because I was special. He really felt he was a special man. And he said it, you know, more than once. He might have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cash was finding salvation. Now, with the help of God and Nashville, he was going to save Glen Sherley, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what brought Sherley to this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born in state of Oklahoma in ’36. I think it was the latter part of ’38 when the whole family moved to California,” he said in a 1971 interview with CBS News. “If you read Steinbeck’s book the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ it kind of fits that, you know? Mattresses on the car, buckets on the side, stopping getting water. Got to California, I started school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School didn’t go so well. In his teens, Sherley started getting in trouble with the law. Over the years, he developed lifelong drug and alcohol addictions. Despite having a dedicated wife and two young children, by 1960 he would be in and out of prison for most of the next decade. So, what went wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11643066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Tennessee State Trooper Ronda Sherley, daughter of Glen Sherley, at home in Nashville with her dog, Tank. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked myself that a lot of times,” says his daughter, Ronda Sherley, a retired Tennessee state trooper living in Nashville. “Because if you knew my grandmother and his brothers and sisters, they were all hardworking people, they were all very responsible, very honest people. But I guess that’s something you don’t really figure out. That was just something in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that 1971 interview, Sherley shed some light on his criminal motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What turned me to committing robberies, I think, well, the hardest thing for me to admit about five years ago to myself was the fact that I was in prison because I wanted to be in prison. …You’re fed and you’re housed and you’re clothed and you don’t have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. There’s no responsibility there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley was not a criminal mastermind. He’d get loaded and impulsive, and once robbed a Burbank ice cream company of $28 using a toy gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his brief moments of civilian life, he’d listen to the radio — George Jones was a favorite — and strum a few chords on a beat-up six string.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can remember him playing guitar and singing in the living room when we were going to bed,” says Ronda. “But he would be in and out, in and out [of prison] so I don’t have a whole lot of memories as a child of him being there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to do something in prison or go insane,” said Glen in ‘71. “You can do it gambling, you can do it hustling, you can do it shooting narcotics or taking pills, but you’ve got to have something going to let you face that next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3.jpg\" alt=\"Folsom Prison’s imposing gatehouse. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folsom Prison’s imposing gatehouse. \u003ccite>(Kristina Khokhobashvili/California Department of Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Sherley did was write songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Folsom performance, the “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_Black_(song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man In Black\u003c/a>” was on a mission to set Sherley free. He stepped in with connections that included Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Rev. Billy Graham, and got Sherley transferred to the minimum-security prison at Vacaville. Cash also landed him a record deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd Green was one of the session players imported from Tennessee to back up Sherley on his self-named album, recorded live in Vacaville while he was still doing time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glen was the most humble, nicest guy in the world,” recalls Green. “He was just so grateful, you know? It was a major day, as it turned out, it was a major event in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glen was treated as the hero by his friends in prison and it was a wonderful thing to see,” Green continues. “It was a very emotional thing for me because I just I got caught up in it, too. and I thought, ‘Wow, this is terrible this man spent a large portion of his adult life in prison.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 1971 Glen Sherley was paroled. His record was released a few weeks later and climbed up the Billboard country charts to #63 — not a hit, but nothing to be ashamed of. Cash moved him to Nashville, gave him a spot on his road show and signed him to a publishing deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11643065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former inmate and songwriter Glen Sherley after being released from prison in 1971 with his children Ronda and Bruce in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ronda Sherley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But after about a year and a half of traveling and performing with Cash, including a gig at the Los Angeles Forum in front of a crowd of 17,000 people, things started going south for Sherley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big statement, but to get turned out of the California penal system and to be put into the world of hillbilly show business, good ol’ boy show business, there ain’t a hell of a lot of difference in a lot of ways,” says Marty Stuart. “You just swapping jailhouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew how to be in prison,” Ronda says. “He knew how to be someone in prison. He didn’t know how to be Glen Sherley out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, he couldn’t play the Nashville game, couldn’t adjust to life beyond a cell. Sherley’s addictions kicked in, his behavior became unpredictable and dangerous, and when he threatened a band member, that was the last straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it crushed him, Cash finally had to cut his friend loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next several years, Sherley drifted and drugged. His only goal was to stay out of prison. By 1978 — just six years after his album was released — he was living in the cab of a truck on a cattle farm near Salinas. In May of that year, he took his own life at the age of 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Well, do you think John [Cash] should have taken more responsibility?’ ” says Ronda Sherley. “He did his job. He gave him a job, he gave him a home. He was his friend. He gave him advice, but Dad was a grown man and chose to take it or not. So it was never John’s job to guide my father through life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She still listens to her father’s music, a long gone voice that continues to speak to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The words, the way he writes … you think of somebody who’s in prison, you think, oh he’s a bad person,” says Ronda. “But somebody who’s a bad person couldn’t put those words together. They couldn’t feel what it takes to put those words together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five decades, the Johnny Cash “Live at Folsom Prison” album has sold more than 3 million copies, and Johnny Cash is still probably the most recognized name in country music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Glen Sherley? Now you know who he is, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More of Peter Gilstrap’s reporting on Glen Sherley will be featured as part of a music documentary series, presented by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCRW\u003c/a>, this spring.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This was originally published Jan. 23, 2018.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty years ago this month, Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison to an audience of 1,000 convicts. The recording of the show, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-live-albums-of-all-time-20150429/johnny-cash-at-folsom-prison-1968-20150427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Live at Folsom Prison,”\u003c/a> went on to become a landmark album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It solidified Cash’s image as a champion of the downtrodden, revitalized his career and forever linked him with those behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the singer’s connection with Folsom went far beyond a triple platinum release. It was there that he met a jailhouse songwriter and career criminal named \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Sherley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Sherley\u003c/a>. Their friendship would have a profound effect on both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all begins on the morning of Jan. 18, 1968. Johnny Cash is onstage under the raw fluorescent lights in mess hall #2 at Folsom Prison. Cash is giving the convicts what they want, running through numbers like “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Dark As a Dungeon,” “I Still Miss Someone,” “Send a Picture of Mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel.jpg\" alt=\"Greystone Chapel at Folsom Prison. The granite building was the inspiration for Glen Sherley’s song of the same title.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/greystone-chapel-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greystone Chapel at Folsom Prison. The granite building was the inspiration for Glen Sherley’s song of the same title. \u003ccite>(Kristina Khokhobashvili/California Department of Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing tall up there, dressed in black, sweat rolling down his cheek, Cash squints through the choking haze of cigarette smoke at a prisoner in the front row with a chiseled face, a high pompadour, and a Pall Mall dangling from his mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Glen Sherley, California state convict A-59795C, a repeat offender doing a life sentence for armed robbery. He has no idea what’s about to happen, no idea his life is about to change forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the stage, Cash pauses to introduce the next and final song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This next song was written by a man right here in Folsom Prison, and last night was the first time I’ve ever sung this song. Anyway, this song was written by our friend Glen Sherley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The room erupts, Sherley’s inmate brothers clapping, whistling and hooting for their man as he beams in shock and wonder. Cash kicks the band into “Greystone Chapel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Inside the walls of prison, my body may be\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> But my Lord has set my heart free\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> There’s a grey stone chapel here at Folsom\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> A house of worship in this den of sin\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> You wouldn’t think that God had a place here at Folsom\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> But He’s saved the soul of many lost men\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cash played two sets at Folsom that day and closed both with Sherley’s raw anthem to the small, sacred building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took the Glen Sherley component out of that record there would be a big hole,” says country musician Marty Stuart. He played with Cash in the ‘80s, and Johnny introduced him to Sherley many years ago. “To me that was kind of the heart of that record. That was a great gesture, but it was also a great song and a deserving song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did this guy who’d spent most of his adult life buried in the toughest prisons California had to offer — Chino, Soledad, San Quentin and Folsom — write a song that ended up on one of the most revered and powerful albums ever?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began with a behind-bars demo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley was friendly with the prison DJ, convicted killer Earl Green. Green loved Johnny Cash, and convinced Glen to write something in Cash’s style. Thus was born “Greystone Chapel.” Green recorded Sherley’s song, and — by all accounts without his knowledge — gave the tape to the Rev. Floyd Gressett, a traveling chaplain who brought the Good Word to the incarcerated. He also had a church in Ventura where Cash, who lived in nearby Casitas Springs, was known to darken the door on Sunday mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening before the Folsom show, Cash was rehearsing in a Sacramento hotel when the Rev. Floyd dropped by with that tape straight from the big house. Cash loved what he heard, and performed the song the next morning onstage at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley’s song was a crowd pleaser. It put the spotlight on a humble prisoner, and would be a savvy promo for the release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most artists would have left it at that and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnny Cash was not most artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1968, he was getting a handle on his years of drug and alcohol abuse, resurrecting his career, and renewing his deep faith in the Lord. When he met Glen Sherley, Cash was meeting a kindred spirit, a darker version of himself, had he made slightly different life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I think it was just a country boy thing, just a Southern boy thing,” says Marty Stuart. “You see a buddy down in the ditch, you stick out your hand. They helped each other, I think they shored each other up. I think it was the best of intentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nashville pedal steel master Lloyd Green, who recorded with both Sherley and Cash, has a slightly different take on the relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was that messianic complex thing kicking into high gear,” he says. “’I’m going to save this guy, and in the process save myself.’ [Cash] looked at it like, I’ve been redeemed because I was special. He really felt he was a special man. And he said it, you know, more than once. He might have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cash was finding salvation. Now, with the help of God and Nashville, he was going to save Glen Sherley, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what brought Sherley to this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born in state of Oklahoma in ’36. I think it was the latter part of ’38 when the whole family moved to California,” he said in a 1971 interview with CBS News. “If you read Steinbeck’s book the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ it kind of fits that, you know? Mattresses on the car, buckets on the side, stopping getting water. Got to California, I started school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School didn’t go so well. In his teens, Sherley started getting in trouble with the law. Over the years, he developed lifelong drug and alcohol addictions. Despite having a dedicated wife and two young children, by 1960 he would be in and out of prison for most of the next decade. So, what went wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11643066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28919_Ronda.Tank-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Tennessee State Trooper Ronda Sherley, daughter of Glen Sherley, at home in Nashville with her dog, Tank. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked myself that a lot of times,” says his daughter, Ronda Sherley, a retired Tennessee state trooper living in Nashville. “Because if you knew my grandmother and his brothers and sisters, they were all hardworking people, they were all very responsible, very honest people. But I guess that’s something you don’t really figure out. That was just something in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that 1971 interview, Sherley shed some light on his criminal motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What turned me to committing robberies, I think, well, the hardest thing for me to admit about five years ago to myself was the fact that I was in prison because I wanted to be in prison. …You’re fed and you’re housed and you’re clothed and you don’t have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. There’s no responsibility there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherley was not a criminal mastermind. He’d get loaded and impulsive, and once robbed a Burbank ice cream company of $28 using a toy gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his brief moments of civilian life, he’d listen to the radio — George Jones was a favorite — and strum a few chords on a beat-up six string.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can remember him playing guitar and singing in the living room when we were going to bed,” says Ronda. “But he would be in and out, in and out [of prison] so I don’t have a whole lot of memories as a child of him being there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to do something in prison or go insane,” said Glen in ‘71. “You can do it gambling, you can do it hustling, you can do it shooting narcotics or taking pills, but you’ve got to have something going to let you face that next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3.jpg\" alt=\"Folsom Prison’s imposing gatehouse. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/cash3-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folsom Prison’s imposing gatehouse. \u003ccite>(Kristina Khokhobashvili/California Department of Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Sherley did was write songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Folsom performance, the “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_Black_(song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man In Black\u003c/a>” was on a mission to set Sherley free. He stepped in with connections that included Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Rev. Billy Graham, and got Sherley transferred to the minimum-security prison at Vacaville. Cash also landed him a record deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd Green was one of the session players imported from Tennessee to back up Sherley on his self-named album, recorded live in Vacaville while he was still doing time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glen was the most humble, nicest guy in the world,” recalls Green. “He was just so grateful, you know? It was a major day, as it turned out, it was a major event in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glen was treated as the hero by his friends in prison and it was a wonderful thing to see,” Green continues. “It was a very emotional thing for me because I just I got caught up in it, too. and I thought, ‘Wow, this is terrible this man spent a large portion of his adult life in prison.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 1971 Glen Sherley was paroled. 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Cash moved him to Nashville, gave him a spot on his road show and signed him to a publishing deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11643065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28921_Glen.kids-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former inmate and songwriter Glen Sherley after being released from prison in 1971 with his children Ronda and Bruce in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ronda Sherley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But after about a year and a half of traveling and performing with Cash, including a gig at the Los Angeles Forum in front of a crowd of 17,000 people, things started going south for Sherley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big statement, but to get turned out of the California penal system and to be put into the world of hillbilly show business, good ol’ boy show business, there ain’t a hell of a lot of difference in a lot of ways,” says Marty Stuart. “You just swapping jailhouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew how to be in prison,” Ronda says. “He knew how to be someone in prison. He didn’t know how to be Glen Sherley out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, he couldn’t play the Nashville game, couldn’t adjust to life beyond a cell. Sherley’s addictions kicked in, his behavior became unpredictable and dangerous, and when he threatened a band member, that was the last straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it crushed him, Cash finally had to cut his friend loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next several years, Sherley drifted and drugged. His only goal was to stay out of prison. By 1978 — just six years after his album was released — he was living in the cab of a truck on a cattle farm near Salinas. In May of that year, he took his own life at the age of 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Well, do you think John [Cash] should have taken more responsibility?’ ” says Ronda Sherley. “He did his job. He gave him a job, he gave him a home. He was his friend. He gave him advice, but Dad was a grown man and chose to take it or not. So it was never John’s job to guide my father through life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She still listens to her father’s music, a long gone voice that continues to speak to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The words, the way he writes … you think of somebody who’s in prison, you think, oh he’s a bad person,” says Ronda. “But somebody who’s a bad person couldn’t put those words together. They couldn’t feel what it takes to put those words together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five decades, the Johnny Cash “Live at Folsom Prison” album has sold more than 3 million copies, and Johnny Cash is still probably the most recognized name in country music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Glen Sherley? Now you know who he is, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And, six of the suspected overdose cases happened between the previous Sunday and last Tuesday, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is clearly a spike in overdose events, on top of a baseline of one or so per month,” Willis said in an email Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that the deaths of the two death row inmates last week were attributed to suspected drug overdoses, pending results from the Marin County Coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://news.cdcr.ca.gov/news-releases/2018/12/04/condemned-inmate-herminio-serna-dies-of-unknown-causes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herminio Serna\u003c/a>, a 53-year-old gang member sentenced to death for multiple murders in San Jose, was found unresponsive in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after, guards found \u003ca href=\"https://news.cdcr.ca.gov/news-releases/2018/12/05/condemned-inmate-joseph-a-perez-jr-dies-of-unknown-cause/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Perez\u003c/a>, a 47-year-old inmate sentenced to death for killing a woman who was stabbed and strangled during a robbery of her Lafayette home in 1998, also unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy reports on their deaths are expected next month, according to Marin County Chief Deputy Coroner Roger Fielding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials have not officially linked the two deaths with illegal drug use, but a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/06/death-row-inmate-dies-at-san-quentin-second-in-two-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said health care staff at San Quentin are conducting outreach and education for inmates on the dangers of drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665693/fentanyl-blamed-for-apparent-overdoses-that-killed-california-prisoner-sickened-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that four inmates at San Quentin had died from drug overdoses since the beginning of 2017. Of those four, two involved fentanyl, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said the recent rise of cases at San Quentin is part of a cyclical trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is typically the pattern: We see a bad batch or very high-potency batch of fentanyl or heroin come into the community, and we’ll see spikes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases are reviving attention on efforts by the CDCR to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the prison system and to treat inmates battling addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely unacceptable to be holding people who are in effect our wards of the state, to have them dying on our watch for use of illegal substances,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who chairs the Senate’s Public Safety Committee and has called for corrections officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666434/top-state-lawmaker-california-prisons-must-do-more-to-reduce-inmate-drug-overdoses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do a better job of preventing illegal opioid drugs\u003c/a> from entering the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665693/fentanyl-blamed-for-apparent-overdoses-that-killed-california-prisoner-sickened-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspected overdoses at Mule Creek State Prison\u003c/a> in Amador County killed one inmate and sickened 12 others. State tests determined that fentanyl was the prime suspect in those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration unveiled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669671/governors-plan-for-stepped-up-searches-aims-to-stem-flow-of-drugs-into-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new strategy\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of illegal drugs in state prisons. The governor’s budget included a $13.8 million proposal to search everyone who enters and exits the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drugs do find their way into the state’s 35 institutions,” CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. “There’s no tolerance for this. It really undermines safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 29 inmates died of drug overdoses, prison officials have said. Last year, 40 died in such cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cchcs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/MS/2017-Inmate-Death-Reviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> of prisoner deaths by the California Correctional Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, there have been 35 confirmed drug overdose deaths, according to Thornton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal drugs come into the state prison system through CDCR employees and visitors. In some cases they are thrown over prison fences and are dropped from drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office, said overdoses in the prison system are a major problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s as serious, if not more serious, than in the community,” Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plan also includes $3.6 million for an addiction treatment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate advocates like Specter have been pushing for more help for prisoners battling addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very little treatment for what is a gigantic group of people who have substances abuse problems,” Specter said. “The state of California has only recently begun… to ramp up drug treatment in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials and lawmakers have pressured state prison officials to use treatment medications like buprenorphine to help struggling inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need to make sure to build systems to get those treatments into our jails and prisons,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Locking people away with opioid addiction without addressing the root cause, we haven’t made a lot of progress in that person’s life if we don’t really take advantage of that opportunity to treat them,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Clark Kelso, the federal official who controls medical care at the state’s prisons, announced a plan to spend $252 million a year to provide medication aimed at reducing fatal drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelso’s plan calls for the state to provide drug treatment to 13,000 inmates to reduce craving while weening them off opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that the deaths of the two death row inmates last week were attributed to suspected drug overdoses, pending results from the Marin County Coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://news.cdcr.ca.gov/news-releases/2018/12/04/condemned-inmate-herminio-serna-dies-of-unknown-causes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herminio Serna\u003c/a>, a 53-year-old gang member sentenced to death for multiple murders in San Jose, was found unresponsive in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after, guards found \u003ca href=\"https://news.cdcr.ca.gov/news-releases/2018/12/05/condemned-inmate-joseph-a-perez-jr-dies-of-unknown-cause/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Perez\u003c/a>, a 47-year-old inmate sentenced to death for killing a woman who was stabbed and strangled during a robbery of her Lafayette home in 1998, also unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy reports on their deaths are expected next month, according to Marin County Chief Deputy Coroner Roger Fielding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prison officials have not officially linked the two deaths with illegal drug use, but a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/06/death-row-inmate-dies-at-san-quentin-second-in-two-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said health care staff at San Quentin are conducting outreach and education for inmates on the dangers of drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665693/fentanyl-blamed-for-apparent-overdoses-that-killed-california-prisoner-sickened-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that four inmates at San Quentin had died from drug overdoses since the beginning of 2017. Of those four, two involved fentanyl, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said the recent rise of cases at San Quentin is part of a cyclical trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is typically the pattern: We see a bad batch or very high-potency batch of fentanyl or heroin come into the community, and we’ll see spikes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases are reviving attention on efforts by the CDCR to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the prison system and to treat inmates battling addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely unacceptable to be holding people who are in effect our wards of the state, to have them dying on our watch for use of illegal substances,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who chairs the Senate’s Public Safety Committee and has called for corrections officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666434/top-state-lawmaker-california-prisons-must-do-more-to-reduce-inmate-drug-overdoses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do a better job of preventing illegal opioid drugs\u003c/a> from entering the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665693/fentanyl-blamed-for-apparent-overdoses-that-killed-california-prisoner-sickened-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspected overdoses at Mule Creek State Prison\u003c/a> in Amador County killed one inmate and sickened 12 others. State tests determined that fentanyl was the prime suspect in those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration unveiled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669671/governors-plan-for-stepped-up-searches-aims-to-stem-flow-of-drugs-into-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new strategy\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of illegal drugs in state prisons. The governor’s budget included a $13.8 million proposal to search everyone who enters and exits the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drugs do find their way into the state’s 35 institutions,” CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. “There’s no tolerance for this. It really undermines safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 29 inmates died of drug overdoses, prison officials have said. Last year, 40 died in such cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cchcs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/MS/2017-Inmate-Death-Reviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> of prisoner deaths by the California Correctional Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, there have been 35 confirmed drug overdose deaths, according to Thornton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal drugs come into the state prison system through CDCR employees and visitors. In some cases they are thrown over prison fences and are dropped from drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office, said overdoses in the prison system are a major problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s as serious, if not more serious, than in the community,” Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plan also includes $3.6 million for an addiction treatment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate advocates like Specter have been pushing for more help for prisoners battling addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very little treatment for what is a gigantic group of people who have substances abuse problems,” Specter said. “The state of California has only recently begun… to ramp up drug treatment in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials and lawmakers have pressured state prison officials to use treatment medications like buprenorphine to help struggling inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need to make sure to build systems to get those treatments into our jails and prisons,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Locking people away with opioid addiction without addressing the root cause, we haven’t made a lot of progress in that person’s life if we don’t really take advantage of that opportunity to treat them,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Clark Kelso, the federal official who controls medical care at the state’s prisons, announced a plan to spend $252 million a year to provide medication aimed at reducing fatal drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelso’s plan calls for the state to provide drug treatment to 13,000 inmates to reduce craving while weening them off opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge is expected to release a damning report this week by the chief psychiatrist for California prisons, threatening state officials’ efforts to end decades of federal oversight of inmate mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Golding, who oversees psychiatrists in California’s 34 prisons, accused state officials of providing misleading data to a federal judge overseeing the nearly 30-year-old case that raised the standards of psychiatric care for inmates, according to an attorney familiar with the content of the still-sealed report.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It was really a bombshell. … There’s no choice but to completely re-evaluate all of our relations with defendants and their lawyers.’\u003ccite>Michael Bien,\u003cbr>\nPlaintiffs’ attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At a hearing Monday in Sacramento, U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller said she would soon decide whether to unseal Golding’s report and ask the psychiatrist to testify at a Dec. 14 hearing. Mueller was also considering “areas of potential fraud on the court,” according to a court record of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, it appeared the state was close to ending federal supervision of prison psychiatric care, said attorney Michael Bien, who sued the state on behalf of inmates with mental illness.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Bombshell’ Report\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State attorneys had provided data showing that they were meeting requirements for care with the current staff levels and sought to reduce the staff further through the use of telepsychiatry, in which inmates interact with a psychiatrist via computer. But one day before the judge was scheduled to consider the plan, Golding turned in his report, calling that data into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a bombshell,” said Bien. “There’s no choice but to completely re-evaluate all of our relations with defendants and their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bien said he learned about Golding’s 160-page report in early October, when the psychiatrist sent a copy to the court-appointed receiver in charge of prison medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golding raised serious doubts about the ability of the state to care for roughly 30,000 inmates in California diagnosed with mental illness, Bien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In his view the mental health care system was operating way below any standard, and in fact in a dangerous way for patient safety,” Bien said. “And defendants were representing exactly the opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fraud on the Court?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golding alleged that state officials distorted data on how often those inmates see psychiatrists and how well those doctors monitor medications they’ve prescribed to them, according to Bien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the state have argued that Golding’s report should be sealed pending investigation to protect the identity of employees. The state submitted suggested redactions to the report on Tuesday, should the court decide to unseal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Jeffrey Callison declined to comment on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically we do not issue comment on matters that are the subject of litigation,” Callison wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staffing Shortages, Delays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, now called Coleman v. Brown, was filed in 1990 and sought to improve care for prisoners who suffer from mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has increased spending and rolled out numerous reforms since then but still struggles to fill staffing vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, 25 percent of psychiatric staffing positions approved under a 2009 plan remain vacant, Bien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delays in psychiatric treatment factored heavily into a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a federal court order to reduce California’s prison population and ensure inmates received minimal and timely medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown declared in 2013 that California prisons had resolved all deficiencies in psychiatric care for inmates, and the state filed a motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/11716/state-seeks-return-to-full-control-over-prison-system-mental-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismiss\u003c/a> the Coleman lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, Judge Lawrence Karlton, who is now deceased, ruled that the state had not met constitutional minimums for psychiatric care, as evidenced by increased suicides among prisoners and the state’s failure to implement court-mandated improvements to suicide prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, attorneys for inmates challenged the routine use of force on mentally ill inmates, including the use of pepper spray on prisoners in their cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of videotapes depicting some of the most egregious practices \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/132446/judge-using-peppers-spray-on-mentally-ill-inmates-horrific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew outrage\u003c/a> from the court and led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/20862/california-prisons-begin-use-of-force-reforms-for-mentally-ill-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new rules\u003c/a> restricting the use of pepper spray and solitary confinement for inmates with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>This week marks the third week of a nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688877/protest-held-outside-san-quentin-as-part-of-national-prison-strike\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prison strike\u003c/a> that’s largely focused on \u003ca href=\"https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ending “prison slavery.”\u003c/a> That term is not just hyperbole — forcing prisoners to work for little or no pay is constitutionally protected by the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think of prison labor, you might think of license plates. But behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison, a select few inmates are working in an industry you might not expect. 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