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"content": "\u003cp>The wardens at California's two major women's prisons have retired amid allegations of pervasive problems at both institutions, including sexual abuse of female inmates at one prison and suicides at the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaints are the latest problem for the corrections department, and come months after the California inspector general found a culture of racism and abuse at a men's prison. A series of lawsuits in recent years forced the state to lower its inmate population and cede control of prisoner health care to a federal receiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277662559\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from sex abuse, guards at the state's largest women's prison in Chowchilla permit fights between inmates, use unneeded force and derogatory names, and retaliate against inmates who complain, said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which investigates inmate mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Johnson, warden at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, and Warden Kimberly Hughes, at the California Institution for Women, retired last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They chose retirement after the head of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \"determined that change in leadership at those prisons is necessary\" following recent reviews that identified problems, spokesman Jeffrey Callison told The Associated Press in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not detail the problems but said the department is committed to making necessary changes at the prisons \"to comport with our vision of safe, rehabilitative environments for inmates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials earlier had called the retirements routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson retired after 30 years of state service and Hughes after more than 27 years, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said it could not arrange interviews with the retired wardens and The Associated Press could not immediately locate them. Two other senior staff members at the Chowchilla prison also were being reassigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specter pushed for leadership changes after attorneys found systemic problems at the Chowchilla facility, which he called \"a very troubled place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are serious problems there, including verbal abuse of prisoners, failure to protect them from other prisoners, contraband, sexual abuse -- mostly in the form of: 'If you do me a favor, I'll do you a favor' -- that kind of thing,\" he said. \"There's a lot of fear, and fear of retaliation for reporting misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates allege that guards \"will use their authority to coerce prisoners into sexual relationships,\" Specter said. \"Some of the women allege that the officers bring in contraband, partly in return for sexual favors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some guards have let inmates from one housing unit into another to fight or steal property, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They ignore fights, they let them go on even though they know about them, they ignore pleas for protection,\" Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards use unnecessary physical force, and \"there's a rampant culture of verbal abuse,\" that includes guards using demeaning names for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys, who represent inmates in several major lawsuits against the state, have been working with the corrections department in recent months, including conducting joint interviews in June with about 150 of the more than 2,800 inmates at the Chowchilla prison, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specter said the department appears to have been taking steps to make changes since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichol Gomez, spokeswoman for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, said in an email that the union that represents most guards \"does not comment on unsubstantiated rumors or allegations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I can tell you the majority of California correctional peace officers are professional and take their duty and oath seriously,\" she wrote. Employees at both prisons \"do their job the best they can within the conditions they face, which include lack of staff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specter praised the leadership change but said attorneys are waiting to see what else the department will do to change the prison's culture and practices. He equated problems there to a December finding by the state inspector general saying High Desert State men's prison had a culture of racism and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democratic state Sen. Connie Leyva wants the state auditor to look into suicides at the California Institution for Women, which houses nearly 1,900 inmates in Corona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is asking for an audit next week to see why the suicide rate was eight times the national average for female prisoners in an 18-month period in 2014-15, when The Associated Press first wrote about the spike. 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"content": "\u003cp>Women don't land in prison at nearly the same rate as men, and those who do are a lot less likely to commit another crime when they get out. But women do face a host of unique challenges that can make reintegration into society a lot harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no one there for me. I kept going back and forth to prison for almost 20 years,” says Susan Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269688078\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life began to spiral out of control in 1982, the same year her 5-year-old son was killed in a car accident in South L.A. She started drinking hard. That turned to hard drugs -- and that’s what eventually landed her in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Burton says, she couldn’t find help for her addiction or the emotional pain fueling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why isn't there a therapist that I could've went to, to resolve my grief and my pain and my suffering?\" asks Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that would her set her off on a 20-year criminal justice crusade to help hundreds of other women just like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton (L) at recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (L) at a recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Burton was released from prison, she says she couldn’t find the help she needed in her own community of South Central L.A. But she did find it about 25 miles away, near the Pacific Ocean in the much more affluent city of Santa Monica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went there were all of these services,” recalls Burton. \"And people in Santa Monica wasn't going to prison for what we were going to prison for in South L.A. Why do they go to treatment and I get chains?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determined to not let other women in similar circumstances fall through the cracks, Burton scraped together what little savings she had -- and swung open the doors of her own home in South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She named it \u003ca href=\"http://www.anewwayoflife.org/\">A New Way of Life\u003c/a>: a shelter, a waystation for women exiting prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"81S1A7BACHxjBlU1aIjtbeOenhr890f0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept in the dining room and I put beds in the other three bedrooms, so there were 11 of us in that house and it created a community of women helping women,” says Burton. \"All women who've been incarcerated and just needed a place to rebuild their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life now includes five transitional homes and a constellation of other services. There’s help with the big stuff you’d expect, like family reunification, job referrals, drug rehab. But there’s also attention to the little things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them cook for maybe the first time in a long, long time,” says Burton. \"You don't get to smell the fresh fruit in the grocery store (in prison), all of these things you've known that you don't get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg\" alt=\" Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women might stay at A New Way of Life for just a few months or for a couple of years. A couple of former clients have even gone to replicate the New Way of Life model in other parts of Southern California where such resources are hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton doesn’t have an exact count of how many have come through the doors -- close to 1,000, she thinks -- but she does keep the letters sent from behind prison walls, hundreds of them neatly filed in enormous cabinet drawers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She keeps every piece of correspondence. I ask her why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton seems a little unsure how to answer at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at the A New Way of Life Compton-area headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1920x1271.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at A New Way of Life's Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, sometimes I keep them because after a woman comes, and she doesn't want to respond to the program, sometimes I go back and get the letter and I'll say, 'Do you remember writing this letter?' ” Burton asks with a firm tone as if the woman were in the room. \"What’s changed?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that unwaveringly firm yet supportive tone that's helped guide scores of women back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the first face I saw when I came home,\" says Ingrid Archie, a resident and community organizer at A New Way of Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Burton) came and got me from that bus station and brought me to A New Way of Life,” says Archie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Archie landed back in prison not long after completing a stint at A New Way of Life, she hesitated to reach out to Susan Burton again. She wrote anonymously from prison, hoping to conceal her identify as long as possible. When Archie called to her confirm her spot, Burton answered the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"And we talked and I told her I was ashamed and she explained to me that she understands that life happens, but to stay connected, so that when things are going on you have people you can reach out to,\" says Archie. \"And I didn’t do that. I wanted to handle it on my own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life says the majority of women who come through its doors stay out of prison. But associate director Tiffany Johnson says there are some, like Archie, who need a second or third try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can be there to hold her hand and guide her into the right direction of things to do; talking to an attorney, having somebody who could represent her,\" says Johnson. \"That's what A New Way of Life offers. We’re not the solution. We can just be there to assist in the solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton area headquarters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1920x1367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since it opened its doors 20 years ago, A New Way of Life has gone far beyond offering just a warm bed and a hot meal. About 10 years ago it launched a \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/student-life/student-organizations/el-centro-legal-clinics/reentry-legal-clinic/\">legal clinic with the help of the UCLA School of Law\u003c/a>. It's helped scores of women remove nonviolent felonies from their records. That can make it easier to get work and qualify for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says demand for services is growing in the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-prop-47\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the voter-approved state initiative that qualified thousands of nonviolent felons for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide all these resources for all these people but we can’t. But provide for you can and it opens up,” says Johnson. “You know, we have a limited capacity. But when Miss Burton started, she only had a capacity of three rooms, I think maybe six people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson first came to A New Way of Life as a client after doing time for manslaughter. She killed a man in self-defense during an argument. It was her mother’s longtime boyfriend -- a predator, says Johnson, who sexually abused her for years when she was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lacked self-esteem for years. I will venture to say that all of my life I didn't have it, but they helped me,\" says Johnson of A New Way of Life. \"I started to get dreams back. I didn't have dreams before. Or I had nightmares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing Johnson never dreamed of is taking over for Susan Burton. But she is. After 20 years at the helm, Burton is stepping down from the organization. Tiffany Johnson will be taking over as executive director. She’s nervous and excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what, there’s a lot of the same emotions that I had when I came home from prison, something new, unfamiliar,\" says Johnson with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992401\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 485px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10992401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png\" alt=\"Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Marches from Selma to Montgomery\" width=\"485\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png 485w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top-400x254.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot behind the title. And Susan Burton is big shoes to fill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Susan Burton, she’s now in her early 60s and getting a little weary of the long hours and the long trips across the country lobbying on behalf of the organization and the women it assists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plans to keep a seat on the board of A New Way of Life, but her reform-minded drive will take new forms. That includes a project that will take her back inside prisons, around the world, to research how they can be better designed and managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago Burton also submitted the first draft of a memoir to her publisher -- a process that meant reliving those long days of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prison leaves a stain in your consciousness,” says Burton, her voice a bit weary. \"It leaves a stain in you that you just don't forget. You have to kind of detox that.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Women don't land in prison at nearly the same rate as men, and those who do are a lot less likely to commit another crime when they get out. But women do face a host of unique challenges that can make reintegration into society a lot harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no one there for me. I kept going back and forth to prison for almost 20 years,” says Susan Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269688078&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269688078'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life began to spiral out of control in 1982, the same year her 5-year-old son was killed in a car accident in South L.A. She started drinking hard. That turned to hard drugs -- and that’s what eventually landed her in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Burton says, she couldn’t find help for her addiction or the emotional pain fueling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why isn't there a therapist that I could've went to, to resolve my grief and my pain and my suffering?\" asks Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that would her set her off on a 20-year criminal justice crusade to help hundreds of other women just like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton (L) at recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (L) at a recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Burton was released from prison, she says she couldn’t find the help she needed in her own community of South Central L.A. But she did find it about 25 miles away, near the Pacific Ocean in the much more affluent city of Santa Monica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went there were all of these services,” recalls Burton. \"And people in Santa Monica wasn't going to prison for what we were going to prison for in South L.A. Why do they go to treatment and I get chains?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determined to not let other women in similar circumstances fall through the cracks, Burton scraped together what little savings she had -- and swung open the doors of her own home in South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She named it \u003ca href=\"http://www.anewwayoflife.org/\">A New Way of Life\u003c/a>: a shelter, a waystation for women exiting prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept in the dining room and I put beds in the other three bedrooms, so there were 11 of us in that house and it created a community of women helping women,” says Burton. \"All women who've been incarcerated and just needed a place to rebuild their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life now includes five transitional homes and a constellation of other services. There’s help with the big stuff you’d expect, like family reunification, job referrals, drug rehab. But there’s also attention to the little things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them cook for maybe the first time in a long, long time,” says Burton. \"You don't get to smell the fresh fruit in the grocery store (in prison), all of these things you've known that you don't get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg\" alt=\" Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women might stay at A New Way of Life for just a few months or for a couple of years. A couple of former clients have even gone to replicate the New Way of Life model in other parts of Southern California where such resources are hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton doesn’t have an exact count of how many have come through the doors -- close to 1,000, she thinks -- but she does keep the letters sent from behind prison walls, hundreds of them neatly filed in enormous cabinet drawers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She keeps every piece of correspondence. I ask her why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton seems a little unsure how to answer at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at the A New Way of Life Compton-area headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1920x1271.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at A New Way of Life's Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, sometimes I keep them because after a woman comes, and she doesn't want to respond to the program, sometimes I go back and get the letter and I'll say, 'Do you remember writing this letter?' ” Burton asks with a firm tone as if the woman were in the room. \"What’s changed?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that unwaveringly firm yet supportive tone that's helped guide scores of women back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the first face I saw when I came home,\" says Ingrid Archie, a resident and community organizer at A New Way of Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Burton) came and got me from that bus station and brought me to A New Way of Life,” says Archie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Archie landed back in prison not long after completing a stint at A New Way of Life, she hesitated to reach out to Susan Burton again. She wrote anonymously from prison, hoping to conceal her identify as long as possible. When Archie called to her confirm her spot, Burton answered the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"And we talked and I told her I was ashamed and she explained to me that she understands that life happens, but to stay connected, so that when things are going on you have people you can reach out to,\" says Archie. \"And I didn’t do that. I wanted to handle it on my own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life says the majority of women who come through its doors stay out of prison. But associate director Tiffany Johnson says there are some, like Archie, who need a second or third try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can be there to hold her hand and guide her into the right direction of things to do; talking to an attorney, having somebody who could represent her,\" says Johnson. \"That's what A New Way of Life offers. We’re not the solution. We can just be there to assist in the solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton area headquarters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1920x1367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since it opened its doors 20 years ago, A New Way of Life has gone far beyond offering just a warm bed and a hot meal. About 10 years ago it launched a \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/student-life/student-organizations/el-centro-legal-clinics/reentry-legal-clinic/\">legal clinic with the help of the UCLA School of Law\u003c/a>. It's helped scores of women remove nonviolent felonies from their records. That can make it easier to get work and qualify for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says demand for services is growing in the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-prop-47\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the voter-approved state initiative that qualified thousands of nonviolent felons for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide all these resources for all these people but we can’t. But provide for you can and it opens up,” says Johnson. “You know, we have a limited capacity. But when Miss Burton started, she only had a capacity of three rooms, I think maybe six people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson first came to A New Way of Life as a client after doing time for manslaughter. She killed a man in self-defense during an argument. It was her mother’s longtime boyfriend -- a predator, says Johnson, who sexually abused her for years when she was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lacked self-esteem for years. I will venture to say that all of my life I didn't have it, but they helped me,\" says Johnson of A New Way of Life. \"I started to get dreams back. I didn't have dreams before. Or I had nightmares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing Johnson never dreamed of is taking over for Susan Burton. But she is. After 20 years at the helm, Burton is stepping down from the organization. Tiffany Johnson will be taking over as executive director. 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"content": "\u003cp>A state judge on Wednesday blocked Gov. Jerry Brown's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/27/Brown-Rolls-Out-Sentencing-Reform-Ballot-Measure\" target=\"_blank\">proposed ballot initiative\u003c/a> to reduce California's prison population, despite warnings that her decision could effectively stall its consideration by voters until 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang sided with district attorneys who argued that Brown improperly bypassed normal procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She barred state Attorney General Kamala Harris from issuing documents — the title of the initiative and a summary of what it would do — that would let supporters begin gathering signatures for Brown's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown amended an existing initiative that would strip prosecutors of their power to decide if juveniles should be tried as adults, leaving that decision to judges. He added amendments last month to increase sentencing credits for adult inmates and to allow earlier parole for nonviolent felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Emtveve7hKPhGee0r3QAfasCjLD77Dl9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court finds that the attorney general abused her discretion,\" Chang said, ruling that the amendments radically change the focus of the original initiative without allowing for necessary public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What the amendment did was the type of mischief that the Legislature had in mind\" when it required that amendments to ballot initiatives be related to the original initiative, the judge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday was the deadline for Harris to act, but Chang agreed with the California District Attorneys Association and Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert after they sued over the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents plan to file an emergency appeal to overturn Chang's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Brown's attorneys succeed in overturning Wednesday's ruling, it could push the campaign into a costly signature-gathering drive or risk delaying it until 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, who is termed out of office in 2018, has $24 million in his campaign account that he can spend on political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That still might not be enough to swiftly gather the required nearly 586,000 signatures, given the crush of competition from numerous pending ballot initiatives, said attorney James Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10878014\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10878014\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris-800x1031.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris\" width=\"800\" height=\"1031\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris-800x1031.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris-400x515.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris-1180x1520.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Harris-960x1237.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spokeswoman for Kamala Harris said the attorney general will appeal Judge Chang’s ruling to the 3rd appellate district or the state Supreme Court. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It makes it impossible,\" said Harrison, who argued on behalf of the original proponents who allowed Brown to alter their measure. That would deny voters the opportunity to consider sweeping public safety reforms, he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris spokeswoman Rachele Huennekens said the attorney general also will appeal Chang's ruling to the 3rd appellate district or the state Supreme Court. Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor, declined comment other than to also say that the state would appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang acted after the California District Attorneys Association and Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert sued over the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our case was about the rule of law and the due process that is afforded to the people of California in the initiative system,\" association president Pat McGrath said in a statement after the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors who sued said Brown must file a new initiative instead of changing an existing proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Paul Stein said Brown met the deadline for submitting amendments that reasonably related to the initiative's original focus, even though it was amended after the end of the public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 state law requires 30 days of public comment as a way to improve the initiative process. 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"content": "\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld California laws approved by voters that set stricter limits on parole hearings and give the governor authority to block parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statutes do not violate a constitutional ban against increasing punishments retroactively, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue in the ruling were Proposition 9, which is also known as Marsy's Law, and Proposition 89.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsy's Law -- approved by voters in 2008 -- extended the amount of time a prisoner must wait for another parole hearing after being denied parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 89 -- passed by voters in 1988 -- gives the governor authority to reverse parole decisions for inmates convicted of murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California inmates convicted before the laws took effect sued, saying the changes violated the Constitution by creating a significant risk that their prison terms would be longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Sacramento, Lawrence Karlton, agreed with the inmates in 2014. But the 9th Circuit said Monday that Karlton got it wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10875041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10875041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monica Knox, an attorney for the inmates, said she would appeal the ruling to a larger 9th Circuit panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an entire trial where we put forward evidence,\" she said. \"Judge Karlton made findings based on our evidence, and they're setting them aside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th Circuit put Karlton's ruling on hold pending the appeal, according to Knox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge 9th Circuit panel said in Monday's ruling that Proposition 89 merely transfers final decision-making power over parole for some inmates from the Board of Parole Hearings to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court further held that lead plaintiff, inmate Richard Gilman, had not shown he would have received parole had Proposition 89 not gone into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 9 allows the parole board to schedule a hearing as long as 15 years after an inmate's parole is denied. Before the passage of Proposition 9, prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole were entitled to a hearing each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th Circuit said prisoners still had access to a petition process to reduce the amount of time until their next parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karlton's determination that the process failed to provide relief from potentially longer prison terms was based on \"speculation and inference, rather than concrete evidence,\" the ruling states.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California inmates convicted before the laws took effect sued, saying the changes violated the Constitution by creating a significant risk that their prison terms would be longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Sacramento, Lawrence Karlton, agreed with the inmates in 2014. But the 9th Circuit said Monday that Karlton got it wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10875041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10875041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ChinoInmates-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monica Knox, an attorney for the inmates, said she would appeal the ruling to a larger 9th Circuit panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an entire trial where we put forward evidence,\" she said. \"Judge Karlton made findings based on our evidence, and they're setting them aside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th Circuit put Karlton's ruling on hold pending the appeal, according to Knox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge 9th Circuit panel said in Monday's ruling that Proposition 89 merely transfers final decision-making power over parole for some inmates from the Board of Parole Hearings to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court further held that lead plaintiff, inmate Richard Gilman, had not shown he would have received parole had Proposition 89 not gone into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 9 allows the parole board to schedule a hearing as long as 15 years after an inmate's parole is denied. Before the passage of Proposition 9, prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole were entitled to a hearing each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th Circuit said prisoners still had access to a petition process to reduce the amount of time until their next parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karlton's determination that the process failed to provide relief from potentially longer prison terms was based on \"speculation and inference, rather than concrete evidence,\" the ruling states.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown enlisted a platoon of law enforcement leaders -- including San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis -- to join him when he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/27/Brown-Rolls-Out-Sentencing-Reform-Ballot-Measure\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out a ballot measure last month that could let thousands of state prisoners serve shorter sentences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those individual voices apparently did not portend a ringing endorsement from other prosecutors across the state: On Thursday, the California District Attorneys Association's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdaa.org/about-us/board-of-directors\" target=\"_blank\">17-member board of directors\u003c/a> voted to oppose the initiative, with just one member abstaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDAA represents the state's 58 district attorneys and is a political force in Sacramento. The group's opposition to Brown's ballot proposal may explain in part why he choose to go to the ballot instead of going through the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not clear yet what the group's opposition means for the initiative's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It still has to qualify,\" for the November ballot, said Sean Hoffman, the association's lobbyist. \"So at this point, the extent of our opposition remains to be seen. There are a lot of unknowns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor hit back at the vote, saying in an interview with KQED News that prosecutors are essentially arguing they know what will be best for public safety decades in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">The proposition of the DA’s is, 'We know on the day we charge or on the day a judge sentences – we know everything that can occur, we know all we need to know for the next 10, 20 50 years,' \" Brown said. \"I’m saying, 'You might have had some good ideas back then, but over time men and women change.' \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\"Those changes should be accommodated so we can open the cells for new people who are even more dangerous. And the idea that we’re going to build more prisons to accommodate this mindless appetite for endless incarceration -- isn’t going to happen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a spokesman, Brown also charged that the district attorneys' group has a \"\u003cspan class=\"s1\">long record of opposing sensible criminal justice reforms, and their opposition here is no exception.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wants voters to approve some major changes to both California's juvenile justice system and to the way people sentenced to state prison for nonviolent crimes are treated. The proposals are largely aimed at cutting California's prison population, which the state has been under federal court order to reduce since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, many offenders receive both an underlying sentence for the crime they are being charged with and have additional years tacked on by \"enhancements\" -- for example, if there are multiple victims, if they had previously served time in prison or if they were in possession of a gun when the crime was committed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the governor's initiative, the state's parole board would be able to consider adult offenders for parole after they serve their entire initial sentences but before they serve time tacked on by sentencing enhancements. The head of the state prison system would also have more power to award prisoners credits that could shorten their prison terms if they behave well and participate in rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the proposed ballot measure would make a major change to the state’s juvenile justice system by allowing judges instead of prosecutors to decide whether a minor should be charged as an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman said the prosecutors have several objections to the governor's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, they are unhappy that Brown took an existing ballot measure solely aimed at making changes to the juvenile system -- a proposal that had already been through a public comment period -- and amended it to include the more sweeping sentencing reforms. That meant there was not an opportunity for prosecutors and others to weigh in, Hoffman said, and potentially convince the governor to make some tweaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is more of a process issue, but they feel like the governor, by amending an initiative that had already been through 30-day public comment period, cut the lines (of communication),\" Hoffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDAA board members are also worried that the measure gives the head of the prison system too much control over issuing \"good-time\" credits, trumping past laws passed by both the Legislature and voters that mandated when criminals had to serve a certain percentage of their sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps most important, Hoffman said, the parole eligibility changes undercut \"40 years' worth of sentencing law,\" handing enormous power to a body he said prosecutors do not trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman used the example of two people in prison for human trafficking. 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In 1985, Cooper was convicted of murdering four people in the Chino Hills area of Southern California. \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/03/local/la-me-kevincooper3-2010jan03\" target=\"_blank\">His case is controversial\u003c/a>. People have marched to have him executed, while others have protested to demand his release. He has always maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Cooper was scheduled to be executed. Less than four hours before he was set to receive a lethal injection, it was postponed to allow for more DNA testing, which still failed to exonerate him. Still, he’s become a figurehead in the movement to abolish the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”kvfLbDPqPmuNxu24neZbunnXMlc6wn65″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew after I survived that stuff that my life wasn’t my own no more, that it belonged to this movement. And I’ve been involved in this movement for a very long time. And that is where I get my strength,” Cooper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper is one of a couple dozen inmate artists represented in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.windowsondeathrow.com/\">Windows on Death Row\u003c/a>,” an exhibition at the University of Southern California. His acrylic paintings draw connections between slavery and prison labor. One, called “It’s a Generation Thing in America,” shows three black men — a grandfather, father and son — all wearing prison uniforms. Another piece, “Free Me,” shows a man cupping his hand to his mouth and shouting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10790938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Cooper's "Free Me," part of the "Windows on Death Row" exhibition.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-400x505.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-800x1010.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-768x970.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-1440x1819.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-1180x1490.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CooperFreeMe-960x1213.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Cooper’s “Free Me,” part of the “Windows on Death Row” exhibition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kevin Cooper/Windows on Death Row)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes when you’re in a place like this and you tell people certain things, it’s just like they don’t hear. You have to scream it,” Cooper says. “And sometimes when you scream, they still don’t hear you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Windows on Death Row” was organized by a Swiss couple: Patrick Chappatte, a political cartoonist for the International New York Times, and TV journalist and documentary filmmaker Anne Widmann. Chappatte says they wanted to reveal the humanity of the inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s what is a bit unsettling, might be unsettling for some viewers, because death row is a place, is a forgotten place where we put, as a society we put people that are seen as monsters, and we don’t pay attention to what’s going on there. And what you see through the art is actually, you see beauty, you see human emotions,” Chappatte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 70 framed drawings and paintings line the walls. Some of those include political cartoons submitted by Chappatte’s fellow cartoonists. All the pieces in the show are critical of capital punishment. Chappatte said he reached out to conservative cartoonists but they, too, were against capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the cartoonists says that he’s describing in one of his cartoons that he was for death penalty, then changed his mind. Another of the conservative cartoonists told me, ‘You know what, I’m pro-life all the way, so I’m anti-abortion and anti-death penalty,’ ” Chappatte recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" size=\"large\" ids=\"10790941,10790943\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cartoonist who changed his mind about the death penalty is Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee and president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be executing somebody who — even if they had committed the crime — I don’t think that sends the right signal. As a society, if you’re saying killing is wrong, killing is wrong. We shouldn’t be killing,” Ohman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widmann says “Windows on Death Row” is not about taking sides between criminals and victims. She points out that the group “Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights” is one of the show’s sponsors. But she does want visitors to think about how race and class factor into how likely defendants are to be sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look at this system. It’s broken. I mean, how come terrible murderers are not on death row, and how come some are? How come some people have money to hire great lawyers, and how come others don’t?” Widmann says. “It has nothing to do with empathy with criminals, you see what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Windows on Death Row” will travel to North Carolina and Ohio after it closes in Los Angeles on Dec. 18.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Most of us talk on the phone every day, and we rarely think about the cost of a single call. But for the 80,000 inmates held in California’s county jails, calling home can cost more than 10 times the price of a regular cellphone call. That is, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-next-big-steps-reducing-inmate-calling-rates\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Communication Commission\u003c/a> approved a proposal that caps phone rates and limits fees for incarcerated people in California and across the country. Advocates say the move not only makes it cheaper for inmates to stay in touch with their families, but it might even help keep them from re-offending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely proud that the FCC is finally acting on behalf of the 2.7 million children [whose parents are incarcerated] who have been suffering unfairly and most often in silence,” said Mignon Clyburn, the FCC commissioner who spearheaded the effort. “No more excuses. No more justification for inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Costs of Meaningful Communication\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling comes 14 years after a petition was submitted by Martha Wright, a grandmother who asked the FCC to do something about the high phone rates that made it difficult for her to stay in touch with her incarcerated grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s [been] a complete lack of regulation or competitiveness in any real sense in the market,” said Aleks Kajstura, legal director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/report.html\">Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229413740″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Siegle, an inmate at the Martinez Detention Facility, a county jail east of San Francisco, called me from a bank of phones inside his module. He told me every time he calls his mother it costs about $7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother is dying, and just to talk to my mother and be supportive with her about my grandmother’s condition and the things that are going on,” he said over the crackly phone line. “It’s an expensive discussion every time we talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the calls are important to Siegle’s mom, they’re also crucial for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Back in the ’80s, phone companies started offering correctional facilities a share of profits from inmates’ phone calls\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Studies constantly show that meaningful communications beyond the prison walls are what it takes to promote rehabilitation and reduce recidivism,” Commissioner Clyburn said in the FCC’s chambers in Washington, D.C. “700,000 inmates are released every year, and too many of them return to their communities as strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule aims to get at the heart of what Clyburn called “the most egregious case of market failure” she’s seen in her 17 years as a regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Profits Go to Phone Companies, and Sheriff’s Departments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people in jail are quite literally a captive market. Kajstura said phone companies have been unfairly profiting from this monopoly because inmates have no choice. If they want to stay in touch with their family members, they have to pay what’s asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods talks to clients and their family members in his offices in Oakland overlooking Lake Merritt. He said often it’s an inmate’s mom, sibling or even a kid who’s picking up the tab. And a $7-to-$15 call even once or twice a week is just out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re worried about just putting food on the table, much less getting phone calls to jail,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why do jails agree to such expensive phone services? Back in the 1980s, phone companies started offering correctional facilities a share of the profits from phone calls — what some call a kickback — as a way get these exclusive contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10729214\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10729214\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-400x287.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-1440x1033.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-960x689.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California State Assemblyman Bill Quirk says phone rates keep going up because counties want to get their cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s Department for each jail will say we would like the company to pay us so much for every minute of phone calls made from our jail,” Quirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California this practice was phased out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/apr/15/nationwide-pln-survey-examines-prison-phone-contracts-kickbacks/\">state prisons by 2011\u003c/a>, and last year Quirk authored a bill banning these commissions at county jails, too. But his bill died because the state would have had to supplement county budgets to make up for all the lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s upwards of $50 million statewide,” said Cory Salzillo, legislative director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calsheriffs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Sheriffs’ Association\u003c/a>. By state law, he says all of this money is used for the welfare of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claims That Ruling May Hurt Revenue for Inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC ruling might actually hurt inmates, said Salzillo, because it “creates a situation where inmates will be deprived of much needed funding for things like treatment, rehabilitation programs, vocational, educational programs and recreational programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen what impact the ruling will have on county jail programs. While the FCC proposal does not ban profit sharing between inmate phone companies and sheriff’s departments, it strongly discourages it. Clyburn called on states to help end the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without those funds, many counties, including Los Angeles, say they may have to scale back services for inmates. Others, like Contra Costa, \u003ca href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">\u003c/a>have already found replacement funding. Counties will have 90 days to comply with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/document/fact-sheet-ensuring-just-reasonable-fair-rates-inmate-calling\">FCC’s order\u003c/a> and renegotiate their contracts with inmate phone providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important for inmate Chris Siegle, the FCC’s move to reduce phone rates means he will be able to call his mom more often. “I just tell her, ‘I love you mama, I’ll try to call back later in a couple days.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global Tel Link and Securus, the two largest inmate phone providers, together make up \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/exploiting-inmates/Content?oid=4185319&showFullText=true\">80 percent\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/steep-costs-of-inmate-phone-calls-are-under-scrutiny.html?_r=0\">$1.2 billion market\u003c/a>. Neither company responded to repeated requests for comment. It is expected that they will challenge the FCC’s rate caps in court.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Most of us talk on the phone every day, and we rarely think about the cost of a single call. But for the 80,000 inmates held in California’s county jails, calling home can cost more than 10 times the price of a regular cellphone call. That is, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-next-big-steps-reducing-inmate-calling-rates\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Communication Commission\u003c/a> approved a proposal that caps phone rates and limits fees for incarcerated people in California and across the country. Advocates say the move not only makes it cheaper for inmates to stay in touch with their families, but it might even help keep them from re-offending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely proud that the FCC is finally acting on behalf of the 2.7 million children [whose parents are incarcerated] who have been suffering unfairly and most often in silence,” said Mignon Clyburn, the FCC commissioner who spearheaded the effort. “No more excuses. No more justification for inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Costs of Meaningful Communication\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling comes 14 years after a petition was submitted by Martha Wright, a grandmother who asked the FCC to do something about the high phone rates that made it difficult for her to stay in touch with her incarcerated grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s [been] a complete lack of regulation or competitiveness in any real sense in the market,” said Aleks Kajstura, legal director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/report.html\">Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229413740″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229413740″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Siegle, an inmate at the Martinez Detention Facility, a county jail east of San Francisco, called me from a bank of phones inside his module. He told me every time he calls his mother it costs about $7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother is dying, and just to talk to my mother and be supportive with her about my grandmother’s condition and the things that are going on,” he said over the crackly phone line. “It’s an expensive discussion every time we talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the calls are important to Siegle’s mom, they’re also crucial for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Back in the ’80s, phone companies started offering correctional facilities a share of profits from inmates’ phone calls\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Studies constantly show that meaningful communications beyond the prison walls are what it takes to promote rehabilitation and reduce recidivism,” Commissioner Clyburn said in the FCC’s chambers in Washington, D.C. “700,000 inmates are released every year, and too many of them return to their communities as strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule aims to get at the heart of what Clyburn called “the most egregious case of market failure” she’s seen in her 17 years as a regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Profits Go to Phone Companies, and Sheriff’s Departments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people in jail are quite literally a captive market. Kajstura said phone companies have been unfairly profiting from this monopoly because inmates have no choice. If they want to stay in touch with their family members, they have to pay what’s asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods talks to clients and their family members in his offices in Oakland overlooking Lake Merritt. He said often it’s an inmate’s mom, sibling or even a kid who’s picking up the tab. And a $7-to-$15 call even once or twice a week is just out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re worried about just putting food on the table, much less getting phone calls to jail,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why do jails agree to such expensive phone services? Back in the 1980s, phone companies started offering correctional facilities a share of the profits from phone calls — what some call a kickback — as a way get these exclusive contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10729214\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10729214\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-400x287.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-1440x1033.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MensCentralJailLA-960x689.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California State Assemblyman Bill Quirk says phone rates keep going up because counties want to get their cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s Department for each jail will say we would like the company to pay us so much for every minute of phone calls made from our jail,” Quirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California this practice was phased out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/apr/15/nationwide-pln-survey-examines-prison-phone-contracts-kickbacks/\">state prisons by 2011\u003c/a>, and last year Quirk authored a bill banning these commissions at county jails, too. But his bill died because the state would have had to supplement county budgets to make up for all the lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s upwards of $50 million statewide,” said Cory Salzillo, legislative director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calsheriffs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Sheriffs’ Association\u003c/a>. By state law, he says all of this money is used for the welfare of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claims That Ruling May Hurt Revenue for Inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC ruling might actually hurt inmates, said Salzillo, because it “creates a situation where inmates will be deprived of much needed funding for things like treatment, rehabilitation programs, vocational, educational programs and recreational programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen what impact the ruling will have on county jail programs. While the FCC proposal does not ban profit sharing between inmate phone companies and sheriff’s departments, it strongly discourages it. Clyburn called on states to help end the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without those funds, many counties, including Los Angeles, say they may have to scale back services for inmates. Others, like Contra Costa, \u003ca href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">\u003c/a>have already found replacement funding. Counties will have 90 days to comply with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/document/fact-sheet-ensuring-just-reasonable-fair-rates-inmate-calling\">FCC’s order\u003c/a> and renegotiate their contracts with inmate phone providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important for inmate Chris Siegle, the FCC’s move to reduce phone rates means he will be able to call his mom more often. “I just tell her, ‘I love you mama, I’ll try to call back later in a couple days.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global Tel Link and Securus, the two largest inmate phone providers, together make up \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/exploiting-inmates/Content?oid=4185319&showFullText=true\">80 percent\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/steep-costs-of-inmate-phone-calls-are-under-scrutiny.html?_r=0\">$1.2 billion market\u003c/a>. Neither company responded to repeated requests for comment. It is expected that they will challenge the FCC’s rate caps in court.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "A Family Strives to Keep Close to a Dad Behind Bars",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent morning, Hayward residents Otis Stillwell and her granddaughter Zakiya Johnson are making plans for a 500 mile trip south to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. They're going to visit Johnson's father, Damon Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/a-mother-struggles-to-bear-the-financial-burden-of-her-sons-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">A Mother Struggles to Bear the Burden of Son’s Incarceration\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/a-mother-struggles-to-bear-the-financial-burden-of-her-sons-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS16734_Irene Soto Featured Image -qut\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10696861\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16734_Irene-Soto-Featured-Image-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Read Part 1 of KQED's \u003cem>Racially Charged\u003c/em> series.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\n\u003cp>After nearly 30 years of visiting him in various prisons, they have every detail down to a science, including their outfits. They’re both planning on wearing all black and bras with no underwire -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Visitors/docs/rjd_visiting_attire_regulations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">prison rules\u003c/a> don’t allow undergarments containing metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for first-degree murder and attempted robbery. He was convicted as an accomplice due to his “active and knowing” participation in the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stillwell vividly remembers the day three decades ago when her 23-year-old son came home crying and upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I was out with a crazy man, Mom,’ and he said, ‘I think he shot somebody.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson went to prison, he told Zakiya, then just 6 years old, that he had gotten a ticket and would have to go away for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went from having a dad to hold me at home to a dad holding me behind bars,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225211192\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 35 now and notes that her dad missed all her firsts: high school graduation, the birth of her two children and her first breakups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though her father missed out on so much of her life, Zakiya says she never felt abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695333\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10695333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-400x656.jpg\" alt=\"Damon Johnson, 54, and his daughter Zakiya, 35, and her kids Zaire, 11, and Azariya, 5. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-400x656.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-800x1312.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-1440x2361.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-1180x1934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-960x1574.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12.jpg 1869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damon Johnson, 54, and his daughter Zakiya, 35, and her kids Zaire, 11, and Azariya, 5. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in Oakland, a lot of people didn’t have dads,\" she says, \"so I was one of the lucky ones. Even though my father was in prison, I had a dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this family, three generations of men have been killed or incarcerated. Stillwell’s father was killed, Johnson is in prison, and the father of Zakiya’s son was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zakiya says she’s grateful her father has always been a part of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to visit him, touch him, hug him, tell him about what I was going through, color with him, do things you get to do with daddies,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now her children get to have a grandfather. They visit Johnson in prison twice a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stillwell moved from her home in Oakland to the Hayward apartment complex to help raise Zaikya’s children. She says her great-grandchildren need a father figure in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids ask, 'When are we going to San Diego? When we going to see granddad? Why is granddad in jail? What happened? He’s too smart to go to prison,'” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Johnson has also become a father figure to another family. Eight years ago, he met Shamika Wilson over the phone, through a mutual friend. At the time, Johnson was at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville and Wilson lived in Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and Wilson became close friends. When Wilson said she wanted to leave Georgia and go to school, Johnson suggested she come to California. About a year later, she got in her car and drove across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson now lives in Redwood City. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson went to prison, he told Zakiya, then just 6 years old, that he had gotten a ticket and would have to go away for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went from having a dad to hold me at home to a dad holding me behind bars,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225211192&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225211192'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 35 now and notes that her dad missed all her firsts: high school graduation, the birth of her two children and her first breakups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though her father missed out on so much of her life, Zakiya says she never felt abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695333\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10695333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-4-of-12-400x656.jpg\" alt=\"Damon Johnson, 54, and his daughter Zakiya, 35, and her kids Zaire, 11, and Azariya, 5. 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Even though my father was in prison, I had a dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this family, three generations of men have been killed or incarcerated. Stillwell’s father was killed, Johnson is in prison, and the father of Zakiya’s son was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zakiya says she’s grateful her father has always been a part of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to visit him, touch him, hug him, tell him about what I was going through, color with him, do things you get to do with daddies,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now her children get to have a grandfather. They visit Johnson in prison twice a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stillwell moved from her home in Oakland to the Hayward apartment complex to help raise Zaikya’s children. She says her great-grandchildren need a father figure in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids ask, 'When are we going to San Diego? When we going to see granddad? Why is granddad in jail? What happened? He’s too smart to go to prison,'” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Johnson has also become a father figure to another family. Eight years ago, he met Shamika Wilson over the phone, through a mutual friend. At the time, Johnson was at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville and Wilson lived in Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and Wilson became close friends. When Wilson said she wanted to leave Georgia and go to school, Johnson suggested she come to California. About a year later, she got in her car and drove across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson now lives in Redwood City. She’s pursuing a master’s degree in equity and social justice at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695334\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-8-of-12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10695334 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Otis-Stillwell-8-of-12-400x548.jpg\" alt=\"Shamika Wilson and her children Ziiyah, 4, and Zion, 7, live in Redwood City. 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