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After he was paroled in 2007, Perez and his mother began to rebuild their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little more than a year later, he was picked up on a 43-count indictment, a result of his past membership in the Nuestra Raza, a street gang affiliate of La Nuestra Familia prison gang. Perez received his third strike for participation in criminal street crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sentenced to 35 to life, I could not believe it in the courtroom,” Soto says. “I was like, he didn’t kill no one. He didn’t have nothing. 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The extra money helps her pay for gas for the 500-mile trip, three days for a motel room in El Centro, and for any food she buys for her son at the prison. That adds up to more than $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it takes her at least six months to save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I start saving from my taxes, and then a little here and there on my paychecks,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries about paying her bills, but she doesn’t want to stop seeing her son, talking to him on the phone or sending him care packages every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls and packages go through pre-approved vendors who often add processing fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A package consisting of hygiene products and some of Perez’s favorite treats — Doritos corn chips and chocolate creamer, among others — cost her $110 this month. 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At the bottom Soto has written out the title of a song: “Ni por Mil Puñados de Oro” by Antonio Aguilar.\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/225051935″&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/225051935″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>oto and her son weren’t always close. She stopped talking to him when he started getting in trouble with the law in his late teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she found out through one of her friends that Robert had been sentenced to prison for making criminal threats. He was 20 years old. That was his first strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 23, Perez received his second strike, this time for robbery. After he was paroled in 2007, Perez and his mother began to rebuild their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little more than a year later, he was picked up on a 43-count indictment, a result of his past membership in the Nuestra Raza, a street gang affiliate of La Nuestra Familia prison gang. Perez received his third strike for participation in criminal street crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sentenced to 35 to life, I could not believe it in the courtroom,” Soto says. “I was like, he didn’t kill no one. He didn’t have nothing. He didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10695168 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-400x304.jpg\" alt=\"Soto receives about four letters a month from her son. 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(KQED/Adizah Eghan)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perez got married to his girlfriend in jail, but she left him shortly after he was convicted. His mother has supported him ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the only one he has,” she says. “No one else visits him — nobody — just mom … It’s taking a toll. It’s a hardship financially, emotionally, physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irene Soto is not alone. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://whopaysreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> by the\u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forwardtogether.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Forward Together\u003c/a> found that it is women who most often bear the financial and emotional burdens of a loved one’s incarceration — including the costs of staying in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alicia Walters is movement-building director at Forward Together, where she, along with a group of researcher,s surveyed more than 1,000 former inmates and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already vulnerable families and the women who sustain them are being dragged into deeper poverty, stress and strain when their loved ones are incarcerated,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o make a weekend visit, Soto — who is a preschool teacher — takes a week off so that she will get vacation pay. 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The New York City-based nonprofit center represented inmates in a class-action federal lawsuit settled on behalf of nearly 3,000 California inmates held in segregation statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is agreeing to segregate only inmates who commit new crimes behind bars and will no longer lock gang members in soundproof, windowless cells solely to keep them from directing illegal activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will move California more into the mainstream of what other states are doing while still allowing us the ability to deal with people who are presenting problems within our system, but do so in a way where we rely less on the use of segregation,\" Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Jeffrey Beard told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ObPLdu5WJTKsyfCyq5f3ttez1MzFP1cb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions triggered intermittent hunger strikes by tens of thousands of inmates throughout the prison system in recent years. 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By 2012, Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell were among 78 prisoners confined in Pelican Bay's isolation unit for more than 20 years, though Troxell has since been moved to another prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 had been in the unit for more than 10 years, though recent policy changes reduced that to 62 inmates isolated for a decade or longer as of late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit contended that isolating inmates in 80-square-foot cells for all but about 90 minutes of each day amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half the nearly 3,000 inmates held in such units are in solitary confinement. 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For instance, 71-year-old Hugo Pinell was killed by fellow inmates in August just days after he was released from isolation, decades after he became infamous for his role in a failed 1971 San Quentin State Prison escape attempt that killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobel said the new units, by giving high-security inmates more personal contact and privileges, should be an example to other states to move away from isolation policies that he said have proven counterproductive in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marie Levin, sister of 57-year-old reputed gang leader Ronnie Dewberry, read a statement from her brother, who goes by the name Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, and other plaintiffs hailing the \"monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California and across the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the pending policy changes, this will be the \"first time Marie will be able to hold her brother, touch her brother, for 31 years,\" Lobel said on a teleconference call with Levin and other advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichol Gomez, a spokeswoman for the union representing most prison guards, said it was disappointing that \"the people that actually have to do the work\" weren't involved in the negotiations, so she couldn't immediately comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he will work to ease the unions' previously expressed concerns that guards could face additional danger. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there is a deepening movement away from solitary confinement in the country, and I think this settlement will be a spur to that movement,\" Jules Lobel, the inmates' lead attorney and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a telephone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was initially filed in 2009 by two killers serving time in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay. By 2012, Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell were among 78 prisoners confined in Pelican Bay's isolation unit for more than 20 years, though Troxell has since been moved to another prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 had been in the unit for more than 10 years, though recent policy changes reduced that to 62 inmates isolated for a decade or longer as of late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit contended that isolating inmates in 80-square-foot cells for all but about 90 minutes of each day amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half the nearly 3,000 inmates held in such units are in solitary confinement. Inmates have no physical contact with visitors and are allowed only limited reading materials and communications with the outside world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement will limit how long inmates can spend in isolation, while creating restrictive custody units for inmates who refuse to participate in rehabilitation programs or keep breaking prison rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will also house those who might be in danger if they live with other inmates. For instance, 71-year-old Hugo Pinell was killed by fellow inmates in August just days after he was released from isolation, decades after he became infamous for his role in a failed 1971 San Quentin State Prison escape attempt that killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobel said the new units, by giving high-security inmates more personal contact and privileges, should be an example to other states to move away from isolation policies that he said have proven counterproductive in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marie Levin, sister of 57-year-old reputed gang leader Ronnie Dewberry, read a statement from her brother, who goes by the name Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, and other plaintiffs hailing the \"monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California and across the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the pending policy changes, this will be the \"first time Marie will be able to hold her brother, touch her brother, for 31 years,\" Lobel said on a teleconference call with Levin and other advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichol Gomez, a spokeswoman for the union representing most prison guards, said it was disappointing that \"the people that actually have to do the work\" weren't involved in the negotiations, so she couldn't immediately comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he will work to ease the unions' previously expressed concerns that guards could face additional danger. He said the settlement expands on recent changes that have reduced the number of segregated inmates statewide from 4,153 in January 2012 to 2,858 currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, gang members could serve unlimited time in isolation. Under the settlement, they and other inmates can be segregated for up to five years for crimes committed in prison, though gang members can receive another two years in segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said the segregation system was adopted about 35 years ago, after a series of slayings of inmates and guards, and wasn't reconsidered until recently because California corrections officials were consumed with other crises, including severe crowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We probably had too many people locked up too long, because over 70 percent of the people that were reviewed were actually released, and we've had very, very few problems with those releases,\" Beard said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some business representatives in attendance said they’d never hired ex-offenders before. Among them, John Marshall of Marsetti, a peninsula-based landscaping contractor who says he’s looking for a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here because I’m looking for someone with some skills, and I don’t have a problem giving someone a second or a third chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">“I don’t have a problem giving someone a second or a third chance.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Marshall says a lot of companies won’t hire ex-convicts, but he’s “known people personally who have been in prison for large amounts of time and they’re trustworthy people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall says construction is very busy and not a lot of people are looking for work, so he’s hoping to get connected with a network of jobseekers that will help augment his small staff. That’s something that \u003ca href=\"http://calpia.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\">California Prison Industry Authority \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://eastbayworks.com\" target=\"_blank\">EASTBAY Works \u003c/a>say they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applebee’s Operations Director Tom Simmons says his restaurants have hired people with records, but his 12 Bay Area restaurants have a hard time retaining cooks. So, Simmons says he wants to learn more about training programs inside prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if they can come out and understand what it means to be in a kitchen and how to work in there, the desire to work and that knowledge, plus our need to hire some cooks, it’s a good fit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Laws Incentivize Hiring Felons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent laws have attempted to chip away at the stigma that awaits people once they rejoin their communities. They include the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/page/-/SCLP/Ban-the-Box-Fair-Chance-State-and-Local-Guide.pdf?nocdn=1\" target=\"_blank\">Ban the Box \u003c/a>initiative, which forbids employers from asking about convictions on applications, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeandjust.org/recordchange\" target=\"_blank\">Prop. 47\u003c/a>, which opens the door for people with low-level felonies, such as crack possession, to petition to have their records reclassified as misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Brown is hoping that providing employers with \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayworks.com/alamedacounty/gsipub/index.asp?docid=419\" target=\"_blank\">information and incentives\u003c/a> will encourage more of them to do their part. That means \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/New_Employment_Credit_Reservation/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a>, talent matching, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonds4jobs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">bond\u003c/a> reimbursements and \u003ca href=\"http://www.tricitiesonestop.com/Docs/OJT_SignUp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">training subsidies\u003c/a> of between $5-10,000 per employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses can also take part in a \u003ca href=\"http://jointventureprogram.ca.gov/\">Joint Venture Program \u003c/a>that offers what officials call attractive benefits for employing people while they’re still in custody, in the hopes of providing them a seamless transition once they’re out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say a big part of the solution now will be ensuring that all ex-offenders get the legal help they need to navigate the complicated waters around job eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And equally important will be for employers to publicly state their willingness to hire ex-offenders so that others aren’t afraid to follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Getting a job and finding housing you can afford in a new city is hard enough. Imagine doing that as an ex-felon, someone out on parole after decades in prison. After committing murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California there are now nearly 2,100 ex-lifers, as they're called when they're out on parole. The good news is that an extremely low percentage of them return to prison for committing a new felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they face a daunting gauntlet of challenges. Now the state Division of Adult Parole Operations is operating four pilot projects in which ex-lifers are helping each other make a successful transition to the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of their monthly meetings this week in San Francisco. It was held in a cramped windowless room at the parole office in the city's Mission District. Dozens of ex-lifers were there; the vast majority had committed one or more murders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195757925\" 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>They began with a check-in, going around the room saying their names and how long they've been out of prison. The theme for this day was crime victims and how what these people did affected the lives of so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most emotional moment involved 62-year-old Linda Candelaria. After 40 years in prison, she expressed her regrets as if her crime had happened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did I do it? Why?\" she shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. \"You know ’cuz they didn't even know me. And yet I went into their home and killed them. For what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this meeting, Candelaria was joking with her fellow parolees. But she soon turned deeply serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My victims had a family and I destroyed their family and I destroyed their lives as well,\" she said. \"You can't make up for that, and I could never make up for what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candelaria got out on parole three years ago. She \u003cem>still\u003c/em> wonders if she really \u003cem>deserves\u003c/em> to be out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, what do we do to get past that grief?\" she said. \"Not the grief I feel for myself. For them, especially because I took two older people's lives. And for what? For nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting is a support group, an experimental peer mentoring program. It's voluntary and those who come share practical advice, like tips on looking for work and dealing with one \"no\" after another from employers who just aren't willing to take a chance on hiring an ex-felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10454886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 507px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10454886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison.\" width=\"507\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1440x883.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-768x471.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-320x196.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Steve Monger, said the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">last\u003c/span> thing \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted to do was work in a fast-food joint. But the rejections kept piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So me and another lifer, we just went in, we was honest with the guy,\" Monger said. \"We said we recently got out of prison. I was in 27, he was in 25, and we want a job. We'll be here on time, we'll work hard for ya. We don't steal from ya. We don't do drugs. You ain't gotta worry about us. You call us, we'll be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taco Bell hired them both. They've been working there five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's be clear here -- there are plenty of inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole who will never, or \u003cem>should\u003c/em> never, get out. It's just too risky. They're sociopaths, or they don't show any remorse for what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few years I've interviewed quite a few lifers -- in and outside prison. And I'm always surprised at how thoughtful and reflective they are -- especially given what they did to land them in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alisha Nolan Taplett. She was living in Sacramento when she got behind the wheel of a car with some friends out to settle a score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just looking at myself as the driver in the beginning,\" she admitted. \"Well, I didn't kill anybody. But at the end of the day and every day, I still have to remind myself if it hadn't been for me driving that vehicle, that young woman could still be alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Taplett what she'd say to a young person today who finds himself or herself in a situation where they're being asked to drive a getaway car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone asks you to drive a car and you know that a homicide is going to take place, maybe you should pick up the phone and call 911,\" she said without hesitation. \"But that's one of the things that we fail to do in our communities as well, because we don't want to be labeled as that snitch. If I don't save that person's life by dialing 911, at least I know I tried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ujMHsVuZMBLez8wgVdd2jscDlJpqZTrD\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are lessons learned the hard way after more than 23 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Another ex-lifer I met -- Clinton Thomas -- has been out almost four months. He was very involved in gang culture in Oakland and was convicted of murder in 1991. Behind bars, he said, he turned his life around and now he tries every day to make amends for what he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He helps other former lifers understand how crime victims and their families feel about them getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are victims who are still opposed to the fact that so many of us are being paroled,\" he tells the group. \"And there are people who hold onto the belief -- as is their right -- that if you murder my loved one, you don't have a right to live outside a prison.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas urged the former lifers to put themselves in the shoes of their victims to understand how they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get over the bitterness because you have to become accountable and take full ownership for your conduct and understand that you created the circumstances under which you live,\" Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 23 years in prison, Thomas said he knew when he got out that no one would owe him anything. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Getting a job and finding housing you can afford in a new city is hard enough. Imagine doing that as an ex-felon, someone out on parole after decades in prison. After committing murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California there are now nearly 2,100 ex-lifers, as they're called when they're out on parole. The good news is that an extremely low percentage of them return to prison for committing a new felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they face a daunting gauntlet of challenges. Now the state Division of Adult Parole Operations is operating four pilot projects in which ex-lifers are helping each other make a successful transition to the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of their monthly meetings this week in San Francisco. It was held in a cramped windowless room at the parole office in the city's Mission District. Dozens of ex-lifers were there; the vast majority had committed one or more murders.\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/195757925&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/195757925'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began with a check-in, going around the room saying their names and how long they've been out of prison. The theme for this day was crime victims and how what these people did affected the lives of so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most emotional moment involved 62-year-old Linda Candelaria. After 40 years in prison, she expressed her regrets as if her crime had happened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did I do it? Why?\" she shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. \"You know ’cuz they didn't even know me. And yet I went into their home and killed them. For what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this meeting, Candelaria was joking with her fellow parolees. But she soon turned deeply serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My victims had a family and I destroyed their family and I destroyed their lives as well,\" she said. \"You can't make up for that, and I could never make up for what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candelaria got out on parole three years ago. She \u003cem>still\u003c/em> wonders if she really \u003cem>deserves\u003c/em> to be out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, what do we do to get past that grief?\" she said. \"Not the grief I feel for myself. For them, especially because I took two older people's lives. And for what? For nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting is a support group, an experimental peer mentoring program. It's voluntary and those who come share practical advice, like tips on looking for work and dealing with one \"no\" after another from employers who just aren't willing to take a chance on hiring an ex-felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10454886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 507px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10454886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison.\" width=\"507\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1440x883.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-768x471.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-320x196.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Steve Monger, said the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">last\u003c/span> thing \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted to do was work in a fast-food joint. But the rejections kept piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So me and another lifer, we just went in, we was honest with the guy,\" Monger said. \"We said we recently got out of prison. I was in 27, he was in 25, and we want a job. We'll be here on time, we'll work hard for ya. We don't steal from ya. We don't do drugs. You ain't gotta worry about us. You call us, we'll be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taco Bell hired them both. They've been working there five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's be clear here -- there are plenty of inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole who will never, or \u003cem>should\u003c/em> never, get out. It's just too risky. They're sociopaths, or they don't show any remorse for what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few years I've interviewed quite a few lifers -- in and outside prison. And I'm always surprised at how thoughtful and reflective they are -- especially given what they did to land them in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alisha Nolan Taplett. She was living in Sacramento when she got behind the wheel of a car with some friends out to settle a score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just looking at myself as the driver in the beginning,\" she admitted. \"Well, I didn't kill anybody. But at the end of the day and every day, I still have to remind myself if it hadn't been for me driving that vehicle, that young woman could still be alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Taplett what she'd say to a young person today who finds himself or herself in a situation where they're being asked to drive a getaway car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone asks you to drive a car and you know that a homicide is going to take place, maybe you should pick up the phone and call 911,\" she said without hesitation. \"But that's one of the things that we fail to do in our communities as well, because we don't want to be labeled as that snitch. If I don't save that person's life by dialing 911, at least I know I tried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are lessons learned the hard way after more than 23 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Another ex-lifer I met -- Clinton Thomas -- has been out almost four months. He was very involved in gang culture in Oakland and was convicted of murder in 1991. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the first night of \u003ca href=\"http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hanukkah\u003c/a>, 20 men filed into a spare room with cinder-block walls, linoleum floors and harsh fluorescent light. They took their seats on metal folding chairs. Dressed in blue pants and blue tops, most of the men wear yarmulkes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Hanukkah at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/SQ.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Quentin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only woman in the room presides over this celebration. Carole Hyman, the Jewish chaplain here, leads the inmates in readings from the Torah in Hebrew and English. Some rock back and forth gently as they read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the menorah candles are lit. There are more prayers, and then the men sing “Rock of Ages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182336163″ 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>Before they head back to their cells, Hyman gives each of them a fist bump and an enthusiastic “Happy Hanukkah!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyman says that there are 80 to 90 men who attend her classes and services. Some were raised Jewish; others came to the faith later in life, often while in prison. But, she says, however they came to Judaism, most are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want to know “if there is a God. If there is a God, what does that God want me to do? How should I live? Why am I here? How can I change? Those kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384451\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg\" alt=\"The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-800x429.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED) \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyman has been the Jewish chaplain at San Quentin for 10 years. Her spiritual work in prisons began 14 years ago after a long career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the inmates at this Hanukkah service are serving life sentences — many for first- or second-degree murder. Hyman says she decided early on that she would read the court transcripts on these men, but only after she got to know them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can read something on paper and be utterly appalled and shocked by it,” she says. “But when the person is in front of me, that’s not how I’m relating to them. That’s not who I see them as. Thank God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Raymond Aldridge had a Jewish mother, but he was not raised with any religion. In 1977 Aldridge was convicted of eight armed robberies and a murder. He rediscovered his Jewish roots in prison. His mother told him it would help center him. He says she was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldridge tells me that Hanukkah is a story about fighting to have your own faith and practice your own beliefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of friction in prison,” he explains. “There’s a lot of bias in prison, and this is one way of asserting my personal identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jewish community at San Quentin is diverse. Many are African-American, including Ahmed Polley. Thirty-two years ago, he killed his wife after an argument in San Diego. He’s been in prison ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384452\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Polley is Muslim, he prays with the Jewish congregation here. What draws him to the services is “an emotional connection being with people who love and worship God,” adding that “it’s made me a better person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the men Hyman ministers to, about 35 are on death row. She meets with those inmates individually. And while she has read their files and knows they have all done upsetting things, she believes that “it isn’t true that the men on the row are some kind of monsters. It’s just not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says, in fact, that most of these men are not that different from her. But after a decade at San Quentin, Hyman seems a bit worn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These men are in exile,” she says, “being separated from community, from friends, from family. There’s a tremendous amount of pain here. And that takes a toll. It takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be Hyman’s last Hanukkah at San Quentin. At age 67, she’s hanging up her prayer shawl at the end of this month. A prison rabbi from Stockton is set to take her place in January.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyman says that there are 80 to 90 men who attend her classes and services. Some were raised Jewish; others came to the faith later in life, often while in prison. But, she says, however they came to Judaism, most are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want to know “if there is a God. If there is a God, what does that God want me to do? How should I live? Why am I here? How can I change? Those kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384451\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg\" alt=\"The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-800x429.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED) \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyman has been the Jewish chaplain at San Quentin for 10 years. Her spiritual work in prisons began 14 years ago after a long career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the inmates at this Hanukkah service are serving life sentences — many for first- or second-degree murder. Hyman says she decided early on that she would read the court transcripts on these men, but only after she got to know them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can read something on paper and be utterly appalled and shocked by it,” she says. “But when the person is in front of me, that’s not how I’m relating to them. That’s not who I see them as. Thank God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Raymond Aldridge had a Jewish mother, but he was not raised with any religion. In 1977 Aldridge was convicted of eight armed robberies and a murder. He rediscovered his Jewish roots in prison. His mother told him it would help center him. He says she was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldridge tells me that Hanukkah is a story about fighting to have your own faith and practice your own beliefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of friction in prison,” he explains. “There’s a lot of bias in prison, and this is one way of asserting my personal identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jewish community at San Quentin is diverse. Many are African-American, including Ahmed Polley. Thirty-two years ago, he killed his wife after an argument in San Diego. He’s been in prison ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384452\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Polley is Muslim, he prays with the Jewish congregation here. What draws him to the services is “an emotional connection being with people who love and worship God,” adding that “it’s made me a better person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the men Hyman ministers to, about 35 are on death row. She meets with those inmates individually. And while she has read their files and knows they have all done upsetting things, she believes that “it isn’t true that the men on the row are some kind of monsters. It’s just not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says, in fact, that most of these men are not that different from her. But after a decade at San Quentin, Hyman seems a bit worn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These men are in exile,” she says, “being separated from community, from friends, from family. There’s a tremendous amount of pain here. And that takes a toll. It takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be Hyman’s last Hanukkah at San Quentin. At age 67, she’s hanging up her prayer shawl at the end of this month. A prison rabbi from Stockton is set to take her place in January.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For most of her three decades in prison, Joyce Largo told herself she didn’t commit murder. She was only the driver, while other teenagers she was with kidnapped and killed a paraplegic man whose van they stole. But now she’s graduating from a program that made her spend months really mapping out all the people affected by her crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to write an impact letter, an impact statement, and it really opened my eyes to my crime. Before, I only saw it in a shallow way,” says Largo. “After I wrote it all out, I was shocked that I had more involvement than I thought I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been incarcerated since she was 16. Now she’s 48. But she says that, until now, there were no in-depth rehabilitation programs for “lifers” in prison like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213″ 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>Largo is one of about 150 women graduating from a new program at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla, the largest women’s prison in the nation. It’s a months-long course designed to help prisoners tackle drug and alcohol addiction, anger management and family relationships. They also have to take an intensive class to help them understand the impact of their crimes on victims and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SKDHqrplcZO9yxLK9ViDjDU8EktaT4HN”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women’s Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that’s officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. But Simas says that’s not why lifers are getting paroled. It has more to do with a 2008 state Supreme Court hearing that made it harder to deny parole to inmates no longer considered dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been given an opportunity for redemption. And we hope they take advantage of that, because it’s something that didn’t happen before,” adds Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduating from the rehab program at Chowchilla by no means guarantees parole. Inmates still have to go before the parole board and make their case, and the governor can block their release with a veto. Gov. Jerry Brown, though, is allowing around 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward, far more than previous governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simas underscores that the women have to follow through with changing their lives and behavior if they’re paroled. Otherwise, they’ll go back to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of increasing parole rates for lifers who have committed crimes like murder is controversial. It raises concerns from family members and victims rights groups. But one group that generally opposes paroling more inmates says this kind of program might work because it’s for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound macho, says Michael Rushford of the Sacramento-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjlf.org/about/bioMDR.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Justice Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, but he thinks women in prison for life are less likely to reoffend if they’re paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the chances of success are higher,” he says. “Especially if they’re well supervised. Everybody behaves differently when they’re watched, I’m afraid. These ladies need to be kept an eye on and to be given skills, so they cannot hook up with another gangbanger and go down the bad road again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent graduation at the prison, a visiting room with cinderblock walls is dressed up in purple tablecloths and paper flowers. There is cake, and plenty of cheering and tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo, a Kumeyaay tribal member, steps up to a podium to sing a Native American song to her fellow prisoners. Most of them haven’t been outside prison walls for decades. But they’re more hopeful now than ever that they may soon be paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you guys can imagine sitting on top of a cliff, and you’re looking around you, you could see the river flowing, the rocks, the mountains, the trees. Just for the few minutes I sing this song, you guys turn into that eagle and you fly.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women’s Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that’s officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. 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Apart from the illegality of sex between inmates, there were concerns that condoms could be used for smuggling drugs, or filled with urine and thrown at staff, known as “gassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says deputies were also concerned that making condoms available would lead to an increase in both consensual sex and sexual assault. The Sheriff’s Department says that hasn’t happened in the years since condoms have been available. But the condoms have been used in some unexpected ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that among other things, prisoners take the condoms and they use them as hair ties. They use them as pillows,” says Monico Klein. “One of the deputies told me that they blow them up and use them as balloons. While this initially bothered some people, she says, “we realized that this is another way of destigmatizing HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after more than two decades, San Francisco Chief Deputy Sheriff Matthew Freeman says not all deputies are comfortable with condoms being available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could not report to you that there still is buy-in from the uniformed staff,” Freeman says, and adds there are reasons sex is prohibited in jail. “We know from experiences running and managing jails that even consensual activity amongst inmates can lead to very real problems.”\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has five years to come up with its plan for distributing condoms in state prisons, a move that Mirkarimi says is “years overdue.” Other prisons and jails across the U.S. have been slow to follow San Francisco’s lead, something Mirkarimi attributes to the slow pace of reform in the criminal justice system, as well as homophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Greve says that, based on his own experience in state lockups, the only problem he imagines with providing condoms in California state prisons will be supply, because “people will want as many of them as they can get.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/RS8531_107520204-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-21025\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/RS8531_107520204-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Chino State Prison. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/RS8531_107520204-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/RS8531_107520204-hpf-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/RS8531_107520204-hpf-320x216.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chino State Prison. 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A full course of treatment runs about $84,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hepatitis C, a viral infection that can lead to liver failure, cancer or other health problems, is often associated with intravenous drug use. Many of the estimated 3.2 million Americans living with hepatitis C in the U.S. are poor, imprisoned, elderly or all of the above, giving public systems a disproportionate share of hepatitis C patients.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Tax on All Americans'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca style=\"color: #6d1618\" href=\"http://lab.express-scripts.com/insights/specialty-medications/state-governments-may-spend-%2455-billion-on-hepatitis-c-medications\" target=\"_blank\">study released last month\u003c/a> by Express Scripts Lab predicted state governments could spend more than $55 billion on hepatitis C medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no doubt that Sovaldi is a breakthrough therapy,\" the authors of the study wrote, \"but unfortunately, it is also likely to break state budgets. Since health care for so many hepatitis C patients is funded by state programs, each citizen will be shouldering the unprecedented cost burden. The unsustainable pricing of this medication has essentially become a tax on all Americans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 93,000 Californians in Medi-Cal and in the state prison system have chronic hepatitis C. If the state covers Sovaldi treatments for all of them, the bill would be about $6.6 billion, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impact Especially Felt in Prisons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the high cost of Sovaldi could significantly increase spending in Medicare and Medicaid -- as well as by private insurers -- the impact could be especially felt in prison systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Medicaid programs -- Medi-Cal in California -- are entitled by federal law to negotiate drug discounts, but state prison systems usually pay full retail prices. 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That process may be happening especially quickly in California where prison medical care is under so much scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a pretty extensive process and it does take some time,\" said Liz Gransee, public information officer for the California Department of Corrections. Sovaldi went through that process and emerged as a \"community standard\" last month, Gransee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treating hepatitis C is not inexpensive, no matter what drugs clinicians try. 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