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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/09/gov-brown-legislative-leaders-announce-deal-on-prison-overcrowding-plans/rs50_chinostateprisoninmates20130108-scr-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110461\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS50_ChinoStatePrisonInmates20130108-scr-e1378755097923.jpg\" alt=\"Prisoners at Chino State Prison, one of many California correctional institutions with a history of severe overcrowding. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prisoners at Chino State Prison, one of many California correctional institutions with a history of severe overcrowding. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic and Republican leaders of both the Senate and Assembly say they've reached a compromise on competing plans for meeting a federal court order to reduce prison overcrowding by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, with Republican support, has proposed sending another 9,000 or so prisoners out of state (in addition to 9,000 already in prisons outside California). Democrats, including Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg, have proposed seeking more time from the court to meet the reduction order while launching an aggressive program to reduce the rate of inmates returning to prison. They also propose working with inmate lawyers at crafting a prison population cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under an agreement announced today, the Legislature and governor would sign off on major points of both plans, then go with the one that will fit the requirements of the three-judge federal court panel overseeing the overcrowding case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Sacramento Bureau Chief Scott Detrow had this quick take on the deal announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An interesting solution ... : Legislature will pass BOTH plans with language leaving it up to courts. If courts grant extension, it's the Senate plan with recidivism grant funding. If courts stick to hard 12/31 deadline it is the governor's capacity expansion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scott Detrow joins KQED's Mina Kim to hash out the details on the compromise:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F109638191\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's part of the Twitter reportage from our old Sacramento guy, John Myers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\"We're asking for time\" but \"we will comply with the orders\" of the courts on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23caprison&src=hash\">#caprison\u003c/a> pop, says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Ei6ZN7VFmt\">pic.twitter.com/Ei6ZN7VFmt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/377143646274867201\">September 9, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's the first Associated Press dispatch on the story: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and the four leaders of California's Legislature reached a compromise Monday on reducing the state's prison population, offering to spend more money on rehabilitation efforts if a panel of federal judges will extend an end-of-the-year deadline to release thousands of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal relies on the state persuading three federal judges to give California time to let rehabilitation programs work rather than spend $315 million to lease cells in private prisons and county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders agreed that if the judges don't extend the deadline, the state will fall back on Brown's plan to lease the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's insurance here against early release\" of prisoners, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said at a news conference outside the governor's office, where he was joined by the governor and Democratic and Republican leaders of each chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had opposed Brown's plan and wanted to ask the judges to delay the deadline for three years while the state gave counties $200 million annually for drug, mental health and other rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement reached Monday resolves the impasse as lawmakers race toward the end of the legislative session this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is no guarantee the judges will go along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge panel ordered the state to lower its prison population by about 9,600 inmates by year's end. Brown is appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices recently declined to delay the deadline set by the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an alternative, the judges have threatened to order the state to give thousands of inmates good time credits, which would lead to their early release. They have repeatedly threatened to hold Brown in contempt if the state does not meet the deadline to reduce the prison population to about 110,000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill to be considered this week includes Brown's original plan to lease cells if the judges stick to the year-end deadline. If they grant an extension of time, a portion of the money that would have been spent to rent cells would instead go to rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has argued that the state already reduced the population by 46,000 inmates to comply with court orders, primarily through a 2-year-old law that sentences lower level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. He argues that only the most dangerous convicts remain in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's huge, that's monumental. We can build on that, but not in a month or a year,\" Brown said Monday about previous inmate reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had orchestrated opposition from Senate Democrats to Brown's plan and wanted the administration to negotiate with attorneys who represent inmates to push back the year-end deadline by three years. Brown rejected those talks, saying he would not let inmates' attorneys help determine the state's public safety policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting compromise includes no new proposed deadline for the state to meet the court-ordered population level if an extension is granted, nor does it promise benchmarks or guarantees that the state would comply if granted more time, said Prison Law Office director Don Specter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe it's sufficient to meet the court's order or even get a reasonable extension of time,\" said Specter, whose firm is among those that sued to force the state to reduce prison crowding to improve conditions. \"It's not specific enough, it's not certain enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he did not know what the three judges would do about the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown and Steinberg said they had been seeing \"smoke-signals\" that the judges were willing to consider the state's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Clark Kelso, appointed by the federal courts to oversee prison medical care, has been meeting with legislative and administrative officials in recent days. He and his spokeswoman declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Archcriminal Whitey Bulger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/12/whitey-bulger-verdict/#ap\">convicted today\u003c/a> in Boston on murder and racketeering charges, and he faces life in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 13. Not the first time he's been there, of course. As we wrote about in 2011, when Bulger was captured after 17 years on the lam, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz from 1959-1963, part of a nine-year stretch incurred for a string of armed robberies. Here's his\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\" target=\"_blank\"> mug shot\u003c/a> at The Rock ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-106517 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/whitey-bulger.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Bureau of Prisons\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bureau of Prisons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And here's a reprint of a 1988 \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:agWlWX6d4yMJ:rope.wrko-am.fimc.net/bulger/herald1.pdf+whitey+bolger+alcatraz&hl=en&gl=usboston%20herald%201988\">Boston Herald article\u003c/a> about the relationship between Bulger and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+carnes\">Clarence Carnes\u003c/a> (also known as \"The Choctaw Kid\") that developed at the island prison. Carnes, a Native American, received a life sentence at the age of 16 for holding up a gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the article, Bulger said that Carnes had taken him under his wing at Alcatraz. When Carnes died, Bulger had his body exhumed from a \"pauper's grave\" outside a Missouri prison hospital and sent to a burying ground on Choctaw land in Oklahoma. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ap\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full story on Bulger's conviction today, from AP ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSTON (AP) — James \"Whitey\" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, 83, showed no reaction upon hearing the verdict, which brought to a close a case that not only transfixed the city with its grisly violence but exposed corruption inside the Boston FBI and an overly cozy relationship between the bureau and its underworld snitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger was charged primarily with racketeering, a catchall offense that listed 33 criminal acts — among them, 19 murders that he allegedly helped orchestrate or carried out himself during the 1970s and '80s while he led the Winter Hill Gang, Boston's ruthless Irish mob. The racketeering charge also included acts of extortion, conspiracy, money-laundering and drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 4½ days of deliberations, the jury decided he took part in 11 of those murders, along with nearly all the other crimes, as well as a laundry list of other counts, including possession of machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger could get life in prison at his sentencing Nov. 13. But given his age, even a modest term could amount to a life sentence for the slightly stooped, white-bearded Bulger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the two-month trial, federal prosecutors portrayed him as a cold-blooded, hands-on boss who killed anyone he saw as a threat, along with innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, according to testimony, he would go off and take a nap while his underlings handled the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Bulger was accused of strangling two women with his bare hands, shooting two men in the head after chaining them to chairs and interrogating them for hours, and opening fire on two men as they left a South Boston restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's sinister crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie \"The Departed,\" was seen for years as a kind of benevolent tough guy who bought Thanksgiving turkeys for fellow residents of working-class South Boston and kept hard drugs out of the neighborhood. But that image was shattered when authorities started digging up bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not some Robin Hood story about a guy who kept angel dust and heroin out of Southie,\" prosecutor Fred Wyshak told the jury in closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger skipped town in 1994 after being tipped off — by a retired FBI agent, John Connolly, it turned out — that he was about to be indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disappearance proved a major embarrassment to the FBI when it came out at court hearings and trials that Bulger had been an informant from 1975 to 1990, feeding the bureau information on the rival New England Mafia, as well as members of his own gang, while he continued to kill and intimidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proceedings also revealed that Bulger and his gang paid off several FBI agents and state and Boston police officers, dispensing Christmas envelopes of cash and cases of fine wine to get information on search warrants, wiretaps and investigations and stay one step ahead of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his trial, Bulger's lawyers tried to turn the tables on the government, detailing the corruption inside the FBI and accusing prosecutors of offering absurdly generous deals to three former Bulger loyalists to testify against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense portrayed the three key witnesses — gangster Stephen \"The Rifleman\" Flemmi, hit man John Martorano and Bulger protege Kevin Weeks — as pathological liars who pinned their own crimes on Bulger so they could get reduced sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overall, the defense barely contested many of the charges against Bulger. In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loan-sharking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers did strongly deny he killed women, something Bulger evidently regarded as a violation of his underworld code of honor. The jury ultimately found he had a role in the strangling of one woman — Flemmi's stepdaughter — but it could not reach a decision on the other woman, Flemmi's girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said the women were killed because they knew too much about the gang's business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also spent a surprising amount of time disputing he was a \"rat\" — a label that seemed to set off the hotheaded Bulger more than anything else, causing him to erupt in obscenities in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's lawyers argued that Connolly, Bulger's supposed handler inside the FBI, fabricated Bulger's thick informant file to cover up his corrupt relationship with the gangster and advance his own career. At the time, bringing down the Mafia was a major priority for the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's witnesses also included numerous drug dealers, bookmakers and legitimate businessmen who described terrifying encounters with Bulger in which he ordered them to pay up or take a beating or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developer Richard Buccheri said Bulger threatened to kill him and his family if he did not pay $200,000. Buccheri related how Bulger slammed his hand on a table in anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With that, he takes the shotgun that was on the table — he sticks it in my mouth,\" Buccheri said as spectators in the courtroom gasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the trial, Bulger's lawyers said he would take the stand and detail the corruption inside the FBI. Bulger planned to argue he was given immunity for all his crimes by a now-dead federal prosecutor. But Judge Denise Casper disallowed such a defense, and Bulger did not testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel that I've been choked off from having an opportunity to give an adequate defense,\" he complained to the judge as the trial wound down. \"My thing is, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't get a fair trial, and this is a sham, and do what youse want with me. That's it. That's my final word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's life story fascinated Bostonians for decades. 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The racketeering charge also included acts of extortion, conspiracy, money-laundering and drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 4½ days of deliberations, the jury decided he took part in 11 of those murders, along with nearly all the other crimes, as well as a laundry list of other counts, including possession of machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger could get life in prison at his sentencing Nov. 13. But given his age, even a modest term could amount to a life sentence for the slightly stooped, white-bearded Bulger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the two-month trial, federal prosecutors portrayed him as a cold-blooded, hands-on boss who killed anyone he saw as a threat, along with innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, according to testimony, he would go off and take a nap while his underlings handled the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Bulger was accused of strangling two women with his bare hands, shooting two men in the head after chaining them to chairs and interrogating them for hours, and opening fire on two men as they left a South Boston restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's sinister crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie \"The Departed,\" was seen for years as a kind of benevolent tough guy who bought Thanksgiving turkeys for fellow residents of working-class South Boston and kept hard drugs out of the neighborhood. But that image was shattered when authorities started digging up bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not some Robin Hood story about a guy who kept angel dust and heroin out of Southie,\" prosecutor Fred Wyshak told the jury in closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger skipped town in 1994 after being tipped off — by a retired FBI agent, John Connolly, it turned out — that he was about to be indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disappearance proved a major embarrassment to the FBI when it came out at court hearings and trials that Bulger had been an informant from 1975 to 1990, feeding the bureau information on the rival New England Mafia, as well as members of his own gang, while he continued to kill and intimidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proceedings also revealed that Bulger and his gang paid off several FBI agents and state and Boston police officers, dispensing Christmas envelopes of cash and cases of fine wine to get information on search warrants, wiretaps and investigations and stay one step ahead of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his trial, Bulger's lawyers tried to turn the tables on the government, detailing the corruption inside the FBI and accusing prosecutors of offering absurdly generous deals to three former Bulger loyalists to testify against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense portrayed the three key witnesses — gangster Stephen \"The Rifleman\" Flemmi, hit man John Martorano and Bulger protege Kevin Weeks — as pathological liars who pinned their own crimes on Bulger so they could get reduced sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overall, the defense barely contested many of the charges against Bulger. In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loan-sharking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers did strongly deny he killed women, something Bulger evidently regarded as a violation of his underworld code of honor. The jury ultimately found he had a role in the strangling of one woman — Flemmi's stepdaughter — but it could not reach a decision on the other woman, Flemmi's girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said the women were killed because they knew too much about the gang's business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also spent a surprising amount of time disputing he was a \"rat\" — a label that seemed to set off the hotheaded Bulger more than anything else, causing him to erupt in obscenities in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's lawyers argued that Connolly, Bulger's supposed handler inside the FBI, fabricated Bulger's thick informant file to cover up his corrupt relationship with the gangster and advance his own career. At the time, bringing down the Mafia was a major priority for the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's witnesses also included numerous drug dealers, bookmakers and legitimate businessmen who described terrifying encounters with Bulger in which he ordered them to pay up or take a beating or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developer Richard Buccheri said Bulger threatened to kill him and his family if he did not pay $200,000. Buccheri related how Bulger slammed his hand on a table in anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With that, he takes the shotgun that was on the table — he sticks it in my mouth,\" Buccheri said as spectators in the courtroom gasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the trial, Bulger's lawyers said he would take the stand and detail the corruption inside the FBI. Bulger planned to argue he was given immunity for all his crimes by a now-dead federal prosecutor. 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As the couple tussled with Garcia near the front yard, another teenage boy approached, pulling a gun from his waistband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple testified that Garcia told the other boy, a fellow gang member, to shoot the man – a claim Garcia denies. Still, the other boy fired, striking the man’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for one count of attempted murder and two counts of vandalism. With time served, he’ll be released in 2016, when he’s 26 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was a high school freshman when he was sent to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to await trial. The Los Angeles County Office of Education ran the special day class he attended and provided him each week with 45 minutes of speech therapy and 30 minutes of counseling, to help him manage frustrations he felt because of his learning disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was still a kid,” he said. “I was going to the classroom, hanging out, not doing my work, fighting. I got older and I was like, what am I doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after he turned 18, he was transferred to an L.A. County jail, and his special education services vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county offices of education serve students in juvenile halls. For all other students, state law generally holds the school district where a parent resides responsible for special education. The district remains responsible for the student, who may receive special education services until age 22, as long as his or her parent lives within district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge in 2009 found that the law extends to students incarcerated in county jails and ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide special education services to Garcia, which the district did while also appealing the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district court judge affirmed the decision, and L.A. Unified’s second appeal is now awaiting a hearing before the California Supreme Court. While the case is pending, a related class-action lawsuit – filed by Garcia and 10 other inmates against the district, state, county office of education and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, among others – is on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Unified is “meeting legal requirements” to provide special education to inmates whose parents resided in district boundaries when the inmate turned 18, a district spokeswoman said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently provides special education services to one of L.A. County’s 18,520 inmates, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. At most, he said, the county has had no more than five inmates receiving special education, all from L.A. Unified, at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, L.A. Unified said that because there’s no law specifically assigning school districts to provide special education to inmates, the state Department of Education is responsible. The state, on the other hand, said it provides special education services only if it finds local agencies are “unwilling or unable to do so” – a circumstance that it said was not the case for students in Los Angeles County jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is “shirking their responsibility,” said Paula Pearlman, executive director of the Disability Rights Legal Center and an attorney for Garcia. When the local district and county education offices fail, the state is the “district of last resort,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Garcia’s transfer from county jail to state prison in September 2010, the special education services he received under court order from L.A. Unified have stopped. He’s currently housed in the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Tuesday, Garcia attends a three-hour class in the prison to help him pass the General Educational Development test, which inmates can take once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Practice exams have been challenging, he said, because he needs more time to comprehend each question than the test allows. The algebra in the test is difficult, too, especially because he can’t study with a calculator in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to take the test as soon as he can receive additional time – an accommodation called for in his individualized education program, a legal document that outlines a special education student’s goals and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garcia’s case before the California Supreme Court is limited to L.A. 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"description": "by Joanna Lin, Center for Investigative Reporting TEHACHAPI, Calif. – School ended for Michael Garcia with a routine transfer from juvenile hall to adult county jail. There was no fanfare, diploma or cap and gown. He hadn’t graduated or dropped out. He’d simply turned 18. For the next 19 months, he was in limbo, unable",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia has spent nearly five years in legal battles trying to hold someone accountable. This year, the California Supreme Court is expected to hear Garcia’s case to determine whether an incarcerated student’s local school district – the one in which his or her parents reside – is responsible for his or her special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98224\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/in-california-incarcerated-students-fall-through-gaps-in-special-education-laws/incarcerated-students/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98224\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98224\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/incarcerated-students.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Garcia (center in photograph), who was once a junior cadet in the Bell Police Department's junior explorer program, struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 19 months. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Garcia (center in photograph) struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case has implications for county inmates with disabilities and school districts across the state that could be required to send teachers into jails to instruct special education students. In L.A. County jails alone, attorneys for Garcia estimate, between 400 and 700 young adults are eligible for special education on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision will come too late for Garcia, who is incarcerated at a state prison – a system beyond the scope of his petition. Still, said Garcia, who turns 23 in June, “it’s the least I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know other people are struggling to get education too but don’t have the courage to keep pushing,” he said. “I already went through that struggle. Why not keep going to help everyone else?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent interview in prison, Garcia recited the Lord’s Prayer quickly, unblinking, through the thick glass of a visiting booth. The words weren’t always this easy for him to recall. Garcia grew up with his mother, Yamileth Fuentes, and four siblings in Bell, a small city in an industrial corridor southeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After long hours of driving a county Metro bus, Fuentes would return home and teach Garcia angel prayers, first in Spanish and then in English, by having him repeat after her, line by line. Even after a month of saying the same prayers every night, Garcia would struggle to recite them on his own, Fuentes said. And because Garcia glossed over R’s and L’s, his words were garbled and difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In second grade, Garcia was found to have a learning disability caused by an auditory processing disorder and a speech and language impairment. He was assigned weekly speech therapy and placed in a special education class. Garcia said he hated the class for separating him from his peers and because it made him feel stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in sixth grade, when he realized he had been mistakenly placed in a general education course, Garcia said nothing. He relished the chance to prove he was smart, that he did not need special education after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a conflict I had with myself because I knew I was smart enough,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed the class. With an F on his report card, Garcia was dropped from the Bell Police Department’s junior explorer program, in which he had been a proud junior cadet who hoped to someday be a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he got involved with the wrong crowd shortly after. By the time he finished middle school, he was a member of the Barrio Mojados gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening in January 2006, Garcia was acting as a lookout as his friends tagged a corner store wall in South Los Angeles when two men from a rival gang came up to them and started shooting. Garcia said he ran toward them, shooting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then took cover behind a car in the driveway of a nearby house. The man and woman who lived there told Garcia to get out and tried to push him off their property. As the couple tussled with Garcia near the front yard, another teenage boy approached, pulling a gun from his waistband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple testified that Garcia told the other boy, a fellow gang member, to shoot the man – a claim Garcia denies. Still, the other boy fired, striking the man’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for one count of attempted murder and two counts of vandalism. With time served, he’ll be released in 2016, when he’s 26 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was a high school freshman when he was sent to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to await trial. The Los Angeles County Office of Education ran the special day class he attended and provided him each week with 45 minutes of speech therapy and 30 minutes of counseling, to help him manage frustrations he felt because of his learning disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was still a kid,” he said. “I was going to the classroom, hanging out, not doing my work, fighting. I got older and I was like, what am I doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after he turned 18, he was transferred to an L.A. County jail, and his special education services vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county offices of education serve students in juvenile halls. For all other students, state law generally holds the school district where a parent resides responsible for special education. The district remains responsible for the student, who may receive special education services until age 22, as long as his or her parent lives within district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge in 2009 found that the law extends to students incarcerated in county jails and ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide special education services to Garcia, which the district did while also appealing the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district court judge affirmed the decision, and L.A. Unified’s second appeal is now awaiting a hearing before the California Supreme Court. While the case is pending, a related class-action lawsuit – filed by Garcia and 10 other inmates against the district, state, county office of education and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, among others – is on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown continues to \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304120850/a\">travel through China\u003c/a>, taking a bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, inking trade deals and setting a brisk pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the governor gets home next week from his largely successful trade and business trip, he faces another federal court ruling rejecting his bid to end judicial oversight of California's prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94046\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/chinoprison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-94046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/chinoprison-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate at Chino State Prison sleeps on his bunk bed in a gymnasium that was modified to house prisoners on December 10, 2010 in Chino, California. 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He's invested a lot of time and energy trying to convince the courts that essentially California’s prison crisis is over and that inmates are getting adequate mental health and medical care,” Montgomery said. “And federal judges have just not bought the governor's arguments. Now the state has to come up with a plan to further reduce the inmate population.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a plan the judges want to see in three weeks. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a statement saying, \"California has invested more than a billion dollars to transform its prison health care system into one of the best in the country. Our prisons now provide timely and effective health care to inmates that far exceeds what the Constitution requires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't the only recent setback for Brown on prisons. A federal judge on April 5 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/judge-rules-against-calif-control-of-prison-mental-health-programs/\">rejected Brown's bid\u003c/a> to regain state control of inmates' mental health care, citing systematic failures to reduce prison suicides, provide timely care and hire enough staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Associated Press report by Tom Verdin below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by the three-judge panel singled out the Democratic governor for ignoring its earlier orders to reduce the state's inmate population to the level ordered by the federal courts. Judges have said that capping the population is the most important step the state can take to improve inmate medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the governor sought to end the long-running court oversight of California's prison system and promised to take his fight again to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. At the time, he decried the billions of dollars California is spending to improve inmate medical and mental health care, saying the court had ordered the state to create \"gold plate\" prisons that were siphoning money from public schools, colleges, social services and other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial panel was unmoved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming Brown, it said state officials must take whatever steps are necessary to comply with the court's inmate-reduction order by the end of this year or face the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, \"they will without further delay be subject to findings of contempt, individually and collectively. We make this observation reluctantly, but with determination that defendants will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Constitution of the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but corrections department spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman said the administration will appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Hoffman said the quality of medical care delivered to California's prison inmates \"far exceeds\" the requirements of the Constitution. Any further steps to reduce the inmate population would jeopardize public safety, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's ruling in favor of the inmates' attorneys was expected and is the latest development in two partially consolidated legal cases that date back several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case, filed in 1990, concerns the treatment of mentally inmates. The other, filed in 2001, concerns substandard medical care. In both cases, the federal courts have ruled that the care provided by California's prison system was so poor it violated inmates' constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, one of the judges on the panel rejected Brown's attempt to end the lawsuit over mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, the courts have appointed federal overseers to run those aspects of the prison system. The state has responded by building new medical and mental health facilities and hiring hundreds of new employees, many at salaries that exceed $200,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's boldest response has been his so-called prison realignment plan, which took effect in October 2011 and is sending thousands of lower-level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That law alone has reduced the prison population by nearly 25,000 inmates, but it is still not enough to comply with the court order. The state still needs to reduce its inmate population by roughly 9,000 more inmates in its 33 adult prisons by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the state said it had done enough, and Brown said the only way it could meet the court's population cap was to release dangerous felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial panel acknowledged that Brown's realignment law had made headway, but also said the state had taken no further actions to comply with the court's directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It called the state's long-range prison blueprint \"a plan for noncompliance\" by allowing the state to house 9,000 more inmates than the court order allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What further steps they will take in order to comply is equally clear: None,\" the judges wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While their decision against the state was widely anticipated, the judges' ruling was somewhat remarkable in its singling out of the governor. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to regain state control of inmates’ mental health care, citing systematic failures to reduce prison suicides, provide timely care and hire enough staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93554\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/judge-rules-against-calif-control-of-prison-mental-health-programs/supreme-court-to-rule-on-californias-overcrowded-prisons-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93554\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS50_ChinoStatePrisonInmates20130108-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93554\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison. 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