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child welfare case for in-home services or an out-of-home foster care placement. \u003ca href=\"https://datacenter.kidscount.org/updates/show/264-us-foster-care-population-by-race-and-ethnicity\">In 2018, 44% of children in the foster care system nationwide\u003c/a> were Black or Latinx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos and stories of formerly incarcerated people line a wall in a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. ‘The Big Lockup: Mass Incarceration in the United States’ is a free self-guided experience that uses text, photographs, and multimedia and interactive content to engage audiences on the history of incarceration in the country. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exhibit also explores the social cost of being incarcerated, not only to the incarcerated themselves, but to their families and communities, primarily shown through video interviews of formerly incarcerated people discussing their experiences and the challenges of reentering society after incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894284 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look through a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are examples of how other countries’ criminal justice and incarceration systems function, an opportunity for visitors to come to their own conclusions about which systems are most humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new exhibit on Alcatraz Island displays different handcuffs used on incarcerated people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We try to present the exhibit in ways that ask questions. So how did we get here? Does history matter? Who is harmed? Can we do better? We try and present the information in a way that really asks the visitor questions more than we tell them the answers,” said Michele Gee, chief of interpretation and education for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52189_023_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation displays a graph showing how the United States has the world’s largest prison system. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also a strong interactive component. Polling stations ask visitors questions for their opinions on incarceration and are designed to be used by two people simultaneously. The idea is that after learning more about mass incarceration, the exhibit will become a place for people to have discussions and exchanges of ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894283 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation reads ‘Is Justice Colorblind?’ at a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. At the end of the exhibit, there’s a statement and a chance for visitors to vote on it. Michele Gee, chief of interpretation and education for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said the statement will change periodically, but today it says: ‘People convicted of felonies should be allowed to vote.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next to the questions are a box of tokens and a place for visitors to cast their own votes on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894285 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interactive installation says ‘People convicted of felonies should be allowed to vote’ and gives visitors the option to vote yes, no or maybe at a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on the exhibit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/thebiglockup.htm\">visit the National Park Service website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For years, San Francisco’s former island prison, Alcatraz, has made its reputation mostly on famous escapes and infamous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a new exhibit, one of its first new permanent showcases in decades, is highlighting injustices in the U.S. mass-incarceration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called “The Big Lockup: Mass Incarceration in the United States.” Free with admission, it’s the first major permanent exhibit on the island in 30 years. The exhibit is a self-guided experience that uses text, photographs and interactive content to inform audiences about the history of incarceration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its exhibits explicitly question the criminal justice system, with panels that say “Who is harmed?” and “Can we do better?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52187_018_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman stands in the front of a ferry arriving on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a new impetus here to try to make Alcatraz relevant to conditions in the country today, as well as to move away from the Hollywood image of Alcatraz to more relevant issues and to get people thinking about these issues in a critical way,” said Will Elder, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52216_063_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors exit the ferry onto Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exhibit features infographics explaining how the war on drugs and systemic racism has disproportionately incarcerated people of color, as well as panels describing how education, affluence, drug use and whether or not someone is placed in foster care can influence the likelihood that someone is incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.datanetwork.org/news/to-what-degree-do-the-criminal-justice-and-child-welfare-populations-in-california-overlap/\">28% of people incarcerated between 2000 and 2013\u003c/a> had a history of either an open child welfare case for in-home services or an out-of-home foster care placement. \u003ca href=\"https://datacenter.kidscount.org/updates/show/264-us-foster-care-population-by-race-and-ethnicity\">In 2018, 44% of children in the foster care system nationwide\u003c/a> were Black or Latinx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52196_032_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos and stories of formerly incarcerated people line a wall in a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. ‘The Big Lockup: Mass Incarceration in the United States’ is a free self-guided experience that uses text, photographs, and multimedia and interactive content to engage audiences on the history of incarceration in the country. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exhibit also explores the social cost of being incarcerated, not only to the incarcerated themselves, but to their families and communities, primarily shown through video interviews of formerly incarcerated people discussing their experiences and the challenges of reentering society after incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894284 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52207_047_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look through a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are examples of how other countries’ criminal justice and incarceration systems function, an opportunity for visitors to come to their own conclusions about which systems are most humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52190_024_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new exhibit on Alcatraz Island displays different handcuffs used on incarcerated people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We try to present the exhibit in ways that ask questions. So how did we get here? Does history matter? Who is harmed? Can we do better? 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Polling stations ask visitors questions for their opinions on incarceration and are designed to be used by two people simultaneously. The idea is that after learning more about mass incarceration, the exhibit will become a place for people to have discussions and exchanges of ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894283 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52201_041_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation reads ‘Is Justice Colorblind?’ at a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island on Oct. 28, 2021, featuring stories of the United States prison system told through the voices and experiences of formerly incarcerated people, scholars and criminal justice advocates. At the end of the exhibit, there’s a statement and a chance for visitors to vote on it. Michele Gee, chief of interpretation and education for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said the statement will change periodically, but today it says: ‘People convicted of felonies should be allowed to vote.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next to the questions are a box of tokens and a place for visitors to cast their own votes on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894285 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52213_054_Alcatraz_IncarcerationExhibit_10282021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interactive installation says ‘People convicted of felonies should be allowed to vote’ and gives visitors the option to vote yes, no or maybe at a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on the exhibit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/thebiglockup.htm\">visit the National Park Service website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The coronavirus then quickly sickened 75% of those incarcerated at the prison, leading to the deaths of 28 incarcerated people and a correctional officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials “ignored virtually every safety measure in doing so,” Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard wrote in a 114-page tentative ruling Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tragic, inevitable … result of this bumbling sequence of events was an exponential COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin that, to date, has killed 28 people,” he wrote. “It more than qualifies as deliberate indifference to a known risk.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard\"]‘The tragic, inevitable … result of this bumbling sequence of events was an exponential COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin that, to date, has killed 28 people. … It more than qualifies as deliberate indifference to a known risk.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he preliminarily rejected inmates’ request that he essentially reinstate an appeals court ruling from October 2020 requiring corrections officials to cut the incarcerated population to less than half of San Quentin’s designed capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court put that appeals court order on hold in December pending the trial that took place in Howard’s courtroom this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeals court order came during the height of the pandemic in October 2020, after the deadly summer surge at San Quentin and before a statewide winter spike that strained hospitals and intensive care units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard tentatively concluded that conditions have substantially changed since then, mainly because he said prison officials have done their best to vaccinate every incarcerated person who agrees to be inoculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those vaccinations “substantially reduce the danger posed by COVID-19 within the prison. That risk, though undoubtedly substantial and serious, may well not exceed contemporary standards of decency,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vaccine — in combination with the myriad other measures [the prison system] has undertaken — has essentially eliminated the more serious threat from COVID-19 to any inmate who accepts the vaccine.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Attorney Charles Carbone\"]‘You can violate the rights of your prisoner population to the point where you basically cause preventable deaths, and there’s really not going to be any accountability.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard said he will hear attorneys’ objections or comments on Nov. 8 before making a final ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Charles Carbone, who represented the first incarcerated person in a case that now involves hundreds, said there is little chance of changing Howard’s ruling, but that it will be appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard meticulously documented human rights and constitutional abuses, Carbone said, but then “said, ‘Sorry, so what. Sorry that people died, sorry that hundreds of correctional staff got sick, and sorry that it was largely if not entirely preventable. But as a body of law, we’re not going to do anything about it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/2roxKfFBAyxqnhNehITOkL\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carbone said that also sends the wrong message to corrections officials, who may now feel “you can violate the rights of your prisoner population to the point where you basically cause preventable deaths, and there’s really not going to be any accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials said they are reviewing the tentative ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In arguing for a court-ordered population reduction, the attorneys of those who are incarcerated called overcrowding the “original sin” of the California prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overcrowding “is why San Quentin presented a virtual tinderbox for an epidemiological conflagration in early 2020, because its population stood at 131.4% of capacity,” they argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California prison officials countered that they took numerous steps to try to protect those incarcerated from infection, including temporarily reducing the population of the state’s oldest prison by 40%, short of the 50% recommended in June 2020 by health experts.[aside tag=\"san-quentin\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials said the botched transfer itself was a flawed but well-intentioned effort to move 121 vulnerable inmates away from an outbreak at a Southern California prison. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new state-funded program encourages district attorneys to resentence some incarcerated people serving long prison terms that many now consider excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine DAs throughout California — including those in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties — will receive a portion of an $18 million pot earmarked in the recently approved state budget to help identify inmates who are no longer deemed a public safety risk, but still have years left behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most prosecutors agree that if a person has transformed their life and there’s no justification for having them incarcerated, then they should be out,” said Hillary Blout, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortheppl.org/\">For The People\u003c/a>, a sentencing reform group that is working with the DAs to help identify eligible inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That prosecutor can bring the case back to the court and essentially say, ‘Your honor, our agency asked you to send this person away and we’re here now asking you to send this person home,’ ” Blout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Hillary Blout, executive director of For The People\"]‘Most prosecutors agree that if a person has transformed their life and there’s no justification for having them incarcerated, then they should be out.’[/pullquote]The funding is intended to implement \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2942\">Assembly Bill 2942\u003c/a>, a 2018 law that Blout helped draft, which allows district attorneys to recommend that courts reconsider old cases and issue new, lighter sentences — including for people convicted of violent crimes years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 75 incarcerated people in California have so far been resentenced under the law, according to Blout. In most cases, it’s led to their near-immediate release from prison and reentry back into their communities on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes about 50 people from San Francisco alone, according to Arcelia Hurtado, chief of the post-conviction unit in the San Francisco DA’s Office. She said her staff is working with the Public Defender’s Office and community groups to review the sentences of the nearly 200 people from San Francisco who have already served over 20 years — about a third of the current prison population from the city. Some of those cases, she added, are women who committed violent crimes against their abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many years ago, courts just didn’t hear that information or just didn’t give it proper weight,” Hurtado said, noting that her office will likely use the new state funding to hire a dedicated team to review the cases and develop a strong reentry program for people who are released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The state’s investment in the program signals a shift away from the harsh sentencing policies of past decades, when laws like mandatory minimums and three strikes sparked an explosion in the prison population, mushrooming from about 50,000 inmates in 1985 to a peak of 173,000 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our legacy in California has not been a great one in terms of our investment in building prisons and then filling them with people,” Blout said, noting the disproportionate impact that’s had on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, the state has advanced a slew of criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But by and large, with all of those efforts, it historically had been prosecutors that were seen as the barrier to really being able to see the promise of these initiatives,” said Blout, who worked for years as a prosecutor in the San Francisco DA’s Office. “I think that if we’re ever going to get our system to a place where we are effectively implementing all of the different laws at our disposal, we have to have one of the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system involved, and that’s prosecutors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/bay-area-counties-participate-in-pilot-program-to/embed?style=cover\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine DA’s offices in the pilot program, which also include Los Angeles, Merced, San Diego, Humboldt, Riverside and Yolo counties, were chosen to reflect California’s diverse geography and demographics, Blout said, and to show that the model can be applied across the state and the country. In just the last year, two other states — \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/06/bill-allowing-das-and-prisoners-to-ask-court-to-review-sentence-conviction-heads-to-governors-desk.html\">Oregon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Illinois-passes-new-law-prohibiting-police-from-16317669.php'\">Illinois\u003c/a> — have followed California’s lead, passing similar resentencing laws. Washington State \u003ca href=\"https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Year=2019&BillNumber=6164\">passed its own version\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After AB 2942 went into effect in 2019, Blout’s organization began working directly with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office to begin reviewing cases and develop risk-assessment protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice-reform\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/08/see-the-chapters-that-still-have-to-be-written-san-jose-mans-redemption-held-up-as-testament-to-landmark-prison-reform-law/\">Kennard Love\u003c/a>, from San Jose, was one of the inmates who quickly rose to the top of the list of eligible participants. In 2007, at the age of 19, he was convicted of multiple armed robberies and sentenced to 28 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin State Prison, he earned associate’s degrees in business, behavioral and social science, and math and joined \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\">The Last Mile\u003c/a> program, which teaches computer coding to prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with Silicon Valley De-Bug, a criminal justice reform organization that helps support incarcerated people, Blout’s group advocated for Love, and in December 2020, the Santa Clara DA’s Office recommended to a court that he be resentenced. Within days, he walked out prison, on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He decided to make a change in his life,” said Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen, who oversaw the resentencing effort. “I want to reward and incentivize other inmates to make that change, because that change is good for them and it’s good for our community, because somebody who’s now not a criminal, not robbing, not stealing means that there are fewer crime victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s office has successfully petitioned to have 12 people resentenced since 2019 – a relatively modest figure that he said reflects the time it takes to carefully evaluate cases and do thorough risk assessments to guarantee public safety. And despite the inherently politically fraught business of releasing people from prison early, particularly those convicted of violent offenses, Rosen said he hasn’t yet faced much pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, this isn’t something we do lightly. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>More than 60,000 Californians have died from COVID-19. This week, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> is launching a series to remember some of them. Our first tribute is to Eric Warner, who died of COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. He was a barber, a boxer and a beloved brother. Eric’s older brother Hank brings us this tribute.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]aving an only brother incarcerated for life leaves a hole in your heart. You long for sibling companionship. And guard your secret for fear of shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we collected pollywogs after big rains. We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,” Khan said. “He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, ‘Just don’t forget me when you get out.’ That’s who Eric was, and is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric’s fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. That was back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric talked about their love story, and read a letter to Amanda, in this documentary called “Resilience” — made by Khan and other incarcerated men learning to be filmmakers inside San Quentin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDcatgnKKQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, when I saw on the news that there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826469/shocking-heartbreaking-san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-alarms-health-officials\">COVID outbreak in San Quentin\u003c/a>, my heart sank. I didn’t hear from Eric for weeks. We normally talked on the phone every Sunday. But there were no phone calls, no letters, no news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, I received a call from a nurse. Eric was hospitalized. 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I was his cheerleader and soother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just the two of us for seven days, and then he passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-1020x1174.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMX was Eric’s favorite sport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after Eric died, I received an overwhelming number of texts and phone messages. Formerly incarcerated men and prison staffers reached out to express their condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All had to let me know how much Eric meant to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1341868668733456385?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t understand what motivated these people to reach out to me. I didn’t think anyone cared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, these same men organized a memorial to honor my brother. More than a dozen friends from San Quentin showed up. Many more couldn’t be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eric will always be remembered by friends and family as a kind and warm hearted person. 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We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. 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That included the money he’d made working in the prison library, plus the $200 that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/09/10/what-gate-money-can-and-cannot-buy\">has given to parolees\u003c/a> since 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had told the parole board that he wanted to go to San Francisco so he could access more services for his autism, and escape some of the demons he’d left back in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was set up at a halfway house, the Taylor Street Center run by the GEO Group in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. However, after six months there and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the director told me, ‘we need your bed space, you have to leave.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had made some money working a contract job, but he knew he didn’t have enough for an apartment. In classes at the transitional center, they’d told him he’d need to make at least $30 an hour to live comfortably in San Francisco, and he knew he wasn’t even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told the job counselor, ‘I’m not ready to leave yet. I’m going to need the extension, at least for a few more months so I can save more money,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter was scared he’d end up in a temporary group shelter, or have to live far away from the few programs and job prospects he’d found in the city. He didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew and Joseph Krauter talk in the backyard at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Double Whammy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, many people getting out of prison have a hard time finding an affordable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best-case scenario, somebody has social and material support and so they can go live with parents or significant other or other family members,” said Dallas Augustine, a research associate with AMEND at UCSF, a group that works to improve health in prisons. “But for those who don’t have that type of material support, then they need to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the double whammy of a lack of state support and decreasing housing supply has created a housing crisis for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2020/01/201812_DataPoints.pdf\">released\u003c/a> about 37,000 people. In 2018, it released about 38,400. The state was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/U-S-ruling-State-must-cut-prison-population-3221869.php\">ordered in 2009 to reduce overcrowding\u003c/a> — an issue it’s still dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/03/Tpop1d210324.pdf\">today\u003c/a>, so the number of releases is expected to stay high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the housing side, it is well known that California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">does not have\u003c/a> enough affordable housing to meet the need, and landlords are often reluctant to rent to people with a criminal record. In addition, parolees often don’t have the option to leave the state to find more affordable housing. For the duration of their parole, most people aren’t allowed to leave the state where they served time. [aside tag=\"prison,incarceration\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities and counties are not making it any easier. In the Bay Area, some cities regulate where parolees can live. For example, in 2018, after considering banning parolees entirely, the East Bay city of Clayton banned two or more people on parole living together everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/25/clayton-bans-homes-for-released-inmates-everywhere-except-for-two-areas/\">except for two areas in the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of all these factors, former inmates are almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to be homeless than the general public, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in most cases, parole agents aren’t required to make sure people are housed. However, they may voluntarily refer some people to long-term housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, recognizing the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic was putting on the prison system, the state \u003ca href=\"https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/partnership-launched-support-returning-citizens-california-urgently-reduces-prison-populations-covid-19/\">teamed up\u003c/a> with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and other philanthropies to provide $30 million to reentry nonprofits. A spokesperson for CDCR said some of that money went toward providing temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are looking for a way to address the problem. In January, Bay Area Democratic Assemblymembers David Chiu, Buffy Wicks and Ash Kalra \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20210127-assemblymember-chiu-introduces-bill-shift-state-prison-savings-reentry\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> to fund more reentry housing. They hope that as the state continues to reduce its prison population, those savings could be redirected to expand existing housing programs. The bill is expected to get a hearing this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augustine said in the meantime she’s seen more and more community groups stepping up to get people in stable housing. One is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/how-homecoming-project-houses-former-prisoners/603373/\">Homecoming Project\u003c/a>, which has been compared to an Airbnb for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More commonly, volunteer reentry groups find housing solutions for community members independently. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Life and Sanity Saver’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of those groups is called Second Life, which is based in San Francisco. That’s where Joseph Krauter’s clinician sent him when he told her he was anxious about leaving his transitional center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.secondlifeproject.net/spaces\">The Second Life Project\u003c/a> was started by neuroscientist Zarinah Agnew. A few years ago, Agnew met some people who had recently been released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew reads in a room at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I asked them what they needed, and they were like, we just don’t have anywhere to hang out. We don’t have anywhere to be and we want to play [Dungeons and Dragons],” they said. “And so we started to play DnD and we started to have a potluck dinner together and friendships blossomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew saw that more than just a place to be, their friends needed a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew had already been working to set up communal living spaces as an executive director of the nonprofit District Commons, and was in a good place to help the group rent and buy two houses in San Francisco. The houses are communal, fit in with conditions for people’s probation and parole, and rent is often cheaper than market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Krauter lives in one of the homes, called Sigil, with five other people, some of whom have been to prison and some who haven’t. He cooks lasagna and empanadas for the house, and calls the opportunity a “life and sanity saver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew turns a sign that indicates whether the cat that they share is home at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I may not get along with the entire community,” he said, “but the people I do get along with, I care about a whole bunch. They are fantastic, intelligent, fun-to-be-around people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew lives at the other home, called Template House. It’s a colorful Victorian walk-up on Haight Street. Agnew said when people hear they live with formerly incarcerated people, they get uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when you come here, it’s so cozy and beautiful,” they said. “Dinners are wonderful. Everyone takes care of each other. The wisdoms of this group of people are so extraordinary. I would trust this group of people to raise my child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is a bit of a fixer-upper, but the residents are up for the project. One of the main helpers is resident Eldridge Cruse. Cruse was one of Template’s first residents. He was exonerated under changes to the felony murder rule in 2019, after almost three decades inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bert Perla (L) and Eldridge Cruse (R) talk in the backyard at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every evening, he tries to do some work in the garden. He envisions that in the next year the backyard will have a jacuzzi, a vegetable patch and a study area. It’ll be somewhere for the house cat, BARK, whose name stands for Bad Ass Revolutionary Kitty, to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that I’ve been looking for my whole life,” Cruse said. “We all look for someplace to belong, someplace where we’re wanted, someplace where we’re needed. And this right here, being in this community, this is what I found,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Life only has places for a dozen people, but efforts are underway across the Bay Area to create similar communities. Reentry experts say the need is only going to get greater, and there should be a better system in place on a state and county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the state is going to incarcerate our community members, they also should continue to support them following release and to uphold the mission of rehabilitation, rather than pass that piece off and hope that it gets picked up,” Augustine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That included the money he’d made working in the prison library, plus the $200 that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/09/10/what-gate-money-can-and-cannot-buy\">has given to parolees\u003c/a> since 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had told the parole board that he wanted to go to San Francisco so he could access more services for his autism, and escape some of the demons he’d left back in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was set up at a halfway house, the Taylor Street Center run by the GEO Group in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. However, after six months there and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the director told me, ‘we need your bed space, you have to leave.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had made some money working a contract job, but he knew he didn’t have enough for an apartment. In classes at the transitional center, they’d told him he’d need to make at least $30 an hour to live comfortably in San Francisco, and he knew he wasn’t even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told the job counselor, ‘I’m not ready to leave yet. I’m going to need the extension, at least for a few more months so I can save more money,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter was scared he’d end up in a temporary group shelter, or have to live far away from the few programs and job prospects he’d found in the city. 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A few years ago, Agnew met some people who had recently been released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew reads in a room at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I asked them what they needed, and they were like, we just don’t have anywhere to hang out. We don’t have anywhere to be and we want to play [Dungeons and Dragons],” they said. “And so we started to play DnD and we started to have a potluck dinner together and friendships blossomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew saw that more than just a place to be, their friends needed a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew had already been working to set up communal living spaces as an executive director of the nonprofit District Commons, and was in a good place to help the group rent and buy two houses in San Francisco. The houses are communal, fit in with conditions for people’s probation and parole, and rent is often cheaper than market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Krauter lives in one of the homes, called Sigil, with five other people, some of whom have been to prison and some who haven’t. He cooks lasagna and empanadas for the house, and calls the opportunity a “life and sanity saver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew turns a sign that indicates whether the cat that they share is home at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I may not get along with the entire community,” he said, “but the people I do get along with, I care about a whole bunch. They are fantastic, intelligent, fun-to-be-around people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew lives at the other home, called Template House. It’s a colorful Victorian walk-up on Haight Street. Agnew said when people hear they live with formerly incarcerated people, they get uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when you come here, it’s so cozy and beautiful,” they said. “Dinners are wonderful. Everyone takes care of each other. The wisdoms of this group of people are so extraordinary. I would trust this group of people to raise my child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is a bit of a fixer-upper, but the residents are up for the project. One of the main helpers is resident Eldridge Cruse. Cruse was one of Template’s first residents. He was exonerated under changes to the felony murder rule in 2019, after almost three decades inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bert Perla (L) and Eldridge Cruse (R) talk in the backyard at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every evening, he tries to do some work in the garden. He envisions that in the next year the backyard will have a jacuzzi, a vegetable patch and a study area. It’ll be somewhere for the house cat, BARK, whose name stands for Bad Ass Revolutionary Kitty, to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that I’ve been looking for my whole life,” Cruse said. “We all look for someplace to belong, someplace where we’re wanted, someplace where we’re needed. And this right here, being in this community, this is what I found,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Life only has places for a dozen people, but efforts are underway across the Bay Area to create similar communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>When news of the pandemic first reached the men incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in Central California, inmate Ed Welker said the prevailing mood was panic. “We were like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to come in here and it’s going to spread like wildfire and we’re all going to get it,’ ” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a year later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">94% of Avenal’s incarcerated men have contracted COVID-19 and eight have died\u003c/a>. With more than 3,600 confirmed cases among prisoners and staff members, the facility tops the list of the country’s largest COVID-19 clusters in prisons compiled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">The New York Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/\">UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the prison system’s response to the pandemic “nonchalant,” “incompetent” and at times “negligent,” Welker and his fellow inmates described a crowded and dangerous living situation. Inmates interviewed by Valley Public Radio said physical distancing was nearly impossible, and constant moves in and out of quarantine were confusing and disruptive. The postponement of visits and rehabilitative programs left the men with little opportunity to vent their frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s chaos over here, man,” said John Walker, 50, an inmate interviewed via the prison system’s collect-calling service during the fall surge in cases. “That’s why the mental health program’s blowing up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar grievances have been voiced by prisoners across the country, who have contracted the virus at a rate more than three times that of the general population, according to \u003ca href=\"http://themarshallproject.org/2020/12/18/1-in-5-prisoners-in-the-u-s-has-had-covid-19\">an analysis\u003c/a> by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the U.S. criminal justice system. Lawsuits and criminal justice advocates detail a pandemic response in prisons and jails that has ranged from careless to egregious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862099 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/avenal_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/avenal_02.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/avenal_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/avenal_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/avenal_02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Avenal State Prison. A recent report by The Marshall Project points at California’s prisons as a case study showing how outbreaks tend to recur in overcrowded prisons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s prison authority denies many of these men’s claims and instead points to the long list of precautions the agency has adopted since the pandemic began. Dana Simas, press secretary at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wrote in an email that state and Avenal officials “are continuously working with public health and health care experts to address this unprecedented pandemic and protect those who live and work in our state prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The virus continues to devastate prison populations and employees. Despite a dramatic drop in new infections since the holidays, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons\">15,000 inmates\u003c/a> nationwide have contracted the virus in the past three weeks, according to The Marshall Project. California’s facilities serve as a case study in which outbreaks recur while prison advocates argue that officials failed to enact a critical precaution: relieving overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has not been the political will to do what’s necessary to keep people safe, which is to dramatically reduce prison and jail populations,” said \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/aaron-littman\">Aaron Littman\u003c/a>, a teaching fellow at UCLA School of Law and deputy director of the COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the pandemic, corrections agencies across the country put in place measures to prevent outbreaks, mandating masks and physical distancing, setting aside housing units specifically for quarantined inmates, and establishing testing protocols for staffers and the incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The measures are important, the measures help … but those are not sufficient,” said Littman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horrific errors occurred. In late May, for instance, a transfer of a handful of inmates later discovered to have been COVID-positive sparked an outbreak that killed 29 people and infected 2,600 others at San Quentin State Prison in Northern California.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11843335\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1920_Avenal-1020x574.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nDecision-makers disagree about what’s safe. At Avenal, as in all of California’s prisons, labor contracts permit guards to work different shifts in different buildings, despite the fact that many academic experts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/correction-detention/guidance-correctional-detention.html\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discourage the practice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health director of Kings County, where Avenal is located, tried to order the prison to temporarily freeze staff assignments in May, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/post/avenal-s-prison-labor-contract-allows-actions-cdc-and-kings-county-warned-could-spread-covid-19#stream/0\">the state prison authority politely informed him the county has no jurisdiction over a state-run facility\u003c/a>. “The response to us was, ‘Well, because of labor agreements, we can’t do that,’ ” said Kings County Supervisor Craig Pedersen. “It was one of the most frustrating interactions we had, I think, in this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workplace culture may also undermine well-intentioned precautions. In a review published in October, California’s Office of the Inspector General, the state prison watchdog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/OIG-COVID-19-Review-Series-Part-2-%E2%80%93-Face-Coverings-and-PPE.pdf\">reported that staff members failed to properly wear masks at two-thirds of the prisons it inspected\u003c/a>. The report concluded lax enforcement was to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, like Littman, many advocates and academics say preventive measures can accomplish little in such tightly packed environments. “Our review of the evidence indicates that relieving population pressures in jails, prisons, and detention centers greatly facilitates adherence to CDC guidelines, controlling COVID-19 outbreaks, and reducing health risks, particularly for medically vulnerable people,” members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25945/decarcerating-correctional-facilities-during-covid-19-advancing-health-equity-and\">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine\u003c/a> wrote in an October report. “Smaller populations make it easier for correctional officials to place individuals in single cells, have sufficient resources for testing, and safely quarantine individuals after exposure to an infected person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather outside Avenal State Prison on June 6, 2020. At this prison in Central California, 94% of the incarcerated men had contracted COVID-19 and eight have died. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic began, 1.5 million inmates were housed in roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html\">1,900 state and federal prisons\u003c/a>, many of which were not just crowded but overcrowded. California’s prisons were stuffed with an average of 30% more inmates than they were designed to house. Avenal’s occupancy was nearly 50% beyond capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since March, the state corrections department has granted early releases to 19,000 inmates due to medical and other circumstances, but a federal judge argued it hasn’t been enough. “I have cajoled, begged and pleaded with the governor and the secretary to release a very significantly higher number of inmates beyond their current release efforts,” U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said during a January hearing for an ongoing court case regarding medical care within the state’s prisons. “With all appreciation for the efforts they have made, those requests have fallen on deaf ears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the incarcerated who are contracting COVID-19 at alarming rates. Throughout the country, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons#staff-cases\">103,000 prison employees\u003c/a> have tested positive for the virus and 184 have died, a sum that doesn’t begin to account for the infections transmitted beyond prison walls to families and communities.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“It’s a huge concern,” said Jeff Garner, executive director of the nonprofit Kings Community Action Organization in rural Kings County, where three state prisons provide jobs for more than 4,300 people. “The prisons are a huge employer in our county. Whether it’s employees or clients, it’s kind of like those six degrees of separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 40 miles from Avenal, on the other side of this agricultural county in the San Joaquin Valley, is the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran, ranked by The New York Times as the country’s second-largest cluster of COVID-19 in prison. Kings County health officials have not responded to multiple requests for comment about how these two prison outbreaks have contributed to community transmission of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862101 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/satf_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second-largest cluster of COVID-19 cases in the nation is also in Kings County at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Could the arrival of the vaccines finally put a stop to COVID-19 in prisons? In December, nearly 500 academics and public health experts \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rlz5lCDHLCJ4Pnhl0mdNl3VeRSuBu8QWblRtjXu6zN0/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs\">signed a letter\u003c/a> to the CDC calling for prisoners and correctional employees to receive priority access. At least nine states included incarcerated people \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/covid-vaccination-plans/\">in the first tier of vaccination plans\u003c/a>, while 15 included prison staffers, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a research organization that studies mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California began offering vaccines to medically vulnerable inmates at a limited number of facilities in December. By mid-February, the state had vaccinated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/\">close to 35,800 inmates and 24,900 correctional staffers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='prisons']Ed Welker, 58, hasn’t been offered a vaccine yet, but he said he’s not interested. Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fcases-updates%2Fcases-in-us.html#vaccinations\">63 million\u003c/a> doses that have already been shot into American arms, he’s wary of long-term side effects — and he also feels that, at Avenal, the vaccine is obsolete. “For this particular population, I think it’s a waste of time and money, because everybody here for the most part has had” COVID-19, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Welker said many inmates share his views, they appear to be in a minority: In a recent court filing, state officials reported that more than two-thirds of incarcerated people who’ve been offered the vaccine have accepted it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Welker argues that getting vaccinated, like masking and physical distancing, is a moral imperative for correctional staffers, who could bring the virus back to the prison. “They signed up for this,” he said. “It’s their job to protect us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kerry Klein is a reporter with Valley Public Radio. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is from a reporting partnership that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a> and KHN, an editorially independent program of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/\">KFF\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/morning-briefing/\">Subscribe\u003c/a> to KHN’s free Morning Briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&t=event&ec=Republish&tid=UA-53070700-2&z=1614279992310&cid=215ff375-8839-40ce-9e8e-ac5ef5e5d8da&ea=https%3A%2F%2Fkhn.org%2Fnews%2Farticle%2Flessons-from-california-prison-where-covid-spread-like-wildfire%2F&el=Lessons%20From%20California%20Prison%20Where%20Covid%20%E2%80%98Spread%20Like%20Wildfire%E2%80%99\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When news of the pandemic first reached the men incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in Central California, inmate Ed Welker said the prevailing mood was panic. “We were like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to come in here and it’s going to spread like wildfire and we’re all going to get it,’ ” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a year later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">94% of Avenal’s incarcerated men have contracted COVID-19 and eight have died\u003c/a>. With more than 3,600 confirmed cases among prisoners and staff members, the facility tops the list of the country’s largest COVID-19 clusters in prisons compiled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">The New York Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/\">UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the prison system’s response to the pandemic “nonchalant,” “incompetent” and at times “negligent,” Welker and his fellow inmates described a crowded and dangerous living situation. Inmates interviewed by Valley Public Radio said physical distancing was nearly impossible, and constant moves in and out of quarantine were confusing and disruptive. The postponement of visits and rehabilitative programs left the men with little opportunity to vent their frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s chaos over here, man,” said John Walker, 50, an inmate interviewed via the prison system’s collect-calling service during the fall surge in cases. “That’s why the mental health program’s blowing up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar grievances have been voiced by prisoners across the country, who have contracted the virus at a rate more than three times that of the general population, according to \u003ca href=\"http://themarshallproject.org/2020/12/18/1-in-5-prisoners-in-the-u-s-has-had-covid-19\">an analysis\u003c/a> by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the U.S. criminal justice system. 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A recent report by The Marshall Project points at California’s prisons as a case study showing how outbreaks tend to recur in overcrowded prisons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s prison authority denies many of these men’s claims and instead points to the long list of precautions the agency has adopted since the pandemic began. Dana Simas, press secretary at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wrote in an email that state and Avenal officials “are continuously working with public health and health care experts to address this unprecedented pandemic and protect those who live and work in our state prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The virus continues to devastate prison populations and employees. Despite a dramatic drop in new infections since the holidays, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons\">15,000 inmates\u003c/a> nationwide have contracted the virus in the past three weeks, according to The Marshall Project. California’s facilities serve as a case study in which outbreaks recur while prison advocates argue that officials failed to enact a critical precaution: relieving overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has not been the political will to do what’s necessary to keep people safe, which is to dramatically reduce prison and jail populations,” said \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/aaron-littman\">Aaron Littman\u003c/a>, a teaching fellow at UCLA School of Law and deputy director of the COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the pandemic, corrections agencies across the country put in place measures to prevent outbreaks, mandating masks and physical distancing, setting aside housing units specifically for quarantined inmates, and establishing testing protocols for staffers and the incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The measures are important, the measures help … but those are not sufficient,” said Littman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horrific errors occurred. In late May, for instance, a transfer of a handful of inmates later discovered to have been COVID-positive sparked an outbreak that killed 29 people and infected 2,600 others at San Quentin State Prison in Northern California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDecision-makers disagree about what’s safe. At Avenal, as in all of California’s prisons, labor contracts permit guards to work different shifts in different buildings, despite the fact that many academic experts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/correction-detention/guidance-correctional-detention.html\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discourage the practice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health director of Kings County, where Avenal is located, tried to order the prison to temporarily freeze staff assignments in May, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/post/avenal-s-prison-labor-contract-allows-actions-cdc-and-kings-county-warned-could-spread-covid-19#stream/0\">the state prison authority politely informed him the county has no jurisdiction over a state-run facility\u003c/a>. “The response to us was, ‘Well, because of labor agreements, we can’t do that,’ ” said Kings County Supervisor Craig Pedersen. “It was one of the most frustrating interactions we had, I think, in this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workplace culture may also undermine well-intentioned precautions. In a review published in October, California’s Office of the Inspector General, the state prison watchdog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/OIG-COVID-19-Review-Series-Part-2-%E2%80%93-Face-Coverings-and-PPE.pdf\">reported that staff members failed to properly wear masks at two-thirds of the prisons it inspected\u003c/a>. The report concluded lax enforcement was to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, like Littman, many advocates and academics say preventive measures can accomplish little in such tightly packed environments. “Our review of the evidence indicates that relieving population pressures in jails, prisons, and detention centers greatly facilitates adherence to CDC guidelines, controlling COVID-19 outbreaks, and reducing health risks, particularly for medically vulnerable people,” members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25945/decarcerating-correctional-facilities-during-covid-19-advancing-health-equity-and\">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine\u003c/a> wrote in an October report. “Smaller populations make it easier for correctional officials to place individuals in single cells, have sufficient resources for testing, and safely quarantine individuals after exposure to an infected person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Avenal_protest-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather outside Avenal State Prison on June 6, 2020. 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Avenal’s occupancy was nearly 50% beyond capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since March, the state corrections department has granted early releases to 19,000 inmates due to medical and other circumstances, but a federal judge argued it hasn’t been enough. “I have cajoled, begged and pleaded with the governor and the secretary to release a very significantly higher number of inmates beyond their current release efforts,” U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said during a January hearing for an ongoing court case regarding medical care within the state’s prisons. “With all appreciation for the efforts they have made, those requests have fallen on deaf ears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the incarcerated who are contracting COVID-19 at alarming rates. 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