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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Many of those clients are serving life sentences for a third strike, Liebb said. “They’re no longer a threat to public safety, except if they were released with a transmissible disease that was propagated by CDCR.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the end of May, San Quentin had remained untouched by the virus, with no recorded cases. That changed quickly after the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823976/botched-outbreak-of-covid-19-at-san-quentin-was-preventable-lawmaker-says\">transferred 121 people\u003c/a> there from the California Institution for Men in Chino — 25 of whom subsequently tested positive. Since then, the virus has spread like wildfire; as of July 6, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">more than 1,400 people\u003c/a> — including 165 employees — inside San Quentin have tested positive, and at least six have died, according to department records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can protect the lives of people at San Quentin and the larger public is to reduce the prison population as quickly as possible,” San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju said in a statement on July 1. “Not only is the treatment of incarcerated people inside California’s prisons unconscionable, but so is the lack of information and transparency regarding the outbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it was taking active steps to curb the spread of the virus at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An explosion of coronavirus infections at California’s San Quentin State Prison, the state’s oldest, has public health officials worried about its impact on prisoners, staff and the wider hospital system in San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shocking, heartbreaking are certainly the words I would use to describe it,” said Dr. David Sears, a physician and professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He recently toured San Quentin and warned officials about just such an outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating how fast this has moved through the prison,” he said. [aside postID=\"news_11826188\" label=\"Listen to KQED's The Bay\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were zero inmate coronavirus cases at the prison throughout March, April and May. Today, there are more than 700 infections, including 613 incarcerated people and 89 staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in the latest development, as infections spread across San Quentin, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced it would halting a planned transfer of inmates from San Quentin to North Kern State Prison after two incarcerated people — who were scheduled for that transfer — tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand and share the concern of COVID-19 cases in the state’s prisons, and are implementing multiple strategies to control the spread of the virus,” a spokesperson for the department of corrections wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials and prison advocates say the initial outbreak was entirely preventable. They point to a transfer in late May of 122 inmates to San Quentin from an overcrowded state men’s prison in Chino, where COVID-19 is ravaging the inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, they arrived untested and were placed within San Quentin and really kind of seeded an outbreak in a second state facility,” said Dr. Matt Willis, the public health director for Marin County, where San Quentin is located. “In the rush of trying to address that epidemic at Chino, that [testing] step may have been overlooked.” [aside postID=\"news_11825930\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear why, during a deadly pandemic, the inmates were not tested. Prison officials have said they are working with health departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Willis said he’s alarmed by the prison’s rapid increase in cases and its potential impact on area hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that we will see hundreds of more cases,” he said. “Even if a small fraction of those people become so sick that they need to be hospitalized, it will stress our regional hospital system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Charts-show-the-hot-spots-driving-California-s-15364820.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New data show\u003c/a> that Marin County leads northern California, by far, with 200 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no inmates or staff have died at San Quentin, which houses about 3,700 prisoners. But, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so far, at least 20 inmates and two employees\u003c/a> at other state prisons have died after contracting COVID-19. That includes 16 fatalities at the California Institution for Men in Chino. [aside tag=\"incarceration, prison\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, experts with UCSF and UC Berkeley toured the prison at the request of the body overseeing the prison. Overcrowding in the state’s prison system and problems with its health care system is the subject of a long-running legal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the physicians warned the federal, court-appointed receiver that helps oversee prison health care that “San Quentin is an extremely dangerous place for an outbreak, everything should be done to decrease the number of people exposed to this environment as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of doctors recommended the prison take multiple, immediate mitigation steps. They include rapid, expanded testing, creation of an outbreak emergency response team, and reducing San Quentin’s population by half to avoid a potentially devastating outbreak there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Priority must be placed on reducing the prison population at San Quentin via decarceration as it will be extremely difficult to ensure the health and safety of all people in this extraordinarily old and complex facility.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials did not heed the warnings, health officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the cells except in one small area have walls on all sides,” Dr. Sears said, which make it “impossible, or nearly impossible, to effectively mitigate the spread of a virus within a prison that’s overcrowded and was built over 100 years ago,” he said. The prison was built in 1852. It’s home to many older inmates and some who are in fragile health. Both are leading comorbidity risk factors for COVID-19, Dr. Sears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges of decarceration, Dr. Sears and his colleagues say quickly and carefully reducing the prison’s population may be the only viable solution. “I know this is a politically charged topic, but this is a matter of public health and human rights” for inmates, staff, their loved ones “and the surrounding community in the Bay Area,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, attorneys and families of inmates with the ad hoc group #StopSanQuentinOutbreak are also demanding urgent action to protect inmates and staff. They want more prisoners to be granted early release, as well more masks, hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies, among other moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, prisons and jails have come under withering criticism for failing to adequately protect inmates and staff during the Coronavirus pandemic. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/report/failing-grades-states-responses-covid-19-jails-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent ACLU report\u003c/a> alleges gross negligence and mismanagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite having ample time and information to take the steps necessary to heed the warnings of experts and save the lives of those incarcerated in their prisons and jails, state governments across the country refused to adequately address the threat that the COVID-19 pandemic poses in jails and prisons,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Willis, Marin County’s health officer, said the state is moving towards setting aside one site to handle a surge of critically ill inmates for this outbreak and, potentially, others like it in prisons across the state. “A larger, single facility dedicated to this would protect community hospitals around the region,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas declined NPR’s interview requests on the outbreak and the prison’s testing failures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Simas noted that in coming weeks some 80 non-violent, eligible offenders who have 180 days or less on their sentence may be released early to a State Community Custody Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement said the state prison and prison health systems “will continue to work together, along with state and local health care and public health experts, to implement measures that will protect those who work or live in our state prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Shocking%2C+Heartbreaking%27+Coronavirus+Outbreak+In+CA+Prison+Alarms+Health+Officials&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>KQED staff contributed to this report. This report was updated Saturday, 6/27/2020 at 5:33 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But over the course of the past six years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> helped expose \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/jeremy-puckett/\">numerous problems\u003c/a> with Puckett’s prosecution that were never presented to the jury — including an alibi, a recantation from the perpetrator who originally implicated Puckett and significant evidence that included 700 pages of materials the government withheld from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although happy to be home with his family in Sacramento, Puckett has entered a much different world than he’d envisioned just months ago. The coronavirus has posed unforeseen challenges — both for him and the many people he knows who are still behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been dealing with problems with getting my Social Security card, my California’s driver’s license and ID as well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mostly, Puckett said he’s concerned for the safety of people who are still on the inside, including his son, who’s been quarantined in county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeremy Puckett\"]‘I’d much rather be out here dealing with this situation than dealing with it in there.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quarantine was a precautionary measure after his son’s cellmate came down with a fever, but Puckett is worried because he hasn’t heard from him in more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puckett said he keeps in touch with friends still in prison, some of whom have shared a variety of concerns — from losing access to law libraries that are critical to incarcerated people fighting their own court cases, to seeing some guards not wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re incarcerated, you’re basically sitting in a box,” Puckett said. “There’s only so much you can do, so you know, you’re more worried about what’s coming in than what’s going out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/19/this-chart-shows-why-the-prison-population-is-so-vulnerable-to-covid-19\">particularly vulnerable during this pandemic\u003c/a>, and new safety measures have also limited the support they’re able to receive. 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You can find identification information for an incarcerated person who needs money and \u003ca href=\"https://web.connectnetwork.com/deposit-money-inmate-commissary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxtbIup-v6AIVjSCtBh1ecgDXEAAYASABEgLwj_D_BwE\">send it directly\u003c/a> to that person’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>Help People Post Bail\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Community bail funds allow people to pay their bail and await trial at home, thus reducing jail populations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory\">Here is a national directory\u003c/a> of bail funds within the criminal or immigration detention systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>Donate to Organizations Helping Incarcerated Individuals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some community organizations have created funds to provide personal protective equipment and hygiene supplies to incarcerated people in jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that support incarcerated people continue to do critical work, even though many of their efforts are currently hindered by health and safety precautions. Here are some local organizations that are continuing to provide support and resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support the \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org\">Northern California Innocence Project\u003c/a> by donating toward a variety of efforts that continue through the pandemic, including case work and client support, policy reform and virtual classroom and curriculum development. \u003ca href=\"http://ncip.org/how-to-help-while-we-shelter-in-place/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org\">Restore Justice\u003c/a> is accepting donations to purchase N95 masks for incarcerated people and staff at prisons. \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/donate-for-covid-19/\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Science Policy Group at UCSF is currently working \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\">on a mutual aid project\u003c/a> to distribute hand sanitizer to vulnerable populations in the Bay Area, including people who are incarcerated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/gqgve-hand-sanitizer-for-vulnerable-groups-amid-covid19?\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlit.org\">Prisoners Literature Project\u003c/a> is currently unable to send books, for the most part, but you can still buy books through their Amazon wish list for when operations resume. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/PLPwishlist\">Find it here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insightprisonproject.org\">Insight Prison Project\u003c/a>, based in San Rafael, offers programs for prisoners and parolees. \u003ca href=\"https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/insightprisonproject\">Donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>Send a Message of Encouragement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since health and safety precautions have limited the visitors who can come into prisons and jails, incarcerated people are now even further isolated from family, friends and volunteers. Puckett and Lori Stone, a spokesperson for the Northern California Innocence Project, said receiving mail can go a long way in helping to lift incarcerated people’s spirits, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that writing is really awesome because, you know, everybody out here is in lockdown in the communities, but the prisons are in lockdown as well,” Stone said. “There are a lot of folks that are kind of on their own inside the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To send a letter, you have to know the name and ID number of an incarcerated person. If you don’t know someone personally, you can locate a pen pal online or through an organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Contact someone directly:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/visitors/howtocontact/\">Here’s how to contact someone\u003c/a> you already know in California state prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Find a pen pal:\u003c/strong> You can find incarcerated people in search of a pen pal through a Facebook group, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/prison.pen.pals.inmate.penpals/\">this one\u003c/a>, or through efforts like the \u003ca href=\"https://prisonercorrespondenceproject.com/getting-a-penpal/\">Prisoner Correspondence Project\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://writeaprisoner.com/home/faq#faq-443903\">Write a Prisoner\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reach out to students at San Quentin State Prison:\u003c/strong> Though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonuniversityproject.org/?fbclid=IwAR2bBxaS1xPHLGiryLHCoQgSEedZYyekrKEAzEEtNrdZRw9jZJVtW-GkkLw\">Prison University Project\u003c/a> is temporarily suspending all programming at San Quentin State Prison, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Prison.University.Project/posts/10156795907691932?__tn__=-R\">send a message\u003c/a> to students at info@prisonuniversityproject.org, with the subject heading “Message to Students.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Go through the Innocence Project:\u003c/strong> One Innocence Project client, Darrill Henry, had his conviction overturned in April, and he’s now awaiting his new trial from Louisiana State Penitentiary. 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Local jails have also released thousands of low-level inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"san-quentin\" label=\"outbreak at san quentin\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an outbreak that has grown to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827695/pressure-mounts-for-newsom-to-release-vulnerable-incarcerated-people\"> more than 2,300 cases\u003c/a> of COVID-19 in the state’s network of prisons has worried public health officials about the impact on prisoners, staff and the wider hospital system in Bay Area. Gov. Newsom announced July 10 that California will release 8,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And advocates are\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811822/amid-pandemic-state-releases-thousands-of-prisoners-but-will-they-have-support-at-home\"> concerned\u003c/a> that those who are released won’t have the resources to stay healthy or face the increased challenges the pandemic poses in finding housing, work and even basic needs. 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San Francisco courts have ordered dozens of inmates released early. Contra Costa County is also looking at steps to cut down the number of people held in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a group of 28 advocacy organizations wrote a letter to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra requesting the state’s top cop expand these localized efforts by directing all sheriffs to release people who have six months or less left on their sentences and asking local law enforcement to reduce arrests and bookings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without action, thousands will likely die with the suffering falling disproportionately on low-income families, particularly Black and Latinx families,” the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the calls from advocates in his Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no interest — and I want to make this crystal clear — in releasing violent criminals from our system. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Brant Choate gets mail from the men and women in the California prisons he helps oversee, he says the letters often read something like this: “I’ve graduated with my associate degree for transfer and I need a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people in California prisons are in that situation, Choate estimates. As director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, he said he’s been wanting to expand bachelor’s degree programs for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met a student who had seven AA [associate] degrees,” he said. “They’re lining up, ready for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rebecca Silbert, director of Corrections to College California\"]‘Trying to fix this mess we’ve created with mass incarceration by asking one of our state agencies to step up and help out another state agency, that’s innovative and smart.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the only public bachelor’s degree program offered in California’s sprawling state prison system is \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstatela.edu/engagement/prison-graduation-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">run by California State University, Los Angeles \u003c/a>at a men’s maximum security facility in Lancaster. But a largely overlooked \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/BudgetSummary/PublicSafety.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a> in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget plan, released earlier this month, could make bachelor’s programs a possibility for incarcerated students at several more prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly innovative and it’s something that no other state is doing,” says Rebecca Silbert, who has helped expand higher education in California prisons as director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corrections to College California\u003c/a> initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, CDCR would partner with the California State University system to expand bachelor’s programs to as many as seven prisons. Newsom’s budget puts $1.7 million toward that goal next year, then, beginning in 2021, dedicates $3.5 million a year to the effort on an ongoing basis. The money would cover things like tuition, books and other materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bachelor’s programs are relatively rare in prisons across the country, and public ones even more so. \u003ca href=\"https://prisoneducationproject.utah.edu/research/the-research-collaborative-on-higher-education-in-prison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National estimates\u003c/a> put the number of colleges teaching in prisons at around 200 and most of those are community college associate degree programs. That scarcity is part of what makes this proposal groundbreaking, Silbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11797374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.024-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CSU Los Angeles English professor Bidhan Roy teaches inmates at Lancaster prison as part of a bachelor’s program. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Trying to fix this mess we’ve created with mass incarceration by asking one of our state agencies to step up and help out another state agency, that’s innovative and smart,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has led the nation in expanding postsecondary opportunities for incarcerated students since 2014, when lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened the door\u003c/a> for community colleges to start teaching in-person courses behind bars. Today, 34 of the state’s 35 prisons offer face-to-face courses, \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/assets/general/StrivingForSuccess_4printR1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serving nearly 6,000 incarcerated students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the number of men and women completing transfer-worthy associate degrees in prison has grown, so have calls for the opportunity to complete a four-year degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Los Angeles’ success overcoming the challenges to working inside a prison — from lack of classroom space to technological limitations — demonstrated to Choate that CDCR and CSU could work together to expand B.A. programs. The model also convinced him these programs could serve as regional hubs, allowing qualified incarcerated students to transfer in from other prisons in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prisons in Folsom and Corcoran, as well as Valley State Prison and the Central California Women’s Facility, both in Chowchilla, are among those flagged as potential sites for the new bachelor’s programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11775030\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]The funding could also allow Cal State Los Angeles to stop relying on private grants to run its 4-year-old program, and facilitate a possible expansion to the California Institution for Women in Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choate said he expects Fresno State and Sacramento State to be among the CSUs involved. But the proposal is still very much in the early stages: prison education advocates and CSU administrators alike expressed surprise at the news, while a CSU spokesman said the university system’s leadership wasn’t even aware of the proposal until it was made public earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, CSU spokesman Mike Uhlenkamp said an expanded partnership with state universities made sense now that Cal State Los Angeles has paved the way. “We look forward to pending discussions with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to learn more details of the proposal as the budget process moves forward,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding set aside in Newsom’s budget would allow around 200 incarcerated students to enroll in bachelor’s programs next year and then about 400 students each year after that, Choate estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although that’s only a fraction of those who could benefit, it’s still a big deal, says Cal State Los Angeles English professor Bidhan Roy, whose advocacy inspired the school’s prison program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It signals a priority,” he said. “It’s a statewide acknowledgement that these people have value and higher education has a role in prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and ‘80s, college-level education had a firm foothold in the nation’s prisons; it was a vital piece of ammunition in the rehabilitative arsenal. As political tides changed and the 1994 federal crime bill banned incarcerated students from accessing federal student aid, many of those programs dissolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11797375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.041-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student-inmate at Lancaster taking notes during class. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after decades of stagnation, there’s support nationally for expanding higher education in prisons and \u003ca href=\"https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REAL%20Act,%20116th.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bringing back Pell Grants\u003c/a> for incarcerated students, and California is paving the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that there’s anything novel about what we’re doing now,” Choate said. “We just turned the power on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, so far, has bipartisan support, Choate said, noting the plan’s potential cost savings through reduced recidivism. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major study \u003c/a>commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice found that inmates who participate in educational opportunities behind bars are more than 40% less likely to return to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Stratman, associate warden at the state prison in Lancaster, is a believer. “They don’t come back,” he said of the former inmates who were enrolled in the Cal State Los Angeles program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hear some flak about them getting an education in prison and it costs money,” he said. “But these guys are going to get out and they’re going to be living maybe in your neighborhood. You want the guy that worked his way through a college program, stayed out of drugs and gangs and things like that as your neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Bidhan Roy, CSU Los Angeles English professor\"]‘It’s a statewide acknowledgement that these people have value and higher education has a role in prison.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs are also intended to create better conditions within prisons themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The education that we’re getting here, it’s not just affecting the men in the room,” said Allen Burnett, a student in the bachelor’s program at Lancaster. “It’s affecting the whole facility as well as the other institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That influence may even extend beyond the prison walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he started working toward his bachelor’s, Burnett said, his stepdaughter was also inspired to enroll at Cal State Los Angeles, and his nieces and nephews have since started taking college courses. “This thing right here that we’re doing, it’s transcending this facility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After serving 27 years in prison for aiding and abetting in a murder, Burnett had his life sentence commuted by Newsom last year and is awaiting a parole hearing. He is the fifth inmate in the Cal State Los Angeles program to receive a commutation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the money for prison bachelor’s programs is welcomed by prison education advocates like Rebecca Silbert, she is also disappointed that so far there’s no additional funding in the budget to expand existing prison community college programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re really serious about using our education system to break the cycle of crime and poverty, it makes sense to recognize the burden put on all parts of the system, both the community colleges and the CSU,” she said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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