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The repeated installation of BOP leadership who fail to grasp and address the situation strains credulity. The court is compelled to intercede.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers\"]‘The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in dire need of immediate change.’[/pullquote]The order denied requests to develop a process for the return of non-contraband items seized from cells during searches, the fixing of computer privacy screens and other changes related to access to legal counsel and reporting of staff misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hours after an FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency conducted a “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the prison, government attorneys disclosed in a legal filing that the facility’s acting warden, an associate warden, the executive assistant/satellite camp administrator and the acting captain had all been replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is running the prison now? \u003c/strong>Nancy T. McKinney was assigned as the interim warden, according to a BOP spokesperson. McKinney began working for the BOP in 1992. At Friday’s hearing, government attorneys disclosed the other officials on the new executive team: Greg Chaffey, acting executive assistant and satellite camp administrator; Charmaine Nash, associate warden, a position she has held since July 2023; and Joel Zaragoza, acting captain.[aside label='More on FCI Dublin' tag='fci-dublin']\u003cstrong>What you need to know:\u003c/strong> In her order, Gonzalez Rogers wrote that while she found the allegation that a sexualized environment persists at FCI Dublin today to be exaggerated, she does not believe the government’s assertion that the issue of sexual misconduct has been eradicated at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is somewhere in the middle — allegations of sexual misconduct have lingered, but to characterize it as pervasive goes too far,” the order reads. “However, because of its inability to promptly investigate the allegations that remain and the ongoing retaliation against incarcerated persons who report misconduct, BOP has lost the ability to manage with integrity and trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next? \u003c/strong>Choosing a special master. Attorneys for the government and the plaintiffs have until 5 p.m. March 25 to submit a list of five potential candidates. Two days later, attorneys will have the opportunity to strike three names from the opposing side’s list. Gonzalez Rogers will select the special master from the list of remaining names. The judge wrote that she plans to issue further orders “narrowly tailored to address ongoing retaliation.” The special master will assist the court with ensuring compliance with those orders, she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How we got here: \u003c/strong>This isn’t the first time the FBI has raided FCI Dublin. In July 2021, agents searched then-warden Ray Garcia’s residence, office and vehicle. He was later arrested and convicted of sexually abusing inmates and lying to a government official. Garcia is now serving a nearly six-year sentence in federal prison. Seven other former FCI Dublin officials, including a chaplain, have also been criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ’s investigation of sexual abuse at FCI Dublin is ongoing, according to Gonzalez Rogers’ order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else is happening?\u003c/strong> This month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">12 people filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and retaliation by staff at FCI Dublin\u003c/a>, bringing the total number of claims to 63. The lawsuits allege a wide range of sexual abuse, harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, incarcerated women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972346/federal-oversight-of-dublin-womens-prison-highly-doubtful-despite-ongoing-abuse-allegations\">testified at an evidentiary hearing\u003c/a> that they had experienced retaliation from officers when they reported abuse. Some said they have avoided reporting various instances of misconduct, fearing repercussions. Members of former Warden Art Dulgov’s administration testified they had made it easier to report abuse.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Monae, a woman currently incarcerated at FCI Dublin\"]‘The things that we’ve been through, the people that have been here for a very long time, we need help here. … [the judge] actually was very compassionate and she heard everything that we were saying and more.’[/pullquote]Attorneys representing the BOP have argued that some issues raised by plaintiffs’ attorneys have already been fixed or are in the process of being fixed. “Bad actors have been removed, and conditions at FCI Dublin have improved significantly in recent years,” attorneys wrote in a November filing. “Under new leadership, previous depredations will not recur, and conditions and services will continue to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Gonzalez Rogers made an unannounced nine-hour visit to the prison and spoke confidentially with at least 100 incarcerated women. In a subsequent emergency health and safety order, she wrote that some conditions at the prison were well below the required standard of care and ordered officials to fix showers, provide additional blankets and have licensed contractors inspect the facility for a natural gas leak, black mold and asbestos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman currently incarcerated at FCI Dublin recalled the visit when she called into Forum, KQED’s daily talk show on Monday. KQED is only identifying her by her first name, Monae, because she expressed fear of retaliation for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that we’ve been through, the people that have been here for a very long time, we need help here,” Monae said. “And it’s like no one really sees us. And the judge that came through she actually was very compassionate, and she heard everything that we were saying and more. She’s seen the retaliation, she’s seen the lies and the coverups, and we appreciate her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. District Court Judge will appoint a ‘special master’ to oversee FCI Dublin amid sexual misconduct allegations. The judge also granted immediate changes at the women’s prison. This marks a historic move in the Bureau of Prisons after an FBI raid and replacement of top officials.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710954171,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1221},"headData":{"title":"What Happened at the Dublin Federal Women's Prison Last Week and What to Expect Next | KQED","description":"U.S. District Court Judge will appoint a ‘special master’ to oversee FCI Dublin amid sexual misconduct allegations. 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Gonzalez Rogers’ order also certified a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958308/dublin-womens-prison-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-sexual-abuse-scandal\">class-action lawsuit filed by women incarcerated at the East Bay prison\u003c/a> and approved some requests for immediate changes at the facility. The special master will be the first in the Bureau of Prisons history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge’s decision, handed down Friday, came less than a week after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978878/fbi-raids-dublin-womens-prison-plagued-by-sexual-abuse\">FBI raid at the facility\u003c/a>. The prison’s warden and three other top officials were abruptly replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905064/warden-ousted-as-fbi-raids-federal-womens-prison-in-dublin\">Monday’s Forum episode on the raid\u003c/a>, a woman incarcerated at the prison called into the show. She said the judge’s decision to appoint a special master “a godsend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Gonzalez Rogers’ order granted, in part, a list of immediate changes requested by plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit, including that the prison submit to an audit of its policies on staff sexual abuse, implement changes based on the audit, submit to quarterly site visits and end the use of solitary confinement until it can be ensured that it isn’t being used as retaliation. Gonzalez Rogers called the prison “a dysfunctional mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in dire need of immediate change,” she wrote in her order. “The court finds the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) has proceeded sluggishly with intentional disregard of the inmates’ constitutional rights despite being fully apprised of the situation for years. The repeated installation of BOP leadership who fail to grasp and address the situation strains credulity. The court is compelled to intercede.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in dire need of immediate change.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The order denied requests to develop a process for the return of non-contraband items seized from cells during searches, the fixing of computer privacy screens and other changes related to access to legal counsel and reporting of staff misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hours after an FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency conducted a “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the prison, government attorneys disclosed in a legal filing that the facility’s acting warden, an associate warden, the executive assistant/satellite camp administrator and the acting captain had all been replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is running the prison now? \u003c/strong>Nancy T. McKinney was assigned as the interim warden, according to a BOP spokesperson. McKinney began working for the BOP in 1992. At Friday’s hearing, government attorneys disclosed the other officials on the new executive team: Greg Chaffey, acting executive assistant and satellite camp administrator; Charmaine Nash, associate warden, a position she has held since July 2023; and Joel Zaragoza, acting captain.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on FCI Dublin ","tag":"fci-dublin"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What you need to know:\u003c/strong> In her order, Gonzalez Rogers wrote that while she found the allegation that a sexualized environment persists at FCI Dublin today to be exaggerated, she does not believe the government’s assertion that the issue of sexual misconduct has been eradicated at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is somewhere in the middle — allegations of sexual misconduct have lingered, but to characterize it as pervasive goes too far,” the order reads. “However, because of its inability to promptly investigate the allegations that remain and the ongoing retaliation against incarcerated persons who report misconduct, BOP has lost the ability to manage with integrity and trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next? \u003c/strong>Choosing a special master. Attorneys for the government and the plaintiffs have until 5 p.m. March 25 to submit a list of five potential candidates. Two days later, attorneys will have the opportunity to strike three names from the opposing side’s list. Gonzalez Rogers will select the special master from the list of remaining names. The judge wrote that she plans to issue further orders “narrowly tailored to address ongoing retaliation.” The special master will assist the court with ensuring compliance with those orders, she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How we got here: \u003c/strong>This isn’t the first time the FBI has raided FCI Dublin. In July 2021, agents searched then-warden Ray Garcia’s residence, office and vehicle. He was later arrested and convicted of sexually abusing inmates and lying to a government official. Garcia is now serving a nearly six-year sentence in federal prison. Seven other former FCI Dublin officials, including a chaplain, have also been criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ’s investigation of sexual abuse at FCI Dublin is ongoing, according to Gonzalez Rogers’ order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else is happening?\u003c/strong> This month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">12 people filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and retaliation by staff at FCI Dublin\u003c/a>, bringing the total number of claims to 63. The lawsuits allege a wide range of sexual abuse, harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, incarcerated women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972346/federal-oversight-of-dublin-womens-prison-highly-doubtful-despite-ongoing-abuse-allegations\">testified at an evidentiary hearing\u003c/a> that they had experienced retaliation from officers when they reported abuse. Some said they have avoided reporting various instances of misconduct, fearing repercussions. Members of former Warden Art Dulgov’s administration testified they had made it easier to report abuse.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The things that we’ve been through, the people that have been here for a very long time, we need help here. … [the judge] actually was very compassionate and she heard everything that we were saying and more.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Monae, a woman currently incarcerated at FCI Dublin","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Attorneys representing the BOP have argued that some issues raised by plaintiffs’ attorneys have already been fixed or are in the process of being fixed. “Bad actors have been removed, and conditions at FCI Dublin have improved significantly in recent years,” attorneys wrote in a November filing. “Under new leadership, previous depredations will not recur, and conditions and services will continue to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Gonzalez Rogers made an unannounced nine-hour visit to the prison and spoke confidentially with at least 100 incarcerated women. In a subsequent emergency health and safety order, she wrote that some conditions at the prison were well below the required standard of care and ordered officials to fix showers, provide additional blankets and have licensed contractors inspect the facility for a natural gas leak, black mold and asbestos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman currently incarcerated at FCI Dublin recalled the visit when she called into Forum, KQED’s daily talk show on Monday. KQED is only identifying her by her first name, Monae, because she expressed fear of retaliation for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that we’ve been through, the people that have been here for a very long time, we need help here,” Monae said. “And it’s like no one really sees us. And the judge that came through she actually was very compassionate, and she heard everything that we were saying and more. She’s seen the retaliation, she’s seen the lies and the coverups, and we appreciate her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979936/judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-for-women-incarcerated-at-fci-dublin","authors":["11490"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32222","news_33723","news_30638","news_2842","news_1527"],"featImg":"news_11979627","label":"news"},"news_11973393":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11973393","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11973393","score":null,"sort":[1706047221000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-incarceration-expenses-double-top-private-university-tuition","title":"California Incarceration Expenses Double Top Private University Tuition","publishDate":1706047221,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Incarceration Expenses Double Top Private University Tuition | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The cost of imprisoning one person in California has increased by more than 90% in the past decade, reaching a record-breaking $132,860 annually, according to state finance documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s nearly twice as expensive as the annual undergraduate tuition — $66,640 — at the University of Southern California, the most costly private university in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s spending per inmate jumped steeply during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continued to increase despite recent cost-cutting moves, including Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent move to close three state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s propelled by lucrative employee compensation deals and costly mandates to improve health care behind bars, according to fiscal analyses by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">Newsom’s most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> includes $18.1 billion for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, up from $15.7 billion when he took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and advocates have argued California should focus on rehabilitation and shut down additional prisons to save money in the face of what the governor’s office projects to be a $38 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Legislative Analyst’s Office suggested the state could close as many as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/02/how-many-prisons-does-california-need/\">five more state prisons\u003c/a> because of California’s declining inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would stand to save upwards of $1 billion in operating costs and even more money on unfunded capital improvement projects, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s three closures and the cancellation of a contract for a fourth privately run prison save the state an estimated $667 million over the next year, according to the Department of Finance, but the savings are not enough to offset increased operational and employee costs. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"H.D. Palmer, spokesperson, Department of Finance\"]‘We remain committed to meeting the needs of staff and the incarcerated population while right-sizing California’s prison system as the prison population declines over time.’[/pullquote]The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which represents 26,000 prison guards, last summer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/08/ccpoa-contract-2023-california-prisons/\">negotiated a contract\u003c/a> with successive 3% raises and other perks that will cost the state roughly $1 billion over the next three years. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/09/california-union-contract-doctor-bonuses/\">prison doctors’ union\u003c/a>, which represents 1,700 employees, also negotiated a two-year contract with a combined 5.5% general salary increase and a range of other incentives. The Newsom administration estimates it will cost $234 million over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, at least for now, is not recommending any additional prison closures. Instead, his state budget proposal recommends keeping prisons open with fewer inmates in them to provide more space for rehabilitative programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is not currently proposing any additional prison closures,” H.D. Palmer, spokesperson for the Department of Finance, said in a statement. “We remain committed to meeting the needs of staff and the incarcerated population while right-sizing California’s prison system as the prison population declines over time and to addressing space needs as the state transforms the carceral system to one more focused on rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign at Folsom Prison reads, \"All Prisoners Must Exit Vehicle Until Cleared By Officer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An entrance to California State Prison, known as New Folsom Prison, on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents of mass incarceration say the administration’s argument for keeping empty prison beds open doesn’t align with how the money is spent. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Kaneda, deputy director, Californians United for a Responsible Budget\"]‘This is a cash grab by [the corrections department].’[/pullquote]“This is a cash grab by [the corrections department],” said Brian Kaneda, deputy director of the prison abolitionist group Californians United for a Responsible Budget. Newsom has touted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/san-quentin-correctional-officer/\">transforming San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> into a rehabilitation center, but advocates like Kaneda and state advisory groups say the plan is vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rehabilitation costs, which currently include prisoner education and activities, only make up a fraction of total correctional spending — roughly 3% — over the past decade, according to state budget documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the corrections department said its spending plan “judiciously uses taxpayer dollars in a manner that balances the need for cost-efficiency while maximizing public safety, the wellbeing of incarcerated people and successful rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Costs in California prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The actual cost to house a prisoner is much closer to $15,000, said Caitlin O’Neil, a criminal justice analyst for the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. Direct costs include things such as food and clothing, while the remaining 91% of spending per prisoner comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost\">fixed costs like salaries and facility upkeep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found that compensation for employees at the corrections department increased by 43% between 2010 and 2019 — from $110,000 to $158,000 — nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4145\">triple the inflation rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the state prison guard contract included $10,000 bonuses for officers at certain prisons and a new guaranteed 401k contribution in addition to regular pension benefits. [aside postID=news_11965926 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/005_Sharon_230929_076-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The state’s current savings from prison closures, about $200 million per facility, is not nearly enough to offset those pay and benefits boosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to close one or more prisons per year just to offset employee compensation increases that happen regularly,” O’Neil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace officers’ union did not respond to requests for comment. Prison labor advocates often argue that jobs are dangerous and difficult to staff, warranting high compensation benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union can be a force in the Capitol. It has contributed \u003ca href=\"https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?dt=1&s=CA&law-exi=1&law-ot=S,H&law-y=2023&d-eid=3286\">$2.2 million to the campaigns\u003c/a> of current state legislators, and it gave \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1302403&view=contributions&session=2021\">$1.75 million to help Newsom\u003c/a> defeat a 2021 recall campaign. It also recently contributed\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1302403&view=late2\"> $1 million to support Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the measure Newsom placed on the March ballot to build housing and treatment facilities for people with serious mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a precipitous decline in prison populations, corrections spending has remained relatively stable. In 2018, the average daily prison population topped 120,000 compared to a projected 90,240 people in 2024. That’s a 25% decrease. In contrast, correctional spending as a share of the total state budget has barely dropped from 7% to 6% in the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over the past decade, the number of California inmates has dropped an estimated 25%\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-ymn5Y\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ymn5Y/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"250\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"At the same time, the California corrections department budget has increased\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-vYJdC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vYJdC/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"300\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The cost per inmate is up 91%, with average medical spending more than doubled\" aria-label=\"Grouped Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-7pZZu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7pZZu/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What should be good news to opponents of mass incarceration — decreasing populations — has not resulted in a leaner criminal justice system. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Kaneda, deputy director, Californians United for a Responsible Budget\"]‘If you have $700 million in annual savings from prison closure, but you’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new prison infrastructure … that starts to show why the math isn’t mathing.’[/pullquote]“If you have $700 million in annual savings from prison closure, but you’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new prison infrastructure and giving prison guards a billion-dollar raise [over three years], that starts to show why the math isn’t mathing,” Kaneda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wholesale cuts to correctional spending don’t necessarily always equate to better prison conditions, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/john-pfaff/\">John Pfaff\u003c/a>, a law professor at Fordham University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t cut [budgets] carefully, that makes prisons worse places to be. It makes them more dangerous, more traumatic,” Pfaff said. “I say that as someone who is not a fan at all of prisons as a general institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prison medical costs soar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Medical care is one area of increased spending where the state, under court order, is trying to improve prison conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average cost per person for medical care has more than doubled in the past 10 years, and total health care spending by the corrections department has increased by about 67%. Although the recent prison closures have cut about 2,700 correctional positions, medical spending has eaten up those savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/08/california-union-prison-doctor-strike-vote/\">struggle to hire highly trained medical professionals\u003c/a> when they can easily find work elsewhere. The vacancy rate for psychiatrists exceeds 50% at some state hospitals and prisons, according to court documents filed in an ongoing lawsuit about prison conditions and safety, and 20% of positions for primary care doctors are empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill the gap, California has spent more than $1.1 billion on temporary medical staff over the past five years, according to documents obtained by CalMatters through the California Public Records Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state tried to combat chronic staff shortages in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/09/california-union-contract-doctor-bonuses/\">latest contract signed with the prison doctor’s union\u003c/a>, offering $42,000 bonuses on top of raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should California close more prisons?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco, said corrections is the only state program where having fewer people translates into more spending. In 2022, Ting proposed \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/news/20221209-sac-bee-newsom-has-closed-3-prisons-now-lawmakers-are-planning-shut-more\">closing three more prisons\u003c/a> to bring down fixed costs and account for the shrinking number of prisoners. [aside postID=news_11969359 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-12-qut-1020x680.jpg']“If we were educating 50% less kids, you’d see the funding go down. If we had 50% less people in health care or 50% fewer families using CalFresh, the programs would go down,” Ting said. “So how is it at a time when the prison population has not just gone down a little bit, has gone down significantly, that spending increased?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were roughly 15,000 empty beds last year in prisons across the state, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. That number, driven largely by decades of sentencing changes and court-ordered mandates to decrease prison crowding, is expected to reach 20,000 over the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not not talking about some very small number where they want to keep a little bit of a buffer,” Ting said. “They want to keep three to five empty prisons up and running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, who is no longer the budget chair, said he may still push to shut down more prisons this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In California, this sharp increase was heightened by the pandemic and persists due to medical expenses for incarcerated individuals and increased compensation for guards and staff.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706045989,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ymn5Y/6/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vYJdC/5/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7pZZu/5/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1719},"headData":{"title":"California Incarceration Expenses Double Top Private University Tuition | KQED","description":"In California, this sharp increase was heightened by the pandemic and persists due to medical expenses for incarcerated individuals and increased compensation for guards and staff.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Incarceration Expenses Double Top Private University Tuition","datePublished":"2024-01-23T22:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-23T21:39:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Kristen Hwang and Nigel Duara","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11973393/california-incarceration-expenses-double-top-private-university-tuition","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The cost of imprisoning one person in California has increased by more than 90% in the past decade, reaching a record-breaking $132,860 annually, according to state finance documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s nearly twice as expensive as the annual undergraduate tuition — $66,640 — at the University of Southern California, the most costly private university in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s spending per inmate jumped steeply during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continued to increase despite recent cost-cutting moves, including Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent move to close three state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s propelled by lucrative employee compensation deals and costly mandates to improve health care behind bars, according to fiscal analyses by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">Newsom’s most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> includes $18.1 billion for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, up from $15.7 billion when he took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and advocates have argued California should focus on rehabilitation and shut down additional prisons to save money in the face of what the governor’s office projects to be a $38 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Legislative Analyst’s Office suggested the state could close as many as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/02/how-many-prisons-does-california-need/\">five more state prisons\u003c/a> because of California’s declining inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would stand to save upwards of $1 billion in operating costs and even more money on unfunded capital improvement projects, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s three closures and the cancellation of a contract for a fourth privately run prison save the state an estimated $667 million over the next year, according to the Department of Finance, but the savings are not enough to offset increased operational and employee costs. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We remain committed to meeting the needs of staff and the incarcerated population while right-sizing California’s prison system as the prison population declines over time.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"H.D. Palmer, spokesperson, Department of Finance","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which represents 26,000 prison guards, last summer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/08/ccpoa-contract-2023-california-prisons/\">negotiated a contract\u003c/a> with successive 3% raises and other perks that will cost the state roughly $1 billion over the next three years. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/09/california-union-contract-doctor-bonuses/\">prison doctors’ union\u003c/a>, which represents 1,700 employees, also negotiated a two-year contract with a combined 5.5% general salary increase and a range of other incentives. The Newsom administration estimates it will cost $234 million over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, at least for now, is not recommending any additional prison closures. Instead, his state budget proposal recommends keeping prisons open with fewer inmates in them to provide more space for rehabilitative programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is not currently proposing any additional prison closures,” H.D. Palmer, spokesperson for the Department of Finance, said in a statement. “We remain committed to meeting the needs of staff and the incarcerated population while right-sizing California’s prison system as the prison population declines over time and to addressing space needs as the state transforms the carceral system to one more focused on rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign at Folsom Prison reads, \"All Prisoners Must Exit Vehicle Until Cleared By Officer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/237_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An entrance to California State Prison, known as New Folsom Prison, on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents of mass incarceration say the administration’s argument for keeping empty prison beds open doesn’t align with how the money is spent. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is a cash grab by [the corrections department].’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brian Kaneda, deputy director, Californians United for a Responsible Budget","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is a cash grab by [the corrections department],” said Brian Kaneda, deputy director of the prison abolitionist group Californians United for a Responsible Budget. Newsom has touted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/san-quentin-correctional-officer/\">transforming San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> into a rehabilitation center, but advocates like Kaneda and state advisory groups say the plan is vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rehabilitation costs, which currently include prisoner education and activities, only make up a fraction of total correctional spending — roughly 3% — over the past decade, according to state budget documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the corrections department said its spending plan “judiciously uses taxpayer dollars in a manner that balances the need for cost-efficiency while maximizing public safety, the wellbeing of incarcerated people and successful rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Costs in California prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The actual cost to house a prisoner is much closer to $15,000, said Caitlin O’Neil, a criminal justice analyst for the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. Direct costs include things such as food and clothing, while the remaining 91% of spending per prisoner comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost\">fixed costs like salaries and facility upkeep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found that compensation for employees at the corrections department increased by 43% between 2010 and 2019 — from $110,000 to $158,000 — nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4145\">triple the inflation rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the state prison guard contract included $10,000 bonuses for officers at certain prisons and a new guaranteed 401k contribution in addition to regular pension benefits. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11965926","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/005_Sharon_230929_076-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state’s current savings from prison closures, about $200 million per facility, is not nearly enough to offset those pay and benefits boosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to close one or more prisons per year just to offset employee compensation increases that happen regularly,” O’Neil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace officers’ union did not respond to requests for comment. Prison labor advocates often argue that jobs are dangerous and difficult to staff, warranting high compensation benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union can be a force in the Capitol. It has contributed \u003ca href=\"https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?dt=1&s=CA&law-exi=1&law-ot=S,H&law-y=2023&d-eid=3286\">$2.2 million to the campaigns\u003c/a> of current state legislators, and it gave \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1302403&view=contributions&session=2021\">$1.75 million to help Newsom\u003c/a> defeat a 2021 recall campaign. It also recently contributed\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1302403&view=late2\"> $1 million to support Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the measure Newsom placed on the March ballot to build housing and treatment facilities for people with serious mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a precipitous decline in prison populations, corrections spending has remained relatively stable. In 2018, the average daily prison population topped 120,000 compared to a projected 90,240 people in 2024. That’s a 25% decrease. In contrast, correctional spending as a share of the total state budget has barely dropped from 7% to 6% in the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over the past decade, the number of California inmates has dropped an estimated 25%\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-ymn5Y\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ymn5Y/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"250\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"At the same time, the California corrections department budget has increased\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-vYJdC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vYJdC/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"300\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The cost per inmate is up 91%, with average medical spending more than doubled\" aria-label=\"Grouped Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-7pZZu\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7pZZu/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What should be good news to opponents of mass incarceration — decreasing populations — has not resulted in a leaner criminal justice system. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you have $700 million in annual savings from prison closure, but you’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new prison infrastructure … that starts to show why the math isn’t mathing.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brian Kaneda, deputy director, Californians United for a Responsible Budget","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If you have $700 million in annual savings from prison closure, but you’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new prison infrastructure and giving prison guards a billion-dollar raise [over three years], that starts to show why the math isn’t mathing,” Kaneda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wholesale cuts to correctional spending don’t necessarily always equate to better prison conditions, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/john-pfaff/\">John Pfaff\u003c/a>, a law professor at Fordham University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t cut [budgets] carefully, that makes prisons worse places to be. It makes them more dangerous, more traumatic,” Pfaff said. “I say that as someone who is not a fan at all of prisons as a general institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prison medical costs soar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Medical care is one area of increased spending where the state, under court order, is trying to improve prison conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average cost per person for medical care has more than doubled in the past 10 years, and total health care spending by the corrections department has increased by about 67%. Although the recent prison closures have cut about 2,700 correctional positions, medical spending has eaten up those savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/08/california-union-prison-doctor-strike-vote/\">struggle to hire highly trained medical professionals\u003c/a> when they can easily find work elsewhere. The vacancy rate for psychiatrists exceeds 50% at some state hospitals and prisons, according to court documents filed in an ongoing lawsuit about prison conditions and safety, and 20% of positions for primary care doctors are empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill the gap, California has spent more than $1.1 billion on temporary medical staff over the past five years, according to documents obtained by CalMatters through the California Public Records Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state tried to combat chronic staff shortages in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/09/california-union-contract-doctor-bonuses/\">latest contract signed with the prison doctor’s union\u003c/a>, offering $42,000 bonuses on top of raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should California close more prisons?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco, said corrections is the only state program where having fewer people translates into more spending. In 2022, Ting proposed \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/news/20221209-sac-bee-newsom-has-closed-3-prisons-now-lawmakers-are-planning-shut-more\">closing three more prisons\u003c/a> to bring down fixed costs and account for the shrinking number of prisoners. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11969359","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-12-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If we were educating 50% less kids, you’d see the funding go down. If we had 50% less people in health care or 50% fewer families using CalFresh, the programs would go down,” Ting said. “So how is it at a time when the prison population has not just gone down a little bit, has gone down significantly, that spending increased?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were roughly 15,000 empty beds last year in prisons across the state, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. That number, driven largely by decades of sentencing changes and court-ordered mandates to decrease prison crowding, is expected to reach 20,000 over the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not not talking about some very small number where they want to keep a little bit of a buffer,” Ting said. “They want to keep three to five empty prisons up and running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, who is no longer the budget chair, said he may still push to shut down more prisons this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11973393/california-incarceration-expenses-double-top-private-university-tuition","authors":["byline_news_11973393"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_27626","news_16","news_2842"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11973407","label":"source_news_11973393"},"news_11929335":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929335","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929335","score":null,"sort":[1666121408000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-new-folsom-officer-sentenced-to-more-than-12-years-in-federal-prison-for-inmates-death","title":"Former California Corrections Officer Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Death of Incarcerated Man","publishDate":1666121408,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge sentenced Arturo Pacheco, a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer, to more than 12 years in prison for a 2016 assault that led to the death of a man incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco pled guilty in July to violating the civil rights of Ronnie Price, 65, at the prison facility known as New Folsom. While escorting a handcuffed Price, Pacheco swept the legs out from under him, sending Price crashing headfirst into the concrete floor, breaking his jaw. Price, who was Black, died two days later. Pacheco attempted to cover up the incident, according to a CDCR investigation.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Takis Tucker, nephew of Ronnie Price\"]'Even though Ronnie may have been a felon and was incarcerated, we never would have imagined that a peace officer who is ordered to monitor and protect would be the cause of Ronnie's death.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Monday sentencing, U.S. District Judge William Shubb said Pacheco’s actions eroded community trust in the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we send someone to prison, we need to know that this kind of thing isn’t going to happen,” Shubb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco, 40, appeared in a crisp, blue dress shirt and slate-colored slacks. His supporters filled the courtroom seats behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s sister and his nephew, Takis Tucker, who traveled from Los Angeles for the sentencing, sat in the front row. Tucker read a victim’s statement about his uncle’s death, which he addressed directly to Pacheco throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom and I cried heavily before we started to write this,” he said. “We had to come to the sense and reality that Ronnie would not be coming home from prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker said Price had “a calm demeanor,” liked hard candies and loved listening to the R&B band Sade. Tucker also said CDCR never told his family how Price died. Hearing about the brutal way his uncle died after six years was a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though Ronnie may have been a felon and was incarcerated, we never would have imagined that a peace officer who is ordered to monitor and protect would be the cause of Ronnie’s death,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker described the family’s loss as “an empty space that lays on the heart,” but he also told Pacheco the family forgave him. The former officer nodded in acknowledgement.[aside postID=\"news_11927577,news_11908340\" label=\"Relates Posts\"]“I’m extremely remorseful, your honor. I apologize,” Pacheco said when Shubb asked if he had anything to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 15, 2016, Pacheco was escorting Price to a new cell. Price had been sentenced on Feb. 27, 2012, to almost 24 years for making a terrorist threat, and for possession of a firearm and ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prison investigators, Price told Pacheco he didn’t want to move to a new building with a new cellmate, but submitted to being handcuffed behind his back. As Price neared the exit of the building, he stopped walking and straightened his torso, according to a joint investigation of the FBI and CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco reached in front of Price’s body and swiped his legs out from under him. Price landed face-first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Marie Aurich, another escorting officer, sounded an alarm for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Price died of a pulmonary embolism at the UC Davis Medical Center where he’d been brought for treatment, according to the Sacramento County Coroner’s office. The coroner classified Price’s death as a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Price was sent to the hospital, Pacheco sent a text to one of his contacts, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kinda hurt an inmate dumping him,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Folsom prison officials found that Pacheco lied about the incident and got at least five other officers to conspire to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained copies of the officers’ misconduct records through a public records request. The records show that Pacheco falsified a report to create a justification for the assault. Pacheco reported that Price “spun to his left and lunged forward breaking free of my escort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also omitted the presence of another officer, Arturo Luna, who witnessed the incident, apparently afraid that Luna would tell the truth, according to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Brenda Villa, Pacheco’s supervisor, helped bolster Pacheco’s false claims by also omitting the presence of Luna from her report. Villa instructed Aurich to do the same. Luna never filed a report and was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR fired Pacheco for engaging in a “code of silence,” and violating department policies on ethics, honesty in investigations, and use of force, according to a June 18, 2018, termination notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to display the integrity and trust expected of an individual in the field of law enforcement,” the document read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR also fired Villa, Aurich and three other officers, and referred the case for criminal prosecution. The Sacramento County District Attorney declined the case in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the totality of the circumstances presented in the investigation, there was insufficient evidence to file state homicide charges and sustain a conviction of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” Assistant District Attorney Mike Blazina said in an email to KQED Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors came to a different conclusion, indicting Pacheco on Nov. 19, 2020. During its investigation, the FBI uncovered a second instance in which Pacheco used excessive force against another man incarcerated at New Folsom and falsified the incident report: On May 19, 2016, Pacheco pepper-sprayed an incarcerated man in the face at close range. He claimed he did that because the man was threatening to kill himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the constitutional rights of men incarcerated at New Folsom and two counts of falsifying records in a federal investigation. The charges carried a maximum sentence of 60 years. But as part of a plea deal, prosecutors sought a sentence of 151 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco’s attorney David Fischer argued for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very severe sentence for someone who served our country,” Fischer told the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco served in the U.S. Army and the California National Guard. He was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Fisher said his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder that was undiagnosed until 2019, arguing the PTSD may have contributed to his criminal conduct against Price and the other incarcerated man he pepper-sprayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors painted a different picture of the former officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was trained to use physical force to protect himself and to ensure the safety of others. Instead of protecting others, Pacheco used violence because he thought it was ‘fucken funny,’” prosecutors wrote, citing the former officer’s text messages in court papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, assistant U.S. attorney, told Judge Shubb that Pacheco’s crimes had serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A man died who shouldn’t have died,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aurich also pleaded guilty to a single federal charge of falsifying records. As part of a plea agreement, Aurich admitted that she had falsely reported that Price “stopped moving forward, spun to his left and lunged forward.” She is scheduled to be sentenced December 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Pacheco’s supporters wept and hugged after his sentencing. One man called Price’s nephew “a punk b—.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s family left the court through a door separate from Pacheco’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family recently filed a civil lawsuit against Pacheco, Aurich and Jeff Lynch, the New Folsom warden, for compensatory and punitive damages. The complaint filed in September alleges prison officials kept secret the true circumstances of the incident that led to Price’s death, and never informed the family about the attempt to cover up the incident by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Folsom has been under increased scrutiny since 2021 when a member of an elite group of officers that investigates staff misconduct and the deaths of incarcerated people reported serious misconduct within the unit and among frontline staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through reporting, KQED learned that Sgt. Kevin Steele, a senior officer in the Investigative Service Unit, reported the allegations directly to Lynch on Jan. 4, 2021, and to the head of corrections, Kathleen Allison, on Feb. 8, 2021, alleging widespread corruption at the prison. Steele committed suicide six months later, according to a coroner’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the street after the sentencing, Tucker said he thought Pacheco’s sentence was light, but expressed hope that it would deter other guards from abusing their position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes a badge goes to an officer’s head,” he said. “The power goes to a lot of people’s heads who can’t handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction, Oct. 19: In the original version of this story, the first name of Ronnie Price's nephew was misspelled. It’s \"Takis\" — not \"Tavis\" — Tucker.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sukey Lewis and Steven Rascon contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal judge sentenced Arturo Pacheco, a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer, to more than 12 years in prison for a 2016 assault that led to the death of a man incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666205664,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1550},"headData":{"title":"Former California Corrections Officer Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Death of Incarcerated Man | KQED","description":"A federal judge sentenced Arturo Pacheco, a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer, to more than 12 years in prison for a 2016 assault that led to the death of a man incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former California Corrections Officer Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Death of Incarcerated Man","datePublished":"2022-10-18T19:30:08.000Z","dateModified":"2022-10-19T18:54:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11929335 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11929335","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/18/former-new-folsom-officer-sentenced-to-more-than-12-years-in-federal-prison-for-inmates-death/","disqusTitle":"Former California Corrections Officer Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Death of Incarcerated Man","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11929335/former-new-folsom-officer-sentenced-to-more-than-12-years-in-federal-prison-for-inmates-death","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge sentenced Arturo Pacheco, a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer, to more than 12 years in prison for a 2016 assault that led to the death of a man incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco pled guilty in July to violating the civil rights of Ronnie Price, 65, at the prison facility known as New Folsom. While escorting a handcuffed Price, Pacheco swept the legs out from under him, sending Price crashing headfirst into the concrete floor, breaking his jaw. Price, who was Black, died two days later. Pacheco attempted to cover up the incident, according to a CDCR investigation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Even though Ronnie may have been a felon and was incarcerated, we never would have imagined that a peace officer who is ordered to monitor and protect would be the cause of Ronnie's death.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Takis Tucker, nephew of Ronnie Price","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Monday sentencing, U.S. District Judge William Shubb said Pacheco’s actions eroded community trust in the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we send someone to prison, we need to know that this kind of thing isn’t going to happen,” Shubb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco, 40, appeared in a crisp, blue dress shirt and slate-colored slacks. His supporters filled the courtroom seats behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s sister and his nephew, Takis Tucker, who traveled from Los Angeles for the sentencing, sat in the front row. Tucker read a victim’s statement about his uncle’s death, which he addressed directly to Pacheco throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom and I cried heavily before we started to write this,” he said. “We had to come to the sense and reality that Ronnie would not be coming home from prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker said Price had “a calm demeanor,” liked hard candies and loved listening to the R&B band Sade. Tucker also said CDCR never told his family how Price died. Hearing about the brutal way his uncle died after six years was a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though Ronnie may have been a felon and was incarcerated, we never would have imagined that a peace officer who is ordered to monitor and protect would be the cause of Ronnie’s death,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker described the family’s loss as “an empty space that lays on the heart,” but he also told Pacheco the family forgave him. The former officer nodded in acknowledgement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927577,news_11908340","label":"Relates Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m extremely remorseful, your honor. I apologize,” Pacheco said when Shubb asked if he had anything to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 15, 2016, Pacheco was escorting Price to a new cell. Price had been sentenced on Feb. 27, 2012, to almost 24 years for making a terrorist threat, and for possession of a firearm and ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prison investigators, Price told Pacheco he didn’t want to move to a new building with a new cellmate, but submitted to being handcuffed behind his back. As Price neared the exit of the building, he stopped walking and straightened his torso, according to a joint investigation of the FBI and CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco reached in front of Price’s body and swiped his legs out from under him. Price landed face-first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Marie Aurich, another escorting officer, sounded an alarm for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Price died of a pulmonary embolism at the UC Davis Medical Center where he’d been brought for treatment, according to the Sacramento County Coroner’s office. The coroner classified Price’s death as a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Price was sent to the hospital, Pacheco sent a text to one of his contacts, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kinda hurt an inmate dumping him,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Folsom prison officials found that Pacheco lied about the incident and got at least five other officers to conspire to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained copies of the officers’ misconduct records through a public records request. The records show that Pacheco falsified a report to create a justification for the assault. Pacheco reported that Price “spun to his left and lunged forward breaking free of my escort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also omitted the presence of another officer, Arturo Luna, who witnessed the incident, apparently afraid that Luna would tell the truth, according to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Brenda Villa, Pacheco’s supervisor, helped bolster Pacheco’s false claims by also omitting the presence of Luna from her report. Villa instructed Aurich to do the same. Luna never filed a report and was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR fired Pacheco for engaging in a “code of silence,” and violating department policies on ethics, honesty in investigations, and use of force, according to a June 18, 2018, termination notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to display the integrity and trust expected of an individual in the field of law enforcement,” the document read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR also fired Villa, Aurich and three other officers, and referred the case for criminal prosecution. The Sacramento County District Attorney declined the case in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the totality of the circumstances presented in the investigation, there was insufficient evidence to file state homicide charges and sustain a conviction of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” Assistant District Attorney Mike Blazina said in an email to KQED Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors came to a different conclusion, indicting Pacheco on Nov. 19, 2020. During its investigation, the FBI uncovered a second instance in which Pacheco used excessive force against another man incarcerated at New Folsom and falsified the incident report: On May 19, 2016, Pacheco pepper-sprayed an incarcerated man in the face at close range. He claimed he did that because the man was threatening to kill himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the constitutional rights of men incarcerated at New Folsom and two counts of falsifying records in a federal investigation. The charges carried a maximum sentence of 60 years. But as part of a plea deal, prosecutors sought a sentence of 151 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco’s attorney David Fischer argued for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very severe sentence for someone who served our country,” Fischer told the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacheco served in the U.S. Army and the California National Guard. He was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Fisher said his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder that was undiagnosed until 2019, arguing the PTSD may have contributed to his criminal conduct against Price and the other incarcerated man he pepper-sprayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors painted a different picture of the former officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was trained to use physical force to protect himself and to ensure the safety of others. Instead of protecting others, Pacheco used violence because he thought it was ‘fucken funny,’” prosecutors wrote, citing the former officer’s text messages in court papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, assistant U.S. attorney, told Judge Shubb that Pacheco’s crimes had serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A man died who shouldn’t have died,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aurich also pleaded guilty to a single federal charge of falsifying records. As part of a plea agreement, Aurich admitted that she had falsely reported that Price “stopped moving forward, spun to his left and lunged forward.” She is scheduled to be sentenced December 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Pacheco’s supporters wept and hugged after his sentencing. One man called Price’s nephew “a punk b—.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s family left the court through a door separate from Pacheco’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family recently filed a civil lawsuit against Pacheco, Aurich and Jeff Lynch, the New Folsom warden, for compensatory and punitive damages. The complaint filed in September alleges prison officials kept secret the true circumstances of the incident that led to Price’s death, and never informed the family about the attempt to cover up the incident by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Folsom has been under increased scrutiny since 2021 when a member of an elite group of officers that investigates staff misconduct and the deaths of incarcerated people reported serious misconduct within the unit and among frontline staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through reporting, KQED learned that Sgt. Kevin Steele, a senior officer in the Investigative Service Unit, reported the allegations directly to Lynch on Jan. 4, 2021, and to the head of corrections, Kathleen Allison, on Feb. 8, 2021, alleging widespread corruption at the prison. Steele committed suicide six months later, according to a coroner’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the street after the sentencing, Tucker said he thought Pacheco’s sentence was light, but expressed hope that it would deter other guards from abusing their position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes a badge goes to an officer’s head,” he said. “The power goes to a lot of people’s heads who can’t handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction, Oct. 19: In the original version of this story, the first name of Ronnie Price's nephew was misspelled. It’s \"Takis\" — not \"Tavis\" — Tucker.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sukey Lewis and Steven Rascon contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929335/former-new-folsom-officer-sentenced-to-more-than-12-years-in-federal-prison-for-inmates-death","authors":["6625"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1629","news_2842","news_31846","news_30804"],"featImg":"news_11929336","label":"news"},"news_11924214":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924214","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924214","score":null,"sort":[1661987112000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-incarceration-rates-highest-in-rural-communities-of-color-report-finds","title":"California Incarceration Rates Highest in Rural Communities of Color, Report Finds","publishDate":1661987112,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Shasta County in rural Northern California has one of the state’s highest incarceration rates. Ask Robert Bowman what’s going on, and he takes a long, deep sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm of bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, director of the county’s program that helps formerly incarcerated people transition back to life outside, identifies three main drivers of crime in Shasta County: high housing costs, untreated mental illness and drug trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the same factors blamed for crime in other California counties that rank among the highest for incarcerated people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ca/2020/report.html\">a report released this morning\u003c/a> by the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to end mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report takes newly available data from California prisons to show where incarcerated people come from — not just their home counties, but their neighborhoods. The group’s stated intent is to show lawmakers where they can better direct public dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhoods where incarcerated people come from often have a higher percentage of Black and Latino residents than the state average, according to the report, while the counties that host the prisons are predominantly white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect has been “the siphoning of political power from disproportionately Black and Latino communities to pad out the mostly rural and often predominantly white regions where prisons are located,” the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, the most populous counties send the most people to state prison. Los Angeles County had the most people incarcerated, followed by Riverside and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some counties, though they have fewer total people in state prisons, the rate of incarceration is much higher than the statewide average of 310 per 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley has the state’s highest incarceration rate at 666 per 100,000, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County ranked second among counties that send people to prison, with 663 county residents incarcerated per 100,000 people. The county of fewer than 200,000 is framed by mountains to its north, west and east. People move there for cheap land and open spaces, or burrow further into its hills to escape creeping modernity, Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then we have those who have moved up here for political reasons and I’ll just leave it at that,” Bowman said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one Shasta County census tract that encompasses most of the city of Redding, more than one in every 100 people is in a state prison.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Robert Bowman, director, STEP-UP\"]'If you have billions of dollars to spend, but yet your community is overwhelmingly 'not in my backyard,' then you can get nothing done.'[/pullquote] Disparities also persist in cities like Los Angeles, where the neighborhoods of Watts and Crenshaw have \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ca/2020/la_neighborhood.html\">more than five times\u003c/a> the incarceration rate of Bel-Air and Brentwood, according to the study’s calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fewer Beverly Hills in our community,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the same issues that crop up in Los Angeles and San Francisco are true in far Northern California: homelessness, untreated mental illness and a resistance among locals to new construction or lower-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman points to a proposed micro-shelter at a Lutheran church in Redding that would serve as transitional housing for up to five people. Neighbors hung a sign on a chain link fence: “Tiny Houses = Big Problems.” The shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2022/05/20/homeless-housing-units-could-open-fall-after-getting-reddings-ok/9843183002/\">expected to open this fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have billions of dollars to spend, but yet your community is overwhelmingly ‘not in my backyard,’ then you can get nothing done,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Policy Initiative report is based on numbers provided by the state of California, which, for the first time in its 2020 census, counted incarcerated people in their home districts instead of the cities and counties where they’re incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was to end what opponents called “prison gerrymandering,” which counted incarcerated people as residents of their prison’s county. California ended that practice in 2011 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_420_bill_20110822_amended_sen_v93.pdf\">AB 420\u003c/a>, signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, but the law did not take effect until 2020. Ten other states have taken similar steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s redistricting maps were the first to count incarcerated people in their home districts. The process toward final approval by a state independent commission was\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/12/california-redistricting-final-maps/\"> fraught and messy\u003c/a>, but has so far survived without a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is really that policymakers and service providers will use this data to kind of direct some of their thinking on how they make choices about the people that they serve,” said Prison Policy Initiative spokesperson Mike Wessler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For lawmakers, we hope that they’ll take a look at how many people in their own communities are lost to incarceration every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Policy Initiative study was taken from a snapshot of the 122,000 people in state prisons on April 1, 2020. It doesn’t count people in federal prison or immigration detention, nor does it count those who were identified in court proceedings as unhoused. [pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mike Wessler, spokesperson, Prison Policy Initiative\"]'A lot of these rural areas are also facing significant economic challenges.'[/pullquote]Among cities with at least 20,000 people, Compton in Los Angeles County had the highest rate of incarceration, with 979 people incarcerated per 100,000 residents. It also has a higher Black and Latino population than the state average, which the report’s authors say mirrors a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This suggests that policing, arrests and incarceration are disproportionately concentrated in a handful of Black communities across the county, such as Compton with its large Black population,” wrote the report’s authors, Emily Widra and Felicia Gomez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/14000US06029001500-census-tract-15-kern-ca/\">One census tract\u003c/a> in Kern County stands out. Just east of downtown Bakersfield, the 1-square-mile tract had 2,944 residents and 74 people in state prisons, or more than two out of every 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County also leads the state in homicide rate, a statistic the county’s residents and law enforcement struggle to explain. For the sixth consecutive year, the county led the state with a homicide rate of 13.7 homicides per 100,000 people. The statewide average is six homicides per 100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the smaller rural counties often are overlooked but actually have some of the highest incarceration rates in the entire state,” Wessler said. “A lot of these rural areas are also facing significant economic challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to remind Bowman, of the Shasta County STEP-UP program for those recently released from incarceration. First, in 2018, the Carr Fire \u003ca href=\"https://opr.ca.gov/docs/20220817-Shasta_County_Case_Study.pdf\">displaced thousands of people\u003c/a> in an area that was already struggling to control housing costs. Then, during the pandemic, wealthier residents of the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley started moving north, pushing up rents and home values. People already on the economic fringe were pushed to its edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because now, landlords could charge whatever they want and there’s no reason for them to open up their homes” to affordable housing programs, Bowman said. “They can get someone who is displaced while their home’s being rebuilt (and) they can get a higher rent from that individual or family. So that’s a huge issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is, however, ultimately optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are a lot of good people that are trying to do the very best they can,” Bowman said. “It just takes time for the numbers to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">This story was originally published in CalMatters.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Shasta, Kings and Kern counties have among the highest incarceration rates in California, a new report finds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661987112,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1315},"headData":{"title":"California Incarceration Rates Highest in Rural Communities of Color, Report Finds | KQED","description":"Shasta, Kings and Kern counties have among the highest incarceration rates in California, a new report finds.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Incarceration Rates Highest in Rural Communities of Color, Report Finds","datePublished":"2022-08-31T23:05:12.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-31T23:05:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11924214 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924214","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/31/california-incarceration-rates-highest-in-rural-communities-of-color-report-finds/","disqusTitle":"California Incarceration Rates Highest in Rural Communities of Color, Report Finds","nprByline":"Nigel Duara","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11924214/california-incarceration-rates-highest-in-rural-communities-of-color-report-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shasta County in rural Northern California has one of the state’s highest incarceration rates. Ask Robert Bowman what’s going on, and he takes a long, deep sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm of bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, director of the county’s program that helps formerly incarcerated people transition back to life outside, identifies three main drivers of crime in Shasta County: high housing costs, untreated mental illness and drug trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the same factors blamed for crime in other California counties that rank among the highest for incarcerated people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ca/2020/report.html\">a report released this morning\u003c/a> by the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to end mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report takes newly available data from California prisons to show where incarcerated people come from — not just their home counties, but their neighborhoods. The group’s stated intent is to show lawmakers where they can better direct public dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhoods where incarcerated people come from often have a higher percentage of Black and Latino residents than the state average, according to the report, while the counties that host the prisons are predominantly white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect has been “the siphoning of political power from disproportionately Black and Latino communities to pad out the mostly rural and often predominantly white regions where prisons are located,” the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, the most populous counties send the most people to state prison. Los Angeles County had the most people incarcerated, followed by Riverside and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some counties, though they have fewer total people in state prisons, the rate of incarceration is much higher than the statewide average of 310 per 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley has the state’s highest incarceration rate at 666 per 100,000, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County ranked second among counties that send people to prison, with 663 county residents incarcerated per 100,000 people. The county of fewer than 200,000 is framed by mountains to its north, west and east. People move there for cheap land and open spaces, or burrow further into its hills to escape creeping modernity, Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then we have those who have moved up here for political reasons and I’ll just leave it at that,” Bowman said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one Shasta County census tract that encompasses most of the city of Redding, more than one in every 100 people is in a state prison.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If you have billions of dollars to spend, but yet your community is overwhelmingly 'not in my backyard,' then you can get nothing done.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Robert Bowman, director, STEP-UP","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Disparities also persist in cities like Los Angeles, where the neighborhoods of Watts and Crenshaw have \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ca/2020/la_neighborhood.html\">more than five times\u003c/a> the incarceration rate of Bel-Air and Brentwood, according to the study’s calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fewer Beverly Hills in our community,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the same issues that crop up in Los Angeles and San Francisco are true in far Northern California: homelessness, untreated mental illness and a resistance among locals to new construction or lower-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman points to a proposed micro-shelter at a Lutheran church in Redding that would serve as transitional housing for up to five people. Neighbors hung a sign on a chain link fence: “Tiny Houses = Big Problems.” The shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2022/05/20/homeless-housing-units-could-open-fall-after-getting-reddings-ok/9843183002/\">expected to open this fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have billions of dollars to spend, but yet your community is overwhelmingly ‘not in my backyard,’ then you can get nothing done,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Policy Initiative report is based on numbers provided by the state of California, which, for the first time in its 2020 census, counted incarcerated people in their home districts instead of the cities and counties where they’re incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was to end what opponents called “prison gerrymandering,” which counted incarcerated people as residents of their prison’s county. California ended that practice in 2011 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_420_bill_20110822_amended_sen_v93.pdf\">AB 420\u003c/a>, signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, but the law did not take effect until 2020. Ten other states have taken similar steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s redistricting maps were the first to count incarcerated people in their home districts. The process toward final approval by a state independent commission was\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/12/california-redistricting-final-maps/\"> fraught and messy\u003c/a>, but has so far survived without a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is really that policymakers and service providers will use this data to kind of direct some of their thinking on how they make choices about the people that they serve,” said Prison Policy Initiative spokesperson Mike Wessler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For lawmakers, we hope that they’ll take a look at how many people in their own communities are lost to incarceration every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Policy Initiative study was taken from a snapshot of the 122,000 people in state prisons on April 1, 2020. It doesn’t count people in federal prison or immigration detention, nor does it count those who were identified in court proceedings as unhoused. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'A lot of these rural areas are also facing significant economic challenges.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Mike Wessler, spokesperson, Prison Policy Initiative","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Among cities with at least 20,000 people, Compton in Los Angeles County had the highest rate of incarceration, with 979 people incarcerated per 100,000 residents. It also has a higher Black and Latino population than the state average, which the report’s authors say mirrors a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This suggests that policing, arrests and incarceration are disproportionately concentrated in a handful of Black communities across the county, such as Compton with its large Black population,” wrote the report’s authors, Emily Widra and Felicia Gomez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/14000US06029001500-census-tract-15-kern-ca/\">One census tract\u003c/a> in Kern County stands out. Just east of downtown Bakersfield, the 1-square-mile tract had 2,944 residents and 74 people in state prisons, or more than two out of every 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County also leads the state in homicide rate, a statistic the county’s residents and law enforcement struggle to explain. For the sixth consecutive year, the county led the state with a homicide rate of 13.7 homicides per 100,000 people. The statewide average is six homicides per 100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the smaller rural counties often are overlooked but actually have some of the highest incarceration rates in the entire state,” Wessler said. “A lot of these rural areas are also facing significant economic challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to remind Bowman, of the Shasta County STEP-UP program for those recently released from incarceration. First, in 2018, the Carr Fire \u003ca href=\"https://opr.ca.gov/docs/20220817-Shasta_County_Case_Study.pdf\">displaced thousands of people\u003c/a> in an area that was already struggling to control housing costs. Then, during the pandemic, wealthier residents of the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley started moving north, pushing up rents and home values. People already on the economic fringe were pushed to its edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because now, landlords could charge whatever they want and there’s no reason for them to open up their homes” to affordable housing programs, Bowman said. “They can get someone who is displaced while their home’s being rebuilt (and) they can get a higher rent from that individual or family. So that’s a huge issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is, however, ultimately optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are a lot of good people that are trying to do the very best they can,” Bowman said. “It just takes time for the numbers to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">This story was originally published in CalMatters.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924214/california-incarceration-rates-highest-in-rural-communities-of-color-report-finds","authors":["byline_news_11924214"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_31550","news_2842","news_2843","news_20320","news_30927","news_19644","news_21603","news_22895"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11924275","label":"news_18481"},"news_11924009":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924009","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924009","score":null,"sort":[1661881001000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"as-california-remakes-its-juvenile-justice-system-counties-take-the-lead-on-rehabilitation","title":"As California Remakes Its Juvenile Justice System, Counties Take the Lead on Rehabilitation","publishDate":1661881001,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]wenty-one-year-old Reid Butler spent about a year in one of California’s state youth prisons before officials in his home county convinced a court to let him serve his sentence in a county juvenile hall. Known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the state lockups were plagued by violence among youth and abuse by staff, and often meant young people were incarcerated hundreds of miles away from their families for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a weekday this June, Butler was chatting and working in a large room with the other 10 youths serving time in El Dorado County’s juvenile hall. Most of those young people look up to Butler — he’s the oldest young person incarcerated here, and he’s been here the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to DJJ, Butler said this South Lake Tahoe facility “definitely feels very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically speaking, the Division of Juvenile Justice is very ... You could call it a cattle house, because it prunes and picks these kids to be in the system for the rest of their lives,” he said. “I think DJJ has tried to do a good job, but it's very difficult when you're sending all of your broken parts to the same place. That factory doesn't have the tools necessary to fix those parts. Those things need to be dealt with on, like, an individual basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Butler said, he’s made significant progress here, getting his high school diploma, then earning his associate’s degree through a community college. And, he’s become a model for other young people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very interesting how the kids look up to me ... How much respect people have for my advice, of my opinion,” he said. “I've learned through my experience that teaching somebody else helps you to learn better ... when they succeed, you succeed. When you see people are happy, you're happy because you're putting your time and your investments into them. It's a very nurturing environment to be a leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the culture Brian Richart, chief probation officer for El Dorado County, is looking to create as he — along with the state’s 57 other counties — prepare for the end of state juvenile prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had some 19,000 youth in custody 20 years ago. But over the past two decades, the state has completely reimagined its approach to dealing with youths who commit crimes, embracing a model of rehabilitation over punishment. There are now fewer than 3,000 young people in state and local custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This remaking of juvenile justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879759/california-moves-to-phase-out-state-run-youth-prisons\">will culminate next summer in the closure of DJJ\u003c/a> — a change that will require probation chiefs like Richart to house and treat all justice system-affected young people in their home counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Reid Butler, 21, currently serving a sentence in El Dorado County juvenile hall\"]'You could call [DJJ] a cattle house, because it prunes and picks these kids to be in the system for the rest of their lives. I think DJJ has tried to do a good job, but it's very difficult when you're sending all of your broken parts to the same place.'[/pullquote]It’s a change prompted by not only a sharp drop in youth crime over the past few decades, but also state laws that limited jail time for young people and new research about what actually helps turn kids' lives around. But it’s also posing big challenges for counties that haven’t historically been in the business of incarcerating youths for years at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richart said the biggest challenge now is making his outdated, decades-old juvenile hall feel less like a prison and more like a school, home and therapeutic space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This facility was opened approximately 19-ish years ago, but in my opinion, it was designed in the older style and the older modality. So when you walk around the facility, you hear the steel doors close, you see the concrete aspects of the facility, the cinder block walls,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County isn’t alone in this — most counties are working with similarly dated facilities. Some are being rebuilt; El Dorado County is making plans to build a new facility in Placerville. But that will take years, so in the meantime, probation departments are making small shifts to make the current buildings more livable and less prison-like. And they’re focusing on what Richart sees as the most important element: staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facilities matter, but what matters tenfold are the staff. If you see somebody in a certain way, you'll tend to treat them that way. And if you tend to treat them that way, they will tend to behave that way,” he said, adding that while the facility is a “limiting factor ... it is certainly not something that prevents my staff from actually doing the type of family-based work that we've been doing for the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means staff here act more like social workers than cops; they build trust with the youth. The facility has been painted and decorated to resemble a school more than a prison. And young people here spend little time in their rooms; instead they are together going to school, or participating in therapy, family visits or other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 21-year-old Reid Butler’s sentence also represents one of the challenges for counties: State law now allows youth to stay in the juvenile system up to age 26. That means you could have 12- and 13-year-olds serving alongside young adults with incredibly different needs and experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Times have changed'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Down in San Mateo County, probation leaders are grappling with many of the same issues, and are working to create better vocational and educational spaces so that when a 26-year-old is released, they’re ready to get a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jehan Clark is superintendent for the county’s probation agency. As she walks around San Mateo’s facility, she points to a large courtyard anchored by a lawn and a track. Along the side are chickens that youth take care of, as well as garden boxes where they grow food that they'll later help cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark said all this makes the common spaces here feel more like a campus than a prison — and that the kids are kept productive and busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids are barely in their rooms,” she said. “They're in school all day. If they graduate or are not in school, they're doing some type of work. After school they have exercise, which we call our large muscle activity, and then they have dinner, shower, and then they're in programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inside the housing unit, like in El Dorado County, things look more like a traditional prison. That is, until you enter a large room painted a soothing blue and covered in bright renditions of sea creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we call the reef ... [it's] our multisensory deescalation room. So for youth who have more, you know, mental health issues, maybe they're getting some bad news, they just need to kind of calm themselves, kind of stabilize,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11924055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium.jpg\" alt=\"woman stands inside room painted to look like the inside of an aquarium\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-1536x1090.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jehan Clark, institutions superintendent for San Mateo County Probation, stands in the 'multisensory deescalation room' at juvenile hall. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clark, who’s been working in this field for decades, says this room illustrates the shift in philosophy from one that emphasized the institutionalization of young people. Now, juvenile probation officials are trying to create environments that mimic home life so kids don’t have to learn how to act when they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Times have changed. Things are a lot different. And so, there is no room for confinement. You know, if a youth has an issue, they kind of can take a time-out, but then they come right back out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also means probation agencies are bringing families into youths’ treatment, since often the problems that lead young people to commit crimes start at home. And in Fresno County in the Central Valley, it will also mean more community-based programs so young people aren’t necessarily locked up in juvenile hall for their entire sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='incarceration']Still, there are worries. This shift has happened quickly. Most of these facilities weren’t meant to house young people for years at a time. And for all its problems, DJJ did have expertise treating the small number of incredibly high-needs young people, such as those who committed sex offenses and arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in Fresno, Probation Chief Kirk Haynes is partnering with other counties to create those specialized programs. He’s retrofitting parts of the facility so they can be used for treatment. But he’s frustrated that state leaders are forcing counties to move so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've not had a lot of time and frankly have not had a lot of resources to be able to build up, you know, to have our facilities ready to have all these things done,” he said. The next big challenge, Haynes said, will be bringing Fresno’s youths home from DJJ when it closes next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But given all of the challenges that have come along with it, I think at the end of the day and in the long run, we're ready now and we're going to be even better as the years go by,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, Haynes and others have no choice but to try. They’re getting some help from Sacramento — the state budget includes $100 million this year to help make changes to county facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And under the law mandating DJJ’s closure, each county had to come up with a detailed proposal outlining how they plan to handle the changes, including a requirement that they do have “secure” or locked facility options. The legislation also created a new state-level ombudsman for youth in the juvenile justice system and a new Office of Youth and Community Restoration that is responsible for reviewing, evaluating and overseeing county implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County, Mario Guerrero was one of the community members on the local committee. He’s a program manager at the nonprofit Child Advocates of El Dorado County and has worked in youth services here in his hometown county for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero said he’s generally supportive of how the probation department is running juvenile justice here. But he worries about whether communities around the state will step up to help, or stand in the way. He noted that in El Dorado County, Chief Richart’s proposal to build a regional facility to house and treat sex offenders from several counties was killed by the local board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero said in order for young people to actually be rehabilitated, it’s going to take a village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who might be a little bit skeptical or unaware, we understand those fears,” he said. “But the reality is these kids are really amazing kids. They have a lot of potential in life and they just need a lot more guidance and support to be steered in the right direction. But most of them are really, really gifted and amazing kids that just need a little bit of love to find their way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The remaking of California's juvenile justice system will culminate next summer in the closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice — a big change that will require county probation chiefs to house and treat all justice system-affected youth.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661881002,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1976},"headData":{"title":"As California Remakes Its Juvenile Justice System, Counties Take the Lead on Rehabilitation | KQED","description":"The remaking of California's juvenile justice system will culminate next summer in the closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice — a big change that will require county probation chiefs to house and treat all justice system-affected youth.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"As California Remakes Its Juvenile Justice System, Counties Take the Lead on Rehabilitation","datePublished":"2022-08-30T17:36:41.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-30T17:36:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11924009 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924009","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/30/as-california-remakes-its-juvenile-justice-system-counties-take-the-lead-on-rehabilitation/","disqusTitle":"As California Remakes Its Juvenile Justice System, Counties Take the Lead on Rehabilitation","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/3dca9ef5-227a-48f6-b6fb-af000106b064/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11924009/as-california-remakes-its-juvenile-justice-system-counties-take-the-lead-on-rehabilitation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>wenty-one-year-old Reid Butler spent about a year in one of California’s state youth prisons before officials in his home county convinced a court to let him serve his sentence in a county juvenile hall. Known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the state lockups were plagued by violence among youth and abuse by staff, and often meant young people were incarcerated hundreds of miles away from their families for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a weekday this June, Butler was chatting and working in a large room with the other 10 youths serving time in El Dorado County’s juvenile hall. Most of those young people look up to Butler — he’s the oldest young person incarcerated here, and he’s been here the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to DJJ, Butler said this South Lake Tahoe facility “definitely feels very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically speaking, the Division of Juvenile Justice is very ... You could call it a cattle house, because it prunes and picks these kids to be in the system for the rest of their lives,” he said. “I think DJJ has tried to do a good job, but it's very difficult when you're sending all of your broken parts to the same place. That factory doesn't have the tools necessary to fix those parts. Those things need to be dealt with on, like, an individual basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Butler said, he’s made significant progress here, getting his high school diploma, then earning his associate’s degree through a community college. And, he’s become a model for other young people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very interesting how the kids look up to me ... How much respect people have for my advice, of my opinion,” he said. “I've learned through my experience that teaching somebody else helps you to learn better ... when they succeed, you succeed. When you see people are happy, you're happy because you're putting your time and your investments into them. It's a very nurturing environment to be a leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the culture Brian Richart, chief probation officer for El Dorado County, is looking to create as he — along with the state’s 57 other counties — prepare for the end of state juvenile prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had some 19,000 youth in custody 20 years ago. But over the past two decades, the state has completely reimagined its approach to dealing with youths who commit crimes, embracing a model of rehabilitation over punishment. There are now fewer than 3,000 young people in state and local custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This remaking of juvenile justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879759/california-moves-to-phase-out-state-run-youth-prisons\">will culminate next summer in the closure of DJJ\u003c/a> — a change that will require probation chiefs like Richart to house and treat all justice system-affected young people in their home counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You could call [DJJ] a cattle house, because it prunes and picks these kids to be in the system for the rest of their lives. I think DJJ has tried to do a good job, but it's very difficult when you're sending all of your broken parts to the same place.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Reid Butler, 21, currently serving a sentence in El Dorado County juvenile hall","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s a change prompted by not only a sharp drop in youth crime over the past few decades, but also state laws that limited jail time for young people and new research about what actually helps turn kids' lives around. But it’s also posing big challenges for counties that haven’t historically been in the business of incarcerating youths for years at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richart said the biggest challenge now is making his outdated, decades-old juvenile hall feel less like a prison and more like a school, home and therapeutic space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This facility was opened approximately 19-ish years ago, but in my opinion, it was designed in the older style and the older modality. So when you walk around the facility, you hear the steel doors close, you see the concrete aspects of the facility, the cinder block walls,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County isn’t alone in this — most counties are working with similarly dated facilities. Some are being rebuilt; El Dorado County is making plans to build a new facility in Placerville. But that will take years, so in the meantime, probation departments are making small shifts to make the current buildings more livable and less prison-like. And they’re focusing on what Richart sees as the most important element: staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facilities matter, but what matters tenfold are the staff. If you see somebody in a certain way, you'll tend to treat them that way. And if you tend to treat them that way, they will tend to behave that way,” he said, adding that while the facility is a “limiting factor ... it is certainly not something that prevents my staff from actually doing the type of family-based work that we've been doing for the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means staff here act more like social workers than cops; they build trust with the youth. The facility has been painted and decorated to resemble a school more than a prison. And young people here spend little time in their rooms; instead they are together going to school, or participating in therapy, family visits or other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 21-year-old Reid Butler’s sentence also represents one of the challenges for counties: State law now allows youth to stay in the juvenile system up to age 26. That means you could have 12- and 13-year-olds serving alongside young adults with incredibly different needs and experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Times have changed'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Down in San Mateo County, probation leaders are grappling with many of the same issues, and are working to create better vocational and educational spaces so that when a 26-year-old is released, they’re ready to get a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jehan Clark is superintendent for the county’s probation agency. As she walks around San Mateo’s facility, she points to a large courtyard anchored by a lawn and a track. Along the side are chickens that youth take care of, as well as garden boxes where they grow food that they'll later help cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark said all this makes the common spaces here feel more like a campus than a prison — and that the kids are kept productive and busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids are barely in their rooms,” she said. “They're in school all day. If they graduate or are not in school, they're doing some type of work. After school they have exercise, which we call our large muscle activity, and then they have dinner, shower, and then they're in programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inside the housing unit, like in El Dorado County, things look more like a traditional prison. That is, until you enter a large room painted a soothing blue and covered in bright renditions of sea creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we call the reef ... [it's] our multisensory deescalation room. So for youth who have more, you know, mental health issues, maybe they're getting some bad news, they just need to kind of calm themselves, kind of stabilize,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11924055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium.jpg\" alt=\"woman stands inside room painted to look like the inside of an aquarium\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClarkAquarium-1536x1090.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jehan Clark, institutions superintendent for San Mateo County Probation, stands in the 'multisensory deescalation room' at juvenile hall. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clark, who’s been working in this field for decades, says this room illustrates the shift in philosophy from one that emphasized the institutionalization of young people. Now, juvenile probation officials are trying to create environments that mimic home life so kids don’t have to learn how to act when they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Times have changed. Things are a lot different. And so, there is no room for confinement. You know, if a youth has an issue, they kind of can take a time-out, but then they come right back out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also means probation agencies are bringing families into youths’ treatment, since often the problems that lead young people to commit crimes start at home. And in Fresno County in the Central Valley, it will also mean more community-based programs so young people aren’t necessarily locked up in juvenile hall for their entire sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"incarceration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, there are worries. This shift has happened quickly. Most of these facilities weren’t meant to house young people for years at a time. And for all its problems, DJJ did have expertise treating the small number of incredibly high-needs young people, such as those who committed sex offenses and arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in Fresno, Probation Chief Kirk Haynes is partnering with other counties to create those specialized programs. He’s retrofitting parts of the facility so they can be used for treatment. But he’s frustrated that state leaders are forcing counties to move so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've not had a lot of time and frankly have not had a lot of resources to be able to build up, you know, to have our facilities ready to have all these things done,” he said. The next big challenge, Haynes said, will be bringing Fresno’s youths home from DJJ when it closes next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But given all of the challenges that have come along with it, I think at the end of the day and in the long run, we're ready now and we're going to be even better as the years go by,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, Haynes and others have no choice but to try. They’re getting some help from Sacramento — the state budget includes $100 million this year to help make changes to county facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And under the law mandating DJJ’s closure, each county had to come up with a detailed proposal outlining how they plan to handle the changes, including a requirement that they do have “secure” or locked facility options. The legislation also created a new state-level ombudsman for youth in the juvenile justice system and a new Office of Youth and Community Restoration that is responsible for reviewing, evaluating and overseeing county implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County, Mario Guerrero was one of the community members on the local committee. He’s a program manager at the nonprofit Child Advocates of El Dorado County and has worked in youth services here in his hometown county for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero said he’s generally supportive of how the probation department is running juvenile justice here. But he worries about whether communities around the state will step up to help, or stand in the way. He noted that in El Dorado County, Chief Richart’s proposal to build a regional facility to house and treat sex offenders from several counties was killed by the local board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero said in order for young people to actually be rehabilitated, it’s going to take a village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who might be a little bit skeptical or unaware, we understand those fears,” he said. “But the reality is these kids are really amazing kids. They have a lot of potential in life and they just need a lot more guidance and support to be steered in the right direction. But most of them are really, really gifted and amazing kids that just need a little bit of love to find their way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924009/as-california-remakes-its-juvenile-justice-system-counties-take-the-lead-on-rehabilitation","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_25064","news_31534","news_2842","news_1107","news_19644","news_17968","news_1471","news_98"],"featImg":"news_11924054","label":"news_72"},"news_11918230":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11918230","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11918230","score":null,"sort":[1656626037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention","title":"Grand Jury: Major Health and Safety Violations at Santa Rita Jail Require 'Urgent Attention'","publishDate":1656626037,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Serious safety violations, inadequate medical services and poor sanitation are among a host of critical issues plaguing Santa Rita Jail, Alameda County's notorious lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's according to a civil grand jury investigation of the long-troubled Dublin-based jail, the county's main adult detention facility. The report, released Tuesday, details \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2021-2022/Grand.Jury.Report.2022.for.ITD.Web.pdf\">a litany of major problems at the jail that have resulted in unsafe conditions for its detainees and staff\u003c/a>, and spurred a “multiple-year pattern of lawsuits concerning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concerns identified in this report represent material health, safety, and financial risks and as such warrant urgent attention,” the 35-page report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021 alone, it notes, there were seven in-custody deaths at the jail along with an \"unprecedented\" spike in COVID-19 cases, with some 20% of detainees testing positive at the peak of the January surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"2021-2022 Alameda County Grand Jury Final Report\"]'The concerns identified in this report represent material health, safety, and financial risks and as such warrant urgent attention.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a detainee enters custody at Santa Rita, Alameda County assumes responsibility for that detainee’s health and well-being,” the report asserts. “That responsibility is a legal duty and persists regardless of the emotional or mental state of the detainee, the offense with which they are charged, budget pressures within the county, or even the presence of a global pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its wide-ranging findings, the report calls attention to inadequate access to outdoor spaces and describes a confusing and ineffective process for detainees to report grievances. It also underscores, in graphic terms, the jail's excessively dirty cells — especially those used for temporary occupancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The presence of feces smeared on walls and foul odors in several cells described as being available for immediate occupancy suggests to the Grand Jury a systemic issue with the quality of cleaning and sanitation of temporary occupancy cells,” the report describes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation additionally identifies lackluster security procedures at the facility that often fail to block visitors and employees from smuggling in contraband, especially drugs — an issue its staff views “as perhaps the most serious and persistent challenge faced by the jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jurors reported that during their 13 inspection visits, they were asked for credentials only once and were never made to go through a metal detector or undergo a bag search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accounts of such lax oversight track with the jail's recent history of overdose deaths and smuggling scandals. In July 2020, an Alameda County Sheriff's technician was charged with 10 felonies for allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/29/sheriffs-technician-charged-with-smuggling-drugs-cellphone-into-jail/\">smuggling methamphetamine and a cellphone\u003c/a> to an inmate awaiting trial for murder. The following month, a female detainee \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/10/east-bay-woman-admits-to-selling-fentanyl-into-santa-rita-jail-leading-to-fatal-overdose/\">died from an overdose of fentanyl\u003c/a> that had been smuggled in from an outside dealer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/09/03/alameda-county-santa-rita-jail-medical-director-fired-wellpath-drugs-vaccination-covid/\">the jail's medical director was fired\u003c/a> for writing fake prescriptions to obtain opioid pain medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, Santa Rita Jail is among the largest detention facilities in the country. As of February 2022, the 33-year-old facility held roughly 2,260 male and female detainees — about 65% of its total capacity. Nearly two-thirds of its population have not been convicted of crimes, and are awaiting adjudication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury, whose investigation included extensive interviews and reviews of thousands of pages of records, makes nearly 30 recommendations for improving conditions at the facility. Among them: regular safety inspections, tighter security at entry points, an updated and more responsive grievance process for detainees, increased access to outdoor areas and stricter enforcement of COVID-19 safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's office, which has 90 days to respond to the report, declined this week to comment on the findings, saying it was still reviewing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While some of the information related to the Santa Rita Jail has been public for some time, we will obviously need time to review the comments in their entirety before an informed statement can be made,” Tya M. Modeste, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"santa-rita-jail\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]The grand jury's report comes on the heels of a separate investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, which last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1388891/download\">concluded that the lack of mental health treatment options at the jail violated the Americans with Disabilities Act\u003c/a>. Such negligence, it found, resulted in needless suffering and death — including 19 reported suicides since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County and its sheriff's office, the DOJ report alleges, “engage in a pattern or practice of constitutional violations in the conditions at the Santa Rita Jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in March of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/08/judge-places-santa-rita-jail-under-external-oversight-ending-mental-health-abuse-lawsuit/\">a federal judge placed the jail under court supervision for at least six years\u003c/a> after hearing stirring detainee testimony in a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new grand jury report confirms “that many safety rules are not being followed by the staff and medical providers at the Santa Rita Jail,” said Sanjay Schmidt, a San Francisco-based civil rights lawyer, who represents the family of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/29/alameda-county-has-deliberate-indifference-to-safety-of-inmates-at-santa-rita-jail-lawsuit-alleges/\">Jonas Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park was found dead in his cell in February 2021, after allegedly hanging himself — just five days into his detention at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Alameda County and the sheriff's office, filed by Park's family earlier this year, alleges that the 33-year-old entered the jail while “actively experiencing opiate withdrawal\" and, rather than receiving help, was put in an isolation cell — known as “restrictive” housing. His death, the suit claims, was a result of the jail staff's “deliberate indifference” to Park’s “serious, emergency medical and mental health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There appears to be a correlation between the overuse of restrictive housing, the inadequacy of access to outdoor space, and the high rate of suicides in the Santa Rita Jail,” Schmidt said, noting that the jail's suicide rate is significantly higher the average rate in detention centers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt added that the report also emphasizes the importance of cases like the one he's working on, as they are “important vehicles for getting the attention of policymakers in the county, to alert them of the need for reforms to stop needlessly endangering the lives, safety, and welfare of pretrial detainees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The civil grand jury,\u003c/a> similar to a citizen watchdog group, is made up of a team of 19 people tasked with ensuring that local agencies are acting in the best interest of the public. It's investigation of Santa Rita Jail is part of a much larger report released on Tuesday that scrutinizes multiple institutions within Alameda County, including its mental health system, student homelessness, BART oversight and election integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Nina Thorsen contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The investigation of the long-troubled jail highlights a litany of failures, including major safety violations, inadequate medical services and poor sanitation — all of which have contributed to avoidable deaths and a 'multiple-year pattern of lawsuits concerning conditions.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1656631277,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1166},"headData":{"title":"Grand Jury: Major Health and Safety Violations at Santa Rita Jail Require 'Urgent Attention' | KQED","description":"The investigation of the long-troubled jail highlights a litany of failures, including major safety violations, inadequate medical services and poor sanitation — all of which have contributed to avoidable deaths and a 'multiple-year pattern of lawsuits concerning conditions.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Grand Jury: Major Health and Safety Violations at Santa Rita Jail Require 'Urgent Attention'","datePublished":"2022-06-30T21:53:57.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-30T23:21:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11918230 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11918230","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/30/grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention/","disqusTitle":"Grand Jury: Major Health and Safety Violations at Santa Rita Jail Require 'Urgent Attention'","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11918230/grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Serious safety violations, inadequate medical services and poor sanitation are among a host of critical issues plaguing Santa Rita Jail, Alameda County's notorious lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's according to a civil grand jury investigation of the long-troubled Dublin-based jail, the county's main adult detention facility. The report, released Tuesday, details \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2021-2022/Grand.Jury.Report.2022.for.ITD.Web.pdf\">a litany of major problems at the jail that have resulted in unsafe conditions for its detainees and staff\u003c/a>, and spurred a “multiple-year pattern of lawsuits concerning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concerns identified in this report represent material health, safety, and financial risks and as such warrant urgent attention,” the 35-page report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021 alone, it notes, there were seven in-custody deaths at the jail along with an \"unprecedented\" spike in COVID-19 cases, with some 20% of detainees testing positive at the peak of the January surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The concerns identified in this report represent material health, safety, and financial risks and as such warrant urgent attention.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"2021-2022 Alameda County Grand Jury Final Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a detainee enters custody at Santa Rita, Alameda County assumes responsibility for that detainee’s health and well-being,” the report asserts. “That responsibility is a legal duty and persists regardless of the emotional or mental state of the detainee, the offense with which they are charged, budget pressures within the county, or even the presence of a global pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its wide-ranging findings, the report calls attention to inadequate access to outdoor spaces and describes a confusing and ineffective process for detainees to report grievances. It also underscores, in graphic terms, the jail's excessively dirty cells — especially those used for temporary occupancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The presence of feces smeared on walls and foul odors in several cells described as being available for immediate occupancy suggests to the Grand Jury a systemic issue with the quality of cleaning and sanitation of temporary occupancy cells,” the report describes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation additionally identifies lackluster security procedures at the facility that often fail to block visitors and employees from smuggling in contraband, especially drugs — an issue its staff views “as perhaps the most serious and persistent challenge faced by the jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jurors reported that during their 13 inspection visits, they were asked for credentials only once and were never made to go through a metal detector or undergo a bag search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accounts of such lax oversight track with the jail's recent history of overdose deaths and smuggling scandals. In July 2020, an Alameda County Sheriff's technician was charged with 10 felonies for allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/29/sheriffs-technician-charged-with-smuggling-drugs-cellphone-into-jail/\">smuggling methamphetamine and a cellphone\u003c/a> to an inmate awaiting trial for murder. The following month, a female detainee \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/10/east-bay-woman-admits-to-selling-fentanyl-into-santa-rita-jail-leading-to-fatal-overdose/\">died from an overdose of fentanyl\u003c/a> that had been smuggled in from an outside dealer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/09/03/alameda-county-santa-rita-jail-medical-director-fired-wellpath-drugs-vaccination-covid/\">the jail's medical director was fired\u003c/a> for writing fake prescriptions to obtain opioid pain medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, Santa Rita Jail is among the largest detention facilities in the country. As of February 2022, the 33-year-old facility held roughly 2,260 male and female detainees — about 65% of its total capacity. Nearly two-thirds of its population have not been convicted of crimes, and are awaiting adjudication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury, whose investigation included extensive interviews and reviews of thousands of pages of records, makes nearly 30 recommendations for improving conditions at the facility. Among them: regular safety inspections, tighter security at entry points, an updated and more responsive grievance process for detainees, increased access to outdoor areas and stricter enforcement of COVID-19 safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's office, which has 90 days to respond to the report, declined this week to comment on the findings, saying it was still reviewing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While some of the information related to the Santa Rita Jail has been public for some time, we will obviously need time to review the comments in their entirety before an informed statement can be made,” Tya M. Modeste, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"santa-rita-jail","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The grand jury's report comes on the heels of a separate investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, which last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1388891/download\">concluded that the lack of mental health treatment options at the jail violated the Americans with Disabilities Act\u003c/a>. Such negligence, it found, resulted in needless suffering and death — including 19 reported suicides since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County and its sheriff's office, the DOJ report alleges, “engage in a pattern or practice of constitutional violations in the conditions at the Santa Rita Jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in March of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/08/judge-places-santa-rita-jail-under-external-oversight-ending-mental-health-abuse-lawsuit/\">a federal judge placed the jail under court supervision for at least six years\u003c/a> after hearing stirring detainee testimony in a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new grand jury report confirms “that many safety rules are not being followed by the staff and medical providers at the Santa Rita Jail,” said Sanjay Schmidt, a San Francisco-based civil rights lawyer, who represents the family of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/29/alameda-county-has-deliberate-indifference-to-safety-of-inmates-at-santa-rita-jail-lawsuit-alleges/\">Jonas Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park was found dead in his cell in February 2021, after allegedly hanging himself — just five days into his detention at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Alameda County and the sheriff's office, filed by Park's family earlier this year, alleges that the 33-year-old entered the jail while “actively experiencing opiate withdrawal\" and, rather than receiving help, was put in an isolation cell — known as “restrictive” housing. His death, the suit claims, was a result of the jail staff's “deliberate indifference” to Park’s “serious, emergency medical and mental health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There appears to be a correlation between the overuse of restrictive housing, the inadequacy of access to outdoor space, and the high rate of suicides in the Santa Rita Jail,” Schmidt said, noting that the jail's suicide rate is significantly higher the average rate in detention centers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt added that the report also emphasizes the importance of cases like the one he's working on, as they are “important vehicles for getting the attention of policymakers in the county, to alert them of the need for reforms to stop needlessly endangering the lives, safety, and welfare of pretrial detainees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The civil grand jury,\u003c/a> similar to a citizen watchdog group, is made up of a team of 19 people tasked with ensuring that local agencies are acting in the best interest of the public. It's investigation of Santa Rita Jail is part of a much larger report released on Tuesday that scrutinizes multiple institutions within Alameda County, including its mental health system, student homelessness, BART oversight and election integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Nina Thorsen contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11918230/grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention","authors":["11626","1263"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_27989","news_31265","news_2842","news_2069","news_21568"],"featImg":"news_11918236","label":"news"},"news_11918025":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11918025","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11918025","score":null,"sort":[1656421248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-artist-isiah-daniels-on-what-california-can-learn-from-norways-prison-system","title":"San José Artist Isiah Daniels on What California Can Learn From Norway's Prison System","publishDate":1656421248,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A California bill, which will be heard in the state Senate’s Public Safety committee Tuesday, intends to take the state’s prisons in a more Norwegian direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s almost as if you're part of a dorm, and you're working with other folks to help each other,\" said Stockton Assemblymember Carlos Villapudua, who’s proposing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2730\">AB 2730\u003c/a>, about what he's learned about prisons there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would create a jobs-training pilot program, preparing incarcerated folks for employment. Participants also would be housed in a communal setting — a version of Norway’s model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated Norwegians can move freely, wear their own clothes — rather than uniforms — and cook their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to bed positive instead of going to bed behind bars,\" Villapudua said. \"We need to get out of institutional life and make it more of a community and give those folks that have made a mistake in their lives, you know, give them a second chance, a third chance at life so they can be part of society again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to ultimately help reduce California’s high recidivism rate — which a 2019 state auditor's report estimated at an average of 50%. Meanwhile, Norway saw its recidivism rate drop from around 70% to 20% after \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.ucsf.edu/norways-humane-approach-prisons-can-work-here-too\">significant reforms in the '90s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isiah Daniels, a San José visual artist, saw firsthand what prison life is like in Norway. He was formerly incarcerated at San Quentin and recently flew for the first time in decades, to visit Oslo as part of the first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PrisonRadioUK/status/1536984875718389760?s=20&t=r5LDgSNwHI_XonvY3yLGGA\">international Prison Radio conference\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels, who serves on the advisory board of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.weareuncuffed.org/\">Uncuffed\u003c/a> podcast, a show made by people in California prisons in partnership with Bay Area sister station KALW, talked about his experience with KQED morning host Brian Watt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: When you landed in Oslo, Norway, to do this tour, what was going through your mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ISIAH DANIELS:\u003c/strong> Initially, I was very nervous about just going back into a prison period, especially after spending 21 years in a prison myself. I've overcome a lot of things that didn't quite go my way or I didn't feel good about. Overcoming things is just a matter of saying, you got to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918084\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11918084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isiah Daniels, a member of the advisory board of KALW's Uncuffed podcast, speaks about his impressions of a visit to The Red Cross, a bike shop and reentry resource staffed by formerly incarcerated people. \u003ccite>(Thanh Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What did Halden Prison look like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing that I've seen before. When we pulled up to the exterior wall ... I didn't see any barbed wire. I didn't see guard towers. I didn't see anyone standing there with a gun in their hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we walked in and we walked through a metal detector — I'm ready to pull my shoes off and take my shirt. I'm used to going through metal detectors — but it was nothing like that. They barely checked us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reminded you of a setting in some movie where there's trees. There are sections laid out to where the guys can go and sit at a park bench. They can walk off into the woods and channel their thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As part of this visit, were you able to speak with incarcerated people or correctional officers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we had a correctional officer, who was more of a guide than an officer. What she mainly did was get us from one point to another. What I was doing was walking out onto the yard, look around and see who was out there, and then mosey this way a little bit and just introduce myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's a conversation that stands out to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the one that stood out the most to me was their perception of the guards. They called them friends. They called them help. One of them called him \"little brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wow. “Little brother” in Norwegian, I'm going to assume\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One guy was kind of interpreting something from the guy. He said they're just like family. He said, these guards, they care about me. They care about us. They care about our education. They care about our success. They even care about our families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the guys we talked to told us more about the United States than some of us even knew. Because what they do, they watch us and they question, why are we like this?[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"prison-reform\"]You know, I seen a guy that's in prison and I said to him, you all have no space. He said, \"Oh, it doesn't matter.\" He kind of bumped the guard with his elbow, and they started laughing. In California, you would have been in a headlock driven to the ground. He said, \"No, it's not like that. Here we shake hands, we say goodbye.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had it been like this system over here in Norway, I mean, I wonder how much better my life would have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This obviously sounds very nice and very ideal, but what did you hear about the challenges facing Norway's prisons?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we went to a part of the prison where they actually have their family visits. This is where they bring men to teach them how to become fathers. They let the kids come in, the wives, and they learn to be fathers. [But] they closed it. That was one of the things that caught my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So it's not as straightforward as it might appear when you go into a really nice facility.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correct. It seems that there's a funding issue, but that does not stop [prison officials] from still being in the mindset of we don't have to torture these guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems like you would be the perfect person to answer this question because I know California is not the only state looking at Norway-style prison reform: Is this the way to go in the United States?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could have already done it. It's amazing how we can fly this far across the country to a place to look at a model of a prison system that we could have already done ourselves — if we wanted to. And I say “if we wanted to” because what it takes to get our prisons [to be] like their prisons, is people just doing it.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In Norway, prisoners can move freely, wear their own clothes and cook their own food.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1656450173,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1105},"headData":{"title":"San José Artist Isiah Daniels on What California Can Learn From Norway's Prison System | KQED","description":"In Norway, prisoners can move freely, wear their own clothes and cook their own food.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San José Artist Isiah Daniels on What California Can Learn From Norway's Prison System","datePublished":"2022-06-28T13:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-28T21:02:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11918025 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11918025","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/28/san-jose-artist-isiah-daniels-on-what-california-can-learn-from-norways-prison-system/","disqusTitle":"San José Artist Isiah Daniels on What California Can Learn From Norway's Prison System","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/b43725b8-df07-4983-a1bd-aec20125b498/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11918025/san-jose-artist-isiah-daniels-on-what-california-can-learn-from-norways-prison-system","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California bill, which will be heard in the state Senate’s Public Safety committee Tuesday, intends to take the state’s prisons in a more Norwegian direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s almost as if you're part of a dorm, and you're working with other folks to help each other,\" said Stockton Assemblymember Carlos Villapudua, who’s proposing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2730\">AB 2730\u003c/a>, about what he's learned about prisons there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would create a jobs-training pilot program, preparing incarcerated folks for employment. Participants also would be housed in a communal setting — a version of Norway’s model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated Norwegians can move freely, wear their own clothes — rather than uniforms — and cook their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to bed positive instead of going to bed behind bars,\" Villapudua said. \"We need to get out of institutional life and make it more of a community and give those folks that have made a mistake in their lives, you know, give them a second chance, a third chance at life so they can be part of society again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to ultimately help reduce California’s high recidivism rate — which a 2019 state auditor's report estimated at an average of 50%. Meanwhile, Norway saw its recidivism rate drop from around 70% to 20% after \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.ucsf.edu/norways-humane-approach-prisons-can-work-here-too\">significant reforms in the '90s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isiah Daniels, a San José visual artist, saw firsthand what prison life is like in Norway. He was formerly incarcerated at San Quentin and recently flew for the first time in decades, to visit Oslo as part of the first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PrisonRadioUK/status/1536984875718389760?s=20&t=r5LDgSNwHI_XonvY3yLGGA\">international Prison Radio conference\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels, who serves on the advisory board of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.weareuncuffed.org/\">Uncuffed\u003c/a> podcast, a show made by people in California prisons in partnership with Bay Area sister station KALW, talked about his experience with KQED morning host Brian Watt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: When you landed in Oslo, Norway, to do this tour, what was going through your mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ISIAH DANIELS:\u003c/strong> Initially, I was very nervous about just going back into a prison period, especially after spending 21 years in a prison myself. I've overcome a lot of things that didn't quite go my way or I didn't feel good about. Overcoming things is just a matter of saying, you got to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918084\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11918084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Isiah-Daniels_portrait_credit_Thanh-Tran.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isiah Daniels, a member of the advisory board of KALW's Uncuffed podcast, speaks about his impressions of a visit to The Red Cross, a bike shop and reentry resource staffed by formerly incarcerated people. \u003ccite>(Thanh Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What did Halden Prison look like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing that I've seen before. When we pulled up to the exterior wall ... I didn't see any barbed wire. I didn't see guard towers. I didn't see anyone standing there with a gun in their hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we walked in and we walked through a metal detector — I'm ready to pull my shoes off and take my shirt. I'm used to going through metal detectors — but it was nothing like that. They barely checked us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reminded you of a setting in some movie where there's trees. There are sections laid out to where the guys can go and sit at a park bench. They can walk off into the woods and channel their thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As part of this visit, were you able to speak with incarcerated people or correctional officers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we had a correctional officer, who was more of a guide than an officer. What she mainly did was get us from one point to another. What I was doing was walking out onto the yard, look around and see who was out there, and then mosey this way a little bit and just introduce myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's a conversation that stands out to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the one that stood out the most to me was their perception of the guards. They called them friends. They called them help. One of them called him \"little brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wow. “Little brother” in Norwegian, I'm going to assume\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One guy was kind of interpreting something from the guy. He said they're just like family. He said, these guards, they care about me. They care about us. They care about our education. They care about our success. They even care about our families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the guys we talked to told us more about the United States than some of us even knew. Because what they do, they watch us and they question, why are we like this?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"prison-reform"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>You know, I seen a guy that's in prison and I said to him, you all have no space. He said, \"Oh, it doesn't matter.\" He kind of bumped the guard with his elbow, and they started laughing. In California, you would have been in a headlock driven to the ground. He said, \"No, it's not like that. Here we shake hands, we say goodbye.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had it been like this system over here in Norway, I mean, I wonder how much better my life would have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This obviously sounds very nice and very ideal, but what did you hear about the challenges facing Norway's prisons?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we went to a part of the prison where they actually have their family visits. This is where they bring men to teach them how to become fathers. They let the kids come in, the wives, and they learn to be fathers. [But] they closed it. That was one of the things that caught my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So it's not as straightforward as it might appear when you go into a really nice facility.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correct. It seems that there's a funding issue, but that does not stop [prison officials] from still being in the mindset of we don't have to torture these guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems like you would be the perfect person to answer this question because I know California is not the only state looking at Norway-style prison reform: Is this the way to go in the United States?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could have already done it. It's amazing how we can fly this far across the country to a place to look at a model of a prison system that we could have already done ourselves — if we wanted to. And I say “if we wanted to” because what it takes to get our prisons [to be] like their prisons, is people just doing it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11918025/san-jose-artist-isiah-daniels-on-what-california-can-learn-from-norways-prison-system","authors":["11724","11238"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_27626","news_2842","news_1305","news_24020"],"featImg":"news_11918083","label":"news"},"news_11917011":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11917011","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11917011","score":null,"sort":[1655249640000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-garden-at-uc-santa-cruz-led-to-a-student-campaign-for-a-death-row-inmates-exoneration","title":"How a Garden at UC Santa Cruz Led to an Exoneration Campaign for a Man on Death Row","publishDate":1655249640,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2021/solitary-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solitary Garden\u003c/a> on the UC Santa Cruz campus is a small space, 9 feet long by 6 feet wide, flanked by old-growth oaks and sweeping views of the Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a little oasis, with its bushy plantings of rosemary, daisies and agave. The dimensions of the public sculpture are intentional — it's the size of an average solitary confinement cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy James Young, the person tasked with curating the Solitary Garden, has never himself set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a wrongfully convicted prisoner on San Quentin's death row,\" said Young when he introduced himself at the start of a recent phone interview with KQED from the maximum security state prison in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 52-year-old, also known as \"the solitary gardener,\" is one among \u003ca href=\"https://documents.deathpenaltyinfo.org/pdf/FactSheet.pdf\">nearly 700 people on death row in California\u003c/a> — the highest number in the U.S. Young said he's been locked up for 23 years on scant evidence. With his appeal process moving at a glacial pace, Young said he had given up hope of ever getting out — until students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz came along to campaign for his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My journey to freedom didn't necessarily begin until I was introduced to Solitary Garden and the folks at UC Santa Cruz,\" said Young, who's been the curator of the garden since its inception on campus three years ago, thanks to a nationwide public art project protesting solitary confinement created by multidisciplinary artist and prison reform activist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Sumell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackie Sumell\u003c/a>. The campus community does the actual gardening on Young's behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A 9-by-6-foot raised bed on a grassy hillside has in its center three-dimensional concrete shapes that resemble a bed, a toilet, and two low pillars. On the front side is a cell door, with what indoors would be floor-to-ceiling bars. Plantings surround the concrete shapes -- low green bushes and a succulent in one corner. Beyond the plot is another low grassy hillside, oak trees and, beyond that, in the distance, the ocean. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumell put Young in touch with UC Santa Cruz after he reached out to her as an admirer of her work and they struck up a correspondence. Young said he has forged deep friendships as a result of with students and faculty on campus as a result of being involved with the project. The feeling is mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want everyone to understand that this is not a relationship you can just walk away from. As long as he's in that cell, we need to continue to tend to that relationship, just as we tend the garden,\" said Rachel Nelson, who commissioned the Solitary Garden in her role as director of \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz's Institute of the Arts and Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Journey through the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Young said it's been a long journey since the day of his arrest in April 1999. He said law enforcement officers pulled him over while he was leaving an Easter celebration in the San Joaquin Valley town of Lemoore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I look around and there's like assault rifles being pointed at me from every direction, and I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest happened four years after the crime Young eventually found out he was accused of committing — the murder of five people in a bar in the nearby town of Tulare — took place. Stuck in county jail, Young said he assumed the criminal legal system would work in his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My initial thought was, 'Well, I'm an American. I have rights. Once we get to a preliminary hearing, this case will be dismissed,'\" Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917035 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black man with brown eyes, chin-length locs and a graying goatee sits backward on a red plastic chair. He wears a light-blue short-sleeved prison tunic and navy blue sweatpants; on the right leg are yellow, vertical letters spelling \"SONER\" (as if they are part of the word \"PRISONER\"). He rests the fingertips of his hands, including his thumbs, together as he leans forward against the back of the chair, looking straight at the camera with a confident smile. To his right is a white-painted barred door; he appears to be inside a cell.' width=\"723\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg 723w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy James Young. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Timothy James Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case went to trial despite shaky evidence and unreliable witnesses, including Anthony Wolfe, a man convicted of a felony who served as a paid informant in return for a reduced sentence for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2005, an all-white jury convicted Young, who is Black, of murder. A month later, he was sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sat thinking, 'The truth will come out. Just hang in there. This will all be exposed and it’ll all be over with,'\" Young said. \"The truth \u003ci>did\u003c/i> come out. But everybody discarded it. And so 23 years later, I'm still wrongfully imprisoned and the nightmare continues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing connection to students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent months, a small group of film and digital media students at UC Santa Cruz has been working to make a case for exonerating Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their eight-minute documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am More: The Story of Tim Young\u003c/a>,\" is the centerpiece of a new collaboration with students mostly majoring in government at \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown University\u003c/a>, as part of a class there called \"\u003ca href=\"https://prisonsandjustice.georgetown.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-making-an-exoneree-2022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making an Exoneree\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RcN6AAK/marc-howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Howard,\u003c/a> professor of government and law at Georgetown, said that since the class launched in 2018, it has contributed to the exonerations of three wrongfully convicted people out of the 25 cases it has tackled so far. He and his students typically take on five cases a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What started out as an experiment has actually turned into an extraordinary machine for justice,\" Howard said. \"We have another prison release in the coming weeks. We may have another one still this year. And we've made great progress in a number of cases where the person initially had very little hope and we've at least helped them to obtain legal counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with enhanced creative input from UC Santa Cruz on the filmmaking side for the first time this year, the schools joined forces to help get more people dealing with tough cases out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middled-aged woman with long, curly salt-and-pepper hair and large, black-framed glasses poses indoors in front of a framed photograph of a torn cardboard box set against a sunlit white wall. She is smiling and wears a black cardigan sweater over a dark gray T-shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media professor Sharon Daniel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Documentary works of art in particular have a lot of power to persuade, to change people's perceptions,\" said UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor \u003ca href=\"https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/sharon_daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Daniel\u003c/a>, who co-teaches the class. \"It's a way of addressing a general public, an audience that maybe doesn't know anything about what's wrong with the criminal legal system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said she approached Georgetown about Young's case after she developed her own close friendship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first got to know him from the letters he wrote as part of the Solitary Garden project. Young went on to contribute to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.unjustlyexposed.com/\">interactive documentary Daniel made in 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on the prison system\u003c/a> (Young said he contracted the virus in 2020 and still suffers from long COVID symptoms). The two were starting to collaborate on another long-form documentary, this time about Young's case, when Daniel heard about the Georgetown class on a podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Daniel reached out to the professor there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he [Howard] could clearly see that it was the kind of case that they really like to take on with the class,\" she said. \"Really, really tough cases — cases where there seemed like there was no hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cracking a tough case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz undergrad Allison Dean, part of the student team working on Young’s case, said she and her colleagues combed through more than 11,000 pages of legal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence in the case was horribly mismanaged,\" she said. \"There's just so many different small pieces that led to this wrongful conviction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman in a black turtleneck sweater with long reddish hair smiles shoulder-to-shoulder with a young white man in a blue patterned button-down shirt, mustache and glasses, also smiling, with his right arm around her shoulders. They both look happy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz undergrads Allison Dean and Sullivan Gaudreault. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow undergrad Sullivan Gaudreault said the team traveled to Tulare, where the crime was committed, and surrounding cities, to conduct interviews with as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We interviewed the judge who oversaw the case,\" Gaudreault said. \"We interviewed one of the lead investigators, people who knew Tim, his defense counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timothyjamesyoung.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/free-tim-young?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32847146_en-US%3A7&recruiter=1259071583&recruited_by_id=dcaf1200-af78-11ec-8660-53abd4361a7d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-32847146-en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media campaign\u003c/a> to gather support for Young. Right now, they have more than 700 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a>. The immediate goal is to get pro bono legal representation for Young as he moves through an appeal process that could overturn his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11904934,news_11916767,news_11882320 label='Related Stories']A legal firm is currently reviewing the students’ media campaign to decide whether to take on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to Tim almost every day,\" Dean said. \"And probably the hardest thing is when he calls and he asks for updates. And I have no updates for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Georgetown-UC Santa Cruz class is part of a long tradition that dates back at least to the 1990s, of college students working to free wrongfully convicted prisoners — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/spring99/convictions.htm\">a landmark program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and Legal Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always going to need heroic students,\" said Robert Dunham, executive director of the independent nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death Penalty Information Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the center shows just \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence-database?state=California\">how tough it is to get someone exonerated\u003c/a>, especially in California and especially for someone on death row, where only five of the 692 people on death row have been exonerated since the early 1970s. (The state currently has a stay on executions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't enough lawyers and enough resources and enough courts with open hearts to correct all of the injustices that we see,\" Dunham said. \"So there will always be a need for people on the outside to bring attention to things that are not being corrected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In it for the long haul\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the class is over, Dean and Gaudreault both said they plan to keep on fighting for Young’s freedom for as long as it takes. And their professors said they are planning for the bi-coastal collaboration to continue, with a crop of new cases next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaudreault said the class has inspired him to rethink his career path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917033 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two young white women with long, flat hair -- one wearing a yellow scarf holding back her hair -- sit behind a video camera in a neat, clean room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent overhead lights. The walls are pink-beige with nothing but a flatscreen TV on the walls. They are dressed casually and face a man who sits facing the camera. He is white and middle-aged, with thick, neat white-and-gray hair and a white goatee. He wears dark jeans and a blue button-down shirt tucked into his jeans, knees splayed, ankles crossed, fingers interlaced in his lap. A standing light lights him from the left. The woman on the left holds a notebook on her lap and a pen in her right hand. The woman on the right, with the yellow scarf, wears jean shorts and a T-shirt and has her legs crossed and arms folded.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students re-investigated Timothy James Young's case by traveling to Tulare and interviewing as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"For the longest time, I've been wanting to go into the marketing and advertising industry,\" he said. \"I now want to pursue a career in nonprofit work and advocacy in terms of film, helping wrongfully convicted people have a voice and tell their story through digital media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Young said he’s grateful for the students’ friendship and support. He’s optimistic their efforts will not only get him legal help, but also raise greater awareness about the urgent need to overhaul the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have committed to the long, hard fight,\" said Young. \"That's not only a testament to the kind of people that they are, but it's a testament to the kind of relationships that we build.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is dreaming of the day when he can visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and his Solitary Garden in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to just be in nature,\" he said. \"I want to feel the soil running through my fingers.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Incarcerated in San Quentin for the past 23 years, Timothy James Young said he had given up hope of getting out — until students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz helped kick off a campaign for his exoneration.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655342827,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1790},"headData":{"title":"How a Garden at UC Santa Cruz Led to an Exoneration Campaign for a Man on Death Row | KQED","description":"Incarcerated in San Quentin for the past 23 years, Timothy James Young said he had given up hope of getting out — until students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz helped kick off a campaign for his exoneration.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a Garden at UC Santa Cruz Led to an Exoneration Campaign for a Man on Death Row","datePublished":"2022-06-14T23:34:00.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-16T01:27:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11917011 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11917011","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/14/how-a-garden-at-uc-santa-cruz-led-to-a-student-campaign-for-a-death-row-inmates-exoneration/","disqusTitle":"How a Garden at UC Santa Cruz Led to an Exoneration Campaign for a Man on Death Row","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/8656e845-0e0c-4da4-bc37-aeb401281647/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11917011/how-a-garden-at-uc-santa-cruz-led-to-a-student-campaign-for-a-death-row-inmates-exoneration","audioDuration":423000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2021/solitary-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solitary Garden\u003c/a> on the UC Santa Cruz campus is a small space, 9 feet long by 6 feet wide, flanked by old-growth oaks and sweeping views of the Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a little oasis, with its bushy plantings of rosemary, daisies and agave. The dimensions of the public sculpture are intentional — it's the size of an average solitary confinement cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy James Young, the person tasked with curating the Solitary Garden, has never himself set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a wrongfully convicted prisoner on San Quentin's death row,\" said Young when he introduced himself at the start of a recent phone interview with KQED from the maximum security state prison in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 52-year-old, also known as \"the solitary gardener,\" is one among \u003ca href=\"https://documents.deathpenaltyinfo.org/pdf/FactSheet.pdf\">nearly 700 people on death row in California\u003c/a> — the highest number in the U.S. Young said he's been locked up for 23 years on scant evidence. With his appeal process moving at a glacial pace, Young said he had given up hope of ever getting out — until students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz came along to campaign for his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My journey to freedom didn't necessarily begin until I was introduced to Solitary Garden and the folks at UC Santa Cruz,\" said Young, who's been the curator of the garden since its inception on campus three years ago, thanks to a nationwide public art project protesting solitary confinement created by multidisciplinary artist and prison reform activist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Sumell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackie Sumell\u003c/a>. The campus community does the actual gardening on Young's behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A 9-by-6-foot raised bed on a grassy hillside has in its center three-dimensional concrete shapes that resemble a bed, a toilet, and two low pillars. On the front side is a cell door, with what indoors would be floor-to-ceiling bars. Plantings surround the concrete shapes -- low green bushes and a succulent in one corner. Beyond the plot is another low grassy hillside, oak trees and, beyond that, in the distance, the ocean. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56607_IMG-6838-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumell put Young in touch with UC Santa Cruz after he reached out to her as an admirer of her work and they struck up a correspondence. Young said he has forged deep friendships as a result of with students and faculty on campus as a result of being involved with the project. The feeling is mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want everyone to understand that this is not a relationship you can just walk away from. As long as he's in that cell, we need to continue to tend to that relationship, just as we tend the garden,\" said Rachel Nelson, who commissioned the Solitary Garden in her role as director of \u003ca href=\"https://ias.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz's Institute of the Arts and Sciences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Journey through the system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Young said it's been a long journey since the day of his arrest in April 1999. He said law enforcement officers pulled him over while he was leaving an Easter celebration in the San Joaquin Valley town of Lemoore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I look around and there's like assault rifles being pointed at me from every direction, and I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest happened four years after the crime Young eventually found out he was accused of committing — the murder of five people in a bar in the nearby town of Tulare — took place. Stuck in county jail, Young said he assumed the criminal legal system would work in his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My initial thought was, 'Well, I'm an American. I have rights. Once we get to a preliminary hearing, this case will be dismissed,'\" Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917035 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg\" alt='A Black man with brown eyes, chin-length locs and a graying goatee sits backward on a red plastic chair. He wears a light-blue short-sleeved prison tunic and navy blue sweatpants; on the right leg are yellow, vertical letters spelling \"SONER\" (as if they are part of the word \"PRISONER\"). He rests the fingertips of his hands, including his thumbs, together as he leans forward against the back of the chair, looking straight at the camera with a confident smile. To his right is a white-painted barred door; he appears to be inside a cell.' width=\"723\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut.jpg 723w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56597_sdfqvw-qut-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy James Young. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Timothy James Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case went to trial despite shaky evidence and unreliable witnesses, including Anthony Wolfe, a man convicted of a felony who served as a paid informant in return for a reduced sentence for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2005, an all-white jury convicted Young, who is Black, of murder. A month later, he was sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sat thinking, 'The truth will come out. Just hang in there. This will all be exposed and it’ll all be over with,'\" Young said. \"The truth \u003ci>did\u003c/i> come out. But everybody discarded it. And so 23 years later, I'm still wrongfully imprisoned and the nightmare continues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing connection to students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent months, a small group of film and digital media students at UC Santa Cruz has been working to make a case for exonerating Young.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qoDy1jgVVxo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qoDy1jgVVxo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Their eight-minute documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am More: The Story of Tim Young\u003c/a>,\" is the centerpiece of a new collaboration with students mostly majoring in government at \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown University\u003c/a>, as part of a class there called \"\u003ca href=\"https://prisonsandjustice.georgetown.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-making-an-exoneree-2022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making an Exoneree\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RcN6AAK/marc-howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Howard,\u003c/a> professor of government and law at Georgetown, said that since the class launched in 2018, it has contributed to the exonerations of three wrongfully convicted people out of the 25 cases it has tackled so far. He and his students typically take on five cases a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What started out as an experiment has actually turned into an extraordinary machine for justice,\" Howard said. \"We have another prison release in the coming weeks. We may have another one still this year. And we've made great progress in a number of cases where the person initially had very little hope and we've at least helped them to obtain legal counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with enhanced creative input from UC Santa Cruz on the filmmaking side for the first time this year, the schools joined forces to help get more people dealing with tough cases out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middled-aged woman with long, curly salt-and-pepper hair and large, black-framed glasses poses indoors in front of a framed photograph of a torn cardboard box set against a sunlit white wall. She is smiling and wears a black cardigan sweater over a dark gray T-shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56604_IMG-6827-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media professor Sharon Daniel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Documentary works of art in particular have a lot of power to persuade, to change people's perceptions,\" said UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor \u003ca href=\"https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/sharon_daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Daniel\u003c/a>, who co-teaches the class. \"It's a way of addressing a general public, an audience that maybe doesn't know anything about what's wrong with the criminal legal system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said she approached Georgetown about Young's case after she developed her own close friendship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first got to know him from the letters he wrote as part of the Solitary Garden project. Young went on to contribute to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.unjustlyexposed.com/\">interactive documentary Daniel made in 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on the prison system\u003c/a> (Young said he contracted the virus in 2020 and still suffers from long COVID symptoms). The two were starting to collaborate on another long-form documentary, this time about Young's case, when Daniel heard about the Georgetown class on a podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Daniel reached out to the professor there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he [Howard] could clearly see that it was the kind of case that they really like to take on with the class,\" she said. \"Really, really tough cases — cases where there seemed like there was no hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cracking a tough case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz undergrad Allison Dean, part of the student team working on Young’s case, said she and her colleagues combed through more than 11,000 pages of legal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence in the case was horribly mismanaged,\" she said. \"There's just so many different small pieces that led to this wrongful conviction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman in a black turtleneck sweater with long reddish hair smiles shoulder-to-shoulder with a young white man in a blue patterned button-down shirt, mustache and glasses, also smiling, with his right arm around her shoulders. They both look happy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56603_IMG-6826-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz undergrads Allison Dean and Sullivan Gaudreault. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow undergrad Sullivan Gaudreault said the team traveled to Tulare, where the crime was committed, and surrounding cities, to conduct interviews with as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We interviewed the judge who oversaw the case,\" Gaudreault said. \"We interviewed one of the lead investigators, people who knew Tim, his defense counsel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timothyjamesyoung.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/free-tim-young?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32847146_en-US%3A7&recruiter=1259071583&recruited_by_id=dcaf1200-af78-11ec-8660-53abd4361a7d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-32847146-en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media campaign\u003c/a> to gather support for Young. Right now, they have more than 700 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/freetimyoung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a>. The immediate goal is to get pro bono legal representation for Young as he moves through an appeal process that could overturn his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11904934,news_11916767,news_11882320","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A legal firm is currently reviewing the students’ media campaign to decide whether to take on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to Tim almost every day,\" Dean said. \"And probably the hardest thing is when he calls and he asks for updates. And I have no updates for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Georgetown-UC Santa Cruz class is part of a long tradition that dates back at least to the 1990s, of college students working to free wrongfully convicted prisoners — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/spring99/convictions.htm\">a landmark program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and Legal Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always going to need heroic students,\" said Robert Dunham, executive director of the independent nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death Penalty Information Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the center shows just \u003ca href=\"https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence-database?state=California\">how tough it is to get someone exonerated\u003c/a>, especially in California and especially for someone on death row, where only five of the 692 people on death row have been exonerated since the early 1970s. (The state currently has a stay on executions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't enough lawyers and enough resources and enough courts with open hearts to correct all of the injustices that we see,\" Dunham said. \"So there will always be a need for people on the outside to bring attention to things that are not being corrected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In it for the long haul\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the class is over, Dean and Gaudreault both said they plan to keep on fighting for Young’s freedom for as long as it takes. And their professors said they are planning for the bi-coastal collaboration to continue, with a crop of new cases next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaudreault said the class has inspired him to rethink his career path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917033 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two young white women with long, flat hair -- one wearing a yellow scarf holding back her hair -- sit behind a video camera in a neat, clean room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent overhead lights. The walls are pink-beige with nothing but a flatscreen TV on the walls. They are dressed casually and face a man who sits facing the camera. He is white and middle-aged, with thick, neat white-and-gray hair and a white goatee. He wears dark jeans and a blue button-down shirt tucked into his jeans, knees splayed, ankles crossed, fingers interlaced in his lap. A standing light lights him from the left. The woman on the left holds a notebook on her lap and a pen in her right hand. The woman on the right, with the yellow scarf, wears jean shorts and a T-shirt and has her legs crossed and arms folded.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56601_MAE-Tulare-Trip-Photos-16-of-55-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students re-investigated Timothy James Young's case by traveling to Tulare and interviewing as many people as they could find who were involved in the original investigation and trial. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"For the longest time, I've been wanting to go into the marketing and advertising industry,\" he said. \"I now want to pursue a career in nonprofit work and advocacy in terms of film, helping wrongfully convicted people have a voice and tell their story through digital media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Young said he’s grateful for the students’ friendship and support. He’s optimistic their efforts will not only get him legal help, but also raise greater awareness about the urgent need to overhaul the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have committed to the long, hard fight,\" said Young. \"That's not only a testament to the kind of people that they are, but it's a testament to the kind of relationships that we build.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is dreaming of the day when he can visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and his Solitary Garden in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to just be in nature,\" he said. \"I want to feel the soil running through my fingers.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11917011/how-a-garden-at-uc-santa-cruz-led-to-a-student-campaign-for-a-death-row-inmates-exoneration","authors":["8608"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18972","news_2842","news_23","news_3113","news_25682"],"featImg":"news_11917034","label":"news"},"news_11916767":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11916767","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11916767","score":null,"sort":[1654948887000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"navigating-freedom-reentry-and-motherhood-the-challenges-for-formerly-incarcerated-moms","title":"Navigating Freedom, Reentry and Motherhood: The Challenges for Formerly Incarcerated Moms","publishDate":1654948887,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] group of women, many of them mothers, sat in a circle in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood in early April, talking about the challenges they’ve faced and victories they’ve celebrated recently. The group, called Seeking Safety — a project of the Bayview-based organization \u003ca href=\"https://positivedirectionsequalschange.org/\">Positive Directions Equals Change\u003c/a> — provides support for women in recovery from substance use disorder and for the formerly incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This group is facilitated by other legal-system-impacted women like Lisa Wood, who spent time locked up in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us who leave our children and go to prison come from broken cycles,” she said. “We don't know how to put the pieces together and so we really need support before coming out of prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a lot of support for women, especially mothers leaving prison and jail; and the support that does exist is mostly scattered among various nonprofits and government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2022/01/Fall-2021-Population-Projections.pdf\">a record number of incarcerated people have been released in California\u003c/a>. The reasons include a number of early release laws that California has passed, and the fact that prisons became deadly hotbeds for COVID-19 during the pandemic. The state’s incarcerated population \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-prison-population-drops-sharply-but-overcrowding-still-threatens-prisoner-health/\">declined by more than 20%\u003c/a> in 2020 alone — and the rate of decline in women’s prisons was even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the number of incarcerated people being released at an all-time high, advocates say that more resources to help people reenter society could lower recidivism rates, help family instability and improve the mental health of formerly incarcerated people. But the obstacles facing those reentering society are daunting, and the amount of helpful resources, especially for mothers, hasn’t kept up with the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Wood\"]'[My daughter] is in the same struggle that I was in all those years. Now I’m trying to break this cycle.'[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://imrp.dpp.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3351/2021/09/March-2015-Seven-out-of-ten.pdf\">Studies show\u003c/a> there can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124689/#R53\">even stronger negative effects\u003c/a> on the children of incarcerated parents, who can be three times more likely to become involved with the legal system themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the children of women who give birth while they’re incarcerated, the generational impacts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655430/\">can start when they are separated shortly after birth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'My son followed me into that pattern'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lisa Wood watched crack destroy her community of West Philadelphia in the 1980s. She herself was introduced to drugs at 13 years old, and she spent 12 years in and out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched how the drugs changed my community, and saw how it destroyed the African American community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wood was incarcerated for the first time in 1985, she was pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most women who are incarcerated in prisons and jails across the U.S. are mothers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/05/05/mothers-day-2021/\">according to the Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a> — and an estimated 58,000 women every year are pregnant when they are admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my daughter in prison,” Wood said. “She went home at 3 days old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much time incarcerated mothers spend with their newborns depends on a prison’s policy. Some women are only allowed a day or two before their child is either placed with relatives or in foster care. Wood had only a couple of days before her daughter went into the care of Wood’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was released in 1988, she had a 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter to take care of while she was still trying to manage her addiction. She struggled to get better and wound up returning to prison one more time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood was at risk of an 18-year sentence after being arrested a third time because of the California habitual offender law, otherwise known as the “three strikes law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I said to the judge, you know, I've actually been a junkie my whole life and no one's ever asked me, can I give you any treatment or help?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11832910,news_11882320,news_11904298 label='Related Coverage']The judge sentenced Wood to complete a residential drug addiction program with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/\">Delancey Street Foundation\u003c/a> in San Francisco. If she didn’t complete the program, she would be back in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still was thinking of leaving and going back to hustling and the whole drug scene,” said Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she made the decision to stay in the Delancey Street program for six years and eventually started working in the intake department and mentoring other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, while Wood was doing work on herself in Delancey Street, her children were growing older and facing their own challenges. Wood’s son went into prison for the first time at age 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son kind of followed me into that pattern that I was in with the gangs and drugs,” Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was released when he was 25 and has been out for years. He and Wood have a great relationship today, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wood’s daughter still resents her absence and struggles with mental health and substance use disorder like Wood did. As a result Wood is now raising her daughter’s three sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's in the same struggle that I was in all those years,” she said. “Now I’m trying to break this cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Woman laughing, holding bouquet as two other women smile and laugh in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Wood holds a bouquet of candy after being recognized for her achievements at a Seeking Safety support meeting in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Seeking Safety, most of the women Wood sees are Black and brown. She’s trying to make the strong connections women like her need, and she knows that success is not guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see the potential in them, but they can't see it in themselves,” she said. “Until they're able to see it, it doesn't matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You're pretty much on your own'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many formerly incarcerated parents have to navigate how to rekindle family relationships after they’re released. Damage from years of separation can be hard to repair, and advocates say parents are often given no help in child custody cases while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before Linette Galindo’s eldest son turned 7, back in 2004, she was incarcerated. Her sentence lasted almost 17 years. While she was away, her ex-husband, who had custody of her children, didn’t allow her regular communication with her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to fight through the courts to be able to at least try to get letters and pictures,” she said. “Which is very hard to do when it is just you by yourself trying to figure this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in prison, Galindo’s ex-husband remarried and relocated her children to Colorado. For six years she didn’t know where her children were, she said. Like many mothers in her position, Galindo became a regular in the prison library and started studying child custody laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2019, a year before her release from the California Institution for Women in Chino, her ex-husband filed for adoption of their kids. Like many incarcerated parents, Galindo received no legal help in her adoption hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to represent myself,” she said. “I had to become an attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo lost her case, and when she was released she tried contacting her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went on social media, like anybody would, and tried to find pictures of them on Facebook, Instagram. Just to see what they look like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo’s ex-husband discovered she was looking for pictures of her children and reported it to her parole officer, who advised her to stop looking them up on social media, and she stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has now been out of prison for almost two years and is currently living in San Bernardino with her sister, working at a local factory for minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linette Galindo (left), stands with her family in San Bernardino. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Linette Galindo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she wants to become a drug and alcohol counselor to help women who have had similar experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my determination comes because one day I know my kids are going to come looking for me,” she said. “I believe that in my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'There's not a lot of resources, especially for us undocumented people'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Much of the success for formerly incarcerated people reentering society depends on their social networks and how many barriers they have to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Garibay came to the U.S. from Mexico and was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status in 2013, prior to her incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay, 37, is a survivor of domestic violence and went to jail after an incident with an abusive ex-boyfriend. The case was later dismissed. Garibay served only four months in jail — but during that time, she was unable to reapply for DACA status, making her ineligible for government assistance, including food stamps and supplemental income, when she was released in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay, who lives in Fresno, slept in motels and sometimes even in cars, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A glimmer of hope arrived in March 2020, when a judge granted Garibay full custody of her daughter after she proved that the ex-boyfriend, who was her daughter’s caretaker, was not providing a safe living environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I saw my daughter, she ran towards me and I ran towards her,” said Garibay. “We just didn't want to let it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after winning custody, she and her daughter still had very little money and nowhere to live, so they had to seek support from the abusive ex-boyfriend, who helped pay for an illegal sublet in Shafter, a small farming town in the Central Valley, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no other people that could help me out — so typical of a person who's in an abusive relationship,” she said. “That toxic cycle continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay ended up getting pregnant with the ex-boyfriend. Shortly after, they were evicted when the landlord found out they were illegally subletting, and Garibay took her daughter to live with a friend in Tehachapi. Garibay said that’s when she was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and started seeing a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw how severe my depression was,” she said. “The thing that kept me going was my little girl. I need my little girl. My little girl needs me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay-160x188.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Garibay (left), with her daughter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Laura Garibay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://whopaysreport.org/who-pays-full-report/\">2015 study\u003c/a> found that half of formerly incarcerated people and their family members surveyed nationally experienced negative mental health impacts related to their incarceration, such as depression and anxiety; in California this \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/downloads/pdfdownloads/state-incarceration-trends-california.pdf\">disproportionately hits Black and Latinx incarcerated people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garibay finally separated from her ex-boyfriend, she was 7 months pregnant. Again, she was homeless. But she was going to a support group, which eventually referred her to a reentry program called Root & Rebound, which provides services in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and the Central Valley. They helped her find a place to live in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, you're going to have to pack whatever you could fit in a car. That's all we're bringing,” she said. “We're placing you in a program that has a lot of security. You're going to be safe there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay was referred to another nonprofit program in Fresno called Rescue the Children, where she lived for 18 months and received clothing, housing and therapy. It’s common for women reentering society to have to seek out many different resources from different places because prisons and state governments don’t provide enough help, said Claudia Gonzalez, who works with Root & Rebound and helped Garibay navigate the resources available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is mandated. There's no law stating that parole officers have to find resources for you,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay currently attends Fresno City College and is pursuing a career in the legal field. But she is still waiting for her DACA approval, which means she still can’t legally apply for jobs. Her college will stop paying for her housing in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does this mean for me and my girls again?” she asked. “You know, it puts us back in a limbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay depends on scholarship money and small amounts of government assistance that her two daughters get since they are U.S. citizens. There are still days when her depression feels overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a 1-year-old and I have a 13-year-old that depend on me,” she said. “They have nobody else, and because of that reason, that's the reason I push forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With the number of incarcerated people being released at an all-time high, advocates say more resources to help them reenter society could lower recidivism rates, boost family stability and improve the mental health of formerly incarcerated people. But the obstacles facing those reentering society are daunting, and the amount of helpful resources — especially for mothers — hasn't kept up with the need.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655144344,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":2193},"headData":{"title":"Navigating Freedom, Reentry and Motherhood: The Challenges for Formerly Incarcerated Moms | KQED","description":"With the number of incarcerated people being released at an all-time high, advocates say more resources to help them reenter society could lower recidivism rates, boost family stability and improve the mental health of formerly incarcerated people. 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The group, called Seeking Safety — a project of the Bayview-based organization \u003ca href=\"https://positivedirectionsequalschange.org/\">Positive Directions Equals Change\u003c/a> — provides support for women in recovery from substance use disorder and for the formerly incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This group is facilitated by other legal-system-impacted women like Lisa Wood, who spent time locked up in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us who leave our children and go to prison come from broken cycles,” she said. “We don't know how to put the pieces together and so we really need support before coming out of prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a lot of support for women, especially mothers leaving prison and jail; and the support that does exist is mostly scattered among various nonprofits and government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2022/01/Fall-2021-Population-Projections.pdf\">a record number of incarcerated people have been released in California\u003c/a>. The reasons include a number of early release laws that California has passed, and the fact that prisons became deadly hotbeds for COVID-19 during the pandemic. The state’s incarcerated population \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-prison-population-drops-sharply-but-overcrowding-still-threatens-prisoner-health/\">declined by more than 20%\u003c/a> in 2020 alone — and the rate of decline in women’s prisons was even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the number of incarcerated people being released at an all-time high, advocates say that more resources to help people reenter society could lower recidivism rates, help family instability and improve the mental health of formerly incarcerated people. But the obstacles facing those reentering society are daunting, and the amount of helpful resources, especially for mothers, hasn’t kept up with the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'[My daughter] is in the same struggle that I was in all those years. Now I’m trying to break this cycle.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lisa Wood","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://imrp.dpp.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3351/2021/09/March-2015-Seven-out-of-ten.pdf\">Studies show\u003c/a> there can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124689/#R53\">even stronger negative effects\u003c/a> on the children of incarcerated parents, who can be three times more likely to become involved with the legal system themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the children of women who give birth while they’re incarcerated, the generational impacts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655430/\">can start when they are separated shortly after birth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'My son followed me into that pattern'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lisa Wood watched crack destroy her community of West Philadelphia in the 1980s. She herself was introduced to drugs at 13 years old, and she spent 12 years in and out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched how the drugs changed my community, and saw how it destroyed the African American community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wood was incarcerated for the first time in 1985, she was pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most women who are incarcerated in prisons and jails across the U.S. are mothers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/05/05/mothers-day-2021/\">according to the Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a> — and an estimated 58,000 women every year are pregnant when they are admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my daughter in prison,” Wood said. “She went home at 3 days old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much time incarcerated mothers spend with their newborns depends on a prison’s policy. Some women are only allowed a day or two before their child is either placed with relatives or in foster care. Wood had only a couple of days before her daughter went into the care of Wood’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was released in 1988, she had a 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter to take care of while she was still trying to manage her addiction. She struggled to get better and wound up returning to prison one more time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood was at risk of an 18-year sentence after being arrested a third time because of the California habitual offender law, otherwise known as the “three strikes law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I said to the judge, you know, I've actually been a junkie my whole life and no one's ever asked me, can I give you any treatment or help?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11832910,news_11882320,news_11904298","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The judge sentenced Wood to complete a residential drug addiction program with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/\">Delancey Street Foundation\u003c/a> in San Francisco. If she didn’t complete the program, she would be back in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still was thinking of leaving and going back to hustling and the whole drug scene,” said Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she made the decision to stay in the Delancey Street program for six years and eventually started working in the intake department and mentoring other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, while Wood was doing work on herself in Delancey Street, her children were growing older and facing their own challenges. Wood’s son went into prison for the first time at age 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son kind of followed me into that pattern that I was in with the gangs and drugs,” Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was released when he was 25 and has been out for years. He and Wood have a great relationship today, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wood’s daughter still resents her absence and struggles with mental health and substance use disorder like Wood did. As a result Wood is now raising her daughter’s three sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's in the same struggle that I was in all those years,” she said. “Now I’m trying to break this cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Woman laughing, holding bouquet as two other women smile and laugh in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55246_019_KQED_SistersCircleBayview_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Wood holds a bouquet of candy after being recognized for her achievements at a Seeking Safety support meeting in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Seeking Safety, most of the women Wood sees are Black and brown. She’s trying to make the strong connections women like her need, and she knows that success is not guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see the potential in them, but they can't see it in themselves,” she said. “Until they're able to see it, it doesn't matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You're pretty much on your own'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many formerly incarcerated parents have to navigate how to rekindle family relationships after they’re released. Damage from years of separation can be hard to repair, and advocates say parents are often given no help in child custody cases while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before Linette Galindo’s eldest son turned 7, back in 2004, she was incarcerated. Her sentence lasted almost 17 years. While she was away, her ex-husband, who had custody of her children, didn’t allow her regular communication with her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to fight through the courts to be able to at least try to get letters and pictures,” she said. “Which is very hard to do when it is just you by yourself trying to figure this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in prison, Galindo’s ex-husband remarried and relocated her children to Colorado. For six years she didn’t know where her children were, she said. Like many mothers in her position, Galindo became a regular in the prison library and started studying child custody laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2019, a year before her release from the California Institution for Women in Chino, her ex-husband filed for adoption of their kids. Like many incarcerated parents, Galindo received no legal help in her adoption hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to represent myself,” she said. “I had to become an attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo lost her case, and when she was released she tried contacting her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went on social media, like anybody would, and tried to find pictures of them on Facebook, Instagram. Just to see what they look like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo’s ex-husband discovered she was looking for pictures of her children and reported it to her parole officer, who advised her to stop looking them up on social media, and she stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has now been out of prison for almost two years and is currently living in San Bernardino with her sister, working at a local factory for minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Galindo-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linette Galindo (left), stands with her family in San Bernardino. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Linette Galindo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she wants to become a drug and alcohol counselor to help women who have had similar experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my determination comes because one day I know my kids are going to come looking for me,” she said. “I believe that in my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'There's not a lot of resources, especially for us undocumented people'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Much of the success for formerly incarcerated people reentering society depends on their social networks and how many barriers they have to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Garibay came to the U.S. from Mexico and was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status in 2013, prior to her incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay, 37, is a survivor of domestic violence and went to jail after an incident with an abusive ex-boyfriend. The case was later dismissed. Garibay served only four months in jail — but during that time, she was unable to reapply for DACA status, making her ineligible for government assistance, including food stamps and supplemental income, when she was released in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay, who lives in Fresno, slept in motels and sometimes even in cars, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A glimmer of hope arrived in March 2020, when a judge granted Garibay full custody of her daughter after she proved that the ex-boyfriend, who was her daughter’s caretaker, was not providing a safe living environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I saw my daughter, she ran towards me and I ran towards her,” said Garibay. “We just didn't want to let it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after winning custody, she and her daughter still had very little money and nowhere to live, so they had to seek support from the abusive ex-boyfriend, who helped pay for an illegal sublet in Shafter, a small farming town in the Central Valley, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no other people that could help me out — so typical of a person who's in an abusive relationship,” she said. “That toxic cycle continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay ended up getting pregnant with the ex-boyfriend. Shortly after, they were evicted when the landlord found out they were illegally subletting, and Garibay took her daughter to live with a friend in Tehachapi. Garibay said that’s when she was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and started seeing a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw how severe my depression was,” she said. “The thing that kept me going was my little girl. I need my little girl. My little girl needs me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Garibay-160x188.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Garibay (left), with her daughter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Laura Garibay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://whopaysreport.org/who-pays-full-report/\">2015 study\u003c/a> found that half of formerly incarcerated people and their family members surveyed nationally experienced negative mental health impacts related to their incarceration, such as depression and anxiety; in California this \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/downloads/pdfdownloads/state-incarceration-trends-california.pdf\">disproportionately hits Black and Latinx incarcerated people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garibay finally separated from her ex-boyfriend, she was 7 months pregnant. Again, she was homeless. But she was going to a support group, which eventually referred her to a reentry program called Root & Rebound, which provides services in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and the Central Valley. They helped her find a place to live in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, you're going to have to pack whatever you could fit in a car. That's all we're bringing,” she said. “We're placing you in a program that has a lot of security. You're going to be safe there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay was referred to another nonprofit program in Fresno called Rescue the Children, where she lived for 18 months and received clothing, housing and therapy. It’s common for women reentering society to have to seek out many different resources from different places because prisons and state governments don’t provide enough help, said Claudia Gonzalez, who works with Root & Rebound and helped Garibay navigate the resources available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is mandated. There's no law stating that parole officers have to find resources for you,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay currently attends Fresno City College and is pursuing a career in the legal field. But she is still waiting for her DACA approval, which means she still can’t legally apply for jobs. Her college will stop paying for her housing in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does this mean for me and my girls again?” she asked. “You know, it puts us back in a limbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garibay depends on scholarship money and small amounts of government assistance that her two daughters get since they are U.S. citizens. There are still days when her depression feels overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a 1-year-old and I have a 13-year-old that depend on me,” she said. “They have nobody else, and because of that reason, that's the reason I push forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11916767/navigating-freedom-reentry-and-motherhood-the-challenges-for-formerly-incarcerated-moms","authors":["byline_news_11916767"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_28202","news_18538","news_27626","news_28654","news_30638","news_2842","news_31217","news_19743","news_28392","news_28391"],"featImg":"news_11916789","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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