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We have over a thousand empty SHU beds statewide, a thousand. Nobody’s living in those cells.'\u003ccite>Terry Thornton,\u003cbr>\nCDCR Deputy Press Secretary\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In that year, the number of male inmates in Security Housing Units has been cut by about two-thirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit followed California prison hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013 that protested indefinite isolation in SHU facilities based solely on prison authorities' determination that an inmate was affiliated with a gang, called gang validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stint in the SHU means isolation from other inmates. It means up to 22½ hours a day in a windowless cell if the inmate does not participate in prison programs, like education. It also means no-contact visits with loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the settlement, proposed on Sept. 1, 2015, and accepted by the federal judge in the case a month later, all SHU terms became behavior-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280945696\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton said more than 3,000 inmates were housed in the SHU at the time of the hunger strikes, but the department began to trim that population years before the settlement. By the time it happened, 1,478 SHU inmates had been evaluated, and 1,110 had been moved to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, another 1,530 were reviewed, and another 1,226 made it back to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the SHU, inmates can go a number of places other than the general population. They may end up in a special-needs yard or new \"general population-like\" housing for inmates with safety concerns, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were just over 1,060 male inmates and 16 female inmates in all California Security Housing Units as of early July, according to CDCR data, and 419 in Pelican Bay's SHU as of late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are being released from the SHU practically every day,\" Thornton said. \"We have over a thousand empty SHU beds statewide, a thousand. Nobody’s living in those cells. I don’t know if you’re understanding what has changed in the past years. It’s enormous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/\" target=\"_blank\">Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11070393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"SHUPrisoner\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The population fluctuates, though, because inmates can still be given fixed terms of up to five years if they're found guilty of a criminal offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department’s longest SHU term is 60 months, and that’s for the offense of murder,\" said Sandra Alfaro, an associate director in CDCR’s Division of Adult Institutions. \"With good conduct, that SHU term can be reduced by 50 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornton said CDCR would not provide the length of time that those still in the SHU had been there. She said no one had been in isolation for longer than 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're down to just a handful, a little more than a handful of reviews left to do, so honestly the question is moot,\" she said. \"From our point of view, it's not a relevant question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of inmates who remain in the SHU based solely on gang validation is down to 25, Thornton said, plus 45 others whose cases have been reviewed. But safety or other considerations have complicated their relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR also still puts inmates in Security Housing Units indefinitely, but never based solely on gang affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small population, described as a \"handful\" and not further specified by CDCR, is in the most restricted type of housing indefinitely for three SHU-level offenses in a five-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the situation Robin Anderson says her son Eric is in. He's serving a life sentence for murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's been hell for him,\" she said, as she got ready for her seven-hour trip from Stockton to Pelican Bay for a recent visit. \"It's hard for both of us. I don't get to hug him or kiss him or touch him, so that's hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She disputes CDCR's characterization that the small population still serving indefinite SHU terms are repeat problem offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wrote a letter against the excessive lockdowns,\" she said, \"and then he was validated on confidential informants,\" meaning he was identified as a gang member, but never learned who identified him. His third offense, she said, was having his name on a document circulated by a gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s how they got him for three write-ups, which were all bogus,\" she said. \"Those aren’t valid reasons. Even if they were, that’s still not a violent crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR representatives interviewed for this report declined to discuss the use of confidential information to land inmates in the SHU because that part of the lawsuit is still being litigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One key problem historically has been that they put people in the SHU not based on strong evidence that they do anything, but based on confidential information,\" said plaintiff's attorney Jules Lobel. \"'We have a confidential informant who says this about you,' and they start putting a lot of people back in the SHU for that reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rodriguez didn't like the six months her son spent in the highly restrictive custody back in 2013. It interrupted her monthly visits from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Rodriguez was convicted on a conspiracy charge, but she says someone else is responsible for the murder that led to his incarceration. He told her he had to join the hunger strike to help his fellow inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was punished because he went on a hunger strike,\" she said. \"People become sick because they don’t feed them, they don’t take them to the yard, everything. That’s why he went to hunger strike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when he emerged, he was skinny and looked terrible, but he was proud he'd fought for the rights of his fellow inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got it. They got it,\" she said. \"No more SHU anymore. He said, 'Look, Ma, all these people, they are happy because they’re not in the SHU.' He said they are happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following hunger strike and landmark lawsuit, state prisons cut SHU population by about two-thirds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1472869080,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1210},"headData":{"title":"A Year After Settlement, Hundreds of State Prison Isolation Cells Empty | KQED","description":"Following hunger strike and landmark lawsuit, state prisons cut SHU population by about two-thirds.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11067321 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11067321","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/04/a-year-after-settlement-hundreds-of-state-prison-isolation-cells-empty/","disqusTitle":"A Year After Settlement, Hundreds of State Prison Isolation Cells Empty","nprStoryId":"492617274","path":"/news/11067321/a-year-after-settlement-hundreds-of-state-prison-isolation-cells-empty","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"I didn’t know that he could ever be touched.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how 20-year-old Joseph Carranza described his relationship with his father, who is housed at Pelican Bay State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will be my first time actually giving him a hug since like ever, in my whole life,\" added Carranza, who until now has only interacted with his dad through a glass wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carranza was with about 60 inmates' loved ones making a 14-hour bus trip from Los Angeles to Pelican Bay State Prison on California's northern border on Aug. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his dad was one of the 1,226 inmates moved out of the maximum-security prison's Security Housing Unit in the last year following a landmark legal settlement that changed the way California prisons use their most restrictive form of custody -- commonly known as the SHU.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'People are being released from the SHU practically every day. We have over a thousand empty SHU beds statewide, a thousand. Nobody’s living in those cells.'\u003ccite>Terry Thornton,\u003cbr>\nCDCR Deputy Press Secretary\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In that year, the number of male inmates in Security Housing Units has been cut by about two-thirds.\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 lawsuit followed California prison hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013 that protested indefinite isolation in SHU facilities based solely on prison authorities' determination that an inmate was affiliated with a gang, called gang validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stint in the SHU means isolation from other inmates. It means up to 22½ hours a day in a windowless cell if the inmate does not participate in prison programs, like education. It also means no-contact visits with loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the settlement, proposed on Sept. 1, 2015, and accepted by the federal judge in the case a month later, all SHU terms became behavior-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280945696&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280945696'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton said more than 3,000 inmates were housed in the SHU at the time of the hunger strikes, but the department began to trim that population years before the settlement. By the time it happened, 1,478 SHU inmates had been evaluated, and 1,110 had been moved to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, another 1,530 were reviewed, and another 1,226 made it back to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the SHU, inmates can go a number of places other than the general population. They may end up in a special-needs yard or new \"general population-like\" housing for inmates with safety concerns, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were just over 1,060 male inmates and 16 female inmates in all California Security Housing Units as of early July, according to CDCR data, and 419 in Pelican Bay's SHU as of late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are being released from the SHU practically every day,\" Thornton said. \"We have over a thousand empty SHU beds statewide, a thousand. Nobody’s living in those cells. I don’t know if you’re understanding what has changed in the past years. It’s enormous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/\" target=\"_blank\">Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11070393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"SHUPrisoner\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SHUPrisoner-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The population fluctuates, though, because inmates can still be given fixed terms of up to five years if they're found guilty of a criminal offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department’s longest SHU term is 60 months, and that’s for the offense of murder,\" said Sandra Alfaro, an associate director in CDCR’s Division of Adult Institutions. \"With good conduct, that SHU term can be reduced by 50 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornton said CDCR would not provide the length of time that those still in the SHU had been there. She said no one had been in isolation for longer than 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're down to just a handful, a little more than a handful of reviews left to do, so honestly the question is moot,\" she said. \"From our point of view, it's not a relevant question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of inmates who remain in the SHU based solely on gang validation is down to 25, Thornton said, plus 45 others whose cases have been reviewed. But safety or other considerations have complicated their relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR also still puts inmates in Security Housing Units indefinitely, but never based solely on gang affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small population, described as a \"handful\" and not further specified by CDCR, is in the most restricted type of housing indefinitely for three SHU-level offenses in a five-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the situation Robin Anderson says her son Eric is in. He's serving a life sentence for murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's been hell for him,\" she said, as she got ready for her seven-hour trip from Stockton to Pelican Bay for a recent visit. \"It's hard for both of us. I don't get to hug him or kiss him or touch him, so that's hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She disputes CDCR's characterization that the small population still serving indefinite SHU terms are repeat problem offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wrote a letter against the excessive lockdowns,\" she said, \"and then he was validated on confidential informants,\" meaning he was identified as a gang member, but never learned who identified him. His third offense, she said, was having his name on a document circulated by a gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s how they got him for three write-ups, which were all bogus,\" she said. \"Those aren’t valid reasons. Even if they were, that’s still not a violent crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR representatives interviewed for this report declined to discuss the use of confidential information to land inmates in the SHU because that part of the lawsuit is still being litigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One key problem historically has been that they put people in the SHU not based on strong evidence that they do anything, but based on confidential information,\" said plaintiff's attorney Jules Lobel. \"'We have a confidential informant who says this about you,' and they start putting a lot of people back in the SHU for that reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rodriguez didn't like the six months her son spent in the highly restrictive custody back in 2013. It interrupted her monthly visits from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Rodriguez was convicted on a conspiracy charge, but she says someone else is responsible for the murder that led to his incarceration. He told her he had to join the hunger strike to help his fellow inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was punished because he went on a hunger strike,\" she said. \"People become sick because they don’t feed them, they don’t take them to the yard, everything. That’s why he went to hunger strike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when he emerged, he was skinny and looked terrible, but he was proud he'd fought for the rights of his fellow inmates.\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>\"They got it. They got it,\" she said. \"No more SHU anymore. He said, 'Look, Ma, all these people, they are happy because they’re not in the SHU.' He said they are happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11067321/a-year-after-settlement-hundreds-of-state-prison-isolation-cells-empty","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1628","news_614"],"featImg":"news_11070387","label":"news_72"},"news_89880":{"type":"posts","id":"news_89880","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"89880","score":null,"sort":[1361847609000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inhumane-or-necessary-see-rare-video-inside-a-california-prison-isolation-unit","title":"Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture? Video From Inside Pelican Bay Prison","publishDate":1361847609,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting--shackled--in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me he hadn’t met with a visitor since 1994, when he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the moon Beasley hadn't seen in 15 years. During that time, in fact, Beasley rarely glimpsed the outside world. Before being transferred to another prison, he was held in Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, a windowless, bunker-like facility that houses more than 1,000 California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate here is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. For 90 minutes the inmate is allowed to exercise in an adjacent room with 25-30 feet high walls. And that’s their entire day -- every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRO9BHbF9GA&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay's that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay's is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day -- every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times--day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody...”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>--Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,\" he said, using the term for the general prison population, \"I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you expect to take all of these guys out of the SHU (Security Housing Unit) and throw them in the same yard and expect them to get along when you have all this sensory deprivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Albanez said he probably would take part in a new step-down program that begins later this year. Corrections officials have said the program allows inmates to earn their way out of the special units in 2-4 years without being required to renounce the gangs they have been affiliated with. Instead, they must declare that they won't participate in gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who visited Pelican Bay early this month, said he found the prison clean and professionally staffed but was troubled thinking that some inmates are locked up for decades in small cells with little or no regular human contact. Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it's psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that's torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. \"But did we witness any torture? No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California's most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. The report will also be \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">archived at the show's web site\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1430330042,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1639},"headData":{"title":"Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture? Video From Inside Pelican Bay Prison | KQED","description":"“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.” That's inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting--shackled--in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup. Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me he hadn’t met with a visitor since 1994, when he was incarcerated. It’s not just","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"89880 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=89880","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/25/inhumane-or-necessary-see-rare-video-inside-a-california-prison-isolation-unit/","disqusTitle":"Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture? Video From Inside Pelican Bay Prison","customPermalink":"prison+isolation+video/","path":"/news/89880/inhumane-or-necessary-see-rare-video-inside-a-california-prison-isolation-unit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting--shackled--in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me he hadn’t met with a visitor since 1994, when he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the moon Beasley hadn't seen in 15 years. During that time, in fact, Beasley rarely glimpsed the outside world. Before being transferred to another prison, he was held in Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, a windowless, bunker-like facility that houses more than 1,000 California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate here is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. For 90 minutes the inmate is allowed to exercise in an adjacent room with 25-30 feet high walls. And that’s their entire day -- every day.\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>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay's that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay's is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day -- every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times--day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody...”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>--Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,\" he said, using the term for the general prison population, \"I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you expect to take all of these guys out of the SHU (Security Housing Unit) and throw them in the same yard and expect them to get along when you have all this sensory deprivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Albanez said he probably would take part in a new step-down program that begins later this year. Corrections officials have said the program allows inmates to earn their way out of the special units in 2-4 years without being required to renounce the gangs they have been affiliated with. Instead, they must declare that they won't participate in gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who visited Pelican Bay early this month, said he found the prison clean and professionally staffed but was troubled thinking that some inmates are locked up for decades in small cells with little or no regular human contact. Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it's psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that's torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. \"But did we witness any torture? No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California's most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. The report will also be \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">archived at the show's web site\u003c/a>.\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\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/89880/inhumane-or-necessary-see-rare-video-inside-a-california-prison-isolation-unit","authors":["245"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_616","news_152","news_686","news_614","news_3930","news_1660"],"featImg":"news_10506835","label":"news_6944"},"news_59180":{"type":"posts","id":"news_59180","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"59180","score":null,"sort":[1331753071000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated","title":"Anatomy of a Prison Policy: Document on New Isolation Rules Annotated","publishDate":1331753071,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59316\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pelicanbay1\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year hundreds of inmates staged two \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/prison-hunger-strike/\">hunger strikes\u003c/a> that spread to 13 prisons in California. The prisoners were protesting conditions in super-maximum security units known as SHUs, where a majority of state prisoners are held in extreme isolation for alleged ties to prison gangs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a new set of policies aimed at overhauling how these units are managed, what prisoners are sent there, and how long they're held in isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes were spelled out in a Dept of Corrections document, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/85362385/Security-Threat-Group-Prevention-Identification-and-Management-Model-V5-5-03-01-2012\">embedded here\u003c/a> and below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED's Michael Montgomery, a longtime reporter of California prison issues, to annotate a key section of the document, cracking open some of the bureaucratic language to reveal the harsh isolation and deprivation in which some prisoners have been housed, as well as the rewards they are now being offered to toe the line and potentially exit these most restrictive of conditions. Rewards that, to a person at liberty, may seem poignantly meager or even absurd, but ones that the California Department of Corrections & Rehabiliation thinks will be incentive enough to coax good behavior.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the crux of the policy. \u003cstrong>Click on the \"view explanation\" link to be taken to Montgomery's analysis\u003c/strong>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The SDP will establish an incentive based multi-step process for the management of STG offenders. This program will assign, transition, and monitor offenders who by their behavior have demonstrated the need for CDCR’s utilization of special strategies for their management. This program is designed for STG offenders who require structured activities and programming, who choose to discontinue criminal activity. Additionally, it affords offenders the opportunity to earn enhanced privileges proportionate to their ability to reintegrate and effectively interact with others. As an alternative to the SDP, offenders may choose to participate in the debriefing process at any time. As part of the program development, an assessment will be conducted to determine additional resource needs. CDCR will seek resources where available, to assist with this effort. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par1\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The STG SDP shall be normally completed in five steps and provides a process for offenders engaged in STG behavior to demonstrate their ability to refrain from criminal gang behavior, preparing them for return to a general population, or SNY program setting. The initial four steps are generally designed to be completed within 48 months. The fifth step which consists of observation and monitoring of behavior within the general population or SNY will normally be completed within the 12 months following Step 4. Each step will consist of programs and privileges that increase as the offender progresses through the SDP... \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par2\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in Steps 1, 2 and 3 will be reviewed by ICC at least every 180 days for evaluation of program participation. If, during the ICC review, it is determined that the offender has participated in the required programs for successful step completion, the offender may be considered for placement into the next successive step. Participants in Step 4 shall be reviewed by ICC at least every 90 days. The successful completion of each step will require a minimum of 12 months program participation. \u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par3\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDP is the \"Step-Down Program,\" the type of carrot-and-stick system that has been used in other states to encourage inmates to change negative behavior, including violent conflicts with members of other races or prison groups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would be set up to gradually give prisoners more \"privileges\" in exchange for following the rules. In addition to refraining from participating in gang activity and, presumably, committing racially motivated offenses, they will be be expected to take part in educational, self-help or anger management classes of the type offered to prisoners in the mainstream population, most likely alone in their cells. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rewards component consists of things like phone calls, exercise equipment (currently prohibited), freedom from physical restraints, and the ability to participate in group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently SHU inmates are almost always shackled when outside their cells, and inmates who successfully work their way through to the 3rd year of the new Step-Down Program will be afforded the privilege of being unshackled around other inmates. By the 4th year, they would be able to eat meals with other inmates \"unrestrained.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other rewards: By the end of the 1st year, an inmate would be allowed one phone call home; that number increases to two by the second year. At the end of the 1st year, an inmate would also be allowed to send one photograph home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"STG\" that is mentioned stands for \"Security Threat Group,\" made up of prison gangs and other prohibited groups. The number of groups whose members could face enhanced SHU terms is being widened under the new plan to include street gangs like the Crips and Bloods. This expansion of red-flagged groups is one reason prison advocates are worried that the new policy may actually result in an increase in the SHU population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"debriefing process\" cited in the document refers to what is commonly called snitching. Inmates have felt that once you're in the SHU as a gang member, the only way you can exit is to inform on other inmates. The corrections department says currently there is another way out of the SHU -- refraining from any gang-related activity for six years. Under the new regulations, inmates will be able to work their way out of the SHU without explicitly renouncing any gang, though they will have to prove that they no longer take part in gang-related activities, can mix with inmates from other racial and ethnic groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SNY program cited here refers to \"Sensitive Needs Yard.\" The term refers to housing for prisoners who are vulnerable to assault, including gang dropouts and convicted pedophiles, child murderers and rapists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline laid out indicates that the minimum amount of time a prisoner can spend in a SHU is four years, unless he agrees to inform. That's down from a six-year minimum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Michael Montgomery says, a close reading of the proposal indicates that prisoners who are in the SHU facility at Pelican Bay, home of the notorious windowless isolation cells where last year's prisoner strike started, would have to be transferred out of those units in two years, as they don't include areas where inmates could participate in group activities unrestrained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many penal experts say two years should be the limit for solitary confinement. It may be that the department is seeking to reduce the time that inmates who are participating in the program spend in the SHU due to legal concerns associated with long-term isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy refers to refraining from \"criminal gang behavior\" as a prerequisite to reentering the mainstream prison population. This is a move toward the national norm within penitentiaries, in which isolation is restricted to those who have committed criminal offenses, as opposed to the loosely defined \"gang affiliation\" that has landed many inmates in California SHUs. Out of 3,100 inmates in isolation units, 2,000 have been labeled as gang \"associates.\" The department says it will do a case-by-case review of these so-designated prisoners, in consideration for transfer to less isolated units. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new criteria may prevent inmates like Ernesto Lira from winding up in isolation. As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/15/a-tale-of-2-maximum-security-inmates-gang-lord-petty-thief-both-wind-up-in-windowless-isolation-units/\">reported by Montgomery last year\u003c/a>, Lira was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison when he was sent to Pelican Bay for an “indeterminate” term because authorities contended he was an associate of a violent Latino group known as Nuestra Raza. Lira was never accused of doing anything tangible for the group, and the key piece of evidence against him was a drawing found in his locker that allegedly contained gang symbols. He eventually won a judgment in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 3\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Step Down Program requires that an \"Institutional Classification Committee\" (ICC) evaluate a prisoner's progress every 180 days in the first three years of the program in order to make a determination as to whether the prisoner can advance to the next step. Prisoner rights advocates have long argued these committees are rubber stamps for prison authorities and that prisoners do not receive a legitimate review. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a big question for prisoner advocates around the new policy is whether these committees will be redirected to consider more information favorable to a prisoner's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"View Security Threat Group Prevention Identification and Management Model V5 5 03-01-2012 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/85362385/Security-Threat-Group-Prevention-Identification-and-Management-Model-V5-5-03-01-2012\">Security Threat Group Prevention Identification and Management Model V5 5 03-01-2012\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/85362385/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2i7hndyqloahwotvqvlv\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1331824809,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1456},"headData":{"title":"Anatomy of a Prison Policy: Document on New Isolation Rules Annotated | KQED","description":"Last year hundreds of inmates staged two hunger strikes that spread to 13 prisons in California. The prisoners were protesting conditions in super-maximum security units known as SHUs, where a majority of state prisoners are held in extreme isolation for alleged ties to prison gangs. Last week, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"59180 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=59180","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/","disqusTitle":"Anatomy of a Prison Policy: Document on New Isolation Rules Annotated","path":"/news/59180/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59316\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pelicanbay1\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year hundreds of inmates staged two \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/prison-hunger-strike/\">hunger strikes\u003c/a> that spread to 13 prisons in California. The prisoners were protesting conditions in super-maximum security units known as SHUs, where a majority of state prisoners are held in extreme isolation for alleged ties to prison gangs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a new set of policies aimed at overhauling how these units are managed, what prisoners are sent there, and how long they're held in isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes were spelled out in a Dept of Corrections document, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/85362385/Security-Threat-Group-Prevention-Identification-and-Management-Model-V5-5-03-01-2012\">embedded here\u003c/a> and below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED's Michael Montgomery, a longtime reporter of California prison issues, to annotate a key section of the document, cracking open some of the bureaucratic language to reveal the harsh isolation and deprivation in which some prisoners have been housed, as well as the rewards they are now being offered to toe the line and potentially exit these most restrictive of conditions. Rewards that, to a person at liberty, may seem poignantly meager or even absurd, but ones that the California Department of Corrections & Rehabiliation thinks will be incentive enough to coax good behavior.\u003c!--more-->\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>Here is the crux of the policy. \u003cstrong>Click on the \"view explanation\" link to be taken to Montgomery's analysis\u003c/strong>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The SDP will establish an incentive based multi-step process for the management of STG offenders. This program will assign, transition, and monitor offenders who by their behavior have demonstrated the need for CDCR’s utilization of special strategies for their management. This program is designed for STG offenders who require structured activities and programming, who choose to discontinue criminal activity. Additionally, it affords offenders the opportunity to earn enhanced privileges proportionate to their ability to reintegrate and effectively interact with others. As an alternative to the SDP, offenders may choose to participate in the debriefing process at any time. As part of the program development, an assessment will be conducted to determine additional resource needs. CDCR will seek resources where available, to assist with this effort. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par1\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The STG SDP shall be normally completed in five steps and provides a process for offenders engaged in STG behavior to demonstrate their ability to refrain from criminal gang behavior, preparing them for return to a general population, or SNY program setting. The initial four steps are generally designed to be completed within 48 months. The fifth step which consists of observation and monitoring of behavior within the general population or SNY will normally be completed within the 12 months following Step 4. Each step will consist of programs and privileges that increase as the offender progresses through the SDP... \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par2\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in Steps 1, 2 and 3 will be reviewed by ICC at least every 180 days for evaluation of program participation. If, during the ICC review, it is determined that the offender has participated in the required programs for successful step completion, the offender may be considered for placement into the next successive step. Participants in Step 4 shall be reviewed by ICC at least every 90 days. The successful completion of each step will require a minimum of 12 months program participation. \u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par3\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDP is the \"Step-Down Program,\" the type of carrot-and-stick system that has been used in other states to encourage inmates to change negative behavior, including violent conflicts with members of other races or prison groups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would be set up to gradually give prisoners more \"privileges\" in exchange for following the rules. In addition to refraining from participating in gang activity and, presumably, committing racially motivated offenses, they will be be expected to take part in educational, self-help or anger management classes of the type offered to prisoners in the mainstream population, most likely alone in their cells. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rewards component consists of things like phone calls, exercise equipment (currently prohibited), freedom from physical restraints, and the ability to participate in group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently SHU inmates are almost always shackled when outside their cells, and inmates who successfully work their way through to the 3rd year of the new Step-Down Program will be afforded the privilege of being unshackled around other inmates. By the 4th year, they would be able to eat meals with other inmates \"unrestrained.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other rewards: By the end of the 1st year, an inmate would be allowed one phone call home; that number increases to two by the second year. At the end of the 1st year, an inmate would also be allowed to send one photograph home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"STG\" that is mentioned stands for \"Security Threat Group,\" made up of prison gangs and other prohibited groups. The number of groups whose members could face enhanced SHU terms is being widened under the new plan to include street gangs like the Crips and Bloods. This expansion of red-flagged groups is one reason prison advocates are worried that the new policy may actually result in an increase in the SHU population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"debriefing process\" cited in the document refers to what is commonly called snitching. Inmates have felt that once you're in the SHU as a gang member, the only way you can exit is to inform on other inmates. The corrections department says currently there is another way out of the SHU -- refraining from any gang-related activity for six years. Under the new regulations, inmates will be able to work their way out of the SHU without explicitly renouncing any gang, though they will have to prove that they no longer take part in gang-related activities, can mix with inmates from other racial and ethnic groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SNY program cited here refers to \"Sensitive Needs Yard.\" The term refers to housing for prisoners who are vulnerable to assault, including gang dropouts and convicted pedophiles, child murderers and rapists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline laid out indicates that the minimum amount of time a prisoner can spend in a SHU is four years, unless he agrees to inform. That's down from a six-year minimum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Michael Montgomery says, a close reading of the proposal indicates that prisoners who are in the SHU facility at Pelican Bay, home of the notorious windowless isolation cells where last year's prisoner strike started, would have to be transferred out of those units in two years, as they don't include areas where inmates could participate in group activities unrestrained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many penal experts say two years should be the limit for solitary confinement. It may be that the department is seeking to reduce the time that inmates who are participating in the program spend in the SHU due to legal concerns associated with long-term isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy refers to refraining from \"criminal gang behavior\" as a prerequisite to reentering the mainstream prison population. This is a move toward the national norm within penitentiaries, in which isolation is restricted to those who have committed criminal offenses, as opposed to the loosely defined \"gang affiliation\" that has landed many inmates in California SHUs. Out of 3,100 inmates in isolation units, 2,000 have been labeled as gang \"associates.\" The department says it will do a case-by-case review of these so-designated prisoners, in consideration for transfer to less isolated units. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new criteria may prevent inmates like Ernesto Lira from winding up in isolation. As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/15/a-tale-of-2-maximum-security-inmates-gang-lord-petty-thief-both-wind-up-in-windowless-isolation-units/\">reported by Montgomery last year\u003c/a>, Lira was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison when he was sent to Pelican Bay for an “indeterminate” term because authorities contended he was an associate of a violent Latino group known as Nuestra Raza. Lira was never accused of doing anything tangible for the group, and the key piece of evidence against him was a drawing found in his locker that allegedly contained gang symbols. He eventually won a judgment in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 3\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Step Down Program requires that an \"Institutional Classification Committee\" (ICC) evaluate a prisoner's progress every 180 days in the first three years of the program in order to make a determination as to whether the prisoner can advance to the next step. Prisoner rights advocates have long argued these committees are rubber stamps for prison authorities and that prisoners do not receive a legitimate review. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a big question for prisoner advocates around the new policy is whether these committees will be redirected to consider more information favorable to a prisoner's case.\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 title=\"View Security Threat Group Prevention Identification and Management Model V5 5 03-01-2012 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/85362385/Security-Threat-Group-Prevention-Identification-and-Management-Model-V5-5-03-01-2012\">Security Threat Group Prevention Identification and Management Model V5 5 03-01-2012\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/85362385/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2i7hndyqloahwotvqvlv\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/59180/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_614","news_1660"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_41596":{"type":"posts","id":"news_41596","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"41596","score":null,"sort":[1317668322000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prison-officials-investigate-inmate-advocates","title":"Prison Officials Investigate Inmate Advocates","publishDate":1317668322,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-hunger-strike-begins-prison-officials-investigate-advocates-12885\" target=\"_blank\">Californiawatch.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/PelicanBayExerciseYd.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-41604\" title=\"PelicanBayExerciseYd\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/PelicanBayExerciseYd-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An exercise yard inside Pelican Bay State Prison.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just days after thousands of California inmates renewed a hunger strike, two Bay Area attorneys closely involved in mediation efforts got a surprise: They were under investigation by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for allegations of misconduct and unspecified security threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys – Marilyn McMahon, executive director of California Prison Focus, and Carol Strickman of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children – have been banned from state institutions until the investigation is resolved, according to temporary exclusion orders signed by Corrections Undersecretary Scott Kernan on Sept. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation will determine whether the attorneys “violated the laws and policies governing the safe operations of institutions within the CDCR,” the order states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document does not provide details about the allegations. It cites a section from the California Code of Regulations that reads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Committing an act that jeopardizes the life of a person, violates the security of the facility, constitutes a misdemeanor or a felony, or is a reoccurrence of previous violations shall result in a one-year to lifetime exclusion depending on the severity of the offense in question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton confirmed the department had banned \"some specific attorneys\" from one facility for alleged misconduct. She declined further comment, citing an ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The move is another indication that the corrections department intends to handle the current protest differently from an earlier hunger strike, which ended July 20 after officials agreed to some concessions, including a review of policies governing the state’s controversial Security Housing Units, where some inmates have spent decades housed alone in windowless cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, strike leaders have accused corrections officials of failing to carry out their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR has responded with more propaganda, lies and vague double-talk of promises of change in time,\" reads a statement from the leaders posted on an advocacy website. The inmates vowed to continue the protest indefinitely, “until actual changes are implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But corrections officials say they’ve kept their commitments and claim the protests are the work of dangerous gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike in the first instance where we certainly evaluated their concerns and thought there was some merit to it, this instance appears to be more manipulative, and it certainly has the possibility of being a real disruption to the Department of Corrections and the security of its staff and inmates,” Kernan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A memo signed by Kernan and distributed to inmates Sept. 29 warned the department was treating the new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and said any prisoner who joined the protest would be subject to disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General-population inmates identified as strike leaders will be locked in special segregation units normally used as punishment for major rules violations, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strickman and McMahon have been involved in extensive discussions with corrections officials, including Kernan, and leaders of the strike, who are housed in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither attorney was available for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, condemned the sanctions against the attorneys and said he expected the department would place similar restrictions on other advocates in order to further isolate leaders of the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to move us out of the way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 3,400 inmates at six prisons have refused state-issued meals for three consecutive days, according to the most recent data from the corrections department.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1384819600,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":595},"headData":{"title":"Prison Officials Investigate Inmate Advocates | KQED","description":"Originally published on Californiawatch.org Just days after thousands of California inmates renewed a hunger strike, two Bay Area attorneys closely involved in mediation efforts got a surprise: They were under investigation by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for allegations of misconduct and unspecified security threats. The attorneys – Marilyn McMahon, executive director of California","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"41596 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=41596","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/03/prison-officials-investigate-inmate-advocates/","disqusTitle":"Prison Officials Investigate Inmate Advocates","path":"/news/41596/prison-officials-investigate-inmate-advocates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-hunger-strike-begins-prison-officials-investigate-advocates-12885\" target=\"_blank\">Californiawatch.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/PelicanBayExerciseYd.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-41604\" title=\"PelicanBayExerciseYd\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/PelicanBayExerciseYd-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An exercise yard inside Pelican Bay State Prison.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Michael Montgomery/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just days after thousands of California inmates renewed a hunger strike, two Bay Area attorneys closely involved in mediation efforts got a surprise: They were under investigation by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for allegations of misconduct and unspecified security threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys – Marilyn McMahon, executive director of California Prison Focus, and Carol Strickman of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children – have been banned from state institutions until the investigation is resolved, according to temporary exclusion orders signed by Corrections Undersecretary Scott Kernan on Sept. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation will determine whether the attorneys “violated the laws and policies governing the safe operations of institutions within the CDCR,” the order states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document does not provide details about the allegations. It cites a section from the California Code of Regulations that reads:\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>\"Committing an act that jeopardizes the life of a person, violates the security of the facility, constitutes a misdemeanor or a felony, or is a reoccurrence of previous violations shall result in a one-year to lifetime exclusion depending on the severity of the offense in question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton confirmed the department had banned \"some specific attorneys\" from one facility for alleged misconduct. She declined further comment, citing an ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The move is another indication that the corrections department intends to handle the current protest differently from an earlier hunger strike, which ended July 20 after officials agreed to some concessions, including a review of policies governing the state’s controversial Security Housing Units, where some inmates have spent decades housed alone in windowless cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, strike leaders have accused corrections officials of failing to carry out their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR has responded with more propaganda, lies and vague double-talk of promises of change in time,\" reads a statement from the leaders posted on an advocacy website. The inmates vowed to continue the protest indefinitely, “until actual changes are implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But corrections officials say they’ve kept their commitments and claim the protests are the work of dangerous gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike in the first instance where we certainly evaluated their concerns and thought there was some merit to it, this instance appears to be more manipulative, and it certainly has the possibility of being a real disruption to the Department of Corrections and the security of its staff and inmates,” Kernan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A memo signed by Kernan and distributed to inmates Sept. 29 warned the department was treating the new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and said any prisoner who joined the protest would be subject to disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General-population inmates identified as strike leaders will be locked in special segregation units normally used as punishment for major rules violations, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strickman and McMahon have been involved in extensive discussions with corrections officials, including Kernan, and leaders of the strike, who are housed in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither attorney was available for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, condemned the sanctions against the attorneys and said he expected the department would place similar restrictions on other advocates in order to further isolate leaders of the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to move us out of the way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 3,400 inmates at six prisons have refused state-issued meals for three consecutive days, according to the most recent data from the corrections department.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/41596/prison-officials-investigate-inmate-advocates","authors":["245"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1925","news_614"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_41319":{"type":"posts","id":"news_41319","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"41319","score":null,"sort":[1317316373000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-officials-warn-of-discipline-for-inmates-on-hunger-strike","title":"State Officials Warn of Discipline For Inmates on Hunger Strike","publishDate":1317316373,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>State corrections officials yesterday threatened to discipline thousands of inmates who have resumed a hunger strike over conditions at California’s highest-security lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41320\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisoninmates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-41320\" title=\"prisoninmates\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisoninmates-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CDCR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisonstrikememo.pdf\">state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation memo distributed to all state inmates\u003c/a>(pdf) said any prisoner participating in the strike would receive disciplinary action “in accordance with the California Code of Regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo warned that inmates “identified as leading the disturbance will be subject to removal from general population and placed in an Administrative Segregation Unit.” The department also said it would consider removing canteen items from inmates' cells, including any food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo did not explain what action the department would take against the main strike leaders, all of whom are already locked in a special section of Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit, which is at the heart of the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 5,000 inmates in California prisons, including Calipatria and Pelican Bay, have refused state-issued meals since Monday, according to advocacy groups and internal corrections department reporting. That followed an appeal from strike leaders that was posted on an advocacy website earlier this month. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton declined to offer specific numbers or locations, saying “thousands” of inmates had refused meals at “several” institutions. Thornton said the department will not formally treat the action as a hunger strike until inmates have refused nine consecutive meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers are accusing officials of not following through on earlier promises to overhaul policies governing the Security Housing Units, where some prisoners, including several strike leaders, have spent decades locked in windowless cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say prisoners housed in the units are dangerous gang leaders who need to be segregated from the general prison population for security reasons. Officials also say they are moving forward with significant policy changes that were discussed with Pelican Bay inmates during the last hunger strike, which ended July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate department memo also distributed to inmates yesterday outlined the new policies being developed by senior corrections staff, including “increased privileges based upon disciplinary free behavior, a step down process for SHU (Security Housing Unit) inmates, and a system that better defines and weighs necessary points in the (gang) validation process.” The memo warned that work on the new policies “may be delayed by large-scale inmate disturbances or other emergency circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoner-rights advocates expressed concern that the situation could escalate dramatically, as neither side appears open to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There doesn’t seem to be any endgame,” said Donald Specter, director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office. “The prisoners distrust the Department of Corrections. And the Department of Corrections has no intention of doing more than they’ve previously announced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned that prisoners may die or be seriously injured,\" Specter said. \"I don’t see any way to come to a resolution, short of prisoners stopping the hunger strike or the department taking extraordinary measures to force-feed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical staff are on alert and expected to begin monitoring the inmates' health conditions tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some lawmakers are asking the Office of the Inspector General to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 22 letter from state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to Inspector General Robert Barton requested a review of the corrections department’s “response to the issues raised by the inmate hunger strike that ended in July of this year.\" The letter – formally issued by the Senate Rules Committee – asked that the review be completed within 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1384819612,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":614},"headData":{"title":"State Officials Warn of Discipline For Inmates on Hunger Strike | KQED","description":"State corrections officials yesterday threatened to discipline thousands of inmates who have resumed a hunger strike over conditions at California’s highest-security lockups. A state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation memo distributed to all state inmates(pdf) said any prisoner participating in the strike would receive disciplinary action “in accordance with the California Code of Regulations.” The","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"41319 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=41319","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/29/state-officials-warn-of-discipline-for-inmates-on-hunger-strike/","disqusTitle":"State Officials Warn of Discipline For Inmates on Hunger Strike","path":"/news/41319/state-officials-warn-of-discipline-for-inmates-on-hunger-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State corrections officials yesterday threatened to discipline thousands of inmates who have resumed a hunger strike over conditions at California’s highest-security lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41320\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisoninmates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-41320\" title=\"prisoninmates\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisoninmates-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CDCR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/prisonstrikememo.pdf\">state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation memo distributed to all state inmates\u003c/a>(pdf) said any prisoner participating in the strike would receive disciplinary action “in accordance with the California Code of Regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo warned that inmates “identified as leading the disturbance will be subject to removal from general population and placed in an Administrative Segregation Unit.” The department also said it would consider removing canteen items from inmates' cells, including any food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo did not explain what action the department would take against the main strike leaders, all of whom are already locked in a special section of Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit, which is at the heart of the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 5,000 inmates in California prisons, including Calipatria and Pelican Bay, have refused state-issued meals since Monday, according to advocacy groups and internal corrections department reporting. That followed an appeal from strike leaders that was posted on an advocacy website earlier this month. \u003c!--more-->\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>Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton declined to offer specific numbers or locations, saying “thousands” of inmates had refused meals at “several” institutions. Thornton said the department will not formally treat the action as a hunger strike until inmates have refused nine consecutive meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers are accusing officials of not following through on earlier promises to overhaul policies governing the Security Housing Units, where some prisoners, including several strike leaders, have spent decades locked in windowless cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say prisoners housed in the units are dangerous gang leaders who need to be segregated from the general prison population for security reasons. Officials also say they are moving forward with significant policy changes that were discussed with Pelican Bay inmates during the last hunger strike, which ended July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate department memo also distributed to inmates yesterday outlined the new policies being developed by senior corrections staff, including “increased privileges based upon disciplinary free behavior, a step down process for SHU (Security Housing Unit) inmates, and a system that better defines and weighs necessary points in the (gang) validation process.” The memo warned that work on the new policies “may be delayed by large-scale inmate disturbances or other emergency circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoner-rights advocates expressed concern that the situation could escalate dramatically, as neither side appears open to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There doesn’t seem to be any endgame,” said Donald Specter, director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office. “The prisoners distrust the Department of Corrections. And the Department of Corrections has no intention of doing more than they’ve previously announced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned that prisoners may die or be seriously injured,\" Specter said. \"I don’t see any way to come to a resolution, short of prisoners stopping the hunger strike or the department taking extraordinary measures to force-feed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical staff are on alert and expected to begin monitoring the inmates' health conditions tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some lawmakers are asking the Office of the Inspector General to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 22 letter from state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to Inspector General Robert Barton requested a review of the corrections department’s “response to the issues raised by the inmate hunger strike that ended in July of this year.\" The letter – formally issued by the Senate Rules Committee – asked that the review be completed within 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/41319/state-officials-warn-of-discipline-for-inmates-on-hunger-strike","authors":["245"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_614","news_1660"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_40806":{"type":"posts","id":"news_40806","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"40806","score":null,"sort":[1316792572000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inmates-vow-to-resume-hunger-strike","title":"Inmates Vow to Resume Hunger Strike","publishDate":1316792572,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/inmates-vow-resume-hunger-strike-12739\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger strike that was suspended July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40811\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40811\" title=\"pelicanbay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Strike leaders are calling on state inmates to begin refusing state-issued food Monday to protest conditions in controversial Security Housing Units, according to handwritten letters, Internet postings, and communications with lawyers and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Formal and informal sources say they’re going to start the strike again,\" said Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, an advocacy group that was involved in mediation efforts during the last hunger strike. \"They’re tired of being tortured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement posted on an advocacy website, strike leaders accused officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of reneging on promises for major changes in how they manage the state’s four Security Housing Units, the isolation cells that were at the center of the previous strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR has responded with more propaganda, lies and vague double-talk of promises of change in time,\" the statement reads. \"SHU prisoners are dissatisfied with CDCR’s response to their formal complaint and … core demands and therefore will continue to resist via peaceful protest indefinitely, until actual changes are implemented.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials have agreed to allow personal items for Security Housing Unit inmates that were previously banned, such as sweats, wall calendars and art supplies. And they say new policy guidelines governing the special units will be ready for stakeholder review next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An internal memo dated Aug. 25 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/251731-gang-management-policy-proposa-8-25-11l.html\">outlines key elements of the policy overhaul\u003c/a>, including changes in how inmates are identified, or validated, as gang members and associates; changes in the criteria used to determine how inmates are assigned to a Security Housing Unit; and the creation of a “step-down” program that would allow an inmate transfer to a general population yard without having to “debrief,” something many inmates consider snitching.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Kernan said officials will treat any new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and will take disciplinary action against anyone who takes part.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Corrections Undersecretary Scott Kernan said the department has kept its word and will continue the policy makeover even if the inmates launch a new hunger strike. Kernan had sharp words for many of the strike leaders, whom he accused of being \"manipulative\" gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike in the first instance where we certainly evaluated their concerns and thought there was some merit to it, this instance appears to be more manipulative, and it certainly has the possibility of being a real disruption to the Department of Corrections and the security of its staff and inmates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said officials will treat any new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and will take disciplinary action against anyone who takes part. That could include ending commissary privileges and imposing six-month terms in the Security Housing Units for general population inmates who join the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups pledged to continue to support the inmates in their demands for change. But some prominent advocates say strike leaders should hold off on another action until the department releases more details on its policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were the prisoners … I would wait,” said Charles Carbone, an inmate rights attorney who has handled dozens of lawsuits against the corrections department. “But we have to understand these guys have been waiting for decades. Their patience has understandably run out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201109230850/b\">listen to this report\u003c/a> on today's California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative reporter with KQED News and California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1384819625,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":634},"headData":{"title":"Inmates Vow to Resume Hunger Strike | KQED","description":"from California Watch Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger strike that was suspended July 20. Strike leaders are calling on state inmates to begin refusing state-issued food Monday to protest conditions in controversial Security","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"40806 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=40806","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/23/inmates-vow-to-resume-hunger-strike/","disqusTitle":"Inmates Vow to Resume Hunger Strike","path":"/news/40806/inmates-vow-to-resume-hunger-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/inmates-vow-resume-hunger-strike-12739\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger strike that was suspended July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40811\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40811\" title=\"pelicanbay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Strike leaders are calling on state inmates to begin refusing state-issued food Monday to protest conditions in controversial Security Housing Units, according to handwritten letters, Internet postings, and communications with lawyers and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Formal and informal sources say they’re going to start the strike again,\" said Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, an advocacy group that was involved in mediation efforts during the last hunger strike. \"They’re tired of being tortured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement posted on an advocacy website, strike leaders accused officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of reneging on promises for major changes in how they manage the state’s four Security Housing Units, the isolation cells that were at the center of the previous strike.\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>“CDCR has responded with more propaganda, lies and vague double-talk of promises of change in time,\" the statement reads. \"SHU prisoners are dissatisfied with CDCR’s response to their formal complaint and … core demands and therefore will continue to resist via peaceful protest indefinitely, until actual changes are implemented.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials have agreed to allow personal items for Security Housing Unit inmates that were previously banned, such as sweats, wall calendars and art supplies. And they say new policy guidelines governing the special units will be ready for stakeholder review next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An internal memo dated Aug. 25 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/251731-gang-management-policy-proposa-8-25-11l.html\">outlines key elements of the policy overhaul\u003c/a>, including changes in how inmates are identified, or validated, as gang members and associates; changes in the criteria used to determine how inmates are assigned to a Security Housing Unit; and the creation of a “step-down” program that would allow an inmate transfer to a general population yard without having to “debrief,” something many inmates consider snitching.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Kernan said officials will treat any new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and will take disciplinary action against anyone who takes part.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Corrections Undersecretary Scott Kernan said the department has kept its word and will continue the policy makeover even if the inmates launch a new hunger strike. Kernan had sharp words for many of the strike leaders, whom he accused of being \"manipulative\" gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike in the first instance where we certainly evaluated their concerns and thought there was some merit to it, this instance appears to be more manipulative, and it certainly has the possibility of being a real disruption to the Department of Corrections and the security of its staff and inmates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said officials will treat any new hunger strike as a “mass disturbance” and will take disciplinary action against anyone who takes part. That could include ending commissary privileges and imposing six-month terms in the Security Housing Units for general population inmates who join the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups pledged to continue to support the inmates in their demands for change. But some prominent advocates say strike leaders should hold off on another action until the department releases more details on its policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were the prisoners … I would wait,” said Charles Carbone, an inmate rights attorney who has handled dozens of lawsuits against the corrections department. “But we have to understand these guys have been waiting for decades. Their patience has understandably run out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201109230850/b\">listen to this report\u003c/a> on today's California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative reporter with KQED News and California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/40806/inmates-vow-to-resume-hunger-strike","authors":["245"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1719","news_614","news_1660"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_37921":{"type":"posts","id":"news_37921","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"37921","score":null,"sort":[1314131723000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sacto-hearing-on-security-isolation-units-extreme-seclusion-was-at-heart-of-prison-hunger-strike","title":"Security Housing Units, Extreme Isolation at Heart of Inmate Hunger Strike, is Subject of Hearing","publishDate":1314131723,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Security Housing Units, Extreme Isolation at Heart of Inmate Hunger Strike, is Subject of Hearing | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Corrections officials told state lawmakers today they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201108231704\">committed\u003c/a> to changing the state’s controversial use of isolation units at four prisons, including Pelican Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing, Michael Montgomery reports, legislators pressed prison officials on three main issues: how an inmate is put inside an isolation unit, how long they stay there and how they can get out. 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