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The corrections agency says its staff can evaluate no more than three requests each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also has received over 364 housing transfer requests since 2021. Only 35 of those were approved and sent to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for transgender and nonbinary incarcerated people have urged the state to move faster in providing the surgeries and evaluating other incarcerated people’s requests to transfer to facilities that better suit their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them criticized the agency’s budget request, arguing the state’s $15 billion-a-year prison system already had plenty of money to carry out the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ridiculous. Two million dollars for stuff they should already be doing?” said Alex Binsfield, a policy analyst with TGI Justice Project, a San Francisco nonprofit that \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">advocates for incarcerated transgender people\u003c/a>. “I don’t think pumping any more money into CDCR is going to fix health care there.”[aside label='More on Transgender Rights' tag='transgender-prisoners']Transgender advocates also are on guard for signs that the state is refusing transfers for incarcerated people who identify as transgender but who have not received gender-affirming medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the housing question should not be a medical question,” said Jen Orthwein, a psychologist who previously provided treatment to transgender incarcerated people in prisons across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terri Hardy, spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said those fears are unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incarcerated people are not required to have gender-affirming surgery in order to transfer to an institution consistent with their gender identity,” Hardy wrote in an email to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lawsuit challenges California prison transfers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Capitol, some conservative-leaning and feminist groups have opposed the prison agency’s gender-affirming policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://womensliberationfront.org/chandler-v-cdcr\">Women’s Liberation Front\u003c/a>, a feminist advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., sued the state in 2021 to halt \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/540465542/Women-s-Liberation-Front-Lawsuit-against-the-California-Department-of-Corrections-and-Rehabilitation\">certain transfers to the state’s women’s prison\u003c/a> in Chowchilla. It argued the transfers put incarcerated females at greater risk of violence and sexual assault. The lawsuit is playing out in the U.S. Eastern District Court of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality that men and women are factually, materially, immutably different, in ways that disadvantage women and necessitate attention to women’s unique needs, supports protection of incarcerated women by providing women-only correctional facilities,” the lawsuit reads.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jen Orthwein, psychologist\"]‘There should be no difference to their treatment than that of cisgender people. They shouldn’t have to jump through a number of barriers and be poked and prodded for housing.’[/pullquote]The Transgender Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief challenging that suit. The two liberal organizations contend the 2021 law allowing prison transfers protects vulnerable incarcerated transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states have followed California in adopting gender-affirming policies for incarcerated people. Massachusetts and Connecticut allow incarcerated people to be transferred to facilities according to their chosen gender identity. New Jersey, New York City and Rhode Island also require that incarcerated people be housed at facilities appropriate to their gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orthwein, the psychologist, urged the state to accommodate more care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be no difference to their treatment than that of cisgender people,” Orthwein said. “They shouldn’t have to jump through a number of barriers and be poked and prodded for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California's incarcerated transgender population surged by 234% in the years since it adopted a first-in-the-nation policy allowing gender-affirming health care.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687815168,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1062},"headData":{"title":"More of California's Imprisoned Are Applying for Gender-Affirming Health Care | KQED","description":"California's incarcerated transgender population surged by 234% in the years since it adopted a first-in-the-nation policy allowing gender-affirming health care.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/anabelsosa/\">Anabel Sosa\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11954055/more-of-californias-imprisoned-are-applying-for-gender-affirming-health-care","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to this special episode of Ear Hustle in honor of Pride Month.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/1109_PRIDE_FOR_PODCAST_FEED_SEG_A_16.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of incarcerated Californians requesting gender-affirming health care more than doubled last year, and the state’s corrections agency expects the trend to continue even as the overall population of imprisoned people in California is projected to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estimate comes from budget documents detailing the agency’s responsibilities for two groundbreaking policies the state adopted over the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, in 2017, made California the first state to set standards that would grant gender-affirmation surgery to incarcerated people in state prison. It followed the state’s approval of surgery for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-us-news-ca-state-wire-7c3b2f14287849a18e2f9bb27362c05a\">transgender woman\u003c/a> serving a life sentence. She was later transferred to a women’s prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other, a 2021 law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, requires that every person upon entering prison be asked \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB132/2019\">gender-specific questions\u003c/a> to determine whether they should be housed in a men’s or women’s facility.\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>Since the changes took effect, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found that the number of incarcerated transgender, intersex and nonbinary people consistently grew each year, rising to 1,617 last year. That’s a 234% increase over 2017, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vulnerable, transgender and transgender diverse population in CDCR has grown and continues to grow and there are enduring needs that need to be met,” Trisha Wallis, a department senior psychologist who specializes in gender health care, said during a budget committee hearing in March.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The vulnerable, transgender and transgender diverse population in CDCR has grown and continues to grow and there are enduring needs that need to be met.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Trisha Wallis, department senior psychologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The agency this year sought a slight boost in funding — $2.2 million — to provide the mandated care. The agency’s request was not controversial and moved through the Legislature without pushback this spring. Budget negotiations between Gov. Newsom and the Legislature are expected to conclude this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallis at the hearing said the program was originally meant to “address equitable access” to safe and optimal gender-affirming care, but she acknowledged that staff shortages led to treatment backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Backlog grows for gender-affirming care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of December, 20 incarcerated people since 2017 had received gender-affirming surgery. Another 150 surgeries had been approved, but not completed, according to the budget documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2021-22 California government budget year, 270 incarcerated people requested gender-affirming surgeries — up from 99 the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state projects 348 incarcerated people will request gender-affirming treatment this year, and 462 next year. The corrections agency says its staff can evaluate no more than three requests each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also has received over 364 housing transfer requests since 2021. Only 35 of those were approved and sent to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for transgender and nonbinary incarcerated people have urged the state to move faster in providing the surgeries and evaluating other incarcerated people’s requests to transfer to facilities that better suit their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them criticized the agency’s budget request, arguing the state’s $15 billion-a-year prison system already had plenty of money to carry out the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ridiculous. Two million dollars for stuff they should already be doing?” said Alex Binsfield, a policy analyst with TGI Justice Project, a San Francisco nonprofit that \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">advocates for incarcerated transgender people\u003c/a>. “I don’t think pumping any more money into CDCR is going to fix health care there.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Transgender Rights ","tag":"transgender-prisoners"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Transgender advocates also are on guard for signs that the state is refusing transfers for incarcerated people who identify as transgender but who have not received gender-affirming medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the housing question should not be a medical question,” said Jen Orthwein, a psychologist who previously provided treatment to transgender incarcerated people in prisons across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terri Hardy, spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said those fears are unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incarcerated people are not required to have gender-affirming surgery in order to transfer to an institution consistent with their gender identity,” Hardy wrote in an email to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lawsuit challenges California prison transfers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Capitol, some conservative-leaning and feminist groups have opposed the prison agency’s gender-affirming policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://womensliberationfront.org/chandler-v-cdcr\">Women’s Liberation Front\u003c/a>, a feminist advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., sued the state in 2021 to halt \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/540465542/Women-s-Liberation-Front-Lawsuit-against-the-California-Department-of-Corrections-and-Rehabilitation\">certain transfers to the state’s women’s prison\u003c/a> in Chowchilla. It argued the transfers put incarcerated females at greater risk of violence and sexual assault. The lawsuit is playing out in the U.S. Eastern District Court of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality that men and women are factually, materially, immutably different, in ways that disadvantage women and necessitate attention to women’s unique needs, supports protection of incarcerated women by providing women-only correctional facilities,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There should be no difference to their treatment than that of cisgender people. 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New Jersey, New York City and Rhode Island also require that incarcerated people be housed at facilities appropriate to their gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orthwein, the psychologist, urged the state to accommodate more care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be no difference to their treatment than that of cisgender people,” Orthwein said. “They shouldn’t have to jump through a number of barriers and be poked and prodded for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954055/more-of-californias-imprisoned-are-applying-for-gender-affirming-health-care","authors":["byline_news_11954055"],"categories":["news_31795","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_2729","news_27626","news_32855","news_28654","news_2727","news_2997","news_1475","news_31900","news_29544","news_26657"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11954080","label":"source_news_11954055"},"news_11848154":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11848154","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11848154","score":null,"sort":[1605845478000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-turned-over-an-incarcerated-firefighter-to-ice-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-end-the-practice","title":"California Turned Over an Incarcerated Firefighter to ICE. Lawmakers Urge Newsom to End the Practice","publishDate":1605845478,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Among the roughly 1,800 inmate firefighters who battled record-setting blazes in California this year was Bounchan Keola, a 39-year-old immigrant serving a 28-year prison sentence for a gang-related shooting when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola, who grew up in the East Bay city of Richmond after fleeing Laos with his parents when he was just 2 years old, battled six major wildfires in California this season. During an assignment on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/27/zogg-fire/\">Zogg Fire\u003c/a> this fall in Shasta County, he suffered a traumatic neck injury after being hit by a falling tree and had to be airlifted out and hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the physical pain he still suffers and the dangerous work firefighting represents, Keola still wants to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bounchan Keola\"]'I’m just asking for a second chance to live this American life and to be a firefighter.'[/pullquote]After his first assignment, when he was stunned to see people from the community lining up to thank him and other inmates as they returned to their bus, Keola said the work made him feel a bit like a superhero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the first time in my life, I felt good about myself,\" he said. \"I told myself this is what I want to do with my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 16, Keola was involved in a gang-related shooting and was convicted for second-degree attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He served most of his sentence and was set to be released from state prison last month. Instead, federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and are still holding him at a detention center in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola has a green card, but he can be deported because of his criminal conviction. An immigration judge ordered him deported on Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just asking for a second chance to live this American life and to be a firefighter,\" Keola told reporters over the phone from the ICE detention center on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law restricts local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, but it doesn't apply to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which runs the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco\"]'These are people who pay their debt to society, finish their time and helped us to fight these devastating wildfires. And what is their reward? We're going to turn them over to ICE and get them deported. It's outrageous.'[/pullquote]CDCR officials routinely cooperate with federal immigration authorities, advocates say, transferring released inmates to their custody so they can begin deportation proceedings. This year alone, the state has transferred an estimated 1,265 inmates to ICE, according to Sarah Lee, community advocate for the Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a state Senate hearing Thursday, a CDCR official said the agency must honor ICE requests to hold inmates. But Sen. 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It’s inhumane, and it has to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should be integrating them back into our community, and not facilitating the Trump deportation machine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836399/how-two-men-went-from-prison-crew-to-professional-firefighting\">Brandon Smith\u003c/a>, executive director of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps California's incarcerated firefighters obtain gainful employment once released, said immigrant inmate firefighters deserve jobs, not deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people deserve the opportunity to hop into this [employment] space,\" Smith said. \"Especially after they risked their lives to save you, me, all of our families, the forest that we love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='inmate-firefighters']For months, dozens of state lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\">urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop handing over inmates to ICE\u003c/a>, especially during the pandemic as detention centers struggle with deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they say, they haven’t gotten a response yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola's lawyer, Anoop Prasad, said Keola's family fought alongside U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War. They fled the country when the war ended to avoid persecution and settled in California in 1988, where they became lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Keola can be deported, Laos has to agree to take him. Prasad said Keola doesn't have a birth certificate or other documents showing he was born in Laos, and he doesn't have any family members who live in the country. Laos officials plan to interview him next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm trying to be patient, just hoping that I'll get out of here soon and not face deportation and go back to a country I know nothing of and where my family and I fled for a better life,\" Keola said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press' Adam Beam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bounchan Keola was set to be released in October, but instead he was transferred to ICE for deportation to a country he left when he was 2 years old.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1606768963,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":840},"headData":{"title":"California Turned Over an Incarcerated Firefighter to ICE. 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Instead, federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and are still holding him at a detention center in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola has a green card, but he can be deported because of his criminal conviction. An immigration judge ordered him deported on Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just asking for a second chance to live this American life and to be a firefighter,\" Keola told reporters over the phone from the ICE detention center on Thursday.\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>California law restricts local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, but it doesn't apply to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which runs the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'These are people who pay their debt to society, finish their time and helped us to fight these devastating wildfires. And what is their reward? We're going to turn them over to ICE and get them deported. It's outrageous.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CDCR officials routinely cooperate with federal immigration authorities, advocates say, transferring released inmates to their custody so they can begin deportation proceedings. This year alone, the state has transferred an estimated 1,265 inmates to ICE, according to Sarah Lee, community advocate for the Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a state Senate hearing Thursday, a CDCR official said the agency must honor ICE requests to hold inmates. But Sen. 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It’s inhumane, and it has to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should be integrating them back into our community, and not facilitating the Trump deportation machine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836399/how-two-men-went-from-prison-crew-to-professional-firefighting\">Brandon Smith\u003c/a>, executive director of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps California's incarcerated firefighters obtain gainful employment once released, said immigrant inmate firefighters deserve jobs, not deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people deserve the opportunity to hop into this [employment] space,\" Smith said. \"Especially after they risked their lives to save you, me, all of our families, the forest that we love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"inmate-firefighters"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For months, dozens of state lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\">urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop handing over inmates to ICE\u003c/a>, especially during the pandemic as detention centers struggle with deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they say, they haven’t gotten a response yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola's lawyer, Anoop Prasad, said Keola's family fought alongside U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War. They fled the country when the war ended to avoid persecution and settled in California in 1988, where they became lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Keola can be deported, Laos has to agree to take him. Prasad said Keola doesn't have a birth certificate or other documents showing he was born in Laos, and he doesn't have any family members who live in the country. Laos officials plan to interview him next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm trying to be patient, just hoping that I'll get out of here soon and not face deportation and go back to a country I know nothing of and where my family and I fled for a better life,\" Keola said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press' Adam Beam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11848154/california-turned-over-an-incarcerated-firefighter-to-ice-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-end-the-practice","authors":["8659","182"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28825","news_18538","news_1629","news_27626","news_18512","news_23400","news_21027","news_20202","news_21241","news_2727","news_17968","news_28652"],"featImg":"news_11848168","label":"news_72"},"news_11808282":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11808282","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11808282","score":null,"sort":[1585007683000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-prisons-are-a-tinderbox-of-potential-infection-former-cdcr-secretary-warns","title":"California Prisons Are a 'Tinderbox of Potential Infection,' Former CDCR Secretary Warns","publishDate":1585007683,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A man held at the California State Prison in Los Angeles County is the first inmate in the state to test positive for COVID-19, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was put in isolation on March 19 after telling staff he felt sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, five correctional officers in three different prisons — California Institution for Men in Chino, Folsom State Prison and California State Prison, Sacramento — have also been diagnosed with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. An employee at San Quentin State Prison reported on Friday to have tested positive for COVID-19 does not in fact have the disease, prison officials said Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Kernan, a former secretary of CDCR, is among officials and inmate rights groups expressing concern over a potentially widespread outbreak in the state’s prisons and jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think cruise ships are a petri dish?” Kernan said in an interview Monday. “Prisons are even more so the mass of humanity. So I'm very concerned about my colleagues and the inmates and their families in jails and prisons across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said state leaders need to look at all options to reduce the prison population to mitigate the worst impacts of an outbreak. The state’s prisons are overcrowded, operating at about 130% of capacity, with more than 123,000 people incarcerated across California. An additional 65,000 people work for the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, all Board of Parole Hearings, which generally assess prisoners who are eligible for release, have been suspended for at least a week. In-person visits and nearly all rehabilitative and educational programs have been canceled in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said the lack of activities and connection is also likely to take a toll on people being held in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a tinderbox of potential infection as you go forward, especially if you are just watching what's going on around the world,” he said. “I know Italy and Brazil had serious violence and even escapes and murders in the jails as a result of COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR posted a list of precautions the department is implementing, which includes social distancing, a two-week quarantine for all new inmates and immediate isolation for anyone who has a fever, to prevent the spread of the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']But the Prison Law Office and a number of other advocacy groups are also pushing for the state to do more to protect the elderly and those with compromised immune systems in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been imploring the state through various channels to do what county jails are doing all over the state, which is reduce the density of the population by releasing people who are low risk,” said Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Santa Clara County and Alameda County sheriffs both moved to release hundreds of people early from jail. San Francisco courts have ordered dozens of inmates released early. Contra Costa County is also looking at steps to cut down the number of people held in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a group of 28 advocacy organizations wrote a letter to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra requesting the state’s top cop expand these localized efforts by directing all sheriffs to release people who have six months or less left on their sentences and asking local law enforcement to reduce arrests and bookings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without action, thousands will likely die with the suffering falling disproportionately on low-income families, particularly Black and Latinx families,” the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the calls from advocates in his Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no interest — and I want to make this crystal clear — in releasing violent criminals from our system. I won’t use a crisis as an excuse to create another crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he has a task force looking at how to release people incarcerated for non-violent crimes in a “deliberative” way. He warned that the large-scale release of tens of thousands of prisoners called for by advocacy groups could cause a whole new set of problems for emergency medical providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we start to release prisoners that are not prepared with their parole plans, they may end up out on the streets and sidewalks, in a homeless shelter,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the prison system has not announced any concrete steps to release people. A spokesperson for CDCR declined to answer questions, but said the department has been posting all COVID-19 updates directly on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are continuously evaluating and implementing proactive measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep our CDCR population and the community-at-large safe,” the CDCR website says. “Additional measures will continue to be developed based on the rapidly-evolving situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Advocates call for reducing prison population as one inmate and five staff members from four different institutions test positive for COVID-19.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1586791397,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":844},"headData":{"title":"California Prisons Are a 'Tinderbox of Potential Infection,' Former CDCR Secretary Warns | KQED","description":"Advocates call for reducing prison population as one inmate and five staff members from four different institutions test positive for COVID-19.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11808282 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11808282","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/03/23/california-prisons-are-a-tinderbox-of-potential-infection-former-cdcr-secretary-warns/","disqusTitle":"California Prisons Are a 'Tinderbox of Potential Infection,' Former CDCR Secretary Warns","source":"Coronavirus","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirus","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/562fb646-e6af-45b0-8098-ab88000c4299/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11808282/california-prisons-are-a-tinderbox-of-potential-infection-former-cdcr-secretary-warns","audioDuration":230000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A man held at the California State Prison in Los Angeles County is the first inmate in the state to test positive for COVID-19, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was put in isolation on March 19 after telling staff he felt sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, five correctional officers in three different prisons — California Institution for Men in Chino, Folsom State Prison and California State Prison, Sacramento — have also been diagnosed with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. An employee at San Quentin State Prison reported on Friday to have tested positive for COVID-19 does not in fact have the disease, prison officials said Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Kernan, a former secretary of CDCR, is among officials and inmate rights groups expressing concern over a potentially widespread outbreak in the state’s prisons and jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think cruise ships are a petri dish?” Kernan said in an interview Monday. “Prisons are even more so the mass of humanity. So I'm very concerned about my colleagues and the inmates and their families in jails and prisons across the country.”\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>Kernan said state leaders need to look at all options to reduce the prison population to mitigate the worst impacts of an outbreak. The state’s prisons are overcrowded, operating at about 130% of capacity, with more than 123,000 people incarcerated across California. An additional 65,000 people work for the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, all Board of Parole Hearings, which generally assess prisoners who are eligible for release, have been suspended for at least a week. In-person visits and nearly all rehabilitative and educational programs have been canceled in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said the lack of activities and connection is also likely to take a toll on people being held in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a tinderbox of potential infection as you go forward, especially if you are just watching what's going on around the world,” he said. “I know Italy and Brazil had serious violence and even escapes and murders in the jails as a result of COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR posted a list of precautions the department is implementing, which includes social distancing, a two-week quarantine for all new inmates and immediate isolation for anyone who has a fever, to prevent the spread of the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coronavirus Coverage ","tag":"coronavirus"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the Prison Law Office and a number of other advocacy groups are also pushing for the state to do more to protect the elderly and those with compromised immune systems in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been imploring the state through various channels to do what county jails are doing all over the state, which is reduce the density of the population by releasing people who are low risk,” said Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Santa Clara County and Alameda County sheriffs both moved to release hundreds of people early from jail. San Francisco courts have ordered dozens of inmates released early. Contra Costa County is also looking at steps to cut down the number of people held in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a group of 28 advocacy organizations wrote a letter to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra requesting the state’s top cop expand these localized efforts by directing all sheriffs to release people who have six months or less left on their sentences and asking local law enforcement to reduce arrests and bookings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without action, thousands will likely die with the suffering falling disproportionately on low-income families, particularly Black and Latinx families,” the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the calls from advocates in his Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no interest — and I want to make this crystal clear — in releasing violent criminals from our system. I won’t use a crisis as an excuse to create another crisis,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he has a task force looking at how to release people incarcerated for non-violent crimes in a “deliberative” way. He warned that the large-scale release of tens of thousands of prisoners called for by advocacy groups could cause a whole new set of problems for emergency medical providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we start to release prisoners that are not prepared with their parole plans, they may end up out on the streets and sidewalks, in a homeless shelter,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the prison system has not announced any concrete steps to release people. A spokesperson for CDCR declined to answer questions, but said the department has been posting all COVID-19 updates directly on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are continuously evaluating and implementing proactive measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep our CDCR population and the community-at-large safe,” the CDCR website says. “Additional measures will continue to be developed based on the rapidly-evolving situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11808282/california-prisons-are-a-tinderbox-of-potential-infection-former-cdcr-secretary-warns","authors":["8676","3239","6625"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_27350","news_27504","news_17725","news_2727","news_2867","news_1471"],"featImg":"news_11808288","label":"source_news_11808282"},"news_11775030":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11775030","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11775030","score":null,"sort":[1568980832000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-college-education-in-prison-opens-unexpected-path-to-freedom","title":"A College Education in Prison Opens Unexpected Path to Freedom","publishDate":1568980832,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the first things Charlie Praphatananda did when he got out of prison was vomit. After 22 years inside, hurtling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour was overwhelming, a feeling he’d have again and again in the coming days and weeks as he learned how to send text messages, use Facebook and reconnect with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day he got out, he knew there was one place he could get his bearings: California State University, Los Angeles. After puking on the side of the road, he headed to campus, where he got his student ID. Though his hair was a mess in the photo, he was proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Daniel Whitlow, 39, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster']'They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don't know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.'[/pullquote]A year earlier, Praphatananda was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He was also three years into a bachelor’s degree program — one of 42 men participating in an experiment that tests the limits of the public university mission to spread educational opportunity far and wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA's Prison Graduation Initiative is the state’s only public B.A. program sending professors to teach behind bars. College programs like it were once far more common, but today advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education. \u003ca href=\"https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REAL%20Act,%20116th.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal legislation\u003c/a> that would make grant aid available has bipartisan support, and in California \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> to open the state’s financial aid program to incarcerated students has been sent to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Cal State has made its program work, mostly on private grants. And while it has provided prisoners an undergraduate education, it’s also offered men like Praphatananda something no one expected: a path to freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcending Trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More stories from 'The College Try' series\" tag=\"college-try\"]Once a month, Taffany Lim makes the 70-mile drive from L.A. to the maximum security state prison in Lancaster, a concrete island in the high desert. Lim helped create the B.A. program here and runs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching the first class four years ago she has become something between a principal and a mom figure to the men in the program. They call her Miss Taffany and treat her with a sort of saintly reverence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can't get over the fact that our tenure track faculty, our staff, would travel 90 minutes each way to be with them,” said Lim, senior director of Cal State LA’s Center for Engagement, Service and the Public Good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four nights a week, a Cal State professor teaches a three-hour class at the prison that builds toward a bachelor’s in communications. It wasn’t the guys’ first choice, but the business degree they lobbied for was off the table because they lacked the math coursework. Still, they’ve found unexpected meaning in the choice of major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a stroke of genius,” said Daniel Whitlow, 39, who has been in prison since he was 17. “They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don't know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program lives at the prison’s A Yard, a place the men describe as a haven from the brutality of standard prison life, where, as Whitlow puts it: “We are not taught anything other than to perpetuate everything that made us into who we were at that moment when we committed our crime.” All he knew was survival, he said, until he came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Yard, the progressive programming facility, is a place reserved for men who have earned access to some of the state prison system’s richest rehabilitative services through good conduct. Here, men serving long, often life, sentences put on theatre productions, play music, train service dogs and embrace self-improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in this context, though, they say the B.A. program is a paradigm shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” Whitlow said. “I've grown decades in the space of three or four years. I've learned everything about myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Public Education Is Really Our Only Option’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the heyday of correctional education in the U.S. in the 1970s, school was seen as crucial for successful rehabilitation, and college-level courses played an important role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='James Cain, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster']'If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.'[/pullquote]“There was an understanding that postsecondary education is one of the few things that really gives people enough skill to make a decent living when they get out,” said retired professor Carolyn Eggleston, who co-founded the Center for the Study of Correctional Education at CSU San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the national political climate began to change, support eroded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will soon have the best educated prison population in the world — but we will have sacrificed the hopes and dreams of hundreds of thousands of our young men and women, who always have been good citizens,” then Sen. Kay Hutchison of Texas told \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aaa93e664-6c74-475f-9f48-abce817529b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congress\u003c/a> in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the following year, Hutchison’s amendment to the federal crime bill had banned incarcerated students from accessing \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grants-scholarships/pell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pell Grant\u003c/a> aid to help pay for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that source of funding, programs began to crumble. Within a decade, the number of prisoners in college classes dropped by \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11775123 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tiffany Lam, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates at Lancaster state prison in fall 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taffany Lim, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates during an event at a state prison in Lancaster in fall 2019. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, about 4% of the nation’s accredited higher education institutions \u003ca href=\"https://prisoneducationproject.utah.edu/research-collaborative-on-higher-education-in-prison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teach\u003c/a> for-credit classes in prison, according to the University of Utah’s Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison. Most are community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='inmates' label='Related Coverage']California has become a national leader in prison education since 2014, when state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened the door\u003c/a> for community colleges to begin teaching inside. There are now in-person community college classes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/About-Us/Reports/Files/CCCCO_Report_Incarcerated_Students-final-ADA.ashx?la=en&hash=D771177F2CF5EC5DBC521A18CFB0CDE8911FF365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in all\u003c/a> but one prison in the state, enrolling some 4,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections community, lawmakers and others, including some victims' rights advocates, have generally been supportive of expanding higher education in prison in recent years. Those raising \u003ca href=\"https://prisonuniversityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PUP-Newsletter-Spring-2019-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concerns\u003c/a> about bringing back Pell often work in prison education themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Castro, who runs the University of Utah collaborative and oversees the school’s in-prison college program, points out that though many more programs existed before the ban on Pell, the quality was dubious in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports lifting the ban on Pell for prisoners, she has a key caveat: “Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it,” she said. “So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are hopeful federal aid could help more public schools reach incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the size of our criminal justice population and the scale of mass incarceration … our public higher education system is really our only option,” said Stanford Criminal Justice Center executive director Debbie Mukamal, who co-directs a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiative\u003c/a> to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA’s program is the first attempt to bring the state’s public four-year university system to bear on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrisonToCollege.mp3\" title=\"Part One\" program=\"California Dream\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39225_Roy-teaching-inmates-BA-program.026-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Other Fork in Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidhan Roy first visited A Yard as a volunteer, the Cal State English professor heard from inmates who had amassed a collection of associate’s degrees and were hungry to continue their education. As the number of students working toward such degrees behind bars in California has grown, so has the demand for bachelor’s programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roy has also come to believe the degree holds special meaning for his incarcerated students because most of them went to prison at the age other young people went away to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Praphatananda, education never felt like one. He said he was diagnosed with dyslexia and other learning disabilities in fourth grade. “School was just a constant reminder of my shortcomings and failures,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted and are finishing their degrees on the Cal State LA campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted. He is now finishing his degree on the Cal State LA campus. (This image has been altered to conceal Praphatananda's student identification number.) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie Praphatananda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when he got kicked out during his junior year of high school, Praphatananda didn’t care. He spent his late teenage years getting in trouble. At 20, he took part in a robbery that ended in a murder and a life sentence without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Praphatananda had exhausted his appeals, he had to face down his sentence. “You come to this crossroads where you realize that when they say life without, they mean literally you're not ever going to get out of prison,” he said. “And you have to make that choice of what you're going to do with your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he saw it, he had two options: drown himself in drugs until he ran out of money, or try to make the best of it. He opted to earn his GED, then associate’s degree, and was one of Cal State LA’s first students behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Praphatananda’s classmates in the program have similar histories, and were convicted of equally serious crimes. The sheer number of life sentences on A Yard might have discouraged a less determined advocate, but Roy is guided by a belief that education is a universal right, and foreclosing on human potential isn’t his thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Bidhan Roy, a Cal State LA English professor teaching inmates at the California State Prison in Lancaster']'In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option.'[/pullquote]In contrast with the victims’ rights advocates of the ‘90s who opposed investing in such programs, the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime shares that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d rather have people who are rehabilitated and can contribute to society than people who are just rotting in a prison cell,” said Mai Fernandez. While she notes she doesn’t speak for all victims, she added: “There are a lot of offenders who have severe trauma backgrounds. We need to look at them also as victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Almost Always a Backlash’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Cal State LA’s program can be scaled isn’t clear. It’s a massive logistical and financial undertaking that costs the school about $12,000 a year per student, according to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pell-secondchance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national pilot\u003c/a> that allows some prisoners to once again access Pell Grants, and as more and more students begin to use those funds, administrators may be able to rely less on private money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program coordinator Lim said basic hurdles — like finding Social Security numbers — can stand in the way of getting the funding, not to mention basic \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/eligibility/basic-criteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrictions\u003c/a> on aid that leave many inmates ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Burnett, who just had his sentence commuted after 27 years in prison, said after he started working toward a B.A., his stepdaughter was inspired to enroll at Cal State LA, and his nieces and nephews have since started going to school. “This thing right here that we're doing,” he said, “it’s transcending this facility.” \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/investing-in-futures-education-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> from the Vera Institute of Justice estimates some 463,000 people in prisons nationwide would be eligible for Pell Grants if the ban were lifted. In California, they estimate, reduced recidivism associated with Pell access would save close to $70 million a year in incarceration costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Erin Castro, who oversees the in-prison college program at the University of Utah']'Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it. So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.'[/pullquote]Recidivism rates in California are stubbornly high: About half of people coming out of California prisons end up getting convicted of another crime — a rate that hasn’t changed in 10 years, the state auditor \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.auditor.ca.gov%2Fpdfs%2Freports%2F2018-113.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a>, despite increased investment in rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school is a powerful tool against those odds. A major \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> by the RAND Corp. found taking classes in prison cuts the chances of getting locked up again by 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eggleston, who spent over four decades studying prison education, has watched the ebb and flow of investment over the years and is heartened by what she sees today — but worries it won’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's almost always a backlash,” she said. “We lose post-secondary first because of the idea that it's too much to give those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrison2College2way.mp3\" title=\"Part Two\" program=\"California Dream\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39224_Roy-Lancaster_fall2019_163-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Prison Education to Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='california-prisons' label='More Coverage']For Cal State’s incarcerated students, the college experience has been transformational — one that has allowed them to believe, often for the first time in their lives, that they hold some value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been the most amazing experience of my entire life, as either a free man or as an incarcerated human being,” said James Cain, who has been in prison for 13 years. “If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the men of A Yard, education has become a kind of freedom. But it’s also led to liberation of the literal sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program began, five men have had their life sentences commuted. Three are finishing their degrees on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Praphatananda is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/August-2018-Pardons-and-Commutations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest\u003c/a>. At 43, Praphatananda has lived more of his life in prison than outside. It took him decades of good conduct and dedicated self-improvement to merit commutation, but the support of Cal State LA went a long way toward proving he should get a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in and I had life without, I had given up on trying to ever get out,” he said. “To go from that perspective to — ‘I'm out here now, I get to go to college, I get to spend time with my family, I get to work’ — that is a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"College programs were far more common in the 1970s, but support for them eroded. Advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1579043470,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":61,"wordCount":2764},"headData":{"title":"A College Education in Prison Opens Unexpected Path to Freedom | KQED","description":"College programs were far more common in the 1970s, but support for them eroded. Advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11775030 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11775030","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/09/20/a-college-education-in-prison-opens-unexpected-path-to-freedom/","disqusTitle":"A College Education in Prison Opens Unexpected Path to Freedom","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrison2College2way.mp3","audioTrackLength":450,"path":"/news/11775030/a-college-education-in-prison-opens-unexpected-path-to-freedom","audioDuration":450000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the first things Charlie Praphatananda did when he got out of prison was vomit. After 22 years inside, hurtling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour was overwhelming, a feeling he’d have again and again in the coming days and weeks as he learned how to send text messages, use Facebook and reconnect with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day he got out, he knew there was one place he could get his bearings: California State University, Los Angeles. After puking on the side of the road, he headed to campus, where he got his student ID. Though his hair was a mess in the photo, he was proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don't know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Daniel Whitlow, 39, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A year earlier, Praphatananda was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He was also three years into a bachelor’s degree program — one of 42 men participating in an experiment that tests the limits of the public university mission to spread educational opportunity far and wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA's Prison Graduation Initiative is the state’s only public B.A. program sending professors to teach behind bars. College programs like it were once far more common, but today advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education. \u003ca href=\"https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REAL%20Act,%20116th.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal legislation\u003c/a> that would make grant aid available has bipartisan support, and in California \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> to open the state’s financial aid program to incarcerated students has been sent to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Cal State has made its program work, mostly on private grants. And while it has provided prisoners an undergraduate education, it’s also offered men like Praphatananda something no one expected: a path to freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcending Trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More stories from 'The College Try' series ","tag":"college-try"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once a month, Taffany Lim makes the 70-mile drive from L.A. to the maximum security state prison in Lancaster, a concrete island in the high desert. Lim helped create the B.A. program here and runs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching the first class four years ago she has become something between a principal and a mom figure to the men in the program. They call her Miss Taffany and treat her with a sort of saintly reverence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can't get over the fact that our tenure track faculty, our staff, would travel 90 minutes each way to be with them,” said Lim, senior director of Cal State LA’s Center for Engagement, Service and the Public Good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four nights a week, a Cal State professor teaches a three-hour class at the prison that builds toward a bachelor’s in communications. It wasn’t the guys’ first choice, but the business degree they lobbied for was off the table because they lacked the math coursework. Still, they’ve found unexpected meaning in the choice of major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a stroke of genius,” said Daniel Whitlow, 39, who has been in prison since he was 17. “They taught a bunch of traumatized people, that don't know how to communicate, how to communicate and transcend their trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Daniel-Whitlow-inmates-BA-program.028-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” said Daniel Whitlow, an inmate and student at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program lives at the prison’s A Yard, a place the men describe as a haven from the brutality of standard prison life, where, as Whitlow puts it: “We are not taught anything other than to perpetuate everything that made us into who we were at that moment when we committed our crime.” All he knew was survival, he said, until he came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Yard, the progressive programming facility, is a place reserved for men who have earned access to some of the state prison system’s richest rehabilitative services through good conduct. Here, men serving long, often life, sentences put on theatre productions, play music, train service dogs and embrace self-improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in this context, though, they say the B.A. program is a paradigm shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got into college, that opened my mind to something completely different,” Whitlow said. “I've grown decades in the space of three or four years. I've learned everything about myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Public Education Is Really Our Only Option’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the heyday of correctional education in the U.S. in the 1970s, school was seen as crucial for successful rehabilitation, and college-level courses played an important role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"James Cain, an inmate and student at the California State Prison in Lancaster","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There was an understanding that postsecondary education is one of the few things that really gives people enough skill to make a decent living when they get out,” said retired professor Carolyn Eggleston, who co-founded the Center for the Study of Correctional Education at CSU San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the national political climate began to change, support eroded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will soon have the best educated prison population in the world — but we will have sacrificed the hopes and dreams of hundreds of thousands of our young men and women, who always have been good citizens,” then Sen. Kay Hutchison of Texas told \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aaa93e664-6c74-475f-9f48-abce817529b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congress\u003c/a> in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the following year, Hutchison’s amendment to the federal crime bill had banned incarcerated students from accessing \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grants-scholarships/pell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pell Grant\u003c/a> aid to help pay for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that source of funding, programs began to crumble. Within a decade, the number of prisoners in college classes dropped by \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11775123 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tiffany Lam, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates at Lancaster state prison in fall 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_taffany_Burnett-and-Lim-Lancaster_fall2019_114-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taffany Lim, who helped to create the B.A. program and now runs it, greets participating student inmates during an event at a state prison in Lancaster in fall 2019. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, about 4% of the nation’s accredited higher education institutions \u003ca href=\"https://prisoneducationproject.utah.edu/research-collaborative-on-higher-education-in-prison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teach\u003c/a> for-credit classes in prison, according to the University of Utah’s Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison. Most are community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"inmates","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California has become a national leader in prison education since 2014, when state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened the door\u003c/a> for community colleges to begin teaching inside. There are now in-person community college classes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/About-Us/Reports/Files/CCCCO_Report_Incarcerated_Students-final-ADA.ashx?la=en&hash=D771177F2CF5EC5DBC521A18CFB0CDE8911FF365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in all\u003c/a> but one prison in the state, enrolling some 4,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corrections community, lawmakers and others, including some victims' rights advocates, have generally been supportive of expanding higher education in prison in recent years. Those raising \u003ca href=\"https://prisonuniversityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PUP-Newsletter-Spring-2019-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concerns\u003c/a> about bringing back Pell often work in prison education themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Castro, who runs the University of Utah collaborative and oversees the school’s in-prison college program, points out that though many more programs existed before the ban on Pell, the quality was dubious in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports lifting the ban on Pell for prisoners, she has a key caveat: “Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it,” she said. “So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are hopeful federal aid could help more public schools reach incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the size of our criminal justice population and the scale of mass incarceration … our public higher education system is really our only option,” said Stanford Criminal Justice Center executive director Debbie Mukamal, who co-directs a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://correctionstocollegeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiative\u003c/a> to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State LA’s program is the first attempt to bring the state’s public four-year university system to bear on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrisonToCollege.mp3","title":"Part One","program":"California Dream","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39225_Roy-teaching-inmates-BA-program.026-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Other Fork in Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidhan Roy first visited A Yard as a volunteer, the Cal State English professor heard from inmates who had amassed a collection of associate’s degrees and were hungry to continue their education. As the number of students working toward such degrees behind bars in California has grown, so has the demand for bachelor’s programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roy has also come to believe the degree holds special meaning for his incarcerated students because most of them went to prison at the age other young people went away to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Praphatananda, education never felt like one. He said he was diagnosed with dyslexia and other learning disabilities in fourth grade. “School was just a constant reminder of my shortcomings and failures,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted and are finishing their degrees on the Cal State LA campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Charlie-ID-card-fixed-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Praphatananda is one of five students who had their life sentences commuted. He is now finishing his degree on the Cal State LA campus. (This image has been altered to conceal Praphatananda's student identification number.) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie Praphatananda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when he got kicked out during his junior year of high school, Praphatananda didn’t care. He spent his late teenage years getting in trouble. At 20, he took part in a robbery that ended in a murder and a life sentence without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Praphatananda had exhausted his appeals, he had to face down his sentence. “You come to this crossroads where you realize that when they say life without, they mean literally you're not ever going to get out of prison,” he said. “And you have to make that choice of what you're going to do with your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he saw it, he had two options: drown himself in drugs until he ran out of money, or try to make the best of it. He opted to earn his GED, then associate’s degree, and was one of Cal State LA’s first students behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Praphatananda’s classmates in the program have similar histories, and were convicted of equally serious crimes. The sheer number of life sentences on A Yard might have discouraged a less determined advocate, but Roy is guided by a belief that education is a universal right, and foreclosing on human potential isn’t his thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'In a kind of symbolic way it represented the other fork in life. But also the fork, for most of them, that was never an option.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Bidhan Roy, a Cal State LA English professor teaching inmates at the California State Prison in Lancaster","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In contrast with the victims’ rights advocates of the ‘90s who opposed investing in such programs, the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime shares that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d rather have people who are rehabilitated and can contribute to society than people who are just rotting in a prison cell,” said Mai Fernandez. While she notes she doesn’t speak for all victims, she added: “There are a lot of offenders who have severe trauma backgrounds. We need to look at them also as victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Almost Always a Backlash’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Cal State LA’s program can be scaled isn’t clear. It’s a massive logistical and financial undertaking that costs the school about $12,000 a year per student, according to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pell-secondchance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national pilot\u003c/a> that allows some prisoners to once again access Pell Grants, and as more and more students begin to use those funds, administrators may be able to rely less on private money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program coordinator Lim said basic hurdles — like finding Social Security numbers — can stand in the way of getting the funding, not to mention basic \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/eligibility/basic-criteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrictions\u003c/a> on aid that leave many inmates ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/09182019_prison_Allen-Burnett-in-class-inmates-BA-program.039-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Burnett, who just had his sentence commuted after 27 years in prison, said after he started working toward a B.A., his stepdaughter was inspired to enroll at Cal State LA, and his nieces and nephews have since started going to school. “This thing right here that we're doing,” he said, “it’s transcending this facility.” \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/investing-in-futures-education-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> from the Vera Institute of Justice estimates some 463,000 people in prisons nationwide would be eligible for Pell Grants if the ban were lifted. In California, they estimate, reduced recidivism associated with Pell access would save close to $70 million a year in incarceration costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Incarcerated people are in a position where they cannot participate in this notion of college choice — they don’t have it. So when we open the floodgates and allow institutions to access Pell money, without any oversight, we’re asking for a disaster.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Erin Castro, who oversees the in-prison college program at the University of Utah","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recidivism rates in California are stubbornly high: About half of people coming out of California prisons end up getting convicted of another crime — a rate that hasn’t changed in 10 years, the state auditor \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.auditor.ca.gov%2Fpdfs%2Freports%2F2018-113.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a>, despite increased investment in rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school is a powerful tool against those odds. A major \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> by the RAND Corp. found taking classes in prison cuts the chances of getting locked up again by 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eggleston, who spent over four decades studying prison education, has watched the ebb and flow of investment over the years and is heartened by what she sees today — but worries it won’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's almost always a backlash,” she said. “We lose post-secondary first because of the idea that it's too much to give those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RancanoPrison2College2way.mp3","title":"Part Two","program":"California Dream","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39224_Roy-Lancaster_fall2019_163-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Prison Education to Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"california-prisons","label":"More Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For Cal State’s incarcerated students, the college experience has been transformational — one that has allowed them to believe, often for the first time in their lives, that they hold some value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been the most amazing experience of my entire life, as either a free man or as an incarcerated human being,” said James Cain, who has been in prison for 13 years. “If I had the chance right now to go home or have this education, I would choose this education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the men of A Yard, education has become a kind of freedom. But it’s also led to liberation of the literal sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program began, five men have had their life sentences commuted. Three are finishing their degrees on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Praphatananda is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/August-2018-Pardons-and-Commutations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest\u003c/a>. At 43, Praphatananda has lived more of his life in prison than outside. It took him decades of good conduct and dedicated self-improvement to merit commutation, but the support of Cal State LA went a long way toward proving he should get a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in and I had life without, I had given up on trying to ever get out,” he said. “To go from that perspective to — ‘I'm out here now, I get to go to college, I get to spend time with my family, I get to work’ — that is a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\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>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11775030/a-college-education-in-prison-opens-unexpected-path-to-freedom","authors":["11276"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1628","news_21840","news_616","news_221","news_1629","news_25519","news_19542","news_2727","news_4","news_2867"],"featImg":"news_11775122","label":"news_72"},"news_11718702":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11718702","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11718702","score":null,"sort":[1547938804000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amid-housing-crisis-alameda-county-program-matches-newly-released-inmates-with-welcoming-hosts","title":"Amid Housing Crisis, Alameda County Program Matches Newly Released Inmates with Welcoming Hosts","publishDate":1547938804,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,\" Jones said, laughing. \"I'm like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones' first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,\" Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. \"That's the one position you don't want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she's dying laughing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it's all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that's providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California's Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates' rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's the first time I felt like I'm actually part of a family, you know what I mean?\" said Jones.'\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. \"The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,\" said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn't ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,\" Busansky said. \"Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don't have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it's very difficult to think about doing anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Project Homecoming says you're a person and we're going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,\" Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it's a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take a hard look at people's pasts,\" said the program's coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. \"We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they've become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone's second chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it's not just working with the person in front of you,\" Panzella said. \"If it's successful, this is something that could be replicated\" in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,\" said Busansky. \"They don't know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's fear,\" said Busansky. \"There's apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It's hard to tell people, 'This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.' Not a conversation that most people are used to having.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd love to increase our host numbers, but we can't just say 'Yes' to anyone and everyone,\" Lawyer said. \"We're not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing\" or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Part of a family'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California's Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the households I've been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,\" he said. He called growing up \"a horrible experience\" and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn't have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I'm getting adopted again,\" he said. \"Going into a stranger's household, getting judged all over again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel kind of weird even saying we're in a 'program' because it doesn't really feel like that,\" Panzella said. \"I think we just have a really strong friendship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're in the community — in someone's home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,\" said Lawyer. \"What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know what to order,\" said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. \"I'm just like I don't know what this food is like. I grew up eating burritos and pizza pockets at a liquor store, bologna sandwiches and Top Ramen.\" Jones has enjoyed eating crab dumplings and Korean BBQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has reunited with a teenage son and a daughter. But he's still trying to reconnect and get custody of another daughter in his hometown of Tulare. She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. \"It's the first time I felt like I'm actually part of a family, you know what I mean?\" said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn't expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, if it wasn't for this situation and the sacrifices and things that Joe and Tamiko were able to do, I don't know exactly how far along I would be,\" said Jones. \"I'm only able to start work and do all this stuff because of that assistance that they gave me immediately when I got out.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A novel housing program in California links people who have served long-term prison sentences with those willing to rent space in their homes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1547927668,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":1773},"headData":{"title":"Amid Housing Crisis, Alameda County Program Matches Newly Released Inmates with Welcoming Hosts | KQED","description":"A novel housing program in California links people who have served long-term prison sentences with those willing to rent space in their homes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11718702 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11718702","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/19/amid-housing-crisis-alameda-county-program-matches-newly-released-inmates-with-welcoming-hosts/","disqusTitle":"Amid Housing Crisis, Alameda County Program Matches Newly Released Inmates with Welcoming Hosts","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/2101350/eric-westervelt\">Eric Westervelt\u003c/a>\u003cbr>NPR","nprImageAgency":"Courtesy of Tamiko Panzella","nprStoryId":"684135395","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=684135395&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/684135395/from-a-cell-to-a-home-ex-inmates-find-stability-with-innovative-program?ft=nprml&f=684135395","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:20:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:57:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:20:22 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/01/20190116_me_ex_inmate_housing.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&aggIds=582146517,130593764&d=296&p=3&story=684135395&ft=nprml&f=684135395","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1685801025-fbdcf3.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1003&aggIds=582146517,130593764&d=296&p=3&story=684135395&ft=nprml&f=684135395","path":"/news/11718702/amid-housing-crisis-alameda-county-program-matches-newly-released-inmates-with-welcoming-hosts","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/01/20190116_me_ex_inmate_housing.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&aggIds=582146517,130593764&d=296&p=3&story=684135395&ft=nprml&f=684135395","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,\" Jones said, laughing. \"I'm like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones' first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,\" Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. \"That's the one position you don't want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she's dying laughing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it's all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\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>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that's providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California's Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates' rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's the first time I felt like I'm actually part of a family, you know what I mean?\" said Jones.'\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. \"The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,\" said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn't ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,\" Busansky said. \"Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don't have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it's very difficult to think about doing anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Project Homecoming says you're a person and we're going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,\" Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it's a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take a hard look at people's pasts,\" said the program's coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. \"We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they've become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone's second chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it's not just working with the person in front of you,\" Panzella said. \"If it's successful, this is something that could be replicated\" in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,\" said Busansky. \"They don't know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's fear,\" said Busansky. \"There's apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It's hard to tell people, 'This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.' Not a conversation that most people are used to having.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd love to increase our host numbers, but we can't just say 'Yes' to anyone and everyone,\" Lawyer said. \"We're not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing\" or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Part of a family'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California's Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the households I've been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,\" he said. He called growing up \"a horrible experience\" and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn't have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I'm getting adopted again,\" he said. \"Going into a stranger's household, getting judged all over again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel kind of weird even saying we're in a 'program' because it doesn't really feel like that,\" Panzella said. \"I think we just have a really strong friendship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're in the community — in someone's home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,\" said Lawyer. \"What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know what to order,\" said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. \"I'm just like I don't know what this food is like. I grew up eating burritos and pizza pockets at a liquor store, bologna sandwiches and Top Ramen.\" Jones has enjoyed eating crab dumplings and Korean BBQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has reunited with a teenage son and a daughter. But he's still trying to reconnect and get custody of another daughter in his hometown of Tulare. She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. \"It's the first time I felt like I'm actually part of a family, you know what I mean?\" said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn't expect.\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>\"Honestly, if it wasn't for this situation and the sacrifices and things that Joe and Tamiko were able to do, I don't know exactly how far along I would be,\" said Jones. \"I'm only able to start work and do all this stuff because of that assistance that they gave me immediately when I got out.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11718702/amid-housing-crisis-alameda-county-program-matches-newly-released-inmates-with-welcoming-hosts","authors":["byline_news_11718702"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_260","news_21358","news_2727","news_18","news_17835","news_1471"],"featImg":"news_11718703","label":"source_news_11718702"},"news_11706191":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11706191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11706191","score":null,"sort":[1542223535000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-orders-investigation-of-possible-fraud-in-prisoner-psychiatric-care-case","title":"Judge Orders Investigation of Possible Fraud in Prisoner Psychiatric Care Case","publishDate":1542223535,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge overseeing improvements to psychiatric care in California’s prisons plans to appoint an experienced fraud investigator to look into allegations that state officials gave her inaccurate or misleading data in a long-running civil lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an eight-page order issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller said the investigation would focus first on whether prison leaders committed fraud upon the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows revelations in a report last month by the chief psychiatrist for the prisons, Dr. Michael Golding, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700464/did-california-prison-officials-distort-record-on-psychiatric-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused \u003c/a>state officials of distorting data to mask the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702604/california-prisons-chief-psychiatrist-says-hidden-data-exposes-broken-system-of-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failure\u003c/a> to meet court-mandated deadlines for providing treatment for prisoners who suffer from mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially resistant to the idea of appointing an independent investigator to look into the allegations, Mueller wrote she was convinced to move forward after learning of a second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704769/second-state-psychiatrist-files-complaint-on-prisoner-care-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whistleblower\u003c/a> just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is persuaded that appointment of an experienced, highly competent, independent investigator is necessary to an efficient resolution of the issues presented by the Golding Report,” Mueller wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also rebuked attorneys for the state for backtracking on their support for an independent investigation at a Nov. 5 status conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their change in position appears motivated by the desire to prevent any independent investigation at the court’s behest,\" Mueller stated. \"But the court cannot shrink from the need to resolve the questions of fraud raised by Dr. Golding’s report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said she will also ask the investigator to consider whether the state needs to change how it reports to the court on prison psychiatric care, to make sure she gets an accurate picture of whether mental health care for inmates is improving.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal judge wants an independent fraud investigator to look into whether California prison officials hid lapses in psychiatric care for inmates.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1542309300,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":291},"headData":{"title":"Judge Orders Investigation of Possible Fraud in Prisoner Psychiatric Care Case | KQED","description":"A federal judge wants an independent fraud investigator to look into whether California prison officials hid lapses in psychiatric care for inmates.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11706191 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11706191","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/14/judge-orders-investigation-of-possible-fraud-in-prisoner-psychiatric-care-case/","disqusTitle":"Judge Orders Investigation of Possible Fraud in Prisoner Psychiatric Care Case","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/11/SmallPsychFraud.mp3","audioTrackLength":71,"path":"/news/11706191/judge-orders-investigation-of-possible-fraud-in-prisoner-psychiatric-care-case","audioDuration":70000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge overseeing improvements to psychiatric care in California’s prisons plans to appoint an experienced fraud investigator to look into allegations that state officials gave her inaccurate or misleading data in a long-running civil lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an eight-page order issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller said the investigation would focus first on whether prison leaders committed fraud upon the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows revelations in a report last month by the chief psychiatrist for the prisons, Dr. Michael Golding, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700464/did-california-prison-officials-distort-record-on-psychiatric-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused \u003c/a>state officials of distorting data to mask the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702604/california-prisons-chief-psychiatrist-says-hidden-data-exposes-broken-system-of-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failure\u003c/a> to meet court-mandated deadlines for providing treatment for prisoners who suffer from mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially resistant to the idea of appointing an independent investigator to look into the allegations, Mueller wrote she was convinced to move forward after learning of a second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704769/second-state-psychiatrist-files-complaint-on-prisoner-care-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whistleblower\u003c/a> just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is persuaded that appointment of an experienced, highly competent, independent investigator is necessary to an efficient resolution of the issues presented by the Golding Report,” Mueller wrote.\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 judge also rebuked attorneys for the state for backtracking on their support for an independent investigation at a Nov. 5 status conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their change in position appears motivated by the desire to prevent any independent investigation at the court’s behest,\" Mueller stated. \"But the court cannot shrink from the need to resolve the questions of fraud raised by Dr. Golding’s report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said she will also ask the investigator to consider whether the state needs to change how it reports to the court on prison psychiatric care, to make sure she gets an accurate picture of whether mental health care for inmates is improving.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11706191/judge-orders-investigation-of-possible-fraud-in-prisoner-psychiatric-care-case","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_2727","news_2109","news_6617"],"featImg":"news_11702824","label":"news_72"},"news_11579240":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11579240","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11579240","score":null,"sort":[1501526758000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pregnant-in-jail-female-inmates-and-motherhood","title":"What Does It Say When Jail Is a Safety Net for Pregnant Women?","publishDate":1501526758,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Dr. Carolyn Sufrin is sitting before a classroom reading a passage from her book, \"Jailcare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her experience as an obstetrician inside San Francisco’s jail, Sufrin is relating a passage about an inmate who recently gave birth in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said to me, 'I mean, my worst day in jail is way better than my best day on the streets.' I had heard Kima say this before, but each time the comparison emerged, I had to pause to digest it: My worst day in jail is better than my best day on the streets. It was a profound statement,\" Sufrin read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sufrin was reading, Jamesa had to rush out of the classroom, into an adjacent bathroom, to throw up. She’s 11 weeks pregnant. She’s also, like all the students in this classroom, an inmate at San Francisco’s women’s jail -- because of that, we’re using only her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The idea jail can be a site of caregiving, or of safety and a place that some women might sometimes desire. ... That’s really troubling and problematic.'\u003ccite>Carolyn Sufrin\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jamesa is 25 and has a 4-year-old son at home, but said she’s never been pregnant in jail before. And, she said, it's scary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to have my baby in jail, 'cause I would like to go home with my baby -- I got to go home with my first son, when I had him, I never was in jail or nothing, so I got to go home with my baby. I don't want to feel that detachment, only get three days and then from the hospital I have to go to jail and my baby gotta go somewhere else,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sufrin is here to hear these stories. She’s made this her life’s work, after she delivered a baby from a shackled inmate in Pennsylvania during her medical training. Sufrin says she was shocked -- and decided she wanted to work with incarcerated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2007 to 2013, she worked inside the San Francisco County Jail -- as an ob/gyn and then doing research for a Ph.D. in medical anthropology. Her book is based on that research, and the paradoxical nature of finding support while being incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea jail can be a site of caregiving, or of safety or of home and a place that some women might sometimes desire, like I said, that's really troubling and problematic,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-800x1038.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco Jail from her book.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-800x1038.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-160x208.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-1020x1323.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-1180x1530.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-960x1245.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-240x311.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-375x486.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-520x674.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco County Jail from her book. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sufrin tells the women that to some people this may indicate the system's working -- because women are getting some medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to read this depiction of the safety net of jail in such a practical and also fatalistic way, it ignores the punishment, and the putative structures from which this caregiving arises. It claims to see glimmer of home in fundamentally flawed system,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her message is that something is deeply wrong with our society if jail is where women -- particularly poor women of color -- get the most consistent medical care. The students seem to agree, but they say this is about more than just pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamesa said the baby growing in her belly isn't the only child she's thinking about: Since her first son was born, they’ve been inseparable -- and that being there for him is the most important thing to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My son is all I got. I don't got my mama -- I was in foster care. She's around, I know her, but that ain't my mama, she just had me,\" she said. \"It hurt hecka bad to know I can’t be with my baby every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonnette, another inmate, says she’s never been pregnant in jail. But she is missing her 5-year-old son, who she talks to on the phone as much as she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has been going through this for years to the point that he's like, all right, and that makes me feel bad -- not him crying but him understanding about what I’m going through. At 5 years old, that's kinda heavy on me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women say there’s another excruciating thing about being separated from your kids -- the chance you might lose custody of them while you’re locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti, 29, said she was in jail a year ago when she got papers informing her that her son's grandmother was trying to take full custody of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She just took him. I asked her to hold my son until I get my life together, and have a place to live,\" she said. \"So I was crying, because she took my son, and they took me out our of class, to a holding cell, then I am talking about committing suicide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti said a female deputy eventually came and talked to her, calming her down. But she said the default in these situations, when you're behind bars, is to be put in a cell alone, not supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of pregnant women and mothers in prisons and jails was recently tackled by California Sen. Kamala Harris in a speech before a bipartisan criminal justice reform group in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, there are women who are shackled while they are pregnant and in some states, while they give birth. That’s wrong,\" Harris said. \"What impacts a mother impacts a child. Because the fact is on this subject, we must keep in mind, nearly 80 percent of incarcerated women are mothers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has authored legislation to give incarcerated mothers in the federal prison system -- and their kids -- more rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff's Department does more than many jail systems -- for example, they let new moms pump their breast milk for their kids. But for the inmates in jail, they just want to be home with their kids.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin says something is deeply wrong in our society if jail is where women -- particularly poor women of color -- get the most consistent medical care.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501529219,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1028},"headData":{"title":"What Does It Say When Jail Is a Safety Net for Pregnant Women? | KQED","description":"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin says something is deeply wrong in our society if jail is where women -- particularly poor women of color -- get the most consistent medical care.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11579240 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11579240","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/31/pregnant-in-jail-female-inmates-and-motherhood/","disqusTitle":"What Does It Say When Jail Is a Safety Net for Pregnant Women?","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/07/00127646.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11579240/pregnant-in-jail-female-inmates-and-motherhood","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dr. Carolyn Sufrin is sitting before a classroom reading a passage from her book, \"Jailcare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her experience as an obstetrician inside San Francisco’s jail, Sufrin is relating a passage about an inmate who recently gave birth in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said to me, 'I mean, my worst day in jail is way better than my best day on the streets.' I had heard Kima say this before, but each time the comparison emerged, I had to pause to digest it: My worst day in jail is better than my best day on the streets. It was a profound statement,\" Sufrin read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sufrin was reading, Jamesa had to rush out of the classroom, into an adjacent bathroom, to throw up. She’s 11 weeks pregnant. She’s also, like all the students in this classroom, an inmate at San Francisco’s women’s jail -- because of that, we’re using only her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The idea jail can be a site of caregiving, or of safety and a place that some women might sometimes desire. ... That’s really troubling and problematic.'\u003ccite>Carolyn Sufrin\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jamesa is 25 and has a 4-year-old son at home, but said she’s never been pregnant in jail before. And, she said, it's scary.\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 don't want to have my baby in jail, 'cause I would like to go home with my baby -- I got to go home with my first son, when I had him, I never was in jail or nothing, so I got to go home with my baby. I don't want to feel that detachment, only get three days and then from the hospital I have to go to jail and my baby gotta go somewhere else,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sufrin is here to hear these stories. She’s made this her life’s work, after she delivered a baby from a shackled inmate in Pennsylvania during her medical training. Sufrin says she was shocked -- and decided she wanted to work with incarcerated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2007 to 2013, she worked inside the San Francisco County Jail -- as an ob/gyn and then doing research for a Ph.D. in medical anthropology. Her book is based on that research, and the paradoxical nature of finding support while being incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea jail can be a site of caregiving, or of safety or of home and a place that some women might sometimes desire, like I said, that's really troubling and problematic,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-800x1038.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco Jail from her book.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-800x1038.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-160x208.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-1020x1323.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-1180x1530.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-960x1245.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-240x311.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-375x486.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SufrinReads-520x674.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco County Jail from her book. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sufrin tells the women that to some people this may indicate the system's working -- because women are getting some medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to read this depiction of the safety net of jail in such a practical and also fatalistic way, it ignores the punishment, and the putative structures from which this caregiving arises. It claims to see glimmer of home in fundamentally flawed system,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her message is that something is deeply wrong with our society if jail is where women -- particularly poor women of color -- get the most consistent medical care. The students seem to agree, but they say this is about more than just pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamesa said the baby growing in her belly isn't the only child she's thinking about: Since her first son was born, they’ve been inseparable -- and that being there for him is the most important thing to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My son is all I got. I don't got my mama -- I was in foster care. She's around, I know her, but that ain't my mama, she just had me,\" she said. \"It hurt hecka bad to know I can’t be with my baby every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonnette, another inmate, says she’s never been pregnant in jail. But she is missing her 5-year-old son, who she talks to on the phone as much as she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has been going through this for years to the point that he's like, all right, and that makes me feel bad -- not him crying but him understanding about what I’m going through. At 5 years old, that's kinda heavy on me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women say there’s another excruciating thing about being separated from your kids -- the chance you might lose custody of them while you’re locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti, 29, said she was in jail a year ago when she got papers informing her that her son's grandmother was trying to take full custody of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She just took him. I asked her to hold my son until I get my life together, and have a place to live,\" she said. \"So I was crying, because she took my son, and they took me out our of class, to a holding cell, then I am talking about committing suicide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti said a female deputy eventually came and talked to her, calming her down. But she said the default in these situations, when you're behind bars, is to be put in a cell alone, not supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of pregnant women and mothers in prisons and jails was recently tackled by California Sen. Kamala Harris in a speech before a bipartisan criminal justice reform group in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, there are women who are shackled while they are pregnant and in some states, while they give birth. That’s wrong,\" Harris said. \"What impacts a mother impacts a child. Because the fact is on this subject, we must keep in mind, nearly 80 percent of incarcerated women are mothers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has authored legislation to give incarcerated mothers in the federal prison system -- and their kids -- more rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff's Department does more than many jail systems -- for example, they let new moms pump their breast milk for their kids. But for the inmates in jail, they just want to be home with their kids.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11579240/pregnant-in-jail-female-inmates-and-motherhood","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_683","news_2727","news_2687","news_19743","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11591983","label":"news_72"},"news_11594999":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11594999","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11594999","score":null,"sort":[1501101815000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inmates-death-is-latest-black-mark-for-orange-county-sheriffs-dept","title":"Inmate's Death Is Latest Black Mark for Orange County Sheriff's Dept.","publishDate":1501101815,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Orange County authorities continue to investigate the death of a jail inmate earlier this month. The death of 27-year-old Danny Pham has resulted in the suspension of five jail employees and is the latest scandal to hit OC law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham was scheduled to be released from jail July 10 after serving a three-month sentence for auto theft. He died in his cell on July 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham's death is the latest in a string of black marks for the embattled Orange County Sheriff’s Department, following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/50k-reward-as-manhunt-continues-for-3-escaped-inmates-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brazen jailbreak\u003c/a> by three inmates last year and ongoing questions over the misuse of jailhouse informants.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are murderers in the jail. That's just the way it is.'\u003ccite>Lt. Lane Lagaret, Orange County Sheriff's Department\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Five jail employees have been put on paid administrative leave in connection with Pham’s death while the sheriff’s department conducts an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is also investigating Pham’s death, as it does with all in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both law enforcement agencies have released only scant details about the incident, citing the ongoing investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Guisti, a lawyer hired by Pham’s family, suspects Pham was killed by his reported cellmate, a man in custody on suspicion of murdering two homeless people. Pham, in contrast, was finishing up a three-month sentence for vehicle theft, which Guisti characterized as \"joyriding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the DA’s office nor the Sheriff’s Department would confirm the name of Pham’s cellmate or whether or not he was suspected of killing Pham. But Guisti said the cellmate was Marvin Magallanes. Both men were being housed at the county Intake and Release Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guisti has filed a complaint, a precursor to a lawsuit, with the county over Pham’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Lane Lagaret, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, said jail staff select housing for inmates based on a variety of factors and that it’s not unusual for inmates with disparate sentences to be placed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are murderers in the jail. That’s just the way it is,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Sida, a consultant who has assessed jail management for Orange and L.A. counties, says housing a potential serial killer with a nonviolent offender would raise questions. He also said the fact that five jail employees were put on leave indicates a potential violation of jail policy or even the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule of thumb in jails is that an individual should walk out of the jail in at least as good a shape as when they came in,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that any jail death exposes the local jurisdiction, in this case the county, to harsh scrutiny and expensive litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q3sKnAlUNmB3ZgXKOyaquYVXh0zJmfDF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orange County’s Sheriff’s Department and DA’s office are already under the spotlight. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/timelines/oc-jail-escape/\">three inmates escaped\u003c/a> from the OC Men’s Central Jail in Santa Ana, cutting through several layers of metal, steel and rebar, crawling through plumbing tunnels and then rappelling off the roof to a getaway vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has acknowledged that staffing shortages and management flaws contributed to the escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchens also recently admitted that some deputies \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/05/73544/oc-sheriff-hutchens-acknowledges-informant-use-in/\">misused jailhouse informants\u003c/a> to secure convictions against inmates. State and federal officials are investigating the so-called jailhouse snitch scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/ocjails2017-aclu-socal-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a>, the ACLU slammed the Sheriff's Department for alleged mistreatment of jail inmates, including failure to prevent inmate-on-inmate violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, an inmate at OC’s Theo Lacy Jail was charged with murder for killing his cellmate, Thiep Truong Nguyen. In 2006, inmates at Theo Lacy beat fellow inmate John Chamberlain to death, leading to murder charges for six inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain’s death also prompted an investigation into OC jail operations by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. That investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Danny Pham's death on July 3 follows a brazen jailbreak by three inmates last year, and ongoing questions over the misuse of jailhouse informants.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501106850,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":675},"headData":{"title":"Inmate's Death Is Latest Black Mark for Orange County Sheriff's Dept. | KQED","description":"Danny Pham's death on July 3 follows a brazen jailbreak by three inmates last year, and ongoing questions over the misuse of jailhouse informants.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11594999 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11594999","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/26/inmates-death-is-latest-black-mark-for-orange-county-sheriffs-dept/","disqusTitle":"Inmate's Death Is Latest Black Mark for Orange County Sheriff's Dept.","source":"KPCC","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/07/2017-07-26c-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/jill-replogle\">Jill Replogle\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11594999/inmates-death-is-latest-black-mark-for-orange-county-sheriffs-dept","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Orange County authorities continue to investigate the death of a jail inmate earlier this month. The death of 27-year-old Danny Pham has resulted in the suspension of five jail employees and is the latest scandal to hit OC law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham was scheduled to be released from jail July 10 after serving a three-month sentence for auto theft. He died in his cell on July 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham's death is the latest in a string of black marks for the embattled Orange County Sheriff’s Department, following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/50k-reward-as-manhunt-continues-for-3-escaped-inmates-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brazen jailbreak\u003c/a> by three inmates last year and ongoing questions over the misuse of jailhouse informants.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are murderers in the jail. That's just the way it is.'\u003ccite>Lt. Lane Lagaret, Orange County Sheriff's Department\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Five jail employees have been put on paid administrative leave in connection with Pham’s death while the sheriff’s department conducts an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is also investigating Pham’s death, as it does with all in-custody deaths.\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>Both law enforcement agencies have released only scant details about the incident, citing the ongoing investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Guisti, a lawyer hired by Pham’s family, suspects Pham was killed by his reported cellmate, a man in custody on suspicion of murdering two homeless people. Pham, in contrast, was finishing up a three-month sentence for vehicle theft, which Guisti characterized as \"joyriding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the DA’s office nor the Sheriff’s Department would confirm the name of Pham’s cellmate or whether or not he was suspected of killing Pham. But Guisti said the cellmate was Marvin Magallanes. Both men were being housed at the county Intake and Release Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guisti has filed a complaint, a precursor to a lawsuit, with the county over Pham’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Lane Lagaret, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, said jail staff select housing for inmates based on a variety of factors and that it’s not unusual for inmates with disparate sentences to be placed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are murderers in the jail. That’s just the way it is,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Sida, a consultant who has assessed jail management for Orange and L.A. counties, says housing a potential serial killer with a nonviolent offender would raise questions. He also said the fact that five jail employees were put on leave indicates a potential violation of jail policy or even the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule of thumb in jails is that an individual should walk out of the jail in at least as good a shape as when they came in,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that any jail death exposes the local jurisdiction, in this case the county, to harsh scrutiny and expensive litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orange County’s Sheriff’s Department and DA’s office are already under the spotlight. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/timelines/oc-jail-escape/\">three inmates escaped\u003c/a> from the OC Men’s Central Jail in Santa Ana, cutting through several layers of metal, steel and rebar, crawling through plumbing tunnels and then rappelling off the roof to a getaway vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has acknowledged that staffing shortages and management flaws contributed to the escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchens also recently admitted that some deputies \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/05/73544/oc-sheriff-hutchens-acknowledges-informant-use-in/\">misused jailhouse informants\u003c/a> to secure convictions against inmates. State and federal officials are investigating the so-called jailhouse snitch scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/ocjails2017-aclu-socal-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a>, the ACLU slammed the Sheriff's Department for alleged mistreatment of jail inmates, including failure to prevent inmate-on-inmate violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, an inmate at OC’s Theo Lacy Jail was charged with murder for killing his cellmate, Thiep Truong Nguyen. In 2006, inmates at Theo Lacy beat fellow inmate John Chamberlain to death, leading to murder charges for six inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain’s death also prompted an investigation into OC jail operations by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. That investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11594999/inmates-death-is-latest-black-mark-for-orange-county-sheriffs-dept","authors":["byline_news_11594999"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2727","news_2069","news_18371","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_7055"],"featImg":"news_11595150","label":"source_news_11594999"},"news_11495342":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11495342","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11495342","score":null,"sort":[1496733305000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"emergency-response-to-inmate-firefighter-killed-in-northern-california-hampered-by-broken-radio","title":"Emergency Response to Inmate Firefighter Killed in Northern California Hampered by Weak Radio Signal","publishDate":1496733305,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The radio used by the supervisor of a crew of prison firefighters clearing brush in Humboldt County was unable to connect with emergency officials in the moments after a 3,000-pound tree fell on one of the inmates, killing him last month, according to a preliminary Cal Fire report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tree! Get out of the way!\" the unidentified Cal Fire captain yelled after hearing two loud pops. He looked up to see the 146-foot-long Douglas fir tip over toward his crew members who were clearing brush near the community of Orleans in the Six Rivers National Forest on the afternoon of May 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Beck, a 26-year-old prisoner serving time for burglary, could not hear the captain shouting over the noise of chainsaws, state fire and prison officials said. The 105-year-old tree struck him in the head, and he fell into a ditch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another inmate firefighter from the same unit, the Alder Conservation Camp in Del Norte County, was hit by the tree and knocked off balance but not injured, Cal Fire's \"green sheet\" said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire captain rushed toward the fallen tree. He told one of the inmate firefighters nearby to get the tree off Beck. That prisoner used a saw to cut off a section of tree so they could place him on a board and move him on to nearby Ishi-Pishi Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor could not contact the agency's Emergency Command Center (ECC) in Fortuna (Humboldt County) to start an emergency response on his Cal Fire hand-held radio. The device looks like a large walkie-talkie, but is supposed to reach much greater distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remote, mountainous location made it too difficult for the device to connect with a radio repeater and the supervisor could not communicate with staff members at the emergency center, according to Cal Fire spokeswoman Janet Upton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The topography made communication difficult,\" Upton said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495699\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 531px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11495699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2.png 531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-160x214.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-240x321.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-375x501.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-520x695.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the incident site from upslope. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The captain ran to a Cal Fire emergency vehicle to use its mobile radio, but it also had difficulty reaching emergency officials, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then drove close to a quarter-mile down the road until he was able to contact the command center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor returned and was told Beck no longer had a pulse. Paramedics arrived and determined he died less than an hour after the tree fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's preliminary report also found that the tree that fell on Beck was noticed by fire officials before the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hazard tree was identified prior to the road work being started and estimated to be outside the work area,\" the green sheet says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State workplace regulators have launched an investigation into Beck's death. But that probe will focus on the state's prison agency, not Cal Fire, according to Luke Brown, a spokesman for California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saddened by the death of Matthew Beck, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends,\" said Scott Kernan, the secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in a statement the day after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That release said that Beck died before life-flight crews were able to reach him due to the remoteness of the accident scene, but did not include information about any communications problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDCR spokesman referred requests for comment on the preliminary investigation to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck was serving a six-year sentence for burglary in Los Angeles County, according to prison officials. The agency says he was the fourth inmate firefighter to die on a fire line since the prison firefighting program began in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Shawna Lynn Jones was struck in the head by a falling boulder while helping work a fire in Malibu, becoming the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-female-inmate-firefighter-death-20160226-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first female inmate firefighter to die in state history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/07/25/california-leans-heavily-on-thousands-of-inmate-firefighters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relies heavily on prisoners\u003c/a> during wildfire season. It uses about 3,900 state inmates to battle wildfires and work other infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates in the program receive $2 an hour when battling fires, and some of them get time off their sentences. The state estimates the program saves as much as $90 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the supervisor's radio device was broken. Cal Fire officials say the device was not broken, but was unable to connect with emergency officials.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Cal Fire captain had to drive close to a quarter-mile to make radio contact with emergency officials. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1572647983,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":764},"headData":{"title":"Emergency Response to Inmate Firefighter Killed in Northern California Hampered by Weak Radio Signal | KQED","description":"A Cal Fire captain had to drive close to a quarter-mile to make radio contact with emergency officials. 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Get out of the way!\" the unidentified Cal Fire captain yelled after hearing two loud pops. He looked up to see the 146-foot-long Douglas fir tip over toward his crew members who were clearing brush near the community of Orleans in the Six Rivers National Forest on the afternoon of May 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Beck, a 26-year-old prisoner serving time for burglary, could not hear the captain shouting over the noise of chainsaws, state fire and prison officials said. The 105-year-old tree struck him in the head, and he fell into a ditch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another inmate firefighter from the same unit, the Alder Conservation Camp in Del Norte County, was hit by the tree and knocked off balance but not injured, Cal Fire's \"green sheet\" said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire captain rushed toward the fallen tree. He told one of the inmate firefighters nearby to get the tree off Beck. That prisoner used a saw to cut off a section of tree so they could place him on a board and move him on to nearby Ishi-Pishi Road.\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>But the supervisor could not contact the agency's Emergency Command Center (ECC) in Fortuna (Humboldt County) to start an emergency response on his Cal Fire hand-held radio. The device looks like a large walkie-talkie, but is supposed to reach much greater distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remote, mountainous location made it too difficult for the device to connect with a radio repeater and the supervisor could not communicate with staff members at the emergency center, according to Cal Fire spokeswoman Janet Upton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The topography made communication difficult,\" Upton said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495699\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 531px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11495699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2.png 531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-160x214.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-240x321.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-375x501.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/fallen-tree2-520x695.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the incident site from upslope. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The captain ran to a Cal Fire emergency vehicle to use its mobile radio, but it also had difficulty reaching emergency officials, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then drove close to a quarter-mile down the road until he was able to contact the command center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor returned and was told Beck no longer had a pulse. Paramedics arrived and determined he died less than an hour after the tree fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's preliminary report also found that the tree that fell on Beck was noticed by fire officials before the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hazard tree was identified prior to the road work being started and estimated to be outside the work area,\" the green sheet says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State workplace regulators have launched an investigation into Beck's death. But that probe will focus on the state's prison agency, not Cal Fire, according to Luke Brown, a spokesman for California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saddened by the death of Matthew Beck, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends,\" said Scott Kernan, the secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in a statement the day after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That release said that Beck died before life-flight crews were able to reach him due to the remoteness of the accident scene, but did not include information about any communications problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDCR spokesman referred requests for comment on the preliminary investigation to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck was serving a six-year sentence for burglary in Los Angeles County, according to prison officials. The agency says he was the fourth inmate firefighter to die on a fire line since the prison firefighting program began in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Shawna Lynn Jones was struck in the head by a falling boulder while helping work a fire in Malibu, becoming the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-female-inmate-firefighter-death-20160226-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first female inmate firefighter to die in state history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/07/25/california-leans-heavily-on-thousands-of-inmate-firefighters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relies heavily on prisoners\u003c/a> during wildfire season. It uses about 3,900 state inmates to battle wildfires and work other infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates in the program receive $2 an hour when battling fires, and some of them get time off their sentences. The state estimates the program saves as much as $90 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the supervisor's radio device was broken. Cal Fire officials say the device was not broken, but was unable to connect with emergency officials.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11495342/emergency-response-to-inmate-firefighter-killed-in-northern-california-hampered-by-broken-radio","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_6383","news_18512","news_21241","news_2727","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11495784","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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