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Book Synopsis A Germ of Goodness by : Shelley Bookspan
Download or read book A Germ of Goodness written by Shelley Bookspan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four prisons into one adult penal system, the prisons at San Quentin and Folsom were the only places of incarceration for the state's felons. Bookspan traces the development of a system emphasizing deterrence and retribution to one receptive to reform and rehabilitation. ø "This is the story," writes Bookspan, "of the penury and personality struggle through which California developed a prison system to assess, and to address, individual needs while retaining its custodial institutions. It is a story of the West, even though eastern penology, with all of its overtones of moral duty, provided the language for prison reform. In a state where chaos preceded the assertion of normative rule, fear, not hope, formed the governing principle of penology. It is a story of America because true reform on an expanded sense of individual potential."
Book Synopsis The California Prison and Parole Law Handbook by : Heather MacKay
Download or read book The California Prison and Parole Law Handbook written by Heather MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Violence in California Prisons by : James Gilligan
Download or read book Violence in California Prisons written by James Gilligan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inside the Broken California Prison System by : Boston Woodard
Download or read book Inside the Broken California Prison System written by Boston Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Broken California Prison System by veteran jailhouse journalist Boston Woodard provides an insider 's view of California's dysfunctional prison industrial complex in crisis. On May 23, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that due to massive overcrowding, California is in violation of the Eighth Amendment, which constitutionally prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Because its 33 prisons are at nearly 200 percent capacity, the state has been ordered to release or find new accommodations for more than 30,000 prisoners within two years. With the harshest sentencing laws, toughest parole policy, and highest recidivism rate in the nation, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is a failure on all counts except for those who profit from the $10 billion spent annually to maintain it. Woodard describes how it came to this, as well as the day-to-day reality of the impact on prisoners in a corrupt system effectively accountable to no one.Inside the Broken California Prison System is a collection of more than 40 articles originally published over a period of six years in the Community Alliance, a small monthly newspaper in Fresno, California. They detail subjects such as restricted media access to prisoners, the brutal impact of overcrowding, medical and mental health treatment failures, rogue prison staff, religious and racial discrimination, an omnipotent prison guard union, and shipping prisoners out of state to private prisons. At the same time he offers real solutions to the overcrowding problem that would not endanger public safety.Woodard is a writer, musician, literacy tutor, event organizer, and prisoners rights advocate who has been writing about what goes on inside the California prison system for almost two decades in both free world and prison publications. His articles have embarrassed and angered prison officials used to operating without public oversight, and he 's paid a price for exercising his First Amendment right to define his surroundings. He 's been put in the Hole, had his mail tampered with, lost his typewriter, subjected to verbal threats, had his personal property stolen or destroyed, and been illegally and adversely transferred from prison to prison. Still he refuses to be intimidated. My writing is not about prison rights, he says. It 's about the public 's right to know about the good and bad within these prison walls and how their money is being spent. It 's also about the positive efforts of men and women given up for lost by society. I just want the guards and prison officials to do what is demanded of me and every other prisoner in the system, and that is to obey the law and follow the regulations.
Book Synopsis Golden Gulag by : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Download or read book Golden Gulag written by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.
Book Synopsis Prison Truth by : William J. Drummond
Download or read book Prison Truth written by William J. Drummond and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement by : Eric Cummins
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement written by Eric Cummins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. The book begins with the Caryl Chessman years (1948-60) and closes with the trial of the San Quentin Six (1975-76) and the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977). This was an extraordinary era in the California prisons, one that saw the emergence of a highly developed radical convict resistance movement inside prison walls. This inmate groundswell was fueled at times by remarkable individual prisoners, at other times by groups like the Black Muslims or the San Quentin chapter of the Black Panther Party. But most often resistance grew from much wider sources and in quiet corners: from dozens of political study groups throughout the prison; from an underground San Quentin newspaper; and from covert attempts to organize a prisoners' union. The book traces the rise and fall of the prisoners' movement, ending with the inevitably bloody confrontation between prisoners and the state and the subsequent prison administration crackdown. The author examines the efforts of prison staff to augment other methods of inmate management by attempting to modify convict ideology by means of "bibliotherapy" and communication control, and describes convict resistance to these attempts as control. He also discusses how Bay Area political activists became intensely involved in San Quentin and how such writings as Chessman's Cell 2455, Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Jackson's Soledad Brother reached far beyond prison walls to influence opinion, events, and policy.
Book Synopsis California Department of Corrections by : California. Bureau of State Audits
Download or read book California Department of Corrections written by California. Bureau of State Audits and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toughest Beat written by Joshua Page and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toughest Beat uses the rise of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the state's powerful prison officers' union, to explore the actors and interests that have created, shaped, and protected the Golden State's sprawling, dysfunctional penal system -- and how it might yet be transformed.
Book Synopsis California Department of Corrections by : California. Bureau of State Audits
Download or read book California Department of Corrections written by California. Bureau of State Audits and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study in County Jails in California by : California. State Board of Charities and Corrections
Download or read book A Study in County Jails in California written by California. State Board of Charities and Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Challenges in Corrections by : California. Department of Corrections
Download or read book Challenges in Corrections written by California. Department of Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Department of Corrections by : California. Department of Corrections
Download or read book California Department of Corrections written by California. Department of Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greenlight by : Tony “Bandit” Alvarado
Download or read book Greenlight written by Tony “Bandit” Alvarado and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenlight: California Prisons By: Tony “Bandit” Alvarado Greenlight: California Prisons is based on crimes, murders, and ordered hits by mobsters in the 1990s. Tony "Bandit" Alvarado became a full-fledged "Lowco" of the Lowell Street Gang in 1990 by putting in work, pushing weight, early initiation, being a regulator and an enforcer, showing loyalty within his crew, and using criminal behavior toward his enemies to gain respect. This story is based on those events.
Book Synopsis Report by : California State Board of Prison Directors
Download or read book Report written by California State Board of Prison Directors and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Detective's Guide by : The Detective's The Detective's Guide
Download or read book The Detective's Guide written by The Detective's The Detective's Guide and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminals lie. Do you understand what a California inmate, ex-convict, or parolee is really saying? California's inmates and parolees speak a unique language involving points, facilities, security threat groups/prison gangs, and debriefing. Understanding this language is a critical component of every interview, interrogation, field contact, and correctional classification. The Detective's Guide: California Prisons, Prison Gangs, and Parolees is an essential tool for every patrol officer, gang investigator, classification officer, and detective who needs to understand and decipher correctional history. This book fully explains: Inmates-The classification process, custody designation, rules violations, and how to decipher an inmate's points. Facilities-What does it mean to be assigned to a Security Housing Unit (SHU), Administrative Segregation (AD SEG), or a Level IV yard? A complete guide to every CDCR facility including: Avenal State Prison, California Correctional Center-Susanville, California Correctional Institution-Tehachapi, California Health Care Facility, California Institution for Men-Chino, California Institution for Women, California Men's Colony, California Medical Facility, California Rehabilitation Center-Norco, California State Prison-Corcoran, California State Prison-LA, California State Prison-Solano, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Calipatria State Prison, Centinela State Prison, Central California Women's Facility, Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Correctional Training Facility-Soledad, Deuel Vocational Institution, High Desert State Prison, Ironwood State Prison, Kern Valley State Prison, Mule Creek State Prison, North Kern State Prison, Pelican Bay State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison, San Quentin State Prison, Sierra Conservation Center, Valley State Prison, and Wasco State Prison. Also included are out of state facilities, Division of Juvenile Justice Facilities, Community Correctional Facilities, and state mental hospitals for the criminally insane. Security Threat Groups/Prison Gangs-The history, allies, enemies, markings and tattoos of: the Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family, Mexican Mafia, Nazi Low Riders, Northern Structure/Nuestra Raza, Nuestra Familia, and the Texas Syndicate. Security Threat Group II's, Gangs, and Disruptive Groups-The difference between a prison gang and a disruptive group, the history, allies, enemies, markings, and tattoos of: 2-5's, drop out/Sensitive Needs Yards (SNY) groups, Kumi African Nation (KANO), Northern Hispanics, Northern Riders, Public Enemy Number One (PENI), Southern Hispanics, and Radical/Terrorist Groups. Records and Resouces-What information does CDCR have that can help in a criminal investigation? The Central File/Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS), inmate monitoring and recording system, Parole LEADS, the Investigative Service Unit, the Institutional Gang Investigator/Security Threat Group Investigator, the Fugitive Apprehension Team, the California Parolee Apprehension Team, the Special Service Unit, the Electronic Monitoring Unit, the ID Warrants Unit, the California Gang Intelligence Initiative, and the California Gang Task Force. Parole-Parole requirements and conditions, parole violations, compliance operations, compliance check considerations and planning, parolee contact questionnaire, and debriefing topics. Slang-A dictionary of nearly 700 prison slang terms and their definitions. Don't do another field contact, interview, or classification with a California inmate, ex-convict, or parolee without first reading The Detective's Guide: California Prisons, Prison Gangs, and Parolees.
Download or read book Incarcerated written by Sandow Birk and published by Last Gasp of San Francisco. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Sandow Birk has created a new series of paintings and prints of California's 33 State Penitentiaries and 2 Federal Prisons. Birk made a pilgrimage to these correctional facilities to document them and render them in the style of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierdstadt and other significant 19th century artists.
