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(One Hour Show) Sentator Jim Webb Five inmates, four correctional officers and a judge were given tape recorders. For six months, the diarists kept audio journals and recorded the sounds and scenes of everyday life behind bars: shakedowns, new inmate arrivals, roll call, monthly family visits, meals at the chow hall, and quiet moments late at night inside a cell.
The program features phone calls from mothers and children, brothers and grandparents, sharing the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones. Bill Moyers
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June 2009 Newsletter Voices.con PREVIEW or DOWNLOAD A historical look at some successful landmark parole cases can provide a better understanding of your due process protections, relationships explored, handling a bad parole hearing, and taking responsibility for representing yourself before the board. We now have the newsletter in LEGAL SIZE pages Legal Size lets you fold each page in half like the original newsletter
Proposition 9 Litigation Sheet These cases should be considered must read material for those who are considering any ex post facto related litigation of California's 2008 Proposition 9 A Message From William L. Schmidt Law Offices
California Lifer Parole Hearing Representation California to free 55,000 prisonersFederal judges t week that California's 33 adult jails have become so overcrowded that they violate the constitutional rights of inmates, subjecting them to "cruel and unusual" punishment that is causing at least one death a month. Just over a third of the state's 158,000 prisoners must be set free by 2012 to ensure that basic healthcare is provided to those who remain behind, the judges said. The majority will go through early release and parole schemes. Jail House Lawyer Paroles After 23 Years 1 in 31 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, on Parole or ProbationWashington, DC - 03/02/2009 - Explosive growth in the number of people on probation or parole has propelled the population of the American corrections system to more than 7.3 million, or 1 in every 31 U.S. adults, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on the States.Related: Study finds disparity in corrections spending Impact of Proposition 9 - San Quentin News 1-29-09
Appeals court weighs state's pattern of denying paroleSchwarzenegger's plan reduce the prison population by 10% in a yearCalifornia's Prisoners Tell How They See the SystemCourt Overrules Governor, Supports A Parole, Decision Could Aid Bids For Freedom In Over 1000 Cases State must invest in prison health-care facilities Cornell Companies: Cashing in on crimeCalifornia's Growing Prison Crisis Prison and Parole (Little Hoover Findings) Increase in inmates opens door to private prisons "The Writ of Habeas
Corpus - The Right To Challenge Detention" Prison Stock Profits Prison stocks also are valued on a “per bed” basis — which is based on the number of beds provided and the profit per bed. “Per bed” is really a euphemism for people who are sentenced to be housed in their prison. For example, in 1996, when Cornell went public, based on the financial information provided in the offering document provided to investors, its stock was valued at $24,241 per bed. This means that for every contract Cornell got to house one prisoner, at that time, their stock went up in value by an average of $24,261. According to prevailing business school philosophy, this is the stock market’s current present value of the future flow of profit flows generated through the management of each prisoner. This, for example, is why longer mandatory sentences are worth so much to private prison stocks. A prisoner in jail for twenty years has a twenty-year cash flow associated with his incarceration, as opposed to one with a shorter sentence or one eligible for an early parole. This means that we have created a significant number of private interests — investment firms, banks, attorneys, auditors, architects, construction firms, real estate developers, bankers, academics, investors among them— who have a vested interest in increasing the prison population and keeping people behind bars as long as possible. MORE California inmates receive wages between 30 cents to 95 cents per hour, before deductions. California Prison Industry Authority It can be hard for inmates
to keep up family relationships, but many experts say it's important that
they do. Today, we continue our prison series with a look at the
challenges families and the prison system face. Experts weigh in and
you'll hear first-hand accounts from those impacted personally.
Elderly Sentence Adjustment Pilot Program: House Bill 5154 PAGE1 PAGE2 Rights In Question Congress in 1867 enacted a habeas corpus statute that authorized the writ whenever any person is restrained or deprived of liberty in violation of any federal right, that is, any right guaranteed by the Constitution, acts of Congress, or treaties. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been construed to secure the right to a fair hearing, thus providing a very broad ground for granting the writ. A state prisoner is not eligible to apply to a federal judge for habeas corpus until first exhausting all remedies available under state law. Similarly, a member of the armed forces may not sue for the writ in a federal court until the remedies provided for in the military court system have been exhausted (see Exhaustion of Remedies). A Message From California Lifer Newsletter
The secure housing, minimal support, minimal medical care and feeding of 2.2 million people is a costly endeavor consuming billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer's money every year in America. Corporations are lined up to receive a portion of the public funds used to support the self-perpetuating incarceration industry. States such as California spend more public funds, tax dollars, your money, my money, on prisons than for education and schools. California's Broken Parole System In California, parole violations are determined and assigned exclusively by correctional officers - in essence, prison guards. If a parolee's parole officer says "you've violated parole," the parolee is arrested and taken to the county jail. There's no warrant, no proof - nothing but the parole officer's word. He then sits in jail for 1-2 months before being transferred to a state prison, where he sits for another 30-90 days before a "violation committee" reads the parole officer's report and hears the inmate's response in person.
Ruling Complicates California Problems
NPR February 21, 2007 · The entire men's state prison at Chino, Calif. is operating at twice its capacity. Day rooms and gyms are crammed with bunks. Conditions are similar at many California prisons. Photos CIM(Gym) CMF(hallway) More But a judge in Sacramento has ruled against a plan to relieve overcrowding by sending prisoners to facilities in other states. The ruling raised the possibility that prisoners may be released early to ease overcrowding. Mon, Jul 24, 2006 -- 9:00 AM
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More Than 2.24 Million Incarcerated as of June 30, 2006 Judges consider prison population cap Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency Proclamation NPR February 21, 2007 · The entire men's state prison at Chino, Calif. is operating at twice its capacity. Day rooms and gyms are crammed with bunks. Conditions are similar at many California prisons. Photos CIM(Gym) CMF(hallway) More But a judge in Sacramento has ruled against a plan to relieve overcrowding by sending prisoners to facilities in other states. The ruling raised the possibility that prisoners may be released early to ease overcrowding.
Phone Companies Rip Off Inmate Families
During the first hour of the program, Ray and the gang, and occasionally a special guest, discuss related current issues and review the weeks mailbag. In the second hour, we receive calls from the listeners that make the show so special, as they connect to talk to their family members, friends and loved ones within the Texas prisons, and somehow form together to become one large family through their common experience. Texas does not permit inmates to have access to telephones or the web. So for many, The Prison Show is the only way an inmate can hear the voice of his friends and relatives between the rare visits. |
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