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Scathing report on prison health care still not out
Agency suggests negligence in deaths at Corcoran facility
(SF Chronicle, 2/26/04)

CYA to remove most enclosures
(Stockton Record, 2/25/04)

Also of interest:

Multilingual Poll of California Ethnic Groups on Criminal Justice Issues

This first-ever comprehensive “ethnic” poll on criminal justice issues interviewed 1,854 California adult residents – 450 Latinos; 401 Asians from China, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Japan and India; 401 Middle Easterners from Armenia, Iran and several Arab nations; 200 African Americans; 200 American Indians; and 202 non-Latino whites – in 12 languages during May 2003.

The findings reveal that racial and ethnic groups have strong, at times near unanimous, opinions on crucial criminal justice issues that range from alternative sentencing to police misconduct. They command the attention of California legislators, who write the criminal justice laws; of prosecutors and judges, who enforce those laws; and of advocates who wish either to reform the system or to maintain its status quo.

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