CA Police & Prison News, Volume 2, Issue 22: 1-7 July 2005

Crime News
Crime Liability Ruling Targets Businesses
Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2005

City wrestles to regain its grip on homicide: June's record death toll spurs push to revive successful '90s efforts (Richmond)
San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2005

Valley's meth vice now afflicts nation
Sacramento Bee, 6 July 2005

Sex-abuse bill clears a hurdle
Riverside Press-Enterprise, 6 July 2005


Police News
Richmond introduces enhanced police plan
Contra Costa Times, 1 July 2005

Grand jury targets jail, again (Calaveras County)
Sonora Union-Democrat, 6 July 2005


Youth Prison News
New youth prison chief named as prison reorganization begins
San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2005

Books Not Bars group pushes for alternatives to juvie
San Jose Mercury News, 5 July 2005

Commentary: If you want to keep kids out of youth gangs, give them identity (San Jose)
Athens (OH) News, 5 July 2005

New correctional program designed to make CYA more effective
Morgan Hill Times, 5 July 2005


Adult Jail/Prison News
U.S. to Seize State Prison Health System
Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2005

Prison health care fix carries big price
Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2005

A chore the state's happy to hand off: Federal monitor might have power to make real fixes
San Jose Mercury News, 4 July 2005

Editorial: Convicts confront their past
San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2005

Hard Time: California's Prisons in Crisis; High price of broken prisons; Tough sentencing creates overcrowding that endangers inmates, haunts taxpayers
San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2005

Editorial: Death in state prisons
San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2005

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore: Spend cash on schools, not on building prisons
Los Angeles Daily News, 1 July 2005

Sobriety Behind Bars (California Correctional Center)
North Bay Bohemian (Sonoma County), 29 June - 5 July 2005

Discrimination claimed: Transgender speaks out against treatment in local jail (Rancho Cucamonga)
San Bernardino Sun, 3 July 2005

Prison Law Office has been effective at improving conditions for state's inmates
San Diego Union Tribune, 5 July 2005

New Rule: Go to Jail, Pay to See a Nurse (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2005

Former prison guard acquitted in retrial (Pelican Bay)
San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2005


Reentry News
Editorial: The longest wait: A second chance for 'lifers'
San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2005

Freed convict seeks money for jail time
Monterey Herald, 1 July 2005

Editorial: The road to redemption
San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2005

Many Los Angeles County parolees fail to check in, report says
San Jose Mercury News (AP), 5 July 2005