California Police & Prison News, Volume 2, Issue 23: 8-14 July 2005

Crime News
Rural Crime Funds Restored in Budget (Central Vallley)
Morning Edition, KXJZ Capitol Public Radio broadcast, 8 July 2005

Drugs drive identity theft crimes: Fresno police say meth use involved in 70% of such cases
Fresno Bee, 10 July 2005

Editorial: Time for war on meth
Contra Costa Times, 13 July 2005

Rolling Relief for Meth's Innocent Young Victims
Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2005

Council votes for sideshow crackdown (Oakland)
San Francisco Chroncicle, 13 July 2005

The solution to crime in Bayview Hunters Point is education and employment
San Francisco Bay View, 13 July 2005

Years Have Done Little to Help Local Blacks: Serious inequities still exist in healthcare, justice and housing, a new report finds
Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2005


Police News
San Diego police officers are jumping ship: Pay cuts and low morale have fueled departures
San Diego Union Tribune, 10 July 2005


Youth Prison News
Shake-up in youth prison system
San Jose Mercury News, 9 July 2005

Safely home, for now: Court program reunites illegal immigrants who are juvenile offenders with families in Mexico (Orange County)
Orange County Register, 13 July 2005

Adult Jail/Prison News
San Quentin warden fired over health care
San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2005

San Quentin warden loses post amid prison troubles
San Jose Mercury News, 8 July 2005

Another black eye for San Quentin
Marin Independent Journal, 8 July 2005

Reforming California's Prisons: An Interview With Jackie Speier
Mother Jones Magazine, July/August 2005

Anita Creamer: A justice that lets victims heal
Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2005

New Prison To Focus on Rehabilitation (Delano II)
The California Report, KQED Radio broadcast, 8 July 2005

Lockups crowded with mentally ill:Psychiatric care touted as way to improve prisons
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 8 July 2005

Mental health funding offers hope (Alameda and Contra Costa County jails)
Contra Costa Times, 11 July 2005

Advocates seek to protect drug treatment law
Oakland Tribune, 12 July 2005

Jail program offers help to would-be gang dropouts (Sta. Clara County)
Contra Costa Times (Knight Ridder), 10 July 2005

New warden takes helm at Chino prison
Whittier Daily News, 14 July 2005

Judy Greenspan: Judge Henderson’s prison health care takeover most radical in US history
San Francisco Bay View, 14 July 2005


Reentry News
Program provides ex-cons clean starts
Oakland Tribune, 8 July 2005

Satellite system will track sex offenders in San Diego County
San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2005

Their eyes are on DUIs: Riverside County will be the first in the U.S. to use new monitoring devices
Riverside Press Enterprise, 11 July 2005

Homeboy Industries goes gang-busters (Los Angeles)
USA Today, 11 July 2005