CA Police & Prison News [Volume 2, Issue 25], 22-28 July 2005

Community Safety News
Anti-gang report card: District attorney reports drop in membership, number of groups (Orange County)
Orange County Register, 22 July 2005

Hate crime reports at 10-year low
San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2005

Identity thieves are often addicts trying to fund habit
Contra Costa Times, 24 July 2005

Compton Stung by Steep Rise in Killings
Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2005

Murders decrease from record 2004 (San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner, 27 July 2005

Dellums Commission Begins Work on Public Policy Reform to Expand Life Paths of Young Men of Color
US Newswire, 25 July 2005

Wide-Ranging Study Aims to Boost Prospects for Minority Men
The Washington Post, 27 July 2005

L.A. County's Desperate Have a New Option: An information and referral service that began this month is a simpler way for people to connect with various social services
Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2005


Law Enforcement News
Taser Claim: Teen's family says force unnecessary, excessive
The Monterey Herald, 26 July 2005

Batterers slipping through cracks; Domestic violence laws badly enforced, state panel finds
San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 2005


Youth Detention & Prison News
Yolo's New Juvie Hall
The Woodland Daily Democrat, 25 July 2005


Sentencing News
LaMalfa bill signed into law
Chico Enterprise-Record, 22 July 2005


Adult Jail & Prison News
California inmate sues over finger in veggie meal
Reuters News Service, 22 July 2005

Daniel W. Van Ness: Restorative Justice in Prisons
Restorative Justice Online, July 2005 Edition

County pays the price for jail closure
Alameda Times-Star, 26 July 2005

Family alleges prison system 'indifference' led to guard's death
San Diego Union Tribune, 26 July 2005

Stats reflect the redemptive power of faith-based prison reform
Knoxville News Sentinel, 22 July 2005

4,506 People Died While Under the Custody of Law Enforcement Between 1994 and 2003
CA Department of Justice, Criminial Justice Statistics Center, 27 July 2005
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Reentry News
Sex offenders struggle to rejoin society
San Bernardino Sun, 22 July 2005

Parole board assailed over inmate hearings
San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2005

House Education and Workforce Committee Rejects Amendment to Fully Repeal the Ban on Federal Student Aid for People with Drug Convictions
Washington Weekly Roundup, 22 July 2005
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Movement to Expunge Criminal Records Arises in Black America
Newhouse News Service, 26 July 2005

Bill would break barrier to education aid;Drug offenses may no longer block eligibility
The Palm Springs Desert Sun, 26 July 2005

California Police & Prison News, Volume 2, Issue 24: 15-21 July 2005

This week's feature article
Paul Street: Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics
Z Magazine Special Report, Vol. 18, No. 7/8, July-August 2005


Community Safety News
Ganging Up on Communities: Putting Gang Crime in Context
Justice Policy Institute, 15 July 2005
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Taking Their Streets Back (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2005

Trigger Lock law helps cut gang-related killings in half (San Francisco)
San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2005

Sideshow laws now in effect (Oakland)
Sacramento Bee (AP), 20 July 2005


Police News
Weekend death revives Taser dispute: Critics say police overuse stun guns, which may be more lethal than advertised (Santa Rosa)
San Franisco Chronicle, 19 July 2005


Sentencing News
Just Cause or Just Because: Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona
RAND Drug Policy Research Center, July 2005
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Adult Jail & Prison News
Conditions cited in guards' stabbing
Monterey Herald, 15 July 2005

Geo may continue California contract (McFarland CCF)
South Florida Business Journal, 19 July 2005

California to fund prison research center at UC Irvine
I-Newswire.com Press Release Center, 19 July 2005

Inmates invest in Salinas libraries' future (San Quentin)
San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2005

Drug courts saving millions in prison costs, report says
Sacramento Bee (AP), 20 July 2005

Mattier & Ross: Inmate on Death Row suspected of taking lethal injection of heroin (San Quentin)
San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2005

Prison land could be up for grabs
Inland Daily Bulletin, 21 July 2005


Reentry News
State hospital for sexual predators set to open in fall
San Jose Mercury News (AP), 16 July 2005

From Prison to a Paradise for ATMs
Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2005

Editorial: Cutting College Aid, and Fostering Crime
New York Times, 20 July 2005

Parole process improving, inspector general says
San Jose Mercury News (AP), 21 July 2005

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

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