| California State Prison | | | | frames for double bunks-and triple bunks-in |
| Prisoners cycle repeatedly back and forth | | | | addition to license plates. As a result of these |
| between prisons, where they do not receive | | | | focus groups, we developed a two week, 8 |
| sufficient treatment, and inpatient facilities, where | | | | session health promotion intervention for HIV+ |
| they are permitted to stay for only a short while. | | | | inmates preparing to be released from prison. |
| Prisoners have been warehoused and locked | | | | There have been 15 deaths at the prison this |
| down in overcrowded and brutal prisons - many | | | | year; nine in 1999 and 10 in 1998. If the prison is |
| due to the 3strikes law - for longer and longer | | | | filled to capacity, it will have about 500 full-time |
| time. Through the summer, groups of local, | | | | employees, most of them guards. Operation from |
| amateur baseball players gain access to the prison | | | | the grounds of San Quentin, the Prison Law |
| yard and play against the inmates in weekly | | | | Office is an aggressive advocacy group that |
| games. The California Department of Corrections | | | | assists inmates in unanswered appeals, and is |
| (CDC) operates 32 prisons and 40 fire and | | | | often involved in class action suits which are to |
| conservation camps comprising about 3,000 | | | | the benefit of everyone. Provision of inadequate |
| structures having 37 million gross square feet of | | | | health care creates needless pain and suffering |
| building space. There are six major prison gangs | | | | for the many prisoners who require such services. |
| that are recognized nationally for their participation | | | | State prisons vary between 1 percent under |
| in organized crime and violence. From 1975 to | | | | capacity and 14 percent over capacity, while the |
| 1985, members committed 40 homicides in | | | | federal prison system is 34 percent above |
| California prisons and local jails, as well as 13 | | | | capacity. But most experts agree that prisons |
| homicides in the community. The machine shop at | | | | have done little to make communities safer. |
| the prison, run by inmates, manufactures steel | | | | |