PRISONS -- RELATED PUBLICATIONS AGING PRISONERS: A CALL FOR REFORM - DEMOGRAPHICS, COSTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS - A hearing held by the Senate Committee's on Aging & Long Term Care, California Correctional System, and Public Safety. These three committees in the state Senate are taking a look at the issue of geriatric prisoners and Corrections quite seriously. Our prison population is getting older and we in California are paying more to incarcerate these aging prisoner. This hearing gives a clearer view of what we might do with aging prisoners and possibly helps our state budget. (Stock # 1262-S; $7.00 - includes tax s/h) (2/03) REHABILITATING THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY - Informational hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on the California Correctional System to look at the failure of CYA. Today the Youth Authority finds itself once again in an unwanted spotlight of controversy. Unfortunately past scandals have been allowed to have been blown over with little or no reform. The time has come to seriously explore whether closing down CYA or drastically altering it to better meet its mission of rehabilitation. Reports have shown the CYA has failed in rehabilitating children because when leaving the wards they emerge harder, angrier, more mentally unstable or more criminally sophisticated, if they emerge at all. (Stock #1253-S; $6.20 - includes tax & s/h) (2/04 REFORMING CALIFORNIA'S PAROLE SYSTEM - Informational hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on the California Correctional System to examine the failure of the system, the threat to public safety and the burden to taxpayers. Our parole system is out of sync with the rest of the nation, in the number of people that we place on parole, the number of parolees we return to prison, and the rate at which our parolees fail the conditions of their parole. (Stock #1251-S; $5.12 - includes tax & s/h) (1/04) SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY 2003 LEGISLATIVE BILL SUMMARY MEASURES SIGNED AND VETOED - The staff of the Senate Committee on Public Safety has prepared this summary of bills sent to the Governor in 2003 pertaining to the Committee's subject matter jurisdiction. Most laws will take effect January 1, 2004. Each of the measures included in this summary in available from several resources: Legislative Bill Room, State Capitol, Room B-32, Sacramento, CA 95814 have copies of chaptered bills. Legislative Data Center maintains a website where bills and analyses are available: //www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html. (Stock #1232-S; $6.20 - includes tax s/h) (10/03) SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY 2002 BILL SUMMARY MEASURES SIGNED AND VETOED - The staff has prepared this summary of bills sent to Governor Davis in 2002 pertaining to the Committee's subject-matter jurisdiction. Measures vetoed by the Governor are included to note disparate views between the Legislature and Governor. (Stock #1192-S; $7.54 - includes tax s/h) (11/02) UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - While California is the birthplace of the computer chip and home of Silicon Valley, state government's use of information technology has not kept pace with that legacy. The CDC is such a case. The largest department in state government, it still struggles with a pair of outmoded and mismatched information technology systems installed two and three decades ago. In this report the Senate Advisory Control in State Government concludes that CDC needs significant funding to construct an information technology system capable of meeting today's needs. (Stock #1167-S; $4.04 - includes tax s/h) (8/02) CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS REVIEW OF INSTITUTIONS' BUDGET PROCESS: CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FACILITY, CORCORAN & CHUCKAWALLA VALLEY STATE PRISON - This is the second hearing by the Senate Budget Committee is to discuss how the Department of Corrections has been running significant deficits for the past several years. Attending this hearing were the three Wardens from these prisons. (Stock #1161- S; $3.77 - includes tax s/h) (4/02) PRISON FACILITY'S BUDGET PROCESS: CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY AT VACAVILLE, CORCORAN STATE PRISON, PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON & CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT SOLANO - This hearing by the Senate Budget Committee is to discuss how the Department of Corrections has been running significant deficits for the past several years. Attending this hearing were the four Wardens from these prisons, the Chief Medical Officer and the Associate Warden for Business Services. (Stock #1160-S; $3.50 - includes tax s/h) (4/02) CONTROLLING THE COSTS OF CALIFORNIA'S PRISON PHARMACY OPERATIONS - A report by the Senate Advisory Commission on Cost Control in State Government. This report discusses the skyrocketing costs of pharmaceutical drugs in California's prison pharmacies. Costs have increased from $197 per inmate to a projected $768 per inmate in the same time period. While the Commissioners are aware of California's current fiscal crisis, they recommend that this year's budget writers earmark funding for the purchase of commercially available pharmacy drug management software that can be interfaced with Corrections' existing technology system. (Stock #1156-S; $5.66 - includes tax s/h) (7/02) IMPROVING PUBLIC SAFETY BY PROVIDING QUALITY TREATMENT CENTER PROGRAMS FOR CRIMINAL OFFENDERS IN THEIR HOME COMMUNITIES (NIMBY, PRISON) - Informational hearing to discuss treatment centers for criminal offenders and the resistance that is often faced from communities who do not want these facilities in their neighborhoods. Four important policy issues are: What are the public safety benefits of providing quality treatment center programs for criminal offenders in communities? What resistance do these centers face from communities when trying to establish their program? What are the concerns from communities about these centers? What can be done to balance the need with those concerns? SB1537 addresses these issues. (Stock #1153-S; $4.58 - includes s/h) (4/02) PAYPHONES IN PRISON - The purpose of this hearing by the Joint Committee on Prison and Operations is to discuss the State payphone contract and it's impact on the families who have loved ones incarcerated. Constituents, inmates and juvenile wards have told their Legislative representatives that their phone bills are much too high. The current system for inmate phone calls requires them to make all calls collect. These phone calls home are a key part of maintaining family ties. As a result, the state is making a profit off the backs of inmate families. These and other issues are discussed in this hearing. (Stock #1150-S; $3.50 - includes tax s/h)(2/02) CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR'S REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - The Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations held a hearing on January 17, 2002 along with the Senate & Assembly Budget Subcommittees. They discussed the Department of Corrections fiscal practices and internal controls. (Stock #1134-S; $3.77 - includes tax s/h) (1/02) FOREIGN PRISONERS TRANSFER PROGRAM - Informational hearing by the Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction & Operations and the Senate Public Safety Committee. Testimony given relating to the treaties which govern the transfer of foreign prisoners, the way in which California implements those treaties, and compare the way we implement to other states and hear from the federal government who is part of the panel presentations. Also at the hearing are several consulates, Department of Justice from Washington D.C. and Board of Prison Terms. (Stock #1101-S; $3.50 - includes tax s/h) (6/01) RECENT SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF WOMEN INMATES –This is an informational hearing held on January 17, 2001 by the Joint Committee on Prison Construction and Operations. The purpose of this hearing is to discover what happened to these women, why did they die and what were the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Second, to discuss the systematic barriers there are to providing appropriate legal and medical or prohibiting the legal and medically appropriate care to inmates and what possible remedies there are. (Stock #1086-S; $4.58 – includes tax s/h) (1/01) CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION (PRISON) FOR WOMEN: OCTOBER 12, 2000 CHINO, CALIFORNIA – This was the second of two days of hearings held by the Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations. The subject matter discussed was “Battered Women’s Syndrome”, “Medical Care”, “Sexual Misconduct and Harassment” and “Policy, Appeals, and Internal Affairs”. (Stock #1072-S; $6.47 – includes tax, s/h) (10/00) VALLEY STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN: OCTOBER 11, 2000 CHOWCHILLA, CALIFORNIA – This was the first of two days of hearings. This hearing addresses the issues that are unique to women, as inmates. They include children, contagious infectious diseases, mental health and pregnancy. Women comprise less than 10 percent of the population in our prisons in California, and are subject to the same rules and regulations that are developed primarily pertaining to male inmates. They discuss these rules and how women inmates are the forgotten minority within the correction system. (Stock #1071-S; $7.00 – includes tax, s/h) (10/00 SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY 2000 BILL SUMMARY – For your information and use, the staff of the Senate Committee on Public Safety has prepared this summary of bills pertaining to Public Safety’s jurisdiction passes by the Legislature and signed into law or vetoed by the Governor in 2000. Most of those bills signed into law will go into effect January 1, 2001. (Stock #1059-S; $5.39 – includes tax, s/h) (11/0) JOINT OVERSIGHT HEARING OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC SAFETY REGARDING THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF THE YOUTH AUTHORITY – In response to the recent public disclosures concerning the operations of the CYA, on May 16, 2000, the committees held this hearing. During more than three hours of testimony, the committees heard from eleven witnesses on a variety of issues ranging from resource and staffing cuts to ward programming and abuse concerns. The committees concluded with testimony from Robert Presley, Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency and Jerry Harper, the newly appointed Director of the Youth Authority. (Stock #1043-S; $4.85 – includes tax s/h) (5/00) VIOLENCE IN CALIFORNIA’S PRISONS: A PROPOSAL FOR RESEARCH INTO PATTERNS AND CURES – This report calls for independent research and reporting on the extent and nature of violence in California prisons and the Youth Authority. The authorities have a duty to disclose, and the public has a right to know, whether we are seeing the rise of “violence as punishment.” Knowledge of what happens invisibly behind prison walls is a precondition for the public and responsible leaders to decide how to lessen it. Introduction by Senator Tom Hayden. Report by Dr. James Gilligan, Harvard Medical School. (Stock #1026-S; $3.23 – includes tax s/h) (3/00) CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS’ ZERO TOLERANCE FOR DRUGS – On August 23, 1999 the Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations held an informational hearing. They discuss the following issues: Drug interdiction program, Drug reduction strategy, Maintaining family contact, Secure 1000 informational brochure, Pennsylvania Prisons success in attacking inmate drug abuse, New Jersey to implement roving drug intervention, and Senate Bill 2016. (Stock #998-S; $7.27 – includes tax s/h) (8/99) PAROLE, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND PROPORTIONALITY – Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction & Operations held on April 29, 1999. This is an informational hearing on the public policy considerations involved in finding a life-term inmate suitable for parole. (Stock #992-S; $6.47 – includes tax, s/h) (4/99) CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON, CORCORAN: DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS’ AND THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S EFFORTS TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENTS OF STAFF BRUTALITY OF INMATES -- A total of 6 hearings held by the Senate Select Committee on Prison Management, Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction & Operation and Senate Public Safety Committee. Volume 1 -- July 28, 1998 (Stock #961-S; $ 9.43) Volume 2 -- July 29, 1998 (Stock #962-S; $13.47) Volume 3 -- July 30, 1998 (Stock #963-S; $ 9.43) Volume 4 –- August 3, 1998 (Stock #964-S; $ 9.16) Volume 5 -- August 18, 1998 (Stock #965-S; $ 9.97) Volume 6 -- October 21, 1998 (Stock #966-S; $ 6.47) For the complete 6 volume set $51.45 –- includes tax, s/h OVERSIGHT HEARING: PRISON INDUSTRY AUTHORITY REFORM -- A background paper by the Senate Criminal Procedure Subcommittee on Prison Construction and Operations which includes: Background; Statutory Mission; Prison Industry Authority; Policy Questions; Competitive Advantages/Disadvantages of Prison Industry Authority; Management Issues; Recommendations for Reform. (stock #860-S; $2.96 -- includes tax, s/h) (5/96)