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	Legacy
		The stated purpose of the SHU was to safely isolate troublemakers and gang members from the prisoners who follow the rules and want to do their time in an orderly fashion.
		Some prison staff even sadistically toy with prisoners using their fears and delusions against them, as when guards tamper with an inmate’s tray of food or assert they are controlling the volume of the voices a prisoner hears.
		Also prisoners who were injured by the guns should get compensation for their injuries and all of those who were subjected to the "gladiator fights" or beaten by guards on entry to Corcoran or assaulted during their stay deserve compensation.
	www.prisons.org /Legacy.htm (1909 words)

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		The prisoners were led inside and beaten further, then forced to lie flat while guards yanked back their heads and cut off their braided hair.
		State Senator Richard Polanco, D-Los Angeles, continues to demand that the department stop inflating prison overcrowding with statistics that assume two inmates should not occupy one cell.
		Dogged by threats to himself and his family, Caruso left Corcoran in July 1995 for Solano State Prison, where a supervisor accused him of being "the rat that brought down Corcoran." Caruso's complaints about the harassment were ignored, and he was forced to take a leave from Solano in March.
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~jthomas/class/Prisons/corcoran (2755 words)

	San Quentin State Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Quentin State Prison is located on 432 acres (1.7 kmÂ²) on Point Quentin in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco.
		San Quentin State Prison was opened in July 1852, and is the oldest prison in California.
		The state's male death row is located at San Quentin, as well as its only gas chamber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison (388 words)

	California State Prison, Corcoran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		California State Prison, Corcoran is a state penitentiary in Corcoran, Kings County, California.
		The prison's best known inmates are Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and Juan Vellejo Corona who murdered twenty-five people in 1971.
		In March 1997, the CBS News newsmagazine 60 Minutes broke the story of a scandal at Corcoran where the guards were playing " gladiator " with the prisoners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_State_Prison,_Corcoran (253 words)

	Abuse in the California prison system
		Corcoran is probably the most brutal of all of California's prisons, a state that leads the nation in the rush to incarcerate ever greater numbers of people in increasingly harsh conditions.
		The key role that the prison system increasingly plays in US social policy, particularly in the state of California, can be judged from a report by the Justice Policy Institute, from October 1996, which stated: "From 1984 to 1994, California built 21 prisons, and only one state university...
		Other witnesses have charged that new arrivals at the prison were routinely forced to run a gauntlet of prison guards, who savagely beat, kicked and clubbed the new inmates as an initiation into the prison.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/cali-m29.shtml (856 words)

	Los Angeles Times State & Local
		Corcoran was opening amid a decade-long construction boom that saw California add 16 prisons to accommodate a rise in street gangs and tougher sentencing laws.
		Corcoran would be the focus of a pair of investigations by the Corrections Department and the attorney general.
		State agents expressed the same lament as the corrections team: Nearly all of the officers contacted declined to talk on the advice of the union.
	ljr.net /latimes/corcoran/index.html (7409 words)

	Corcoran prison abuses alleged
		In a related case, Kings County prosecutors are continuing to investigate a Feb. 1 incident at Corcoran State Prison in which a 58-year-old inmate on dialysis was allowed to bleed to death in his cell during the Super Bowl.
		A guard at Corcoran State Prison was arrested on suspicion of conspiring with an inmate to use drugs to pay someone outside the prison to kill her husband.
		Corcoran State Prison has been troubled in recent years with a number of incidents that have prompted calls for reform at prisons statewide from lawmakers and activists.
	www.geocities.com /three_strikes_legal/corcoran_abuses.htm (1861 words)

	CNN.com - US - California guards accused of creating prisoner fight club - May 26, 2000
		Prison guards carry convicted rapist Preston Tate from the exercise yard after he was shot in the head and killed during a 1994 prison fight
		The guards, all from Corcoran State Prison, are accused of conspiring to violate prisoners' civil rights by failing to protect them from brawls with other prisoners -- brawls that one former guard said were orchestrated by the guards.
		Tate was one of 31 inmates killed or wounded by prison guards at Corcoran between 1989 and 1994.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/05/26/corcoran.prison (680 words)

	Corcoran
		California State Prison, Corcoran California State Prison, Corcoran is a California.
		Corcoran, California Corcoran is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 14,458.
		Corcoran, Minnesota Corcoran is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,630.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/corcoran.html (85 words)

	Drug Abuse Treatment at Corcoran prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It also applies to our federal and state prison systems that ignore rehabilitation, forcing Americans to live with a 75-percent recidivism rate -- all because we refuse to accept that substance abuse is the root cause of most crime, and one that can be treated.
		Also, while inmates who received in-prison treatment but refused aftercare showed moderate improvement in years one and two, by the third year their rates of recidivism were the same as those with no treatment.
		Since prison inmates only serve an average of three to five years, and an estimated 80 percent have drug and alcohol problems, treatment should be available everywhere in the corrections system -- for the sake of law-abiding citizens who suffer at the hands of and pay billions in taxes for untreated criminal addicts.
	www.csam-asam.org /drug_abuse_treatment_at_co.htm (3062 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Prisons
		Prisons remained overcrowded in 2000: twenty-two states and the federal prison system operated at 100 percent or more of their highest capacity.
		Overcrowding contributed to the growth of private prisons: according to the Department of Justice privately-operated facilities held 5.5 percent of all state prisoners and 2.5 percent of federal prisoners.
		Inmates at Wisconsin's new super-max prison filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the conditions to which they were subjected, including round-the-clock confinement in isolation, constant fluorescent lighting in their cells, twenty-four hour video monitoring that permitted female staff to watch prisoners shower and urinate, and inadequate recreation.
	www.hrw.org /prisons/united_states.html (2727 words)

	Corruption in California's state prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The prison administration on a high security yard let rival gang members with administrative created tension into dayrooms and recorded with cameras the use of a new experimental rubber shot (for 35mm guns) on these inmates and repeated this experiment a few days later.
		Staff assaults on inmates at this prison are usually covered up by charging the involved inmate with battery on staff and placement of that inmate in administrative segregation.
		The prison administration very often will place segments of non-involved inmate population on long lock-downs as a punitive reprisal against that inmate group, even when there are no safety concerns in that prison yard.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/agitation/prisons/campaigns/ca/cacorruption.html (395 words)

	Corcoran - Amnesty Action on Rape Case
		USA: Investigation into rape of California prisoner should have been followed through Amnesty International is writing to the California authorities to express its concern at reports that a 1997 investigation into the rape of a male prisoner by a fellow male prisoner was abandoned because of lack of cooperation by prison officers.
		On 8 October 1998 five California prison officers were indicted by a grand jury on conspiracy and other charges stemming from the 1993 rape of a prisoner at Corcoran State Prison, California by a fellow prisoner.
		Four Corcoran guards are scheduled to go on trial Monday in Kings County Superior Court in Hanford on a multicount indictment charging them with conspiring with Robertson to commit the sexual attack by putting Dillard in the cell to punish him for kicking a female correctional officer.
	www.1union1.com /corcoran.html (3962 words)

	AIDS in Prison - TPAN
		Prisoners are usually put in administrative segregation for disciplinary reasons such as fighting or failing to obey an order.
		Although prisons may have written policies that prohibit this type of conduct, current practices by prison staff are often the opposite.
		A review of state prisons between 1991 and 1995 found the number of male prisoners infected with HIV increased 28%, while the number of female prisoners increased 88%.
	www.tpan.com /publications/positively_aware/may_june_99/AIDSinPrisonMJ99.html (2073 words)

	60II Classic: A Brutal Prison - CBS News
		Corcoran State Prison was being investigated by the FBI because numerous corrections officers -- prison guards -- were accused of staging inmate fights, sometimes wagering on the outcome and then, when those fights got out of control, of shooting the inmates involved.
		California's Department of Corrections is the only major prison system in the country where the guards are armed inside all the prison housing areas, and for years its regulations called for an integrated exercise yard policy.
		He was in prison for rape, and in the SHU for allegedly attacking a guard.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/04/06/60II/main41867.shtml (1249 words)

	#086: 02-26-98 - EIGHT OFFICERS INDICTED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AT CORCORAN STATE PRISON IN CALIFORNIA
		Inmates being disciplined for prison conduct violations are held in the SHU.
		The indictment also states that on April 2, 1994, four defendants (Martin, Vaughn, Bethea, and Arvizu) placed two African-American inmates into the yard with members of the Southern Mexican faction, even though guards were aware that there were "problems" likely to occur between inmates.
		The case was investigated by the Fresno Resident Agency of the FBI and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Fresno and the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/1998/February/086.htm.html (842 words)

	OUT-OF-CONTROL POLICE STATE
		Corcoran's response to the violence was to declare a "state of emergency" in late 1989.
		State agents focused on a single case of alleged brutality and cover-up - a June 1995 incident known as "Ninja Day." The head of the attorney general's criminal division said he made the call to limit the probe and that Lungren agreed.
		The crimes at Corcoran are truly symptomatic of a widespread problem that exists in all the state and federal prisons, which is a poison flowing in the blood of the veins of this nation.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /news/nws131.htm (7728 words)

	California State Prison, Corcoran (CSP-C) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The California State Prison-Corcoran is committed to ensuring and instilling the public and inmates' families with the confidence that CSP-C is committed to providing the best medical, mental health, education, vocational and self help programs for all inmates confined to Corcoran.
		The Warehouse and Distribution Center at Corcoran serves as the central hub of a statewide distribution network.
		CSP, Corcoran is built on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi Indians.
	www.cdcr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_CORCORAN.html (1312 words)

	Workers World Oct. 22, 1998: California's Corcoran Prison
		On Oct. 17, people from across California will be coming to the gates of Corcoran Prison to protest the brutality of prison guards and authorities, including beatings, murders and rapes of inmates at Corcoran and other state prisons.
		Judy Greenspan, an organizer of the demonstration and advocate for women in prison who have AIDS, told Workers World that the Oct. 17 rally will be the first statewide demonstration at the gates of Corcoran Prison.
		This includes 8,000 adults in federal prisons, 160,000 adults in state prisons, 80,000 adults in local jails and 9,900 youths in state facilities.
	www.workers.org /ww/1998/prisons1022.php (765 words)

	The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Authors
		In addition to teaching at Montana State university, he was gallery director of their school of art, coordinating events, and writing promotional material, catalogs, and grant proposals.
		Caulder Born and raised in the United States, Sharon Caulder is an African Voodoo chief and holds a Ph.D. in Mythology and Depth Psychology.
		She taught college in the United States (Wisconsin and Pennsylvania) from 1969 to 1971, in Hong Kong from 1972 to 1974, and recently retired from teaching Chinese metaphysics at City College of San Francisco.
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /subjects.php?gen_sbj=Authors (17969 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Dan Lungren
		Between 1989 and 1994, according to the article, there were three times as many shooting deaths in California state prisons as in all 49 states and the federal prison system combined.
		Mark Donatelli, one of the attorneys who sued the state over the riot, says the suits were settled quickly without a lengthy trial, and the attorney general's office did its best to ensure that problems in the prison system were addressed.
		In other states, she says, staffers in offices of attorneys general work to ensure that problems are fixed.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.29.98/lundgren-9843.html (1918 words)

	California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility/State Prison, Corcoran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The primary mission of the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran is to provide for the control, care and treatment of those inmates committed to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation by the courts.
		In conjunction with this mission, the prison will provide viable work and training programs for 100 percent of the general inmate population as well as provide a "therapeutic community" substance abuse treatment complex for 1,056 Level II inmates.
		The administrative segregation portion of this prison will provide safe and secure facilities to house the inmate population who through their prior actions have proven to be a threat to the security of the institution and/or the safety of staff or other inmates.
	www.cdcr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_SATF.html (252 words)

	[PRISONACT] FW: This week's death at California State Prison - corcoran
		California Prison Focus is demanding both a legislative and an internal California Department of Corrections investigation into the recent death of Grady Bullock, a Corcora= n prisoner coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV).
		However, we believe that the medical crisis at Corcoran prison is at its most urgent point and must be addressed by your office as soon as possible.
		We believe that the lives of all prisoners with serious and life-threatening illnesses are at stake due to the level o= f medical neglect and the inability of that prison to provide proper care to these prisoners.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2003-January/006409.html (689 words)

	Ex-Guard's Life in Shambles / Criticism of prison firearms policies make him a pariah
		He opened his mouth, first to his superiors at Corcoran State Prison and then to their bosses, about the perils of using lethal force to break up inmate fistfights in the exercise yards.
		The two men were alarmed by the number of fights between warring inmate factions on the exercise yards at Corcoran's security housing unit, a prison within a prison for unruly felons, and by the number of shots fired by guards to break up the fights.
		State Sen. John Vasconcellos, D- Santa Clara, who praised the whistle-blowers' ``integrity and courage'' at the legislative hearings, vowed to approach Terhune after he was told late last week that Rigg's lawsuit had not been settled.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/06/MN97768.DTL (1471 words)

	Strong Arm of the Law
		The investigations at Corcoran State Prison eventually led to the federal indictment of eight officers for allegedly staging "blood sport" fights between inmates that occurred in the security housing unit in 1994.
		In February 1999 Lockyer endorsed legislation to create a special unit for prison investigations within his office, effectively reversing measures passed in the 1980s that restricted the authority of DAs to transfer prosecution of crimes committed in prisons to the state attorney general (Pen C §4703).
		Corcoran says it's important for union members to be represented by counsel because prison guards, according to the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights (Govt C §§3300 et seq.), can be forced to testify during administrative inquiries under a very limited grant of immunity.
	www.cjcj.org /cpp/strong_arm.html (3495 words)

	corcoran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The key role that the prison system increasingly plays in US social policy, particularly in the state of California, can be judged from a report by the Justice Policy Institute - from October 1996 - which stated: "From 1984 to 1994, California built 21 prisons, and only one state university...
		The eight guards faced a total of over 30 counts in what was "one of the largest prosecutions ever of state prison guards." (1) The jury took just six hours to clear the men of all charges, based on an anemic prosecution that was obviously intended to throw the case.
		"State legislative hearings in 1998 confirmed a pattern of brutality at Corcoran, and an independent panel found that nearly 80% of the shootings were unjustified and never fully investigated by the state." (1)
	davesweb.cnchost.com /corcoran.htm (1729 words)

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