CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate fills in for Governor Schwarzenegger on the Weekly Radio Address to talk about the state's motion to terminate the Receiver.
News Stories:
California's Health Care for Inmates: Prison or Versailles?
By Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle -- Of course California's prison inmates are entitled to reasonable 21st-century health care. Unfortunately for taxpayers, Clark Kelso, the federal receiver in charge of California's prison health care has, as state Attorney General Jerry Brown noted at a news conference last week, a "gold-plated wish list" for California's prison health care system.
Chino awaits judge's ruling for prison hospital plans
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -- State officials are awaiting a judge's ruling in their suit seeking an end to the federal receivership overseeing state prison health care and its construction program. That program includes plans to build a large new prison hospital in Chino, which local officials and residents have opposed. The attorney general, on behalf of the governor and the state Department of Corrections, filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week asking a court to remove the receiver who has "simply gone too far" in proposing expensive changes to the system.
Issues cloud use or proposals for Jessica's Law versions
By Jeff Horseman, Press Enterprise -- As two Inland cities strive to keep children safe from registered sex offenders, a state law with the same purpose faces a legal challenge, enforcement problems and questions about its effectiveness. Penalties for violating key parts of California's Jessica's Law -- designed to keep registered sex offenders from going near children -- don't exist in the law's fine print, according to the state attorney general's office.
No buts about it: Inmate cell phone use up
By Daniel Blackburn, Cal Coast News -- In agony from abdominal cramps, the California Men’s Colony (CMC) inmate was bent over groaning when correctional officers discovered him, and though initially reticent, the man finally confessed to smuggling.“Contraband cell phone use is a problem we’re looking into from all angles,” said CDC spokesman Paul Verke, this week. “The wardens are examining all new interdiction technologies related to detection and blocking cell phone signals. It’s something we take very seriously. Cell phone use by inmates poses a security risk because it circumvents the monitoring systems used by prisons.”
Judge rules sexual predator can be released in county
By Kim Minugh, Sacramento Bee -- A sexually violent predator will be allowed to live in Sacramento County, but only under an extensive checklist of conditions and regulations, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Steven Darcy Sherwood, 61, whose history of sexual attacks on children dates back to 1973, has completed a four-phase program under the Department of Mental Health that makes him eligible for release. During a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Joseph Orr said Sherwood was successful because of "aggressive involvement on his part."
Judge Places Sex Offender In Rural Home
KCRA -- A judge has approved placing a sex offender in a home in rural eastern Sacramento County despite opposition from a group the helps find missing children. Over the past 35 years, Steven Darcey Sherwood has repeatedly assaulted children and once assaulted an elderly person, authorities said.
Opinion:
State must fix care in prisons
Sacramento Bee -- Four years after a federal court took the drastic step of placing California's prison medical system in federal receivership, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown want to end it. The receiver's job, declared the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2005, was to "reverse the entrenched paralysis and dysfunction, and bring the delivery of health care in California prisons up to constitutional standards."
Online Commentary:
Finding a Home for Sex Offenders
By Burt Prelutsky, Town Hall.com -- This morning, my hometown newspaper, the L.A. Times, carried the headline “Fixes in Jessica’s Law Are Urged.” The state’s Sex Offender Management Board is urging Gov. Schwarzenegger and the state legislators to change Jessica’s Law, insisting that its restrictions on where sex offenders can live are counter-productive and calling the $25 million-a-year spent to house them, mainly in motels and halfway houses, a poor use of tax dollars. The law, which was passed in 2006 with the approval of 70% of California’s voters, bars sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other areas where children gather. The Board is concerned that it drives the offenders “into homelessness, an unstable situation that can propel them back to crime.”
California's Health Care for Inmates: Prison or Versailles?
By Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle -- Of course California's prison inmates are entitled to reasonable 21st-century health care. Unfortunately for taxpayers, Clark Kelso, the federal receiver in charge of California's prison health care has, as state Attorney General Jerry Brown noted at a news conference last week, a "gold-plated wish list" for California's prison health care system.
Chino awaits judge's ruling for prison hospital plans
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -- State officials are awaiting a judge's ruling in their suit seeking an end to the federal receivership overseeing state prison health care and its construction program. That program includes plans to build a large new prison hospital in Chino, which local officials and residents have opposed. The attorney general, on behalf of the governor and the state Department of Corrections, filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week asking a court to remove the receiver who has "simply gone too far" in proposing expensive changes to the system.
Issues cloud use or proposals for Jessica's Law versions
By Jeff Horseman, Press Enterprise -- As two Inland cities strive to keep children safe from registered sex offenders, a state law with the same purpose faces a legal challenge, enforcement problems and questions about its effectiveness. Penalties for violating key parts of California's Jessica's Law -- designed to keep registered sex offenders from going near children -- don't exist in the law's fine print, according to the state attorney general's office.
No buts about it: Inmate cell phone use up
By Daniel Blackburn, Cal Coast News -- In agony from abdominal cramps, the California Men’s Colony (CMC) inmate was bent over groaning when correctional officers discovered him, and though initially reticent, the man finally confessed to smuggling.“Contraband cell phone use is a problem we’re looking into from all angles,” said CDC spokesman Paul Verke, this week. “The wardens are examining all new interdiction technologies related to detection and blocking cell phone signals. It’s something we take very seriously. Cell phone use by inmates poses a security risk because it circumvents the monitoring systems used by prisons.”
Judge rules sexual predator can be released in county
By Kim Minugh, Sacramento Bee -- A sexually violent predator will be allowed to live in Sacramento County, but only under an extensive checklist of conditions and regulations, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Steven Darcy Sherwood, 61, whose history of sexual attacks on children dates back to 1973, has completed a four-phase program under the Department of Mental Health that makes him eligible for release. During a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Joseph Orr said Sherwood was successful because of "aggressive involvement on his part."
Judge Places Sex Offender In Rural Home
KCRA -- A judge has approved placing a sex offender in a home in rural eastern Sacramento County despite opposition from a group the helps find missing children. Over the past 35 years, Steven Darcey Sherwood has repeatedly assaulted children and once assaulted an elderly person, authorities said.
Opinion:
State must fix care in prisons
Sacramento Bee -- Four years after a federal court took the drastic step of placing California's prison medical system in federal receivership, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown want to end it. The receiver's job, declared the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2005, was to "reverse the entrenched paralysis and dysfunction, and bring the delivery of health care in California prisons up to constitutional standards."
Online Commentary:
Finding a Home for Sex Offenders
By Burt Prelutsky, Town Hall.com -- This morning, my hometown newspaper, the L.A. Times, carried the headline “Fixes in Jessica’s Law Are Urged.” The state’s Sex Offender Management Board is urging Gov. Schwarzenegger and the state legislators to change Jessica’s Law, insisting that its restrictions on where sex offenders can live are counter-productive and calling the $25 million-a-year spent to house them, mainly in motels and halfway houses, a poor use of tax dollars. The law, which was passed in 2006 with the approval of 70% of California’s voters, bars sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other areas where children gather. The Board is concerned that it drives the offenders “into homelessness, an unstable situation that can propel them back to crime.”
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