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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Mental Health in California Prisons – Understaffed and Overwhelmed

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|Date: May 01, 2023
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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Mental Health in California Prisons – Understaffed and Overwhelmed

by C.S. Bryson In March of this year, a rally was held at the California state capitol building to increa ...

by C.S. Bryson In March of this year, a rally was held at the California state capitol building to increase awareness about mental health staff shortages within the California Correctional Health Care ...

May 01, 2023
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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: California’s Mental Health Staffing Crisis

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|Date: April 14, 2023
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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: California’s Mental Health Staffing Crisis

by Mark Daigre During the 1980s, the state of California --- in an effort to improve mental health care a ...

by Mark Daigre During the 1980s, the state of California --- in an effort to improve mental health care and save money --- closed a number of state-run mental health facilities. The stated goal was to ...

April 14, 2023
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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Proposed Prisoner Pay Increase Research

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|Date: April 13, 2023
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VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Proposed Prisoner Pay Increase Research

By John L. Orr In December 2022 Inmate Advising Council (TAC) Warden’s meeting, a brief revelation from C ...

By John L. Orr In December 2022 Inmate Advising Council (TAC) Warden’s meeting, a brief revelation from Chief Deputy Warden’s Meeting, a brief revelation from Chief Deputy Warden (CDW) B. Holmes confi ...

April 13, 2023
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Guest Commentary: New Data Hubs Show Local Impact of Mass Incarceration in California and Louisiana

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|Date: March 20, 2023
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Guest Commentary: New Data Hubs Show Local Impact of Mass Incarceration in California and Louisiana

By Sam McCann There is growing consensus that mass incarceration does not make communities safer. But the ...

By Sam McCann There is growing consensus that mass incarceration does not make communities safer. But the drivers and markers of it—from local budgets to jails and prisons—are infrequently studied and ...

March 20, 2023
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The CDCR Enforces Policy Requiring Shaving by Officers Despite Religious or Health Reasons Not to Do So

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|Date: February 18, 2023
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The CDCR Enforces Policy Requiring Shaving by Officers Despite Religious or Health Reasons Not to Do So

By Kevin Barragan SACRAMENTO, CA - Earlier this month, the California Department of Corrections and Rehab ...

By Kevin Barragan SACRAMENTO, CA - Earlier this month, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began enforcing a policy requiring officers to shave—despite religious or health reas ...

February 18, 2023
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Commentary: The Glaring Contradiction of the ‘R’ in the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation

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|Date: February 09, 2023
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Commentary: The Glaring Contradiction of the ‘R’ in the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation

By Norman Williams Life without the possibility of parole laws should be repealed, due to the fact that i ...

By Norman Williams Life without the possibility of parole laws should be repealed, due to the fact that it leads to the hidden death or other death penalty by prolonging incarceration. While costing t ...

February 09, 2023
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Commentary: In Search of Dignity and Safety

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|Date: February 05, 2023
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Commentary: In Search of Dignity and Safety

by Dr. Joan Parkin The passage of SB 132, which allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex ...

by Dr. Joan Parkin The passage of SB 132, which allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to transfer to a prison consistent with their gender identity, has pit two of CDCR’s mos ...

February 05, 2023
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Harvest Davidson Spent Nearly Six Years Fighting Murder Cases in El Dorado County Jail – Now He’s Released

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|Date: December 29, 2022
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Harvest Davidson Spent Nearly Six Years Fighting Murder Cases in El Dorado County Jail – Now He’s Released

by Robert J. Hansen South Lake Tahoe, CA - Earlier this month one of five men who were fighting murder ch ...

by Robert J. Hansen South Lake Tahoe, CA - Earlier this month one of five men who were fighting murder charges in El Dorado County since 2017 was released for time served after accepting a plea agreem ...

December 29, 2022
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Ella Baker Center Celebrates Prison Closures, Urges State Leaders to Continue Efforts to Reduce Prison Populations

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|Date: December 09, 2022
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Ella Baker Center Celebrates Prison Closures, Urges State Leaders to Continue Efforts to Reduce Prison Populations

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – This week, CDCR announced it was moving forward to close one pri ...

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – This week, CDCR announced it was moving forward to close one prison, ceasing operation of another leased facility as a state prison, and will deactivate some f ...

December 09, 2022
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Squander 101: A Required Corrections Officer Academy Class

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|Date: December 04, 2022
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Squander 101: A Required Corrections Officer Academy Class

By Bryce Canyon My Introduction to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) pri ...

By Bryce Canyon My Introduction to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prison system followed a length stretch in a Club Fed near Los Angeles. The difference between fed ...

December 04, 2022
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CDCR Secretary Visits Prison Newspaper

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|Date: November 22, 2022
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CDCR Secretary Visits Prison Newspaper

By Christopher Bryson California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Kathleen Allison ...

By Christopher Bryson California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Kathleen Allison visited Mule Creek State Prison on November 7, 2022, for a tour of the institution's grounds an ...

November 22, 2022
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Clinical Social Workers Overworked-Underpaided in California Prisons

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|Date: November 20, 2022
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Clinical Social Workers Overworked-Underpaided in California Prisons

By D. Razor Babb Licensed clinical social workers provide a valuable and integral service to the inmate p ...

By D. Razor Babb Licensed clinical social workers provide a valuable and integral service to the inmate population in California prisons. With so many prisoners in need of clinical psychological couns ...

November 20, 2022
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Suboxone – An Up-Close Look at the Biggest Legal Narcotic in California’s Prisons, Part II

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|Date: November 14, 2022
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Suboxone – An Up-Close Look at the Biggest Legal Narcotic in California’s Prisons, Part II

By JC Grant Compstat is CDCR’s official packaging of statistical data. Month to month numbers including e ...

By JC Grant Compstat is CDCR’s official packaging of statistical data. Month to month numbers including everything from how many hours were worked by sergeants, how many open slots in an inmate GED cl ...

November 14, 2022
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CDCR Secretary Tours Mule Creek State Prison

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|Date: November 14, 2022
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CDCR Secretary Tours Mule Creek State Prison

By D. Razor Babb The California Department of Correcting (CDCR) Secretary Kathleen Allison and a host of ...

By D. Razor Babb The California Department of Correcting (CDCR) Secretary Kathleen Allison and a host of dignitaries, including Mule Creek State Prison Warden Patrich Covello, toured the prison Monday ...

November 14, 2022
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CDAA Asks CDCR to Explain Early Release Policy

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|Date: November 06, 2022
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CDAA Asks CDCR to Explain Early Release Policy

(Editor’s note: Last week, the California District Attorneys Association put out a communication asking C ...

(Editor’s note: Last week, the California District Attorneys Association put out a communication asking CDCR to explain their early release policy). The California District Attorneys Association (CDAA ...

November 06, 2022
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Mother of Woman Killed in Chino Prison Presented PowerPoint to Prison Officials to Help Prevent Inmate Domestic Abuse and Violence

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 07, 2022
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Mother of Woman Killed in Chino Prison Presented PowerPoint to Prison Officials to Help Prevent Inmate Domestic Abuse and Violence

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – It was a unique moment for Sheri Graves. In 201 ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – It was a unique moment for Sheri Graves. In 2016, her daughter was beaten to death by her cellmate inside the California Institution for Women ...

October 07, 2022
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One Couple’s Fight against ‘Ludicrous’ COVID-19 Policies in a California Prison

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|Date: October 04, 2022
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One Couple’s Fight against ‘Ludicrous’ COVID-19 Policies in a California Prison

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring re ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Department of Corrections and Rehabili ...

October 04, 2022
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One Man’s ‘COVID-19 Reality’ at California State Prison in Lancaster, California

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|Date: August 31, 2022
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One Man’s ‘COVID-19 Reality’ at California State Prison in Lancaster, California

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to report on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Department o ...

August 31, 2022
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Explore latest data and updates on COVID in California’s prison system

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|Date: August 04, 2022
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Explore latest data and updates on COVID in California’s prison system

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vangua ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on the pandemic in California's county jails and Department of Correction ...

August 04, 2022
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My View: Since the 1970s California Has Shifted from Prioritizing Education to Incarcerating People

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 30, 2022
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My View: Since the 1970s California Has Shifted from Prioritizing Education to Incarcerating People

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week I came across some stunning data—even though I had impli ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week I came across some stunning data—even though I had implicitly known this to be the case, nevertheless seeing the actual data was stunning. In 2021-22, ...

July 30, 2022
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