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California's Prisons: Violence at Folsom Prison: Causes, Possible Solutions Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations Golden Gate University School of Law GGU Law Digital Commons California Joint Committees California Documents 6-19-1985 California's Prisons: Violence at Folsom Prison: Causes, Possible Solutions Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_joint_committees Part of the Legislation Commons Recommended Citation Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Construction and Operations, "California's Prisons: Violence at Folsom Prison: Causes, Possible Solutions" (1985). California Joint Committees. Paper 60. http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_joint_committees/60 This Hearing is brought to you for free and open access by the California Documents at GGU Law Digital Commons. 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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ©AILD rFCO>IRHNJDA'$ PRDI<OINlS VIolence At Folsom Priso;n: Possible Solutions Hearing Helt;J by the tiOINT.LEGt$LATIVE COMMitTEE ON PRISON CON&tfiUCTION ANP OPERATIONS sena:tor Rof:l.,-tllrNiey Chairman AssembiY11Jiml.arryStlrllng VIet~•Chairman In Cooper~~;tton wltiJ·tiJ& Aasem~ly Committee on Public Safety and Senate Jutllclary CommitttH WEIJNESDA Y, JUNE 19, 1986 FOLSOM PRISON L VIOLENCE AT FOLSOM PRISON: CAUSES, POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRISON CONSTRUCTION ~ND OPE~TIONS In Cooperation with the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and Senate Judiciary Committee WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1985 FOLSOM PRISON FOLSOM, C~LIFORNIA Legislators Present at Hearing Senator Robert Presley, Chairman Senator Ed Davis Assemblyman Larry Stirling, Vice Chairman ~ssemblyman Richard Floyd Staff Joint Legislative Prisons Committee Lewis H. Fudge, Sr. Consultant Robert E. Holmes, Principal Consultant Barbara Hadley, Committee Secretary ~ssembly Committee on Public Safety Susan Goodman, Chief ConsuLtant Jeffrey P. Ruch, Consultant More than 120 stabbings have occurred at Folsom so far this year, pointing toward an excess of 250 by year's end, and more than double last year's rate. Two inmate deaths have resulted. Weapons assaults in four days this year included 7 on March 8, 9 on March 10, 6 on April 6, and 6 on April 9. As inmate population has dropped 400, violence has increased; 58 of the assaults were by Hispanic inmates on Blacks; at least 35 by Blacks on Hispanics; many others appear gang-related, based on incident reports analyzed by Joint Prisons Committee and Assembly Public Safety Committee staffs. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No Witnesses ii Problems and Recommendations iii Tentative Agenda viii Memo of May 31, 1985 ix Hearing June 19, on Violence Rate, Stabbings at Folsom Prison Newspaper Clippings X Transcript of Hearing 1 Appendix Proposal by California Correctional Peace Officer Association -- Folsom Solstice Program A-1 Inmate Incident Report in California State Institutions A-5 Memo from Lew Fudge to Senator Presley-- 6/17/85 Weapon Assault Incidents at Folsom Prison January - May 1985 A-15 Memo from Lew Fudge to Senator Presley -- 6/17/85 CDC Cumulative Incident Report Analysis A-19 Memo from Lew Fudge to Senator Presley -- 6/7/85 Folsom Violence Hearing - Inmate Witnesses A-23 Memo from Lew Fudge to Senator Presley -- 6/4/85 Folsom Prison Violence: Causes and Possible Solutions A-25 i WITNESSES James Austin, Ph.D., Vice President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, San Francisco, researcher on prison U. S. problems Rodney Blonien, Undersecretary of youth and Adult Correctional Facility, California Department of Corrections Joseph Campoy, Warden, Folsom Prison Robert Dacey, Inmate, Folsom Prison, kidnapping for ransom - life without the possiblity of parole Steve Fournier, former Folsom Chapter President, California Correctional Peace Officres Association Dr. Craig Haney, Professor, Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz, prison analyst for past 15 years across the U.S. Greg Hardy, Assistant Director for Court Compliance, California Department of Corrections Joe Marquez, former Superintendent at Tehachapi State Prison, now retired Daniel McCarthy, Director, California Department of Corrections Tom Murton, former Superintendent of the Arkansas prison system (1967-1968, Acting Chief of Alaska Correctional Institutions, author, teacher, and lecturer, subject of the movie, "Brubaker" Don Novey, State President, California Correctional Peace Officer Association Paul Redd, Inmate, Folsom Prison - given 7 years to life for murder with possibility of parole ii PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS From Joint Committee Hearing June 19,1985, at Folsom Prison PROBlEM RECOMMENDATION 1. Gang violence o Segregate gangs from the general inmate population; establish separate feeding and recreation schedules for gang members o Disperse gang members throughout the prison system rather than concentrating them in one or two institutions o Establish an even distribution of inmates by age, race, and gang membership 1-'· 1-'· 1-'· o Establish inmate participation policies; these could include: a) a degree of inmate self-government b) inm~te owned and operated industries 2. Overcrowding o Discontinue double celling o Establish early release programs in coordination with community-based programs o Establish an emergency release program o Change or eliminate the classification system which is responsible for overcrowding the state's maximum security prisons o Continue the construction of new faci~1ties as quickly as possible o Build inmate designed and constructed facilities in order to cut construction costs and orovide tnn.ates with jobs 3. Insufficient number o Establish inmate-owned and operated industries of jobs for inmates o Transfer low-risk inmates to other facilities o Change the classification or "point system" which gives long-term inmates a lower priority than others in the Work Incentive Program participation 4. Inadequate inmate o Expand vocational and vocational and educational programs educational programs 1-'· o Change the classification system so that long-term inmates <: may participate in vocational and educational programs 5. Grievances and appeals o Establish better inmate-administration communication do not receive proper attention from staff and o Conduct "face-to-face" grievance inquiries since many administration prisoners have difficulty expressing their complaints in writing o Promote frequent contact between the staff, wardens, and inmates through shared meals, dormitory meetings, and "logged-in". cell block visits by wardens o Include inmates in the grievance review process o Establish a departmental auditing and investigation unit 6. Weapons, drugs, o Review limitations on visitor searches and intoxicants o Place improved weapons detection technology in prisons o Institute random visitor auto searches o Conduct unannounced tests of prison security systems o Use drug sniffing dogs to conduct visitor drug searches 7. Wardens have little administrative autonomy because of judicial decisions (e.g. Toussaint case, federally appointed monitors, etc.) <! 8. I Prison construction has been slowed by community group legal challenges and environmental impact study requirements 8. California has no center o Establish an institute w;th1n the existing state for the study of correctional university system institution questions such as: a.) the relationship between rehabilitation and recidivism b.) the comparative quality of different penal institutions c.) the moderating influences of of older inmates d.) the impact of returning inmates on communities e.) the relationship between prison­ based and community-based gangs ~. General lockdowns intensify o Employ targeted lockdowns rather than locking down the probability of violent large segments of the prison population incidents o Employ careful inmate lockdown screening I <: 1-'· o Establish a procedure whereby inmates may be released from lockdown on an individual basis 10. Minorities are underrepresented o Continue the present policy of trying to recruit more on prison staff minority staff o Insure that minority recruitment announcements are placed fn minority newspapers 11. Prisons do not prepare inmates o Establish new policies which would allow inmates to make to return to their communities the transition from prison life to community life; these policies could include: a) allowing families to live with inmates at work camps b) permitting conjugal visits c) authorizing inmate owned and operated industries with parolees acting as outside sales representatives d) giving inmates a measure of self-government in order to foster responsibility 'compiled by the Senate Office of Research and Assembly Office of Research by Geronimo Tagatac and Victor Caponpon <: 1-'· 1-'· TENTATIVE AGENDA HEARING ON FOLS0"1 PRISON VIOL.Er-CE: THE CAusEs NfJ PossiBLE SoLUTIONs Joint --Legislative Committee on Prison Construction--- and Operations, in Cooperation with the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Judiciary Committee JUNE 19, 1985, LARKIN HALL, FOLSOM PRISON, FOLSOM, CAL. 9 A.M. OPENING REMARKS, Senator Robert Presley, Chairman, and Assemblyman Larry Stirling, Vice Chairman, Joint Prisons Committee .. 9:15 A.M. - THREE FOLSQ'>1 INMATES, testifying on conditions in the prison and possible ways to reduce the violence 10 A.M. DR. CRAIG HANEY, Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied prison problems for 15 years including the problems at Folsom lO:il A.M. - ~PAR11'ENT OF CORRECTIONS on existing violence problems at Folsom,
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