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• The Impact of the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on Post-Release Drug Use and Recidivism.
• David Farabee, University of California, Los Angeles Michael Prendergast, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs Jerome Cartier, University of California, Los Angeles .
• In 1997, the California Department of Corrections established the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF) in Corcoran, California. With a treatment capacity of 1,478, the CSATF is currently the largest in-prison therapeutic community in the state, and one of the largest in the country. ... Unlike many prison-based treatment programs, the majority of inmates admitted to the program do so involuntarily. The present study reports on at recidivism and other outcomes for CSATF participants (n=404) and a matched non-treatment comparison group (n=404). ...

• DRUGS, ALCOHOL -- RELATED PUBLICATIONS 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. ... 77 - includes tax s/h) (4/02) 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. ... 58 - includes s/h) (4/02) PROTECTING THE PUBLIC BY ASSISTING ADDICTED LAWYERS IN OVERCOMING SUBSTANCE ABUSE – A Briefing paper prepared by the Senate Office of Research. This paper looks at what four other states with successful programs are doing in this arena, summarizes the two small assistance programs available to California lawyers and elaborates on help available to California Physicians. Statutory language to create a California treatment and diversion program for lawyers in included in the appendix. ... 85 – includes tax, s/h) (10/99) 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. ... 27 – includes tax s/h) (8/99) PUBLIC FORUM ON THE PROPOSED TOBACCO LITIGATION SETTLEMENT - An opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed agreement, announced on November 16, 1998, to settle the state's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. Because this settlement will affect health policy for this and the next generation of Californians, it is important for the people of California to have a fair opportunity to review the many details of the complex agreement and to comment on its provisions. ... 31 - includes tax s/h) (11/98) THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED ALCOHOL & TAX INITIATIVE ON CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY -- Hearing & summary of proposed initiative's fiscal effects on California's economy, education programs & health services.

• Walden House believes that for both doors, treatment is the key. Drug treatment is a cost-efficient, effective companion to incarceration. Walden House provides treatment as an alternative to incarceration in some programs, and takes the treatment key to addicts in other jail or prison-based programs.
• REFERRALS FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Substance abusers entangled in the criminal justice system enter treatment through numerous venues. Many clients are referred by the Federal courts and the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department to receive residential treatment in lieu of incarceration. The Target Cities Project’s Drug Court Program gives first-time drug offenders treatment as a diversion to further criminal prosecution. Walden House treats Drug Court referrals in three settings: residential, outpatient and day treatment. ... The Bay Area Services Network (BASN) Program is offered in collaboration with the California Department of Corrections and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. The Walden House/BASN program provides case management for approximately 2,000 State Parolees per year. ... More than 70 programs provide treatment in residential, outpatient, day treatment, detoxification or sober living environments for up to 180 days. ...
• IN CUSTODY TREATMENT PROGRAMS Two Walden House in-custody programs offer sensitive, gender-specific services for women. In collaboration with the Sheriff’s Office, the SISTER Project provides treatment services to 60 women incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail. The Walden House-CRC Therapeutic Community brings drug treatment to 80 incarcerated women at a time at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, California. ... These programs offer a "jump start" to treatment and when appropriate, women are referred to a residential program upon their release. Walden House and the California Department of Corrections work collaboratively to provide treatment services to 528 drug-addicted, male individuals at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (S. ... ) of Corcoran II State Prison. Located in the Central Valley of California, this facility is unique in that it was designed and built specifically for in-custody drug treatment. ... will be the largest drug treatment facility of its kind in the United States. ...

• List of California state prisons.
• This is a list of state prisons in California. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of California. ...
• Avenal State Prison California Correctional Center California Correctional Institution California Institution for Men California Institution for Women California Men's Colony California Medical Facility California Rehabilitation Center California State Prison, Los Angeles County California State Prison, Sacramento California State Prison, Solano California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran Calipatria State Prison Centinela State Prison Central California Women's Facility Chuckawalla Valley State Prison Corcoran State Prison Correctional Training Facility Deuel Vocational Institution Folsom State Prison High Desert State Prison Ironwood State Prison Mule Creek State Prison Northern California Women's Facility North Kern State Prison Pelican Bay State Prison Pleasant Valley State Prison R. ... Donovan Correctional Facility at Rock Mountain Salinas Valley State Prison San Quentin State Prison Sierra Conservation Center Valley State Prison for Women Wasco State Prison .
• California Department of Corrections .

• State Steps Up Prison Lockdowns .
• The state's financially strapped corrections department is prohibiting inmates from leaving their cells at three prisons in an attempt to reduce overtime pay for guards and is considering further cost-saving restrictions at most of the system's 32 institutions, according to the chairwoman of the state Senate committee that oversees prisons. ...
• Most inmates at the Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad and the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran were being forced to remain in their cells 24 hours a day on "fiscally driven lockdowns" as of Wednesday evening, said state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), who chairs the Senate's Select Committee on the California Correctional System. ...
• Romero said inmates at the state prison in Lancaster also remained in their cells without time on the exercise yard in an attempt to save money, which The Times reported Tuesday. ...
• But Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections, said the restrictions at Salinas Valley were not fiscally driven, but the result of ongoing security concerns. Heimerich said corrections officials were trying to figure out what, if any, restrictions had been put in place at other state prisons late Wednesday, and spokesmen for the three prisons were unavailable for comment at that time. ...
• On Wednesday, Ben Wizner, an attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said the 24-hour lock-ins were unconstitutional, although he said the ACLU had no current plans to challenge them. ...

• Prison Ministry in California .
• California's Bishops Take the Lead.
• Bishop Zavala made a further suggestion, with which the bishops concurred, that all California (arch)dioceses continue the spirit of the Jubilee Year by conducting annual delegations to their correctional institutions-reaching out to parish communities for involvement.
• In the last 18 months, CCC staff has arranged 11 prison visits, headed by Bishops Zavala and Blaire, for delegations of Catholic, Lutheran and Quaker leadership, as well as California Catholic Conference staff.
• The groups of 10-25 have traveled to Central California Women's Facility, California Institute for Women, Valley State Prison, California State Prison (CSP) Los Angeles Count, CSP Sacramento, Pelican Bay State Prison, the CSP & the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) at Corcoran, Heman G. Stark Youth Correction Facility (YCF), and two times to San Quentin.
• bishops, similarly distressed about the state of criminal justice nationwide, issued their statement, Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice, on November 15.
• Dolejsi will meet with the new California Department of Corrections (CDC) director (when he is appointed) and his management team to present the ad hoc Committee report with the California bishops' recommendations for our Church and for the CDC.
• The Steering Committee has scheduled two more prison visits on January 23, 2001: the Salinas Valley State Prison and the Correctional Training Facility, both in Soledad. They plan future delegation visits to federal, INS, and state adult and youth facilities.

• CSEA’s newly formed Correctional Institutions Committee (CIC) is meeting with workers in the state’s 33 correctional facilities and 15 California Youth Authority (CYA) facilities to help improve working conditions and identify issues to refer to bargaining unit chairs for upcoming negotiations.
• “Members in prisons and youth authority facilities face different challenges than other state workers,” says Marc Bautista, alternate deputy division director of CSEA’s District Labor Councils. ...
• Lamarque, who was confirmed as warden for Salinas Valley State Prison, Soledad.
• Members include Richard Rios, teacher at the California Youth Authority (CYA) in Sacramento; Joyce Thomas-Villaronga, office technician at California State Prison-Solano; Robyn Sherles, supervising cook I at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione; V. Mari Goodman, health records technician I at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi; Priscilla Rippetoe, vocational instructor at Substance Abuse and Treatment Facility in Corcoran; Elaine Hill, registered nurse, California State Prison-Sacramento/Folsom; Bobby Hall, supervising cook I at R. ... Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego; and Mary Jane Davis, a radiology technician at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

• California Home.
• California Youth & Adult Correctional Agency.
• California Department of Corrections.
• OFFICIALS TO DEDICATE CALIFORNIA SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FACILITY AND STATE PRISON AT CORCORAN .
• Fairman, state legislators, California Department of Corrections officials and several hundred area residents on Friday, August 28, 1998, at 10:00 a. ... to share in the dedication of the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, located at 900 Quebec Avenue, Corcoran, California. ...
• Terhune; Corcoran Mayor Jerry Robertson; and Chairman of the Kings County Board of Supervisors, Tony Barba. ...
• The California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran opened in August 1997, and currently houses more than 6,000 inmates. The maximum security facility currently employs 1,100 staff with an annual operating budget of $72 million. ...
• © 2003 State of California. ...

• WAC Fan Forum Perfect conference for Fresno State Posted By: Warden (205. ...
• Here is a list of the perfect conference for Fresno State. It makes sense geographically and and based on recent events, Fresno State seems to have a lot in common with these institutions. ...
• Avenal State Prison .
• California Correctional Center .
• California Correctional Institution .
• California Institution for Men .
• California Institution for Women .
• California Men's Colony .
• California Medical Facility .
• California Rehabilitation Center .
• California State Prison, Los Angeles County .
• California State Prison, Sacramento .
• California State Prison, Solano .
• California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran .
• Calipatria State Prison .

• CA State Government.
• home | about us | contact us | calendar | take action | union spark | join us | about seiu | library | weblinks  Caucus for a Democratic Union (CDU) is a rank-and-file reform movement within the California State Employees Association (CSEA), Local 1000 SEIU, AFL-CIO, CLC. ...
• CSEA (California State Employees Association) one of the largest employee organization in California representing state workers.
• California Labor Federation the state arm of the AFL-CIO.
• XPDNC (Expediency) CA Labor Links an extensive listing of California labor organizations.
• District Labor Council 702 representing rank-and-file state workers from DMV in Irvine.
• District Labor Council 743 representing rank and file state workers in San Francisco, California.
• District Labor Council 744 representing rank and file state workers in Oakland California.
• District Labor Council 771 representing rank and file state workers from the CA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF), Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP), Corcoran State Prison, Avenal State Prison, North Kern County State Prison and all state offices in Visalia, Corcoran, Avenal, Delano, Huron and Pleasant Valley.
• District Labor Council 782 representing rank-and-file state workers from the State Board of Equalization (BOE), Dept. ... of Housing & Community Development (HCD) in Sacramento, California.
• CALIFORNIA STATE GOVERNMENT .
• Visit My California - the state's official government portal:  http://www. ...   Check out information on state bargaining units, the savings plus program, personnel policies and much more. ... gov State Personnel Board - the state agency responsible for administering California's state civil service merit system. ... govPublic Employment Relations Board - the state agency responsible for administering the Ralph C. Dills Act (SEERA -State Employer-Employee Relations Act). ... gov Governor's Office - visit the office of California's chief executive. ... gov CA Senate - visit the upper of house of the California Legislature. ... gov CA Assembly - visit the lower house of the California Legislature. ... gov CA Supreme Court - visit the highest court in California. ... gov/courts/supreme Agency Index - listing of various California state agencies, departments & commissions. ...

• The Bishops of California encourage Catholics to visit prisoners. ...
• Since June of 1999, the CCC has arranged 15 prison visits, headed by Bishops Zavala and Blaire, for delegations of Catholic, Lutheran and Quaker leadership, as well as California Catholic Conference staff.
• The groups of 10-25 have traveled to Central California Women's Facility, California Institute for Women, Valley State Prison, California State Prison (CSP) Los Angeles Count, CSP Sacramento, Pelican Bay State Prison, the CSP & the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) at Corcoran, Heman G. Stark Youth Correction Facility (YCF), the Salinas Valley State Prison and the Correctional Training Facility, both in Soledad, two times to San Quentin, and the California Correctional Center and High Desert State Prison both in Susanville.

• Treatment Programs with the California Department of Corrections.
• treat more than 2000 men and women in State prison special units during the final 6-12 months of their sentences. ... A Female Offender Treatment and Employment Program allows discharged mothers to stay with their children in a 6-month transition program.
• Avenal State Prison .
• Corcoran, CA 93204 .
• Central California Women's Facility .
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility .
• Corcoran, CA 93212 .
• Central California Women's Facility .
• California State Prison .
• Corcoran, CA 93212 .
• FIND A TREATMENT CENTER.
• CALIFORNIA PROGRAMS.

•     Earlier this year, Amnesty International released a report entitled "United State of America: Rights for all. ...
• human rights violations are the series of highly publicized "blood sport" shooting deaths at Corcoran State Prison in California, and the continuing dismal standard of medical care provided at two of the state's prison facilities housing women.
•      In fact, the State of California, which operates the largest and most costly prison system in the world, has a great deal to answer for in terms of human rights violations. ...
• In California, for example, mid-1982 saw the population of the state's sole all-female facility at slightly above 1,000. ...
• The past few years have brought an awareness that until women's substance abuse problems are addressed, the rate of incarceration for females will continue to soar.
• TREATMENT OF WOMEN.
• Substance abuse recovery programs offered in prisons, as with the majority of such programs on the outside, continue to be formulated using a male model. ... Additionally, treating substance abuse as an independent problem rather that a symptom of dysfunction shifts the focus from other areas in need of attention, notable literacy and job training/readiness.
•      The missing link is the prevalence of abuse in the backgrounds of incarcerated women. Several studies have determined that as many as 88 percent of women incarcerated today have suffered one or more forms of abuse: emotional, physical, sexual. One study conducted in California concluded that women prisoners as a group demonstrate a propensity to respond to the pain of abuse in their lives by "self-medicating" with alcohol and/or drugs. Until incarcerated women receive viable treatment at every level, including care designed to ameliorate the damage inflicted by years of abuse, there is little chance that their lot will improve.
• (The Commission condemns) all acts of gender-based violence against women, and in this regard calls, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, for the elimination of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and emphasizes the duty of Governments to refrain from engaging in violence against women and to exercise our diligence to prevent, investigate and, in accordance with national legislation, to punish acts of violence against women and to take appropriate and effective action concerning acts of violence against women, whether those acts are perpetrated by the State or by private persons and to provide access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance to victims. ...
• and fund the training programs for judicial, Legal, medical, social, educational and police and immigrant personnel, in order to avoid the abuse of power leading to violence against women and sensitize such personnel to the nature of gender-based acts and threats of violence so that fair treatment of female victims can be assured; .
• To enact and enforce legislation protecting girls from all forms of violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, Genital mutilation, incest, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, child prostitution and child pornography(. ...
• In state after state, the voters have rejected candidates whose approach to serious and complex socioeconomic problems has been simplistic, expensive and, ultimately, ruinous: the politics of retribution, rather than restoration.

• State Correctional Facilities .
• California State Prison at Corcoran.
• Corcoran, CA 93212.
• California Substance Abuse.
• Treatment Facility and State Prison.
• Corcoran, CA 93212.

• Donovan State Prison | California Institution for Women | California Rehabilitation Center | Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran | Central California Women's Facility | Sierra Conservation Center | California State Prison, Solano | California State Prison, Lancaster | California State Prison, Calipatria | Office of Substance Abuse Programs |  Parole Region 1 | Parole Region 2 | Parole Region 3 | Parole Region 4 | Correctional Training Center | Phoenix House | Center Point, Inc. ...
• In September 1998, the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center teamed up with California Department of Corrections personnel in an effort to train future trainers in the area of substance abuse and treatment for the correctional client. ... In attendance were parole agents, correctional staff, and treatment providers from California and the Arizona Department of Corrections. ...
• Donovan State Prison .
• California Institution for Women .
• California Rehabilitation Center .
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran.
• Corcoran, CA 93212.
• Central California Women's Facility.
• California State Prison, Solano.
• California State Prison, Lancaster.
• California State Prison, Calipatria.
• Office of Substance Abuse Programs .
• Substance Abuse Program .
• Substance Abuse Program .
• Substance Abuse Program .

• Corcoran inmate dies after refusing food .
• A 72-year-old inmate at California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran died Monday after refusing both food and medical treatment for 40 days. ...
• According to Margot Bach, a California Department of Corrections spokeswoman, Khem Singh, who was sentenced in Stanislaus County in August 2001 to a 23-year term for child molestation, told the judge at his sentencing hearing that he had an issue with a prison diet. After arriving in Corcoran, Singh refused to eat several times.
• "Each time this would happen, prison medical officials would offer him treatment and he would refuse," Bach said.
• Hart said his office is also continuing to investigate the weekend arrest of Linda Brock, 43, a guard at Corcoran State Prison. ...
• Thursday, state senators Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, introduced a bill that requires the directors of the California Department of Corrections and the California Youth Authority to adopt a code of conduct that clearly defines prohibited employee behavior, including the responsibility of each employee to report employee misconduct, under the penalty of perjury.

• CALIFORNIA.
• California Region.
• Will be responsible for transporting passengers to and from locations throughout Southern California. ...
• Maintenance-Monrovia/Santa Fe Springs) The Facility Maintenance person is responsible for the facilities general maintenance and landscaping. ... Conducts facility inspections. ... A valid California drivers license and a driving record acceptable to the Agency's insurance carrier. Four years of experience in maintenance and housekeeping of a large facility. ...
• Must posses and maintain a valid California driver's license. ...
• Senior Counselor, 1 full-time position(s), Lake View Terrace - Day Treatment.
• Senior Counselor: (Lake View Terrace) In conjunction with the program director, plan, direct, and coordinate treatment services, Supervise staff in scheduling all residents into treatment activities, assign caseload, Participate in case conference to assess resident progress; when needed, makes recommendations for changes in treatment planning and advancement to next treatment level, Prepare annual performance evaluations for director’s authorization. Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent required, bachelor’s preferred, two years supervisory experience, prior experience with adolescent population and familiarity with corrections issues strongly preferred; excellent interpersonal skills, and oral and written communication skills required; prior experience with therapeutic communities required, must be able to formulate treatment plans; must be familiar with counseling theories. This position reports directly to the Unit Director and operates out of our residential facility. ...
• Entry Level Counselors: (Lake View Terrace/Corcoran/Chowchilla) Under the general direction of the Supervising Counselor and working with the agencies providing aftercare services coordinates and assists in planning continuing care services for all inmates. ... Provides information and guidance to paroling inmates regarding community services during the continuing care phase of the substance abuse services. Working with the Program Counselors, Parole Agents, SASCA representatives, and community based service providers; the Transition/Continuing Care Counselor will be responsible for the community services plan as described herein and in the Substance Abuse Program Continuing Care Handbook. Acts as a liaison to members of the treatment team gathers input from in-prison TC Primary Counselors on inmates’ progress while in prison, and initiates transition procedures. ... Prepares and forwards treatment, pre-admission, and discharge paperwork and any other necessary information to the Regional Coordinating Agency pending inmates’ transfer to community care providers. ... Valid California drivers license. A minimum of two years experience in a substance abuse treatment program, six months of which must have been in a lead capacity, preferably in a corrections environment. ... Knowledge of and interest in substance abuse issues, as evidenced by experience or participation/attendance in related classes, seminars, and workshops. Familiarity with therapeutic community treatment, the criminal justice population and system, and the SAP Continuum of Care. ... Certified or eligible for certification in substance abuse treatment in criminal justice settings by an accredited education institution, consistent with standards for addiction counselor staff competencies developed by the University of California San Diego Addiction Technology Transfer Center. ...

• 10 guards injured in Corcoran melee.
• CORCORAN -- Ten correctional officers were slightly injured during an attack by inmates following two fights at Corcoran State Prison's substance-abuse treatment center Wednesday afternoon, prison officials said. ...
• Several received treatment for minor scrapes and bruises at local hospitals, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections.
• "We're still sorting through information," Corcoran State Prison spokeswoman Rhonda Frost said. ...
• Wednesday among nine inmates congregating in a yard at the maximum-security facility. ...
• They were transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
• The facility was put on lockdown status following the fights. ...
• The fights at Corcoran came roughly a week after three correctional officers were assaulted by inmates at the New Folsom state prison in Sacramento. ...
• Wal-Mart case set for California court.

• Walden House is based in San Francisco, and treatment is provided in both residential and outpatient settings in 17 facilities throughout California. ...
• Regional offices are also located in both Los Angeles and Fresno, California. ...
• Located at 1885 Mission Street in San Francisco's Mission District, this location reaches over 400 people daily and is a hub for programs ranging from day treatment and aftercare to intake and legal. Other services include vocational assessment and training, mental health day treatment and SASCA services for Northern California. ...
• Located at 815 Buena Vista West in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury District, this center provides variable length treatment to over 115 men and women daily. ...
• Located at 1251 2nd Avenue in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District, this residential center reunites children with a parent following participation in treatment. ...
• One of 14 satellite transitional living centers providing crucial support and guidance to individuals following primary care treatment. Each participant must be employed or attending school during their 6 month stay, preparing for the aftercare phase of treatment. ...
• Participants are requited to participate in the Walden House Day Treatment Program. ...
• Located in the San Francisco County Jail, this program provides treatment and education to incarcerated women. ...
• Walden House Youth Treatment and Education Court (YTEC) .
• Located on the grounds of San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center, this program provides out-patient treatment and education to troubled young men and women. ...
• Located at 890 Hayes Street in San Francisco's Hayes Valley District, this center provides variable length residential treatment to over 120 men and women daily. ...
• Located the Valley State Prison for Women, this program provides treatment to approximately 500 incarcerated women. ...
• Located on the grounds of Corcoran State Prison, this program provides treatment and education for over 759 men. ... Following over half voluntarily participate in community based treatment programs. ...

• 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,' reads the hand-painted sign in the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, a reminder written by inmatesthemselves that becoming productive citizens means completely changingtheir lives. But the epigram doesn't just apply to inmates in this, the largest addiction treatment center in the world. 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.
• A short drive outside the dusty central California town of Corcoran, a seemingly endless procession of guard towers, concertina wire and flat, block buildings presents the depressing face of a modern American prison. ...
• Black, Latino and white gangs are in a virtual state of war in prisons. ...
• But in the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF), which is blocks F and G of this prison, life is very, very different. For inmates released from this treatment center within a prison, preliminary evidence shows that the recidivism rate is almost the mirror opposite of regular prisons: Instead of one-quarter going straight and three-quarters returning to crime, three-quarters go straight and only one-quarter returns to crime.
• The treatment program is exclusive; only prisoners who are already in medium security cell blocks are admitted. They're transferred to blocks F and G for a year or more of intensive addiction treatment prior to release. As in other blocks, the inmates have regular jobs, but they also undergo at least 20 hours a week of individual and group substance abuse counseling, addiction education, relapse prevention, living skills workshops, anger management, conflict resolution, and even a class called "identification and change of criminal thought processes. ...
• Two nonprofit agencies run the treatment program, Phoenix House and Walden House, which are well-established therapeutic treatment programs with facilities throughout the nation. This is one of the first time that groups from outside the state prison system have been brought inside to provide such in-depth services.
• Begun less than three years ago, this treatment facility wasn't well accepted at first by inmates or the prison system. ... Here the focus is on recovery, so the correction officials step back and let treatment professionals take charge. ...
• Although addiction treatment has been featured in other prisons, there has never been an entire cell block devoted to treatment. If our policy makers pay attention to both the research on prison treatment and the experience in places like Corcoran, some day all of our prisons will be treatment centers behind bars.

• 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 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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.

• It is from   the offices of the California Correctional Peace Officer Association:.
•  WEST SACRAMENTO - Sixteen Correctional Peace Officers were assaulted by inmates yesterday at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and Prison at Corcoran.
• Nine of the sixteen officers we're sent to local hospitals for treatment. ...
•      The inmates involved in this incident were sent to Salinas Valley State Prison via Special Transport by Security and Investigations Unit staff. ...
• On January 4, three officers were stabbed by inmates at California State Prison at Sacramento. ... And on December 21, California State Prison in Lancaster was on lockdown after a prison-yard riot involving 300 inmates.
•      An average of nine officers a day are assaulted in California prisons. ...
•      The Correctional Officers in Union County New Jersey in conjunction with their Local #199 of the New Jersey State PBA raised over $60,000 dollars for the families of the Port Authority Officers, Firefighters and Police Officers who died in the World Trade Center tragedy. ...
•      Remember those Officers in California, and all of 25,000 or so of us who are assaulted every year. ...

• Your search  "KEYWORD (NAME/TITLE/SUBJECT/NOTES) Substance Abuse" occurs 1693 times in UCLA Libraries BEFORE applying selected limit(s). ...
• Advances in substance abuse, behavioral and biological research. ...
• Advances in substance abuse, behavioral and biological research. ...
• Alcohol and drug research in California. ...
• The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse. ...
• California. ...
• California. ... Block grant application / Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. ...
• California. Substance Abuse Branch. Annual report of the Department of Health on the drug abuse program. ...
• California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran. Annual report on the substance abuse program at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) and State Prison at Corcoran : a report to the California Legislature. ...
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• MARCIA BUNNEY, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S FACILITY, CHOWCHILLA, CA: .
• California’s prison system has not merely grown; it has metastasized, from a dozen facilities in 1982 to nearly 35 at this writing. ...
• In 1982, California’s sole prison for female felons was the California Institution for Women (CIW). ...
• This perversion of manifest destiny has resulted in a total of four prison facilities built to house female felons; the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) began to house prison “overflow” in the early 1980’s, and continues to do so. All lack the capacity to meaningfully address women’s substance abuse problems - an underlying cause of many serious health problems prisoners present upon entering custody. ...
• A system burgeoning with substance abusers places a tremendous demand upon medical resources, a demand which the CDC has long failed/refused to meet, both in caring for prisoners suffering from conditions rooted in (or exacerbated by) substance abuse, and in refusing to develop adequate counseling resources to assist women attempting to overcome the underlying problems that led so many to abuse drugs and alcohol in the first place. Ironically, CRC, originally conceived as a facility for individuals under civil addict commitment, has allowed the “bed space” crisis to derail its substance abuse agenda. Only recently - particularly since the release of a scathing January 1998 report by the Little Hoover Commission - has official dialog been directed toward increasing the availability of substance abuse programs, particularly at CRC - as though this were an innovation! .
• What has not changed in all this time, however, is the fact that women prisoners in California receive inferior medical care, care so poor that comparable performance in a community facility would have resulted in prompt sanctions, including closure of premises and suspension/revocation of licenses, accompanied by aggressive litigation for damages. ...
• The decision to seek adequate medical care for oneself is a person matter; it is quite another to come to the realization that there is no hope of resolving such issues within the prison facility, and make the pivotal choice to approach outside advocates for support and assistance. ...
• Wilson (mental health care for California prisoners, statewide) - the CDC’s compliance has been dismal. ...
• Wilson,which was a class action suit against the state filed by California Institution for Women (CIW) and Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) because of the criminally negligent medical care being received at these two major women’s prisons in California. The suit did not include Valley State Prison, another large prison across the road from CCWF in Chowchilla. ... that is, in addition to the fact that it does not include Valley State. ...
• First, of course, is the fact that the women had to go to such extreme measures to get the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to admit that there was such a grave problem in the health care in prisons. The act of going for a settlement rather than fighting it out in court was really an admission on their part of the presence of a serious situation, and was also a move in this “chess game” to quiet any damning testimony that would have come out in court and been covered by a media that has already publicly revealed the misconduct of the guards in other places of the California prison system. Following the expose of the horrors of Pelican Bay’s systematic torture of prisoners in their Security Housing Unit, and Corcoran’s’ barbaric staged gladiator fights (8 of the guards were indicted by the FBI in Feb, 1998), the story of the medical neglect might have cause people to wake up to what the CDC is really doing. ...

• Lawyers Protest Mentally Ill Prisoner 'Experiment' in California.
• 9--Attorneys for California inmates sought Tuesday to block what they claim is an illegal experiment with mentally ill prisoners that would place them in a "dangerous, punitive and inhumane new 'Supermax' " prison. ...
• The block of cells in question -- the first of 10 new high-security segregation units scheduled to go on line before the end of the year -- is an addition to the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF) at Corcoran state prison. ...
• Two federal judges in California have held that housing mentally ill people under such conditions violates the 8th Amendment's bar on "cruel and unusual punishment," according to papers filed in Sacramento federal court by the attorneys who are seeking a temporary restraining order. ...
• CDC spokeswoman Margot Bach said Tuesday that the motion is "moot" because the agency has agreed to postpone its planned placement of mentally ill inmates in the units at Corcoran, and because the court-appointed special master in the class action suit does not support the motion. ...
• At the judge's direction, Keating and his staff of mental health professionals are paid by the state. ...
• Bien, who toured the facility Aug. ...
• That information would be compared with results from a control group of inmates in the facility's traditional segregation units. ...
• "It is also in violation of California and federal law. ...
• A facility that allows no interaction will prevent escalating risk of harm to inmates, she said. ...
• But the inmates' attorneys say in their court papers that the units are nearly identical to the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City. ...

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