| California State Prison | | | | inmates, manufactures steel frames for double |
| Prisoners cycle repeatedly back and forth between | | | | bunks-and triple bunks-in addition to license plates. As |
| prisons, where they do not receive sufficient | | | | a result of these focus groups, we developed a two |
| treatment, and inpatient facilities, where they are | | | | week, 8 session health promotion intervention for |
| permitted to stay for only a short while. Prisoners | | | | HIV+ inmates preparing to be released from prison. |
| have been warehoused and locked down in | | | | There have been 15 deaths at the prison this year; |
| overcrowded and brutal prisons - many due to the | | | | nine in 1999 and 10 in 1998. If the prison is filled to |
| 3strikes law - for longer and longer time. Through the | | | | capacity, it will have about 500 full-time employees, |
| summer, groups of local, amateur baseball players | | | | most of them guards. Operation from the grounds of |
| gain access to the prison yard and play against the | | | | San Quentin, the Prison Law Office is an aggressive |
| inmates in weekly games. The California Department | | | | advocacy group that assists inmates in unanswered |
| of Corrections (CDC) operates 32 prisons and 40 fire | | | | appeals, and is often involved in class action suits |
| and conservation camps comprising about 3,000 | | | | which are to the benefit of everyone. Provision of |
| structures having 37 million gross square feet of | | | | inadequate health care creates needless pain and |
| building space. There are six major prison gangs that | | | | suffering for the many prisoners who require such |
| are recognized nationally for their participation in | | | | services. State prisons vary between 1 percent under |
| organized crime and violence. From 1975 to 1985, | | | | capacity and 14 percent over capacity, while the |
| members committed 40 homicides in California prisons | | | | federal prison system is 34 percent above capacity. |
| and local jails, as well as 13 homicides in the | | | | But most experts agree that prisons have done little |
| community. The machine shop at the prison, run by | | | | to make communities safer. |