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Until recent events, Calif. locked "validated" gang in concrete boxes for years and years. So what has changed?

Over the past three decades, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has attempted to suppress gang violence in prisons by separating believed to have gang affiliations their units safe housing and notorious (SHU) - and leave them there for years, even decades. Last summer, two hunger strikes across the state protesting against the conditions of SHU uncomfortable throwing a spotlight on these policies and the CDCR was forced to rethink their approach.

has recently published a draft of its new strategy (pdf), including the long-awaited program reducer details. While the new strategy has been well received by the participants in a "something is better than nothing" kind of way, it is far from responding to grievances that have forced it to be.

Four years later program (SDP), at least provide SHU inmates with a mechanism to earn his way back to the general prison population. It is a very good news for new SHU prisoners, which, until now, had to resign to spend a minimum of six years in a concrete box with no windows and 8x10ft no human contact before his case went even consider. But for those who have been in one for years or decades, since the SDP seems to offer little more than a guarantee of at least three and a half years of almost total isolation.

In the first year, for example, the only change of SHU inmates can hope for is to participate in "Studies in cells designed to improve the skills of life." The second year is more of the same, with a few carrots thrown, namely, playing cards, a phone call a year and the opportunity to spend an additional $ 11 per month (your own money) to canteen. Three years allows two calls per year, and some other random additional benefits, including "a plastic cup, plastic bowl, a pair of tennis shoes season, a combination of 10 books, newspapers or magazines, and a set of dominated. "Four years adds a chess game for all.

is only three years since the current meetings of the group are allowed, and only in the second half of the year, four will be held the possibility of having a certain level of "court of interaction. "No wonder that the prisoners and their supporters are less enthusiastic about the idea of ??a reform program intended to go beyond the first two years to allow the use of tennis shoes season as they play alone in their cells.

course, CDCR does not want to rush things, because the program could suffer serious setbacks if something goes wrong, but the mediation team which negotiated on behalf of prisoners during strikes hunger CDCR has the Connecticut Department of Correction (credited with the creation of a national gang management) completed in five and a half months for the CDCR expects to achieve in four years.

But at least there is a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel, which is not nothing for inmates who have spent decades without regular access to sunlight. They refrain from any future gang activities, which will eventually be released from the USD.

This is not as easy as it sounds, however, is that gang activity is so broadly defined that it is almost impossible for inmates to remain free of rape. This was highlighted for me one of my correspondents HUS in a recent letter:

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