The hearing-impaired soon to arrive at San Quentin San Quentin State Prison will begin housing deaf prisoners, state officials report. “They just want to be a part of the education and self-help pro- grams you enjoy here,” said Kelly Mitchell, assistant deputy director for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). The transfers to San Quentin are the result of years of litigation between the deaf community and CDCR for their equal access to educational and self-help programs, said Prison Legal Office … [Read more...] about Town Hall addresses the arrival of deaf prisoners
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California’s early release programs ACP
California has several little-known programs that have allowed hundreds of prison inmates to go home up to a year early. Prisoners must apply to participate. More than a thousand people have been able to serve the last 12 months of their sentence in their communities. The main program is called the Alternative Custody Program (ACP). It places inmates in a residential home, residential drug-treatment program, or transitional care facility. “64% of California’s jail population is awaiting trial or sentencing as of December 2016.” Most remain … [Read more...] about California’s early release programs ACP
Cala Manager Offers Employment Returning Citizens
San Francisco’s hottest restaurant has a general manager who believes it is smart business to hire the formerly incarcerated.Opened in September 2015, Cala with its Mexico City star-chef Gabriela Camara is San Francisco’s most talked-about 2016 restaurant, according to Daniel Smith of www.bayarea.com. The Atlantic magazine named Cala the poster child of a new wave of chic, experimental Mexican cuisine. Under-reported in all the media hype, however, is that Cala opened with 70 percent of its staff composed of the formerly incarcerated, thanks … [Read more...] about Cala Manager Offers Employment Returning Citizens