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Which is the Susanville Prison and
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Many years ago, I was given a personal tour by my friend, who was had been an LA Policeman and where he later became a Guard, of the then California Department of Correction's maximum security prison at Susanville in Northern California. The prison was not as expected. Fewer bars and more of a series of dormitories in its layout inside the walls. It was much more like a public middle school or high school, with a focus on trade education, in its impression from the inside rather than the way Hollywood had ever portrayed prisons.
PJ Media » California’s Broken Parole and Probation System
By Jack Dunphy On June 6, 2012
The irony seemed unintentional, which made it all the more amusing.
The
story [1] appeared in the May 29 edition of the
Los Angeles Times. “Realignment plan for California prisons causing new friction,” ran the headline, below which appeared a photograph of a teary-eyed Pamela Morris, for whom the reader was apparently supposed to feel sympathy. For those who merely skim the newspaper, glancing only at pictures and headlines, the editorial message was clear: Here was a disadvantaged woman, unlucky in life and put upon by an indifferent justice system.
But if one bothered to read the first paragraph, that delicious irony fairly leaped from the page. “The first four times Pamela Morris was released from prison,” it read, “she would go to her state parole officers or they would occasionally make unannounced solo visits to make sure she wasn’t committing new crimes.”
And the story goes on to describe the perceived defects in California’s newly instituted program (discussed last year
here [2]), whereby convicted criminals who once would have been housed in state prisons are instead serving time in county jails, and those who would have been in county jails are out on the loose but under the supervision of local police and sheriffs. And it was local police officers, from my own Los Angeles Police Department, who brought poor Pamela Morris to tears for having the audacity to drop in on her unannounced, handcuff her, and search her belongings, all of which they were legally allowed to do.
The first
four times . . .
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