Blog #7

CDCR has encountered problems just like any other large business in CA. Last year I was offered a position at CDCR as a student assistant. I did not take it because I decided to come to school here. :) But the recent budget cuts caused a lot of people to lose their jobs in CDCR and had other state agencies panicking that their agency could be next. When the state changes its policies that concerns CDCR it does affect them, until we can get our budget together as a state, there are going to be job cuts, prisons being over crowded and having to close and prisoners being released early because there is no room in the prisons.

Blog Topic #4

The CDCR takes public stands on issues that concern them which could be death penalty and prison health care. These are two issues that I have heard about in the recent years. Not everyone is for the death penalty and only one prison (San Quentin) does executions. As far as prison health care is concerned, there have been cases regarding the medical care in the prisons. It has been said that CA spends at least $10,000 per inmate on health care. I personally feel thats a problem if CA is so broke. Granted everyone should have a right to health care but there are people who are not in prison who have none.

Blog Topic #3

My CP and citizens interact on the basis if you are apart of the state prison system as an inmate or someone who has been paroled. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is one of the top 6 largest police agencies (31,000 officers). The inmates who are paroled are assigned parol officers in which they check in with on a regular basis. If citizens do not obey the law and do things that will send them to prison they have to interact with my CP or if citizens are victims of a crime in which the accuser is sent to prison they communicate with the office of victim services which is an office under CDCR.