CDCR

Dispatches from the Inside: An interview with inmate Richard Gilliam

Richard Gilliam — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:46:46 +0000

For over a year, inmate Richard Gilliam has regularly sent us dispatches from prison as part of our Dispatches from the Inside series, to give us a lens into the prison infrastructure housing about 120,000 people in California. During this time, Gilliam has told us about the arbitrary nature of enforcement of the rules, race relations, and watching a cell mate wait too long for critical health care.

Behind the walls of California's most restricted cells

Nancy Mullane — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This story was the first of a six-part series following Nancy Mullane in her efforts to increase media access to prisons. It first aired in October 2012. It begins seven hours north of San Francisco in Crescent City and Pelican Bay State Prison. That’s where more than 1,100 of the inmates considered the most dangerous and influential in the state are locked up in the state’s Security Housing Unit also known as the SHU.

CDCR responds to parole criticism

Bill Sessa — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:26:00 +0000

Last week, we aired a commentary by Richard Gilliam, who is an inmate at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. We asked the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for a reply. Here’s what Public Information Officer Bill Sessa had to say.

Go inside the prison that houses Charles Manson

Nancy Mullane — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:21:04 +0000

It’s early. About 5 in the morning and I’m heading south on Highway 5 toward Corcoran, a farming town of about 24,000 people. However, that population count is misleading. About half of the people living in Corcoran are locked up in two of the state’s largest prisons just south of downtown.

Dispatches from the Inside: Rehabilitation needs are not being met for California prisoners

Richard Gilliam — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:49:48 +0000

Richard Gilliam is incarcerated at the California Men's Colony (CMC).

August 27, 2012