Survey
January 21, 2011
California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association 2011 SUPERVISORS Contract Survey
This survey is designed to get Supervisory Members’ input on matters that are of the most concern of those who work the toughest beat in the state. In offering their comments, members should bear in mind the difficult fiscal condition of the State budget. The information gathered through this survey will be used to formulate proposals to submit to the new administration.
The survey will conclude Sunday night, January 23rd, so please complete this survey TODAY so we can get to work on implementing the results.
January 20, 2011
California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association 2011 Contract Survey
This survey is designed to get Members’ input on matters that are of the most concern of those who work the toughest beat in the state. In offering their comments, members should bear in mind the difficult fiscal condition of the State budget. The information gathered through this survey will be used to formulate proposals to submit to the new administration.
The survey will conclude Sunday night, January 23rd, so please complete this survey TODAY so we can get to work on implementing the results.
September 15, 2010
Prison officials dispute study on sexual violence behind bars
State prison officials are disputing findings from a new federal study that identified two California prisons as having some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the nation.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics ranked two California adult men’s prisons among six others nationwide as “high rate” facilities based on the prevalence of “inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization.”
The report gave the California Medical Facility a prevalence rate of 5.8 percent and Pleasant Valley State Prison a rate of 5.5 percent. The national rate for adult male inmates was 1.9 percent...
LINK - CaliforniaWatch.org
September 15, 2010
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-2009
Between October 2008 and December 2009, BJS completed the second National Inmate Survey (NIS-2) in 167 state and federal prisons, 286 jails, and 10 special confinement facilities operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Military, and correctional authorities in Indian country. The survey, conducted by RTI International (Research Triangle Park, NC), was administered to 81,566 inmates ages 18 or older, including 32,029 inmates in state and federal prisons, 48,066 in jails, 957 in ICE facilities, 399 in military facilities, and 115 in Indian country jails.
The NIS-2 is part of the National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which collects administrative records of reported sexual violence, and allegations of sexual victimization directly from victims, through surveys of adult inmates in prisons and jails and surveys of youth held in juvenile correctional facilities. Administrative records have been collected annually since 2004. Reports by victims of sexual victimization have been collected since 2007...
