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Bob Walsh

The California Crisis

Bob Walsh worked for 24 years with the California Department of Corrections at Deuel Vocational Institution located near Tracy, California. He retired in early 2005. Since then he has been taking classes, exercising his obsolete camera equipment, rusticating and writing for the PacoVilla web site which focuses on issues within what is now called the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCr) and within the union representing CDCr employees, the California Correctional Peace Officer’s Association (CCPOA).

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California’s massive change to the state’s jail, prison and parole system is coming
Blacks constitute about 11 percent of the population of California, and about 30 percent of the prison population of the state
For the state of California, decisions made in the next hundred days will shape the future of various corrections departments
Gov. Jerry Brown’s ambitious plan for balancing his state’s budget includes moving parole services to county control and dismantling the DJJ
Where we are, where we were, where we are going
Corrections staff suffers as the California Department of Corrections faces an uphill battle
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