Criminal
Feb. 11, 2009
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
It's hard for Californians to understand the gravity of criminal justice issues when the state's prisons are so geographically isolated that they might as well be in Siberia.
Konrad Moore
Public Defender, Kern County Public Defender's Office
ehachapi bills itself as the land of Four Seasons. Tucked into the southern edge of the Sierras, the community boasts tasty apples, a historic railroad loop and a sprawling prison, the California Correctional Institution. CCI is so large that a prison guard is assigned the duty of driving visitors from the prison entrance to its various housing units.
Wasco, a small town nestled alongside Highway 46, is renowned for its rose production, a source of considerable pride in the Centr...
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