We, the membership of the Chino Chapter of CCPOA, have had it with this administration's intransigence!
What can be done?
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What can be done?
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By Gary Clark, President
Chino Chapter
CCPOA
Admittedly, there are some issues which impact our prison which our Warden is not able to control. A recent example of this is James Tilton’s decision to transfer inmates out-of-state, by forcible means if necessary. However, more often than not, the promulgation of poor security policy and the failure to correct bad security policy and demonstrably deficient physical plant defects is the result of local action and/or inaction at CIM.
During the current CIM administration, two Correctional Officers, within a two week period, were seriously beaten in incidents which occurred at the MSF yard in housing units without proper offices. Proper offices, NOT open-air podiums, would have afforded the officers a chance to see the attack coming and, perhaps, offer some defense against it.
In a meeting with the Warden, soon after my current term as Chapter President began, we discussed retrofits to make these offices more secure. No action on this issue yet.
Recently, during the current CIM administration, there was a major riot at the Reception Center West which exacerbated the need for escape routes for Correctional Officers working the recently fenced-off housing units. Even though these escape routes were suggested during the construction of the fences, they were ignored.
Recently, during the current CIM administration, the well established security measure of the Mini-Yards was dismantled by one of CIM’s managers. This procedure prevented large groups of inmates from congregating on the MSF yard at the same time. Considering the changing and more violent nature of the “minimum” inmate at CIM, the Mini-Yards are needed now, more than ever. However, day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month the, potentially catastrophic, demise of the Mini-Yards has yet to be reversed.
There are currently many grievances, at various levels within the grievance system, which contest the fact that policy, within the scope of CCPOA representation, is being unilaterally implemented and CCPOA is being locked-out of the state’s legal obligation to afford labor to be part of the process of policy development in these areas. Bad security policy and insecure physical plant certainly impacts terms and conditions of employment.
Now, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to build a mental health facility at CIM which will pose even more of a burden to a security system gone awry. Since CCPOA has been locked-out of the policy making process, perhaps Sacramento should reconsider CIM as one of their proposed sites until the administration gets its security act together.
Since CDCR no longer provides legal notice to CCPOA prior to most policy implementations, perhaps it is time to take our case to those who ultimately pay for the programs and services offered to inmates by CDCR and who are most effected by these policies. That would be the taxpayers of the communities surrounding CIM.
For this reason, a poll will be conducted from February 16, 2007 until March 5, 2007 at the CIM blog at http://cimccpoa.blogspot.com as a feasibility study into an informational picket in front of the California Institution for Men. Based on the reception, either pro or con, the determination will be made whether or not to organize the picket line.
Please visit the blog and vote, one way or another.
During the current CIM administration, two Correctional Officers, within a two week period, were seriously beaten in incidents which occurred at the MSF yard in housing units without proper offices. Proper offices, NOT open-air podiums, would have afforded the officers a chance to see the attack coming and, perhaps, offer some defense against it.
In a meeting with the Warden, soon after my current term as Chapter President began, we discussed retrofits to make these offices more secure. No action on this issue yet.
Recently, during the current CIM administration, there was a major riot at the Reception Center West which exacerbated the need for escape routes for Correctional Officers working the recently fenced-off housing units. Even though these escape routes were suggested during the construction of the fences, they were ignored.
Recently, during the current CIM administration, the well established security measure of the Mini-Yards was dismantled by one of CIM’s managers. This procedure prevented large groups of inmates from congregating on the MSF yard at the same time. Considering the changing and more violent nature of the “minimum” inmate at CIM, the Mini-Yards are needed now, more than ever. However, day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month the, potentially catastrophic, demise of the Mini-Yards has yet to be reversed.
There are currently many grievances, at various levels within the grievance system, which contest the fact that policy, within the scope of CCPOA representation, is being unilaterally implemented and CCPOA is being locked-out of the state’s legal obligation to afford labor to be part of the process of policy development in these areas. Bad security policy and insecure physical plant certainly impacts terms and conditions of employment.
Now, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to build a mental health facility at CIM which will pose even more of a burden to a security system gone awry. Since CCPOA has been locked-out of the policy making process, perhaps Sacramento should reconsider CIM as one of their proposed sites until the administration gets its security act together.
Since CDCR no longer provides legal notice to CCPOA prior to most policy implementations, perhaps it is time to take our case to those who ultimately pay for the programs and services offered to inmates by CDCR and who are most effected by these policies. That would be the taxpayers of the communities surrounding CIM.
For this reason, a poll will be conducted from February 16, 2007 until March 5, 2007 at the CIM blog at http://cimccpoa.blogspot.com as a feasibility study into an informational picket in front of the California Institution for Men. Based on the reception, either pro or con, the determination will be made whether or not to organize the picket line.
Please visit the blog and vote, one way or another.
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