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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>HURRAH! SOME GOOD NEWS IN DARK TIMES.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> occupymendocino-bounces@lists.mcn.org [mailto:occupymendocino-bounces@lists.mcn.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Richard Karch<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 12, 2019 12:35 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Occupymendocino] Private for -profit prisons to end<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div style='margin-right:11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:13.2pt'><b><font size=5 color="#9a3d3d" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:19.0pt;color:#9A3D3D;font-weight:bold'>Private, for-profit prisons to end</span></font></b><font size=5 color="#9a3d3d"><span style='font-size:19.0pt;color:#9A3D3D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt'><div><div><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span class=fid9><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>State ban on facilities will include those used by federal agencies to hold immigrants</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div style='margin-right:11.25pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=fid10><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>By</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div style='margin-right:11.25pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>DON THOMPSON AND AMY TAXIN</span></font></b><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid12><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>SACRAMENTO — California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he had signed.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The Democratic governor said the measure helps fulfill a promise he made to end private prison use, which he said contributes to over-incarceration and does “not reflect our values.”</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The state’s prison system was already phasing them out, despite having to comply with an inmate population cap imposed by federal judges.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Immigrant advocates have praised the bill authored by Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, which they said would put an end to almost all immigration detention in California in the next year.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>However, one private prison company said it expects most if not all of the law would fail a legal challenge, particularly requiring the federal government to end its contracts.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“States cannot lawfully pass legislation mandating the closure of federal facilities that displease them on the basis of ideological differences,” The Geo Group of Adelanto said in a statement.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>California has been at the forefront of resisting President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport those who are in the country illegally and has a so-called “sanctuary state” law that restricts police from asking people about their immigration status or participating in federal immigration enforcement actions.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The new measure prohibits the state corrections department from renewing contracts starting next year and from housing any state inmates in private, for-profit prisons starting in 2028.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“We are sending a powerful message that we vehemently oppose the practice of profiteering off the backs of Californians in custody,” Bonta said.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>California previously halted growth in local government contracts to house immigration detainees. After that, populous Orange County south of Los Angeles and other local governments ended their contracts to hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Four dedicated immigration detention facilities remain in California with an average daily population of about 3,700 detainees. ICE has previously said the largest one, run by The Geo Group, has a temporary contract set to expire in 2020, as does another facility in Bakersfield.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>ICE’s acting press secretary, Bryan Cox, said immigration enforcement would still take place, noting that California accounts for less than 10% of the agency’s detention capacity.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He said the impact “would be felt primarily by residents of California who would theoretically have to travel greater distances to visit friends and family in custody.”</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Christina Fialho, co-founder of Freedom for Immigrants, said she doesn’t believe ICE could legally extend the contracts ending in 2020.</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=abody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2'><span class=fid4><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Within the next year, private immigration detention will be abolished for good in California,” she said, adding that rural Yuba County in Northern California still has a contract to detain immigrants but may also soon end it. “This is huge.”</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div style='margin-top:11.25pt;display:inline-block;max-width: 90%;font-variant-ligatures: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2' id=imgArt0><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://us5lb-cdn.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/ajax-request.php?val=Image_0.jpg&action=loadImage&type=Image&pSetup=santarosapressdemocrat_bb&issue=20191012&crc=pd03b101219_120000.pdf.0&edition=Santa%20Rosa%20Press%20Democrat&mtime=084500&paperImage=santarosapressdemocrat"><img id="imgchild_0" src="http://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/code/icons/usa/zoom_in.png"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=3 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, second from left, flanked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, and other lawmakers on Friday in Sacramento, discusses his measure that will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities. </span></font></b><span class=fid13><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>RICH PEDRONCELLI / ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></font></span><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>