Connections » California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation http://mtconnections.org Working towards any positive change! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Prisons do less to keep inmates from returning http://mtconnections.org/archives/312 http://mtconnections.org/archives/312#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:06 +0000 Marc http://mtconnections.org/archives/312 "I can't afford any more years up here -- I've lost too many," said Tatum, who is serving a four-year stint for forgery at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla. "I'm trying to learn things to change my thinking, change everything about me, so I can go home. It's so easy to get caught up here and never leave. I don't want to die in prison."~Gina Tatum

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“I live on a fixed income, and that prison phone contract forced me to make some hard decisions—most of the time I couldn’t afford to put food on the table and talk to my son in the same month. I want everyone hurt by those outrageous phone bills for 10 years to finally get justice.” ~Ivey Walton

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