One for One Job Exchange

ONE-FOR-ONE JOB EXCHANGE



The State and CCPOA have agreed to conduct a Job Exchange for the C/O and CCI classifications, in May/June 2013, with an additional exchange in 2013. CCPOA will make every effort to facilitate Job Exchanges for those submitting requests. The following terms must be met:

 Participants must be from the same classification and time base at the time the request is submitted.

 Once submitted, the exchange is binding and non-revocable.

 Every attempt will be made to complete the exchanges by seniority, however, there are no guarantees.



 Participants will not be guaranteed a specific position, and honoring any previously approved vacation, holiday, or leave requests will be solely at the discretion of the newly assigned institution.

 All Job Exchanges must be approved by CDCR.

 Any exchange of jobs will not protect against future layoffs or involuntary transfers due to future Wave Reductions. Therefore, management retains the right to deny an exchange due to layoff issues.

 Those attending the April 29th Transitional Academy will be allowed to participate. However, if an exchange is approved, participants will be required to pay back all Wave 3 Per Diem monies prior to their report date.



The Voluntary Job Exchange Program Forms will be accepted beginning on May 23, 2013.

PLEASE SUBMIT SIGNED FORMS TO THE FOLLOWING FAX ADDRESS:

(559) 375-7125, OR, COMPLETE THE FORM ELECTRONICALLY THROUGH THE CCPOA MEMBERS ONLY WEBSITE.

If you have previously submitted an Exchange Request, you must resubmit a request for this May/June One-for One Exchange.

The deadline for the submission of One-for-One Job Exchange forms is midnight, June 7, 2013. No forms will be accepted after this date.

To secure the May/June 2013, Job Exchanges, CCPOA must submit forms to CDCR for approval on June 14th, 2013.



If the exchange is approved, the report date to the new position assignment will be on or about August 1, 2013.

** If you have questions, please contact your local CCPOA Field Representative.

Chuckies Warden on Realignment

BLYTHE, Calif. -

Thousands of prisoners in California are being released early or sent back to county jails to deal with the state's prison overcrowding problem.  Riverside County is now dealing with jail overcrowding as it takes in many of those inmates from the state.
       
While the problems are mounting on the local level, the release of inmates may now be improving issues inside California's prisons.

The acting warden at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, in Blythe, Maurice Gonzalez believes things are headed in the right direction.  He showed us the improvements at Chuckawalla since the governor's re-alignment law went into effect.

The law was needed after a panel of three federal judges found conditions in California prisons amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment."...........................see link for more

http://www.kesq.com/news/inside-chuckawalla-valley-state-prison/-/233092/20246986/-/ssy84y/-/index.html

An inmates claims on CIW

Hedi Smith spent 29 years as an inmate at the California Institution for Women state prison in Corona, California. During that time, she witnessed savagery the likes of which many Americans would have a hard time believing could ever be condoned on their native soil.

“Back during the ’80s and ’90s it was a free for all,” she tells TakePart. “Violence, sexual assault, staff sexual assaults. We even had staff assaulting staff.”
Smith herself was abused in the main ward of the facility. Despite her ordeal, some of the harshest and most inhumane treatment she witnessed occurred during her tenure working as a clerk at the facility’s psychiatric ward.

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“Officers were walking in on women in the shower. They were making advances. But nothing happened. If the women said anything, it was like, ‘You were on medication; so this really didn’t happen.’”

Smith says in her more than three years as a clerk, she only saw one correctional officer disciplined for his misbehavior.
“One girl kept coming to me, telling me an officer was bothering her,” Smith remembers. “She took pills three times a day. She used to have violent outbursts. They would have to put her in the padded cell at times. She had concerns. She was on heavy medication. So when she told the staff about it, they said, ‘You’re just dreaming this.’
Doing time is hard enough. We don’t need to be victims to the staff. Part of our punishment isn’t to be sexually violated.
“But that doesn’t mean things weren’t happening to her.”

So Smith started keeping tabs on the officer in question. She didn’t like what she saw. 

“He seemed shady,” says Smith. “I took it to my lieutenant at the time. He agreed, the guy didn’t seem right.”
Thankfully for the afflicted woman, lieutenants in the psych ward had the ability to pick their own staff at that time. The officer in question was removed from the unit.

Other mentally ill inmates haven’t been so lucky—and the sexual abuse of the mentally ill continues to be a problem in detention facilities throughout the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/doj-report-prison-rapists-target-mentally-ill-inmates-204417413.html

PICO's to Full Time

I'm hearing that many staff who were PICO's are rolling over to Full time if they chose to.  I've only heard from CIM and CIW, some staff say they were notified yesterday!

How about it Riders up and down the state, are your PICO's rolling over?  Hopefully, these Wave's will be coming to an end very soon.


Have a Safe 8 

http://layoffs.insidecdcr.ca.gov/

Wave 3 is OVER!

C/O Arrested for Domestic Violence

Around 4:00 a.m. Chico Police arrested 31 year-old Leonard Mundy for an alleged domestic violence dispute  at the Super 8 Motel on Manzanita Court in Chico.

While enroute, the victim  told the motel manager that she had been assaulted
by her boyfriend.

Chico Police said she further advised that the suspect was a correctional officer for the
California Department of Corrections and was armed with a handgun.

Upon arrival, officers learned the suspect had fled after the manager had called police.

During the investigation, officers located the suspect near the intersection of East Avenue and Cohasset Road.

The suspect, Leonard Mundy was arrested for felony spousal abuse and false imprisonment.

Police also said a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun believed to belong to Mundy was found in the area and secured.

Chico Police confirmed that Mundy was an off duty officer for the CDC.

Prison officials were notified of his arrest.

Mundy was transported to Butte County Jail where he was booked on domestic violence and false imprisonment charges.

His bail was set at $136,000.00.

Weak Defense

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Defense attorneys say 1 of the two inmates accused of killing a California prison guard in 2009 was so drunk on potent homemade liquor that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward.

The Fresno Bee (http://bit.ly/13Bof6d) cites court filings that claim James Ninete Leon Guerrero remained severely intoxicated after the alleged attack and during the time an agent questioned him.
The defense wants to block prosecutors from using statements made by Guerrero immediately after the death of guard Jose Rivera at the United States Penitentiary in Atwater six years ago.

Guerrero and Joseph Cabrera Sablan, who were both serving life sentences, have been charged with first-degree murder in Rivera's death.
The filings were made in federal court in Washington, D.C. A trial is scheduled to begin next year.

1% for Supervisors

Subject: Top Step July 1, 2013 for SO6

Dear Member,

 

As you are probably aware CCPOA has been conducting ongoing meetings with the Governor’s Office / Administration regarding various issues. One of those issues has been the disparity between the Rank and File and our Supervisor / Manager members, as it pertains to the new top step salary increase due to take effect July 1, 2013.

 

As of CCPOA’S latest meeting today, Friday, May 17, 2013 we are confident that the gap has been bridged. At this point we have no reason to doubt that the additional 1%, bringing SO6/MO6 in line with RO6 at 4%, will happen along with the R06, upon approval of the State budget.

 

Many people are responsible for this, too many to name in fact, but all are members of the CCPOA team and family.

 

Kevin Raymond, CCPOA Supervisory Vice President