Brie Williams Archives

24 Sep Planning for Correctional Healthcare Oversight in California: Recommendations from a Modified Delphi Process

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As California’s federal Plata Receivership nears its conclusion, the state has an opportunity to establish permanent oversight of prison healthcare and sustain the gains achieved over the past two decades. This report offers an evidence-based framework for a post-Receivership oversight body, drawing on expert consensus...

01 Sep From Compliance to Prevention: Understanding and Strengthening Responses to Reports of Sexual Misconduct in California State Men’s Prisons

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Drawing on publicly available data, policy and oversight reports, and interviews with subject matter experts, this report evaluates what is currently known about sexual misconduct within CDCR, with a focus on men’s prisons, and identifies key factors that influence prevention, reporting, investigations, accountability, and sexual...

01 Sep “It has given us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves”: Exploring a Novel Intervention to Recalibrate the Professional Identities of Prison Staff

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This study examines the Contact Mentor Program, an intervention adapted from Norway that trains U.S. prison staff to serve as supportive mentors to incarcerated individuals. Findings suggest that staff experienced greater autonomy, organizational support, and sense of purpose, indicating the program may help improve job...

20 Jul Reimagining San Quentin: Recommendations to Transform San Quentin State Prison into a Rehabilitation Center

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This report was prepared for California Governor Gavin Newsom to provide recommendations to transform San Quentin State Prison — the oldest and most notorious prison in California — from a maximum-security prison into a rehabilitation center focused on improving public safety....

28 Apr Strengthening the Women’s Prison Workforce: Recruitment and Training

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This report recommends strategies to maximize workforce development in women’s prisons, focusing on recruitment and training, to build a CDCR workforce equipped to support the health, wellness and rehabilitation of incarcerated women. The application of these integrated recommendations will enhance outcomes for both staff and...

28 Apr Emerging Innovations to Optimize Women’s Health, Wellness, and Empowerment in Prison

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This report describes approaches that prison systems have deployed to optimize health, wellness and empowerment for incarcerated women. It draws from international examples to describe optimal approaches, their connection to health impacts, and actionable steps for implementation in California....

28 Apr Opportunities to Optimize Programming to Support Health and Wellness in California’s Women’s Prisons

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This report presents recommendations to reimagine California’s women’s prisons with a focus on health, wellness and empowerment through the creation of health and wellness centers and an emphasis on individualized rehabilitation. It includes action steps to ensure that programming is gender-responsive, trauma-informed, timely, accessible, high-quality,...

14 Oct Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison

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This study aims to characterize the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison and to describe what made San Quentin so vulnerable to uncontrolled transmission. ...

14 Oct Urgent Memo – COVID-19 Outbreak: San Quentin Prison

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San Quentin California State Prison is experiencing a rapidly evolving COVID-19 (SARSCoV-2) outbreak with profoundly inadequate resources to keep it from developing into a full-blown local epidemic and health care crisis in the prison and surrounding communities. ...

14 Oct Evaluation of the April-May 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak at California Men’s Colony

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In summer 2020, a multidisciplinary team of academics and health professionals conducted an on-site evaluation of the April-May 2020 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at California Men’s Colony (CMC), located in San Luis Obispo (SLO) County, California. ...