Advocating for CA Prisoners Marvin Mutch Progressive Lawyering Day - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Advocating for CA Prisoners Marvin Mutch Progressive Lawyering Day October 8, 2016

• Introduction • The Title 15 Explained • Who is held to the Title 15? • Does the Title 15 apply to solitary confinement? • Title 15 and prisoner discipline • Title 15 and guard conduct • Example • Questions Overview

• “young” marvin photo Forty-one years of experience

The Title 15 • PDF : http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Regulations/Adult_Operations/docs/Title15-2016.pdf • With Hyperlinks : http://bit.ly/2cjQxnC

CA Constitution CA Penal Code CA Code of Regulations Department Operating Manual (DOM) Operational Procedures/ Institutional Procedures Title 15 in CA Law

• CDCR officers trained on Title 15 regulations • Receive ongoing training • Prisoners are handed a book regardless of literacy, expected to navigate the regulations Use of Title 15

• Extended Title 15 rights for Administrative Segregation. • Conditions in AdSeg were awful – called the “hole” for a reason. • Set up legal background for hunger strikes in 2011/2013. Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986)

CDCR 115 Form

CDCR 602 Form

Example

Questions?