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January 29, 2021
By consolidating stonewalled grievances together under one class action lawsuit, Marquise Caliz aims to make a legal move that cannot be ignored by the devastating Prison Litigation Reform Act. As you can see in the graph, the filing rate by prisoners has greatly dropped since the act’s 1996 passing. – Credit: Prison Policy Initiative, 2016
by Marquise Caliz
On May 23, 2020, while I was enslaved at Kern Valley State Prison in B-1 Ad Seg overflow, Correctional Officer M. Olivarez Tamayo (badge No. 86481) opened the door to the cell I was assigned to – and no, this was not a cell extraction.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
OC’s DA charges 10 suspects, including murderers, for stealing $500,000 in all in coronavirus unemployment claims [The Orange County Register]
Jan. 25 Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer on Monday, Jan. 25, announced three criminal cases involving $500,000-plus in fraudulent unemployment claims while urging a “massive response” by state officials to a suspected wave of theft across the state of money meant for those out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 10 suspects include two men accused of opening a Garden Grove business in order to file false unemployment claims, as well as an Anaheim tax preparer and an Irvine woman accused of helping prisoners, including convicted murderers, improperly receive unemployment benefits.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer was joined by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris at a press conference this morning to announce the prosecution of two business owners who opened up a Garden Grove storefront with the sole purpose of filing false unemployment claims with the state of California for people who did not qualify in order to steal taxpayer dollars intended to help those out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly $500,000 in cash and bank accounts was recovered during the District Attorney’s investigation in conjunction with the fraudulent activity being carried out by that business.
District Attorney Spitzer also announced the prosecution of eight more people, including six state prisoners, involved in two other unemployment schemes to also defraud California taxpayers of tens of thousands of dollars. Among those charged with filing false unemployment claims are two convicted murders who claimed the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted their ability to work
Roberto Luca was 16 when he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Two decades into his sentence while in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, he had an epiphany about the pain he caused his victims and he vowed to improve himself. He began by working on his GED in solitary confinement. I was 35 years old and didnât even know fractions, he said. I had zero education.
Getting an education behind bars isn t new. Correspondence programs have a long history, especially for GEDs. But in 2014, California passed SB 1391, which funded face-to-face classes inside prison walls. That s when Bakersfield College began a pilot program at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano.