Media coverage of the senate hearings:

Anguished prison guard: 'My job has killed me'
Suicide note after riot highlights a troubled California system—Senate to investigate January 17, 2004 | By Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle

Tales of threats at state prison hearings
Corrections officials pledge reform as Senate inquiry opens
January 21, 2004 | By Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle

Prison system blasted by lawmakers, new administration
January 20, 2004 | By Don Thomson, Associated Press

Criticism of Schwarzenegger’s prison reform program:

Reformers' Objectivity Called Into Question
April 5, 2004 | By Mark Gladstone, San Jose Mercury News

Governor accused of retreat on prisons
June 22, 2006 | By Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle

Background on California corrections:

Waiting for judgment day
May 2004 | By John Howard, California Journal

More on “the code of silence” in California prisons:

The code of silence
May 13, 2004 | By Stephan James, Sacramento News and Review

Other information:

KCRA Coverage
Transcripts of local television news coverage (KCRA in Sacramento) of the April 2002 riot at Folsom Prison

California Senate Select Committee on Government Cost Control website, “Oversight of State Prisons”

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comments on prison reform, August 16, 2004

Gang information from www.knowgangs.com