SVSP Correction Officers corrupt

I'm currently doing 17 years here at one of the foulest prisons in California, known as Salinas Valley State Prison. Where even COs don't stay here to work long. This prison has the biggest CO turn over rates out of all California State Prisons, corrupt cops train new cops in corrupt ways.

Last year 8 COs were arrested for a prison yard gang called the green wall, which is still active in this prison. And when an inmate files a 602 he is reprised on or thrown in the hole or criticized for filing. Even when we are off lockdown we don't get what we got coming.

COs make more money than any other California peace officer and seem to not even know how to run a program for us and would rather sit on their asses and provoke us to do things and start tensions. And COs drop kites [fake notes] to say something is going to go down just to lock it down. The feds need to step in to oversee this place because it's crap here.

- a California prisoner, August 2005