Is prison the best punishment for all offenders? ?
I defend prisoners for in prison crimes at Salinas Valley State Prison and Soledad State Prison. Both of these facilities are in California. SVSP is a level 4 prison, the highest security, and Soledad is a partial 2/3 facility with a level 1 fire camp attached, the lowest level. All of my cases come from SVSP or Soledad level 3, the fire camp is peaceful. All my cases are attacks on guards or other prisoners. Some are riots, all involve prisoner manufactured weapons with serious injury. All my clients are heavily tattooed gang members, usually Norteno, Southern Mexican or Fresno Bulldog affiliation. I have had one 18th Street gang member. All the attacks are unprovoked and seemingly planned. While I represent these people, they occasionally get transferred around to other prisons, Corcoran, High Desert, Kern 2 and various others. All my clients are violent offenders, usually assault with a deadly weapon, murder, attempted murder, rape, etc., while being a gang member. All the prisons t
