For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in californias highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leaders, serial killers in lockdown cells, and patrolling exercise yards filled with violent felons while unarmed and outnumbered to2. Vodicka is former california correctional officer and author of the green wall. This africanled initiative aims to grow an 8000km new world wonder across the entire width of the continent to. Yet, since 1978, china has planted at least 66 billion of them across its arid northern territories, hoping to transform its sandy steppes and yellow dunes into a great green wall. Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. A prison guards struggle to expose the code of silence in the largest prison system in the united states is a selfpublished tome that tracks vodicka s life, from his 1988 dreamfulfilling graduation from the correctional officers academy in gault through some of californias most dangerous prisons.
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This brave man finally released his new book about the green wall. Grande muraille verte pour le sahara et le sahel is africas flagship initiative to combat the effects of desertification. The green wall is the true story, meticulously documented and supported, of a contemporary hero, donald dj vodicka. Former california warden allegedly prison legal news.
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