CALIFORNIA INMATES
California Fire Camps Key To Reducing Prison Overcrowding
Katie Orr, Valley Public Radio
Reducing overcrowding at California prisons is not easy. Generally, inmates must either be released or given more space, which is expensive. But there is a third option. Inmates can be sent to fire camps. That's a cornerstone of Governor Jerry Brown's plan to reduce prison overcrowding in response to a federal court order. State Government Reporter Katie Orr takes a closer look at what these camps entail.
CMF bike program benefits community, inmates
Susan Winlow, The Daily Republic
VACAVILLE — “Meanwhile back at the ranch . . . “
It’s an iconic piece of cowboy narration that means something totally different to California Medical Facility inmates and personnel.
“The ranch” is a nickname for the dormitory-style accommodations that house low-level inmates and it’s the home of the nonprofit The Bike Project – a multifaceted community endeavor between the prison and a variety of community agencies and organizations, including the Vacaville School District.
Inmate firefighting program at risk
Dana Littlefield, UT San Diego
SAN DIEGO — One of the consequences of a 2011 state law aimed at relieving prison overcrowding is that it also reduced the pool of lower-level offenders eligible for inmate work camps that help fight brush fires.
The Public Safety Realignment Act transferred responsibility for housing and monitoring some offenders convicted of nonviolent, nonserious crimes from the state to the counties.
“From Lockup to Startup”
The Last Mile gives incarcerated men a chance to become entrepreneurs
Alex Doll, The Dish Daily
“Before getting a job at rally.org and graduating from The Last Mile, I was a prisoner in San Quentin state prison for eight and a half years,” began Heracio Harts during Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought and Leadership (ETL) talk last Wednesday. Harts received big hugs from both Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti as they walked up to the front of the room with big smiles on their faces and took the podium.
REALIGNMENT
Prisoner Realignment Spurs Push to Rehabilitate Convicts
Nick Gerda, The Associated Press
In the midst of the state transferring thousands of prisoners to county jails, Orange County officials are rapidly revamping their approach to dealing with convicted criminals.
Musical Chairs Behind Bars
State and County Continue the AB109 Inmate-Trading Game
Chris Meagher, The Santa Barbara Independent
The number of people under local supervision after being released from prison is on track with projections following the 2011 statewide shift in incarceration law, but the number of felons sentenced locally continues to be a problem, according to officials.
CDCR RELATED
L.A. city attorney: After bitter race, Mike Feuer beats incumbent Carmen Trutanich
Rick Orlov, The Los Angeles Daily News
After losing a race for district attorney last year, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich conceded he had lost his own job on Tuesday, as voters backed Assemblyman Mike Feuer for the City Attorney's Office.
Adelanto Detention Center to get additional $8 million in funding
Joe Nelson, The San Bernardino Sun
San Bernardino County's newest jail in Adelanto, expected to accommodate an influx of new inmates as a result of prison realignment, received $8 million in additional funding Tuesday due to unforeseen problems during construction.
Monterey County to transfer some local jail inmates to Alameda County
80 prisoners could head to Dublin
Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald
Monterey County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with Alameda County to house up to 80 local jail inmates in a facility in Dublin, at a cost of up to $2.5 million, despite a request from the American Civil Liberties Union that the county hold community meetings first.
Jail Population Increases After Three Years Of Decline
The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. jail population increased after three consecutive years of decline, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The number of inmates confined in county and city jails increased by 1.2 percent, from 735,601 at midyear 2011 to 744,524 at midyear 2012.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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CDCR RELATED
RIVERSIDE: Remembering Riverside County’s fallen law officers
Richard Brooks, The Press Enterprise
Sixty law officers have died in the line of duty throughout Riverside County since 1895, and each of them was remembered and honored at an annual ceremony by their families, friends and hundreds of active duty officers and retirees.
A select group of Yolo grads are helping society
The Daily Democrat
The Yolo Superior Court held a formal ceremony on Monday for graduates of the Court's Felony Probation Drug Court.
Judge Janet Gaard presided over the ceremony held in her chambers of the Yolo County Courthouse.
Instead of prison, felons get jail and rehab
Lynn Graebner, Healthycal.org
Larry Gardner was a drug dealer and user for 25 years. At age 41, incarcerated again after a long string of jail sentences, he’s ready to change — with help from a new program in Santa Cruz County called R.I.S.E. The program aims to help people like him improve their chances of success – and make it less likely that they’ll end up back in prison or jail.
REALIGNMENT
Chico State Faculty Publishes Report on Sheriff’s AB 109 Program
KHSLTV.COM
An interdisciplinary team at the California State University, Chico, in partnership with Butte County officials found positive results in Butte County’s response to the shift of some felony offenders from state prisons to county jails. The state’s criminal justice realignment, triggered by Assembly Bill 109, began shifting the custody and supervision of low-level felons to the counties in October 2011.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
I-Team obtains San Quentin crisis videos
Dan Noyes, ABC 7
MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- We're about to give you a rare look at the tactics used by San Quentin State Prison guards in crisis situations -- an overwhelming show of force called "cell extraction teams". The I-Team's Dan Noyes has obtained internal videos from the prison.
CALIFORNIA INMATES
Nearing a life sentence, Maurice Ainsworth sought new dishes
Jason Hoppin, The Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ -- Three days before being sent off to prison for the rest of his life, Maurice Ainsworth Jr. was complaining about his tableware.
Ainsworth, 27, filed an April 22 claim against the county seeking $49,500 in damages for having to eat off a paper tray, leading to "un-desiered (sic) weight loss." He had earlier filed a libel claim against the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office staff over an alleged 11th-hour escape plot, which Ainsworth said was overblown.
CALIFORNIA PAROLE
Ex-Derek and the Dominos Drummer Jim Gordon Denied Parole for at Least Five More Years
ABC News Radio
One-time Derek and the Dominos drummer Jim Gordon, who’s been in prison since killing his mother in 1983, was denied parole last month and won’t be able to apply for it again until at least 2018. According to Rolling Stone, a transcript from the hearing reveals that a California parole-board panel considers the 67-year-old musician “a danger to society if released from prison,” noting that he’s unwilling to take court-ordered medication.
RIVERSIDE: Remembering Riverside County’s fallen law officers
Richard Brooks, The Press Enterprise
Sixty law officers have died in the line of duty throughout Riverside County since 1895, and each of them was remembered and honored at an annual ceremony by their families, friends and hundreds of active duty officers and retirees.
A select group of Yolo grads are helping society
The Daily Democrat
The Yolo Superior Court held a formal ceremony on Monday for graduates of the Court's Felony Probation Drug Court.
Judge Janet Gaard presided over the ceremony held in her chambers of the Yolo County Courthouse.
Instead of prison, felons get jail and rehab
Lynn Graebner, Healthycal.org
Larry Gardner was a drug dealer and user for 25 years. At age 41, incarcerated again after a long string of jail sentences, he’s ready to change — with help from a new program in Santa Cruz County called R.I.S.E. The program aims to help people like him improve their chances of success – and make it less likely that they’ll end up back in prison or jail.
REALIGNMENT
Chico State Faculty Publishes Report on Sheriff’s AB 109 Program
KHSLTV.COM
An interdisciplinary team at the California State University, Chico, in partnership with Butte County officials found positive results in Butte County’s response to the shift of some felony offenders from state prisons to county jails. The state’s criminal justice realignment, triggered by Assembly Bill 109, began shifting the custody and supervision of low-level felons to the counties in October 2011.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
I-Team obtains San Quentin crisis videos
Dan Noyes, ABC 7
MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- We're about to give you a rare look at the tactics used by San Quentin State Prison guards in crisis situations -- an overwhelming show of force called "cell extraction teams". The I-Team's Dan Noyes has obtained internal videos from the prison.
CALIFORNIA INMATES
Nearing a life sentence, Maurice Ainsworth sought new dishes
Jason Hoppin, The Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ -- Three days before being sent off to prison for the rest of his life, Maurice Ainsworth Jr. was complaining about his tableware.
Ainsworth, 27, filed an April 22 claim against the county seeking $49,500 in damages for having to eat off a paper tray, leading to "un-desiered (sic) weight loss." He had earlier filed a libel claim against the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office staff over an alleged 11th-hour escape plot, which Ainsworth said was overblown.
CALIFORNIA PAROLE
Ex-Derek and the Dominos Drummer Jim Gordon Denied Parole for at Least Five More Years
ABC News Radio
One-time Derek and the Dominos drummer Jim Gordon, who’s been in prison since killing his mother in 1983, was denied parole last month and won’t be able to apply for it again until at least 2018. According to Rolling Stone, a transcript from the hearing reveals that a California parole-board panel considers the 67-year-old musician “a danger to society if released from prison,” noting that he’s unwilling to take court-ordered medication.
Monday, May 20, 2013
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CALIFORNIA INMATES
Inmates crucial in fighting wildfires
Beatriz E. Valenzuela and Andrew Edwards, The San Bernardino Sun
A crew of more than a dozen firefighters, tired and covered in dirt and soot, made its way back to a command post set up for the Springs Fire.
The men had just managed to dig out hundreds of feet of fire lines every hour around the massive Camarillo area wildfire, all with hand tools.
Folsom Inmates Raise Money for Cancer Research
Kimberly Rankin, Fox 40 News
FOLSOM - The iron gates and barbed wire fences of Folsom Prison aren’t strong enough to keep cancer out.
Corcoran inmate gets death penalty
Fresno Bee
A lifer at Corcoran State Prison has been sentenced to death for murdering his cell mate, a Kings County judge ruled this week.
Judge Peter L. Spinetta handed down the sentence for Robert Galvan at a hearing Wednesday, said Kings County prosecutor Thom Snyder. Galvan was immediately taken to death row at San Quentin State Prison.
REALIGNMENT
Post-realignment arrests down, lower in San Bernardino County
Beatriz E. Valenzuela, The San Bernardino Sun
Fewer offenders released from state prison after the implementation of Gov. Jerry Brown's Prison Realignment have been rearrested and conviction rates for the same group of offenders have remained virtually the same, according to a new study from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. San Bernardino County rates, however, are lower than the state average.
State report on prison realignment slammed by critics
Carol Ferguson, Bakersfieldnow.com
State prison officials say a study on the early impacts of so-called prison realignment show positive results. But critics point to negative data in the report, and Kern County prosecutors say it fails to analyze significant factors.
Did state prison overhaul drive up crime?
San Francisco Chronicle
Gearing up to run for governor next year, Abel Maldonado went on a statewide, 10-stop barnstorming tour this month. The centerpiece was his opposition to realignment, Gov. Jerry Brown’s solution to state-prison overcrowding, and his promise to repeal it with a November ballot initiative.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
Assemblyman Chris Holden and the Prison Bill AB 1065
Pasadena Now
Assemblyman Chris Holden said the protection of citizens against mentally disordered offenders and mentally disordered sexual offenders took a step in the right direction when the governor’s May revision of the state budget included language in a trailer bill largely due to his bill modifying prison realignment.
Brown's budget includes Holden's sex offender bill
Beatriz E. Valenzuela, San Bernardino Sun
Assemblyman Chris Holden's bill looking to help keep violent offenders under the supervision of the state is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Language from Assembly Bill 1065, which aimed to keep anyone previously convicted of a sex crime and who has been classified as a mentally disordered offender in state prison and then monitored by the California Parole office, was added to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget last week.
CALIFORNIA PAROLE
California governor blocks parole for inmate convicted in 1977 killing of a prison guard
Don Thompson, The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday blocked the parole of an inmate who is serving a life sentence for the execution-style killing of a prison guard 36 years ago during a series of armed robberies.
Michael Martin, who is now 53, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1977 slaying of Correctional Officer Victor Sam in Riverside County.
Police: Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel
Fugitive Rodney Edward Silva, 44, allegedly held the victim at Medford Inn
Ryan Pfeil, Mail Tribune
A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police reported.
Rodney Edward Silva, 44, allegedly held the woman against her will at the Medford Inn for several days, officials said. He is being held in the Jackson County Jail without bail on charges of first-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault, attempting to elude police and resisting arrest, jail records show.
Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from Sacramento street is registered sex offender
Cathy Locke and Bill Lindelof, The Sacramento Bee
A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the midday abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago.
Cedric Lain Holland, 25, was booked into the Sacramento County jail Thursday night on suspicion of kidnapping to commit another crime and violation of parole.
CDCR RELATED
San Rafael Pacifics Win against San Quentin Prison All-Stars
Oursportcentral.com
San Rafael Pacifics traveled to California State Prison San Quentin on Saturday, May 18, to kick off their spring training schedule and came away with a 17-3 victory over the prison's All-Star team.
Despite crime rate, Santa Cruz County sends few to prison
Jason Hoppin, The Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ - Despite a county seat where crime rates are among the highest in the state, Santa Cruz County's wheels of justice aren't turning out many inmates.
In fact, defendants here are less likely to wind up behind bars than in almost any other California county, with Santa Cruz County ranking 53rd of 58 California counties for incarceration rates.
Dozens arrested in High Desert gang sweep
San Bernardino Sun
VICTORVILLE -- Nearly three dozen people were arrested Friday night during a SMASH Gang Sweep Operation in the High Desert, according to sheriff's officials.
The exact numbers of those arrested were not immediately available over the weekend.
Family demands evidence of son's involvement in sister's killing
Dad of slain girl stands by his son
Tracie Cone and Haven Daley, The Associated Press and Kevin Valine, The Modesto Bee
CALAVERAS COUNTY -- The father of a 12-year-old boy arrested in the fatal stabbing of his 8-year-old sister said Monday that he will believe his son is innocent until he is shown evidence that proves otherwise.
Prison booze could play key role in Atwater murder trial
Michael Doyle - Bee Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- One of the two inmates accused of killing an Atwater prison guard was so drunk on a potent brew dubbed "White Lightning" that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court.
Judge calls killer 'a coward,' sentences him to 44 years to life in prison
Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee
The judge called the murderer a "coward" Thursday just before he sent him away to state prison for 44 years to the rest of his life.
"You cannot be a man," Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette told Edgar Gomez Carrillo, 30. "You are a coward."
Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS -- Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.
Chico Police: Correctional Officer Arrested For Domestic Violence
Shay Arthur, KRCR News
Around 4:00 a.m. Chico Police arrested 31 year-old Leonard Mundy for an alleged domestic violence dispute at the Super 8 Motel on Manzanita Court in Chico.
While enroute, the victim told the motel manager that she had been assaulted
by her boyfriend.
Inmates crucial in fighting wildfires
Beatriz E. Valenzuela and Andrew Edwards, The San Bernardino Sun
A crew of more than a dozen firefighters, tired and covered in dirt and soot, made its way back to a command post set up for the Springs Fire.
The men had just managed to dig out hundreds of feet of fire lines every hour around the massive Camarillo area wildfire, all with hand tools.
Folsom Inmates Raise Money for Cancer Research
Kimberly Rankin, Fox 40 News
FOLSOM - The iron gates and barbed wire fences of Folsom Prison aren’t strong enough to keep cancer out.
Corcoran inmate gets death penalty
Fresno Bee
A lifer at Corcoran State Prison has been sentenced to death for murdering his cell mate, a Kings County judge ruled this week.
Judge Peter L. Spinetta handed down the sentence for Robert Galvan at a hearing Wednesday, said Kings County prosecutor Thom Snyder. Galvan was immediately taken to death row at San Quentin State Prison.
REALIGNMENT
Post-realignment arrests down, lower in San Bernardino County
Beatriz E. Valenzuela, The San Bernardino Sun
Fewer offenders released from state prison after the implementation of Gov. Jerry Brown's Prison Realignment have been rearrested and conviction rates for the same group of offenders have remained virtually the same, according to a new study from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. San Bernardino County rates, however, are lower than the state average.
State report on prison realignment slammed by critics
Carol Ferguson, Bakersfieldnow.com
State prison officials say a study on the early impacts of so-called prison realignment show positive results. But critics point to negative data in the report, and Kern County prosecutors say it fails to analyze significant factors.
Did state prison overhaul drive up crime?
San Francisco Chronicle
Gearing up to run for governor next year, Abel Maldonado went on a statewide, 10-stop barnstorming tour this month. The centerpiece was his opposition to realignment, Gov. Jerry Brown’s solution to state-prison overcrowding, and his promise to repeal it with a November ballot initiative.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
Assemblyman Chris Holden and the Prison Bill AB 1065
Pasadena Now
Assemblyman Chris Holden said the protection of citizens against mentally disordered offenders and mentally disordered sexual offenders took a step in the right direction when the governor’s May revision of the state budget included language in a trailer bill largely due to his bill modifying prison realignment.
Brown's budget includes Holden's sex offender bill
Beatriz E. Valenzuela, San Bernardino Sun
Assemblyman Chris Holden's bill looking to help keep violent offenders under the supervision of the state is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Language from Assembly Bill 1065, which aimed to keep anyone previously convicted of a sex crime and who has been classified as a mentally disordered offender in state prison and then monitored by the California Parole office, was added to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget last week.
CALIFORNIA PAROLE
California governor blocks parole for inmate convicted in 1977 killing of a prison guard
Don Thompson, The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday blocked the parole of an inmate who is serving a life sentence for the execution-style killing of a prison guard 36 years ago during a series of armed robberies.
Michael Martin, who is now 53, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1977 slaying of Correctional Officer Victor Sam in Riverside County.
Police: Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel
Fugitive Rodney Edward Silva, 44, allegedly held the victim at Medford Inn
Ryan Pfeil, Mail Tribune
A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police reported.
Rodney Edward Silva, 44, allegedly held the woman against her will at the Medford Inn for several days, officials said. He is being held in the Jackson County Jail without bail on charges of first-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault, attempting to elude police and resisting arrest, jail records show.
Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from Sacramento street is registered sex offender
Cathy Locke and Bill Lindelof, The Sacramento Bee
A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the midday abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago.
Cedric Lain Holland, 25, was booked into the Sacramento County jail Thursday night on suspicion of kidnapping to commit another crime and violation of parole.
CDCR RELATED
San Rafael Pacifics Win against San Quentin Prison All-Stars
Oursportcentral.com
San Rafael Pacifics traveled to California State Prison San Quentin on Saturday, May 18, to kick off their spring training schedule and came away with a 17-3 victory over the prison's All-Star team.
Despite crime rate, Santa Cruz County sends few to prison
Jason Hoppin, The Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ - Despite a county seat where crime rates are among the highest in the state, Santa Cruz County's wheels of justice aren't turning out many inmates.
In fact, defendants here are less likely to wind up behind bars than in almost any other California county, with Santa Cruz County ranking 53rd of 58 California counties for incarceration rates.
Dozens arrested in High Desert gang sweep
San Bernardino Sun
VICTORVILLE -- Nearly three dozen people were arrested Friday night during a SMASH Gang Sweep Operation in the High Desert, according to sheriff's officials.
The exact numbers of those arrested were not immediately available over the weekend.
Family demands evidence of son's involvement in sister's killing
Dad of slain girl stands by his son
Tracie Cone and Haven Daley, The Associated Press and Kevin Valine, The Modesto Bee
CALAVERAS COUNTY -- The father of a 12-year-old boy arrested in the fatal stabbing of his 8-year-old sister said Monday that he will believe his son is innocent until he is shown evidence that proves otherwise.
Prison booze could play key role in Atwater murder trial
Michael Doyle - Bee Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- One of the two inmates accused of killing an Atwater prison guard was so drunk on a potent brew dubbed "White Lightning" that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court.
Judge calls killer 'a coward,' sentences him to 44 years to life in prison
Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee
The judge called the murderer a "coward" Thursday just before he sent him away to state prison for 44 years to the rest of his life.
"You cannot be a man," Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette told Edgar Gomez Carrillo, 30. "You are a coward."
Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS -- Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.
Chico Police: Correctional Officer Arrested For Domestic Violence
Shay Arthur, KRCR News
Around 4:00 a.m. Chico Police arrested 31 year-old Leonard Mundy for an alleged domestic violence dispute at the Super 8 Motel on Manzanita Court in Chico.
While enroute, the victim told the motel manager that she had been assaulted
by her boyfriend.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Daily Corrections Clips
CDCR NEWS
A Day in the Life of a Camp Commander
A job with many hats
Dana Simas, Public Information Officer
Among California’s 44 conservation camps are the Camp Commanders who are responsible for the day-to-day needs and supervision of inmates in sometimes remote locations without perimeter fences.
REALIGNMENT
Corrections dept. study finds no spike in parolee arrests under Calif. prison realignment law
Don Thompson, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, California — Corrections department researchers have found no spike in arrests of parolees since responsibility for many ex-convicts shifted to local authorities under the state's prison realignment law, according to a study released Thursday.
New Study Gives Snapshot of Realignment Results
Katie Orr, Valley Public Radio
The California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department offered a glimpse today of how realignment is working. The program diverts low-level offenders to county jails in an effort to reduce state prison overcrowding.
Study Gives Glimpse of How Realignment is Working
After about a year and a half in place, California’s policy of prison realignment is still controversial. But today the Corrections Department offered a glimpse of how it’s working.
Capital Public Radio
Take two groups of inmates who've been released from prison and track how they behave for a year. That's what the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did for a new study on realignment. The policy diverts low-level offenders to county jails to help reduce prison overcrowding.
Mike Feuer, Carmen Trutanich clash over prison realignment
Rick Orlov, Los Angeles Daily News
In their last joint appearance before Tuesday's election, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and former Assemblyman Mike Feuer clashed Thursday over legislation aimed at reducing the state's prison population.
Maldonado: Bid for governor likely
Prison realignment program criticized at press conference
Niki Cervantes, Lompocrecord.com
Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado will likely make a run for governor in 2014, he said Thursday, as he unveiled a campaign to repeal AB 109, the Public Safety Realignment Act aimed at reducing the state prison population by turning responsibility for some prisoners over to counties.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
California Gov. Jerry Brown promises prison legislation
Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Jerry Brown's prison policy is forcing a split personality with federal courts.
Brown on Tuesday repeated his insistence he will take no move to further reduce prison crowding unless ordered (again) to do so, and he included no money for prison leases and other proposals in his 2013-14 state budget.
CALIFORNIA INMATES
California Inmate Wounds 2 Guards With Sharpened Toothbrush
CBS Sacramento
SAN LUIS OBISPO (AP) – Prison officials say an inmate at California Men’s Colony attacked two guards with a toothbrush sharpened into a knife, leaving them with head and neck wounds.
Suspect in Death of Inmate in Bakersfield is Convict Involved in San Diego Case
San Diego 6
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An inmate was found slain Thursday at a state penitentiary northwest of Bakersfield, and his cellmate, who received a life sentence in a San Diego-area criminal case more than 15 years ago, was named as the suspected killer.
Judge denies first Butte County appeal under new three-strikes law
Ryan Olson, Chicoer.com
OROVILLE — A judge has denied a defendant's appeal to be resentenced under the state's revised three-strikes law.
CDCR RELATED
California state worker unions lose ruling on loss of holidays
Denny Walsh, The Sacramento Bee
A Sacramento appellate court ruled Thursday that state workers covered by expired job contracts were not exempt from the state's elimination of two paid holidays.
Advocates Use Their Feet to Spread Peace Message
Nancy Martinez, EGP News
About 400 people took part last Saturday in an annual march that has for the last six years attempted to unite people in Northeast Los Angeles in the fight to end violence.
17 News special report: The new Lerdo
17 KGET
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Our county jail used to house low level offenders, like drunk drivers, petty thieves and those awaiting trial. But since prison realignment, deputies said it's more like a state prison. With more violence and more gang members, deputies say it's a whole new world at Lerdo.
A Day in the Life of a Camp Commander
A job with many hats
Dana Simas, Public Information Officer
Among California’s 44 conservation camps are the Camp Commanders who are responsible for the day-to-day needs and supervision of inmates in sometimes remote locations without perimeter fences.
REALIGNMENT
Corrections dept. study finds no spike in parolee arrests under Calif. prison realignment law
Don Thompson, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, California — Corrections department researchers have found no spike in arrests of parolees since responsibility for many ex-convicts shifted to local authorities under the state's prison realignment law, according to a study released Thursday.
New Study Gives Snapshot of Realignment Results
Katie Orr, Valley Public Radio
The California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department offered a glimpse today of how realignment is working. The program diverts low-level offenders to county jails in an effort to reduce state prison overcrowding.
Study Gives Glimpse of How Realignment is Working
After about a year and a half in place, California’s policy of prison realignment is still controversial. But today the Corrections Department offered a glimpse of how it’s working.
Capital Public Radio
Take two groups of inmates who've been released from prison and track how they behave for a year. That's what the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did for a new study on realignment. The policy diverts low-level offenders to county jails to help reduce prison overcrowding.
Mike Feuer, Carmen Trutanich clash over prison realignment
Rick Orlov, Los Angeles Daily News
In their last joint appearance before Tuesday's election, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and former Assemblyman Mike Feuer clashed Thursday over legislation aimed at reducing the state's prison population.
Maldonado: Bid for governor likely
Prison realignment program criticized at press conference
Niki Cervantes, Lompocrecord.com
Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado will likely make a run for governor in 2014, he said Thursday, as he unveiled a campaign to repeal AB 109, the Public Safety Realignment Act aimed at reducing the state prison population by turning responsibility for some prisoners over to counties.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
California Gov. Jerry Brown promises prison legislation
Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Jerry Brown's prison policy is forcing a split personality with federal courts.
Brown on Tuesday repeated his insistence he will take no move to further reduce prison crowding unless ordered (again) to do so, and he included no money for prison leases and other proposals in his 2013-14 state budget.
CALIFORNIA INMATES
California Inmate Wounds 2 Guards With Sharpened Toothbrush
CBS Sacramento
SAN LUIS OBISPO (AP) – Prison officials say an inmate at California Men’s Colony attacked two guards with a toothbrush sharpened into a knife, leaving them with head and neck wounds.
Suspect in Death of Inmate in Bakersfield is Convict Involved in San Diego Case
San Diego 6
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An inmate was found slain Thursday at a state penitentiary northwest of Bakersfield, and his cellmate, who received a life sentence in a San Diego-area criminal case more than 15 years ago, was named as the suspected killer.
Judge denies first Butte County appeal under new three-strikes law
Ryan Olson, Chicoer.com
OROVILLE — A judge has denied a defendant's appeal to be resentenced under the state's revised three-strikes law.
CDCR RELATED
California state worker unions lose ruling on loss of holidays
Denny Walsh, The Sacramento Bee
A Sacramento appellate court ruled Thursday that state workers covered by expired job contracts were not exempt from the state's elimination of two paid holidays.
Advocates Use Their Feet to Spread Peace Message
Nancy Martinez, EGP News
About 400 people took part last Saturday in an annual march that has for the last six years attempted to unite people in Northeast Los Angeles in the fight to end violence.
17 News special report: The new Lerdo
17 KGET
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Our county jail used to house low level offenders, like drunk drivers, petty thieves and those awaiting trial. But since prison realignment, deputies said it's more like a state prison. With more violence and more gang members, deputies say it's a whole new world at Lerdo.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Daily Corrections Clips
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
California prisons showdown: inmates' lawyers seek contempt finding against governor
Howard Mintz, Mercury News
Gov. Jerry Brown and his top state prison official are about to find out how mad they've made the three federal judges overseeing California's overcrowded prison system.
REALIGNMENT
Adelanto Detention Center Meets Demands of Realignment
Correctional News
ADELANTO, Calif. — Initially designed to add 896 beds, the expansion of the Adelanto Detention Center will include an additional 1,368 to meet the demands of the California realignment act.
Gov. Jerry Brown Attacks Carmen Trutanich For Flip-Flop On Prison Realignment
Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly
Gov. Jerry Brown has weighed in on the race for L.A. city attorney, recording a robocall attacking incumbent Carmen Trutanich for "misleading voters" on the issue of prison realignment.
CDCR RELATED
No compassion
Stricken with terminal cancer, Robin Reid languishes in county jail
Kelly Davis, San Diego City Beat
Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, Robin Reid’s doctor called. The breast cancer she’d been diagnosed with almost six years ago—that had already spread to her bones and liver—had metastasized to her brain. The tumor explained Reid’s recent headaches and memory loss. Treating it would require radiation therapy to hopefully zap the tumor.
At such news, most folks would turn to family or friends, or milk the Internet for details about the procedure and prognosis. But Reid had to go into jail.
Authorities scale back Mattole Valley manhunt; outside agencies leave area as search continues
Kaci Poor and Catherine Wong, The Times-Standard
The manhunt for triple murder suspect Shane Franklyn Miller was scaled back Wednesday night after a week-long search, authorities announced during a community meeting at Honeydew Elementary School.
27 arrested in Stanislaus County gang sweep
Erin Tracy, The Modesto Bee
STANISLAUS COUNTY -- In an effort to curb gang violence, more than 100 peace officers from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies made their way around Stanislaus County on Wednesday on parole and probation sweeps. About 115 suspected gang members were the target of the sweep, which started at 10 a.m. and continued into the evening.
Feds nail South Side Montebello street gang and 'killer squad' clique
33 arrested, including six murder suspects, during two-year investigation
Brian Day, Whittier Daily News
MONTEBELLO -- A task force of local, state and federal officials Wednesday announced that a two-year investigation targeting Montebello gangs netted guns, drugs and 33 arrests, including six murder suspects.
Local GOP Lawmakers Aim To Keep Inmates Behind Bars
Republicans say their proposals announced Tuesday are needed to keep criminals off the street.
Toni McAllister, The Temecula Patch
California's Senate and Assembly Republicans proposed bills Tuesday to reverse what they say is a growing public safety threat caused by prison realignment, and several local politicians are on board.
SB District Attorney Touts Creation of Crimes Against Peace Officers Unit
Geno Tenorio, Redlands-Loma Linda Patch
San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos has announced the creation of a Crimes Against Peace Officers that will focus on investigating crimes against law-enforcement officials.
California prisons showdown: inmates' lawyers seek contempt finding against governor
Howard Mintz, Mercury News
Gov. Jerry Brown and his top state prison official are about to find out how mad they've made the three federal judges overseeing California's overcrowded prison system.
REALIGNMENT
Adelanto Detention Center Meets Demands of Realignment
Correctional News
ADELANTO, Calif. — Initially designed to add 896 beds, the expansion of the Adelanto Detention Center will include an additional 1,368 to meet the demands of the California realignment act.
Gov. Jerry Brown Attacks Carmen Trutanich For Flip-Flop On Prison Realignment
Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly
Gov. Jerry Brown has weighed in on the race for L.A. city attorney, recording a robocall attacking incumbent Carmen Trutanich for "misleading voters" on the issue of prison realignment.
CDCR RELATED
No compassion
Stricken with terminal cancer, Robin Reid languishes in county jail
Kelly Davis, San Diego City Beat
Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, Robin Reid’s doctor called. The breast cancer she’d been diagnosed with almost six years ago—that had already spread to her bones and liver—had metastasized to her brain. The tumor explained Reid’s recent headaches and memory loss. Treating it would require radiation therapy to hopefully zap the tumor.
At such news, most folks would turn to family or friends, or milk the Internet for details about the procedure and prognosis. But Reid had to go into jail.
Authorities scale back Mattole Valley manhunt; outside agencies leave area as search continues
Kaci Poor and Catherine Wong, The Times-Standard
The manhunt for triple murder suspect Shane Franklyn Miller was scaled back Wednesday night after a week-long search, authorities announced during a community meeting at Honeydew Elementary School.
27 arrested in Stanislaus County gang sweep
Erin Tracy, The Modesto Bee
STANISLAUS COUNTY -- In an effort to curb gang violence, more than 100 peace officers from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies made their way around Stanislaus County on Wednesday on parole and probation sweeps. About 115 suspected gang members were the target of the sweep, which started at 10 a.m. and continued into the evening.
Feds nail South Side Montebello street gang and 'killer squad' clique
33 arrested, including six murder suspects, during two-year investigation
Brian Day, Whittier Daily News
MONTEBELLO -- A task force of local, state and federal officials Wednesday announced that a two-year investigation targeting Montebello gangs netted guns, drugs and 33 arrests, including six murder suspects.
Local GOP Lawmakers Aim To Keep Inmates Behind Bars
Republicans say their proposals announced Tuesday are needed to keep criminals off the street.
Toni McAllister, The Temecula Patch
California's Senate and Assembly Republicans proposed bills Tuesday to reverse what they say is a growing public safety threat caused by prison realignment, and several local politicians are on board.
SB District Attorney Touts Creation of Crimes Against Peace Officers Unit
Geno Tenorio, Redlands-Loma Linda Patch
San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos has announced the creation of a Crimes Against Peace Officers that will focus on investigating crimes against law-enforcement officials.
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