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Can county still lock up jail money?
San Mateo Daily Journal-- Even without a formal invitation to apply for up to $100 million in state money, county officials still hope the plan for a new 576-bed jail in Redwood City can still quality for the construction funds if other counties drop out.

DJJ

California trigger cuts pose young inmate problem in Stanislaus County
By Garth Stapley, Modesto Bee-- The "worst of the worse" young criminals could return from state lockups to Stanislaus County under California's projected "trigger cuts," local authorities fear.

California Inmates

Fresno County sued over prisoners' rights
The San Francisco Chronicle-- We knew it would happen eventually, but this was fast: The Prison Law Office and two other firms sued Fresno County this week on behalf of four prisoners who say the county's jail system violates their constitutional rights by denying them medical and mental health care and maintaining dangerous facilities.

State Workers

Million-Dollar Nurses Show California’s Struggle to Cut Payroll
By Michael B. Marois, Bloomberg-- California (BCAX) has paid Lina Manglicmot $1.5 million since 2005, an average of $253,530 a year, to work as a prison nurse in the agricultural town of Soledad.

Realignment

EXCLUSIVE: Prisoner shifts leave murderers better off than nonviolent criminals
By Brandon Lowrey, North County Times-- California's violent criminals and sex offenders might have much more comfortable stays behind bars than those convicted of less-serious crimes, though they are serving similarly long sentences ---- because of a new law aimed to relieve prison overcrowding and save the state money.

Inmate numbers up slightly in SLO, SB counties
By April Charlton, Time Press Recorder-- Two months into a “realignment” program that diverts some state prisoners to local custody, San Luis Obispo County is seeing slightly more than the expected number of inmates.

California prison population drops by 8,000 since realignment
By Julie Small, KPCC-- The number of inmates in California prisons has dropped by 8,000 since “realignment” took effect Oct. 1. Court papers state officials filed Thursday indicate the change. Officials reported the new numbers Thursday under a federal court order to reduce crowding in the prisons.

CDCR Related

Judge rejects California execution plan
Los Angeles Times-- A judge on Friday threw out California's new lethal-injection protocols, which have been six years in the making, because corrections officials failed to consider a one-drug execution method now in practice in other death penalty states.

California: Judge Rejects Lethal Injection Protocol
By Ian Lovett, New York Times-- A judge tossed out California’s newly adopted lethal injection protocol on Friday, throwing the state’s execution system into further upheaval.

California judge throws out state's lethal injection procedure
By Julie Small, KPCC-- A Superior Court judge in Northern California Friday threw out the state’s revised protocol for lethal injections. The judge said prison officials failed to properly vet and adopt the new rules six years in the making.

Susanville wants Herzog moved
By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore, Stockton Record-- Notorious as a once-convicted serial killer in San Joaquin County, Loren Herzog is an unwanted resident anywhere California parole authorities try placing him.