Daily Corrections Clips

NEWS:

Californians to Watch: Matthew Cate directs prison downsizing
By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee-- The usual measures of bureaucratic success for a state government agency are bigger budgets, expanding influence and a higher profile for the person at the very top.

Calfornia Inmates

California could lose 1,500 inmate firefighters
By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times-- A prison realignment program will send low-level offenders to county jails, depriving the state of using them to help clear brush, cut fire lines and stop infernos from spreading.

California Parole

Dos Palos police arrest 'armed and dangerous' parolee Monday
Merced Sun-Star-- Dos Palos Police Officer Cliff Battles on Monday arrested a subject considered armed and dangerous on Monday for a parole violation.

Realignment

AB 190 - Tehama County plans for realignment
By ANDREA WAGNER, Red Bluff Daily News-- Note: The following is part one of a series of articles giving a first look at the Tehama County realignment plan being written by the Community Corrections Partnership to carry out California Assembly Bill 109. Administrators got a first look at what will eventually be molded into the Tehama County realignment plan for state Assembly Bill 109, Dec. 8.

CDCR Related

California executions remain in everlasting limbo
By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News-- As California nears its sixth year without an execution, state officials find themselves once again grappling with a judge's order that concludes they've botched crafting a new and legal method of putting condemned killers to death by lethal injection.

California chief justice urges reevaluating death penalty
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times-- Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, one of the high court's more conservative members, says the death penalty is no longer working for the state.

CA's top judge: Death penalty no longer effective
The Associated Press-- In her first public comments about California's capital punishment system, the state's top judge said the death penalty is "not effective" and needs an overhaul that the state cannot afford.

ID errors put hundreds in County Jail
By Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times-- Wrongful incarcerations totaled 1,480 in the last five years, a Times inquiry finds.Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jails in recent years, with some spending weeks behind bars before authorities realized those arrested were mistaken for wanted criminals, a Times investigation has found.

Murder victim's family wants CHP officer to stay in prison
Los Angeles Times-- The family of a San Diego State student killed by an on-duty California Highway Patrol officer in 1986 is leading a letter-writing campaign to the state parole board to keep him in prison.

25 years since murder of SDSU student by CHP officer
CBS 8-- Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of a San Diego State student by an on-duty California Highway Patrol officer who will face a parole board at a state prison in a few weeks.

Family of slain wants killer to stay in jail
The Associated Press-- The family of a San Diego State student murdered by an on-duty California Highway Patrol officer more than 20 years ago is leading a letter-writing campaign asking the state parole board to keep him in prison.

OPINION:

Death penalty, by the numbers
Los Angeles Times-- Statistical evidence of racial bias should be considered when handing down capital punishment.