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CDCR Preparing January Filing To Three-Judge Court
SACRAMENTO—The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is preparing to update the Three-Judge Court on its progress towards meeting the court's directive to reduce inmate population to 167 percent design capacity, or 133,000 inmates.

CDCR Searching for Fugitive Juvenile Offender
First In Seven Years to Escape from Amador County Camp. Sacramento – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is searching for a juvenile offender who was driven away by accomplices from a roadside community service project in Sutter Creek, Amador County.

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Youthful offender from Amador County recaptured in Sacramento
The Sacramento Bee-- A young prisoner who was driven away from a work project by accomplices on Tuesday was taken back into custody early this morning in Sacramento.

Marshals capture CDCR teen escapee in Sacramento
News 10-- U.S. marshals arrested a juvenile offender who escaped custody when he was allegedly driven away by accomplices during a community service project Tuesday around 10:55 a.m in Sutter Creek.

Teen Wanted For Escaping Youth Camp Caught
KCRA-- A 19-year-old who was the first person to escape the Pine Grove Conservation Camp in seven years was captured, officials with the U.S. Marshals said Wednesday morning.

Teenager escapes inmate work crew
By JULIA REYNOLDS, Monterey County The Herald-- State corrections officials are searching for a Monterey County teenager who escaped from an inmate work crew on Tuesday.

Juvenile offenders: Cuts put counties on the spot
By Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle-- Prosecutors and prisoner advocates are warning that an impending change in the way California handles juvenile offenders could threaten the success of criminal justice statewide.

Three-Judge Court

State Prisons Appear to Fall Short on Overcrowding Reduction Order
By Dave Rice, San Diego Reader-- Today is the first benchmark date for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce prison overcrowding as per a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. CDCR has until January 10 to prepare and provide a report on the progress of inmate population reduction for review by a three-judge court which initially issued the order.

California On Pace to Meet Prision Realignment Goals
KHSL-- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is preparing to update the Three-Judge Court on its progress towards meeting the court's directive to reduce inmate population to 167 percent design capacity, or 133,000 inmates.

CA reduces prison population by thousands, almost meets Supreme Court target
San Francisco Chronicle-- California’s prison system has been shedding an average of 933 inmates a week since the governor’s realignment plan took effect this fall, and the state almost hit a court-mandated goal to reduce the population to 133,000 inmates by Dec. 27.

California Institutions

California prisons ready to expand home detention program for women inmates
By Julie Small, KPCC-- Tuesday was a benchmark day for California prisons. A federal court order requires the state to reduce its prison population by 10,000 inmates. The first progress report is due today.

Executions at San Quentin remain in limbo after Marin judge's order
By Howard Mintz, Marin Independent Journal-- 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 Inmates

San Quentin firehouse offers inmates skills, hope
By Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle-- There aren't many things to be grateful for when you're locked up in San Quentin State Prison. But here's one: It's a heck of a lot better serving time in the fire station than in a conventional cell.

Prison Christmas Death Ruled Homicide
KERO 23 Bakersfield-- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Tuesday that Kern Valley State Prison investigators are working with the Kern County Coroner and District Attorney’s Office to investigate the Christmas Day death of an inmate, which has been classified as a homicide.

Kern Valley State Prison inmate believed to be killed Sunday
Bakersfield Californian-- A Kern Valley State Prison inmate was found dead in his cell Christmas morning during a routine head count.

Court to hear appeal of man who parked SUV on tracks, killing 11 aboard Metrolink trains
Contra Costa Times-- A state appellate court panel next month will hear oral arguments in the case of a man who parked his SUV on railroad tracks at the Glendale-Los Angeles border, causing a Metrolink train derailment that killed 11 people and injured more than 180 others.
California Parole

Parolee gets 10 years in animal abuse case
The Associated Press-- A Sacramento judge has sentenced a parolee convicted of animal abuse to serve 10 years in state prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

Motel Room Mini-Siege Yields Entirely Predictable Result, Plus Pot Poundage
The Arcata Eye-- Three Subjects Arrested for Conspiracy, Possession of Marijuana for Sale and Possession of Methamphetamine. On Sunday, December 25, 2011, at approximately 11:20 pm, Officers contacted and arrested 35 year old James Bauer of Arcata for a felony warrant for Parole Violation. That arrest led to a room at a Motel on Valley West Blvd. In their subsequent investigation, APD Officers contacted and detained an associate of Bauer’s; 21 year old Jarame Johnson of McKinleyville. Officers determined that Bauer and two associates were renting a room at the motel and were suspected of sales of controlled substances.

Sex Offender From California Arrested In Rochester
13 Wham-TV-- The U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested a high risk sex offender wanted in California Friday night.

Phillip Lewis, fugitive sex offender, arrested in Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle-- A paroled sex offender from California who had been on the run for more than two years was arrested without incident Friday in Rochester.

CDCR Related

Keeping low-profile, California Gov. Brown reaps few victories in 2011
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Los Angeles Times-- In swing states across the country this year, an emboldened group of new Republican governors teamed with GOP legislatures to remake government from top to bottom.