CDCR NEWS:
CDCR This Week: Governor Announces Proposed 2011-2012 Budget for State, CDCR, Governor Brown Orders Massive Cell Phone Cutback – CDCR Performing Internal Audit
NEWS STORIES:
Institutions:
News 10 -- FOLSOM - The California Department of Parks and Recreation and the California Prison Industries Authority have teamed up to use state prisoners to fix and clean state parks.
Correctional News -- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has announced finalists on two design-build packages for its $906 million, 1,722-bed inmate facility in Stockton.
Out of State:
WZZM -- The correctional facility in Lake County plans to re-open its doors bringing dozens of jobs back to Michigan. The prison, located on 32nd street in Baldwin, closed its doors back in 2005 eliminating hundreds of jobs for workers and driving people and business out of Lake County.
Firecamps:
Two injured at firefighting camp in Tulare County
Visalia Times Delta -- Two inmates were injured Sunday evening during a fight at CAL FIRE's Mountain Home Camp. Mountain Home Camp uses inmates from the California Department of Corrections. The inmates stay at the camp and are available as needed to fight fires.
Visalia Times Delta -- Two inmates were injured Sunday evening during a fight at CAL FIRE's Mountain Home Camp. Mountain Home Camp uses inmates from the California Department of Corrections. The inmates stay at the camp and are available as needed to fight fires.
Parole:
By Rina Palta, The Informant -- In California, there are two versions of the criminal sentence “life in prison.” One offers the possibility of parole, the other does not. Similarly, there are two ways to get out of prison on parole. The average inmate serves his or her predetermined sentence and when let out, automatically becomes a parolee. For someone in prison on a sentence of “life with the possibility of parole,” the inmate must be found eligible for release by the Board of Parole Hearings. And apparently, that just doesn’t happen too often.
Budget:
Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, tooBy Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee -- Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to transfer state inmates to county jails faces a simple obstacle: Many jails don't have the space to hold them. Just as the state has struggled with prison overcrowding, some counties have had their own problems keeping inmates locked up. Statewide, tens of thousands of inmates are released early from county jails each year because of space constraints. Jail crowding was on the minds of many sheriffs when Brown announced in his budget proposal last week his plan to give them responsibility for more than 40,000 lower-level offenders and parole violators.
Sex Offenders:
Sex offender sought for failing to participate in GPS monitoring
Record Searchlight -- The state Department of Corrections is looking for a Shasta County parolee who failed to participate in GPS monitoring. Joel Peter Crystal, 53, was on parole for continuous sexual abuse of a minor, according to Department of Corrections records.He first went to prison for this crime in 1997.
CDCR Related & Miscellaneous:
Schwarzenegger was inconsistent on clemency
Los Angeles Times -- The reduced prison sentence that Arnold Schwarzenegger recently extended to a political ally's son stands in stark contrast to the former governor's denial of clemency for dozens of inmates involved in similar crimes. In one year alone, Schwarzenegger cast aside decisions by the state's parole board to free 29 such inmates who had served long prison sentences. They, like former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez's son Esteban, participated in crimes that left a victim dead but did not deliver the fatal blows.
By Chris Meagher, Santa Barbara Independent -- A woman who had escaped the grasp of authorities for more than three decades after escaping from the California Institution for Women was arrested after Santa Barbara police were tipped off Tuesday. Nancy Garces, now 56, was booked at the women-only state facility in San Bernardino County on February 16, 1979, for a two-year sentence for forging a credit card, and escaped a few months later. An evening count at the facility showed a discrepancy, and authorities eventually determined Garces was not accounted for. She had been seen in the visiting room, but had not returned to her housing unit. “It was determined that she went directly to her escape point and was able scale a fence in the maintenance compound,” according to a release from the California Department of Corrections. Search teams were deployed, but Garces was never tracked down.
Jury still out on new S.J. County judge
By Scott Smith, Stockton Record -- Brett Morgan, San Joaquin County's newest judge and the first selected from outside the community, may have to smooth over some feathers his appointment ruffled even before making his first ruling. In reaction to his December appointment, some local attorneys have quietly grumbled that a political favor in Sacramento beat out an opportunity to promote a deserving attorney from the county.
OPINION:
Sikhs Hope for AG's Action on Bearded Guard
By Sandip Roy, New America Media -- California's new attorney general acknowledged her Indian heritage by including a 10-minute Indian classical dance performance at her inauguration, but Indian-American advocates are keen to see if Kamala Harris will move on the case of a bearded Sikh man who wants to serve as a prison guard in California, reports Sunita Sohrabji for India West.
By Sandip Roy, New America Media -- California's new attorney general acknowledged her Indian heritage by including a 10-minute Indian classical dance performance at her inauguration, but Indian-American advocates are keen to see if Kamala Harris will move on the case of a bearded Sikh man who wants to serve as a prison guard in California, reports Sunita Sohrabji for India West.
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