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CDCR NEWS:

CDCR to Save $750,000 Per Year with Energy Efficiency Program
New computer management reduces unneeded energy usage SACRAMENTO—The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will save approximately $750,000 per year with a new energy-saving program that shuts down the department’s approximately 34,000 networked personal computers (PC) after a period of inactivity.

NEWS:

UPD officers 'maxed-out' with each handling 1,200 calls a year
By Justine Frederiksen, The Daily Journal -- Chief Dewey exploring ways to ease burden on his staff The Ukiah Police Department "has maxed-out its officers' time" and is looking for ways to reduce their workload by enlisting interns, volunteers and expanding its Community Services Officer (CSO) program

California Inmates

Sheriff halts plan for killer to reveal remains
By Scott Smith, Recordnet.com -- San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore deflected critics Thursday who accuse him of derailing a covert operation to transport death row inmate Wesley Shermantine into remote parts of Calaveras and San Joaquin counties so he could reveal the burial places of murder victims.

California Parole

Note discovered in Loren Herzog’s trailer following apparent suicide
By Katie Nelson, Lodi News-Sentinel-- More details are emerging surrounding the death of convicted killer Loren Herzog, including the discovery of a note he apparently left behind for family members.

New details revealed in Herzog's death
By Scott Smith, Stockton Record-- Parolee Loren Herzog of Linden apparently hanged himself outside - and not inside - his state-issued trailer parked next to a Northern California prison, Lassen County Sheriff Greg Growden said Thursday.

Bounty hunter fears he prompted suicide of 'Speed Freak Killer'
By Sam Cohen, Fox 40 Sacramento-- When a Sacramento-area bounty hunter heard about the suicide of paroled killer Loren Herzog on Tuesday morning, he thought maybe he had caused it.

Parolee's Suicide Linked to Inmate's Body Dump Admission
The Associated Press -- Law enforcement officials are considering whether to search anew for several bodies thought to have been killed by the "Speed Freak Killers" in California's Central Valley in the 1980s and 1990s.

Law officials mulling search for possible victims of 'Speed Freak Killers'
The Modesto Bee-- Shermantine has provided false leads before, including during his 2001 trial when he demanded $20,000 in exchange for revealing the location of Wheeler and Vanderheiden. The families and district attorney refused the deal. Then Shermantine turned down a prosecution offer to sentence him to life without parole instead of death row in exchange for information about the missing bodies

Calif. Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Concerned With Medical Parole Law
California Healthline-- Long-term care ombudsmen in California are raising concerns that a state law allowing paroled prison inmates to receive care at nursing homes could be putting other nursing home residents at risk, the Bay Citizen/New York Times reports (Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen/New York Times, 1/19).

Convicted Felons Sent to Bay Area Nursing Home
By Katharine Mieszkowski-- Before Kenneth Bryan Holcomb shot and killed a homeless man in San Mateo County in 1992, he had been in prison for burglary and drug dealing. While he was serving a 22-years-to-life sentence for the murder, he fractured his spine during a fight, which left him a quadriplegic, unable to walk, dress or bathe himself.

OPINION:

Take the good with the bad
The Stockton Record-- California may soon regain control of its prisons.A federal judge ordered the state to prepare for the end of a receivership that has lasted six years and cost the state billions.

Progress in reducing prison overcrowding
The Sacramento Bee -- Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment already is having a positive impact on the statewide prison system

Ink Out Loud: Saving money, at what cost?
By Mandy Feder, Lake County Record Bee-- Ink Out Loud: Saving money, at what cost? The day before Christmas Eve a grisly discovery led Chico Police to a man who was released from San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 9. He was supposed to report to parole in San Luis Obispo, but he never did.