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NEWS:

California Institutions

San Quentin green jobs fair draws more than 200 men
By Will Jason, Marin Independent Journal -- With their release on the near horizon, more than 200 incarcerated men turned out to a green jobs fair Saturday inside San Quentin State Prison.

Oakland Effect: Inmates find work rewarding at San Quentin News
By Scott Johnson, Oakland Tribune -- Among them, the five men seated around the table have spent 67 years behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Their crimes range from bank robbery to home invasion to making threats, and many things in between. Their ages, ethnic backgrounds,

Mutual aid: Prison program helps inmate, blind community
By Susan Winlow, The Daily Republic-- Deep within the California Medical Facility, behind the razor-wire fence, beyond the clang of several sets of locked bars and down the long central corridor that seems to go on forever, is a small, nondescript door.

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Prisoners ride shift; inmates return to Shasta County under new state law
By Ryan Sabalow, The Record-Searchlight-- Randy Cates, a 38-year-old homeless man staying at the Good News Rescue Mission in Redding, has been in and out of prison before. But this time it's different.

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After 14 Years, Vanderheiden Still Waiting For Closure
By Janet O, KCRA-- John Vanderheiden is frustrated "operation closure" was canceled Wednesday. The covert operation would have taken convicted killer Wesley Shermantine out of prison, so he could have led officials to where some victims' bodies are buried.

Death Row inmate to help search for victims
The Tracy Press-- San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore announced plans Friday to seek help from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in locating several bodies in San Joaquin and Calaveras counties.

Search for remains back on
By Scott Smith, The Stockton Record-- Officials on Friday revived a plan that includes possibly transporting Wesley Shermantine from death row to pinpoint the burial places of a dozen or more murder victims.

More Herzog suicide details revealed
Lassen County Times-- The Lassen County Sheriff’s Office has released more details about what deputies found when they responded to a report that convicted serial killer Loren Herzog, 46, was found dead.

Details released about Loren Herzog's suicide
By Michael Bott, News 10-- According to a Lassen County Sheriff's Department press release, Loren Herzog's suicide note simply said, "Tell my family I love them."

Wesley Shermantine Jr. could return to look for bodies
By Katie Nelson, Lodi-News Sentinel-- A meeting Friday morning between local, state and national law enforcement resulted in an unprecedented move in San Joaquin County — to allow a convicted killer on death row to return to the area and point out the locations of the bodies of his victims that he buried over a decade ago.

Newark burglary suspect involved in fatal crash dies
By Bay City News Service -- One of three burglary suspects involved in a crash that killed another driver in Newark last week has died, police said this morning.

OPINION:

Our View: Signs of progress in state prisons
Merced Sun Star-- Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment already is having a positive impact on the statewide prison system

Some answers die with Herzog
The Stockton Record-- In the end, convicted killer Loren Herzog died alone and by his own hand.