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CDCR NEWS:

Inmate Death at SATF in Corcoran Being Investigated As A Homicide
Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) are investigating an inmate death as a homicide.

NEWS:

AB 109

California counties revamping bail policies
By Marisa Lagos, The San Francisco Chronicle-- Some California counties are changing long-held policies about who must remain in jail while awaiting trial, allowing judges to free criminal defendants based not on whether they can afford bail but whether they're a risk to public safety.

Beaumont School Board's Orozco Touts 'Public Safety Realignment' Forum 2/15
By Guy McCarthy, Banning-Beaumont Patch-- A Beaumont school board member who is running for State Assembly announced on Monday a forum "to discuss the impact on community safety" created by passage of Public Safety Realignment Act AB 109.

Homeless man found dead in alley was one of first parolees released under realignment
By David Benda, The Record-Searchlight-- The man whose body was found in a Redding alley on Friday had a criminal history in Shasta County that goes back to the 1980s.

California Parole

Milpitas parolee arrested, three handguns seized
San Jose Mercury News-- Milpitas Police Department officers arrested 53-year-old Milpitas resident Johnny Munoz on charges of being a felon in possession of weapons and drugs on Jan. 17 at about 11 a.m.

State Workers

California prison dorm supervisor charged after having sex with inmate
By Paige Osburn, KPCC-- A 42-year-old woman faces up to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty last week to having sexual relations with a male inmate at the California prison where she worked.

CDCR Related

Search for Speed Freak Killers' victims may begin soon
Lassen County Times-- A search for the remains of some of the victims of The Speed Freak Killers .. may begin as soon as law enforcement officials from a number of federal, state and county agencies determine the best way to get it done.

Bounty hunter claims Cyndi Vanderheiden’s remains are near San Andreas
By Ross Farrow, Lodi News-Sentinel-- The remains of Cyndi Vanderheiden lie on property in the San Andreas area, less than a quarter-mile from those of another murder victim, Chevelle “Chevy” Wheeler, according to Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla.

San Joaquin County sheriff accused of harming investigation
By Tim Daly, News10/KXTV -- San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore is being charged, in writing, with "placing his own interests above those of the victims and their families" in connection with the Wes Shermantine case.

OPINION

Editorial: Inmate care has far to go
San Jose Mercury News-- It's hard to celebrate California's progress in meeting constitutional health care standards for prison inmates when it's spending the outrageous sum of $10,000 per inmate each year to do it.