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Women’s Prison Conversion


Valley State Prison inmates express concerns over pending conversion
Sacramento Bee-- Inmates at Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) have flooded the office of Madera County District 2 Supervisor David Rogers with letters expressing their concerns and fears over the state's plan to convert the prison to a men's facility.


Chowchilla Prison Conversion: City Says Not So Fast
KMPH--  If you thought the state's plan to convert the Valley State Prison for Women into a men's prison was a done deal, think again.


State halts Chowchilla prison switch
By Joshua Emerson Smith, The Merced Sun Star-- California corrections officials have agreed to temporarily halt a conversion of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women into a men's facility.


Plans Stopped to Convert Chowchilla Prison
KMJ Now-- A judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, keeping the state of California from moving male inmates into the Valley State Prison for Women  until September.


State Workers


The State Worker: California settles up -- interest free -- with prison guards union
By Jon Ortiz, The Sacramento Bee-- California's prison officers union is getting a loan from taxpayers – interest-free – to settle a multimillion-dollar debt it owes the state.


Folsom Prison psychologist pleads no contest to phony assault
By Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee-- A state prison psychologist pleaded no contest today to a felony conspiracy charge related to her falsely reporting to police that she had been sexually assaulted.


Sacramento psychologist who reported phony sexual assault pleads guilty to conspiracy
By Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee-- The prison psychologist who phoned in a frantic but phony 911 sexual assault call to persuade her husband that they needed to move to a better neighborhood pleaded out Wednesday to a felony conspiracy charge.


Former Prison Psychologist Pleads No Contest To Staged Assault
CBS Sacramento-- A psychologist formerly employed at New Folsom Prison pleaded no contest Wednesday to conspiracy for reporting a staged sexual assault at her home.


AB 109


Calif. Prisons Chief: Despite "Bumps," There's "Hope" in Realignment
By  Ben Adler, Capitol Public Radio-- Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate says realignment isn't perfect.  He acknowledges hearing "anecdotes" about crimes that might not have happened without it.  But he says realignment might prevent a lot of crimes too.


State Judges Propose Changes for Prison Realignment Program
By Azenith Smith, KION-- Some judges want to shake up California's prison system. They want to follow felons for a lot longer than they can now. It would force big changes to the state's prison re-alignment plan.


Auto thief who boasts 1,000 heists gets probation
The San Francisco Chronicle-- A California auto thief who boasts 1,000 heists in less than a year has been placed on probation rather than serve jail time for the crime spree.


California Parole


Judge strikes parole-revocation provisions in California law
By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee-- A Sacramento federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional the part of California's so-called Victims' Bill of Rights that governs parole revocation.


Exclusive: Convicted Baby-Killer Denied Parole
San Diego 6 News-- A convicted baby-killer from Chula Vista was denied parole Wednesday despite his defense team's claim that modern scientific evidence suggests he never committed the crime.


CDCR Related


Youth sex offenders must report for 25 years
By Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle-- Juveniles convicted of serious sex crimes in federal court can be required to register as sex offenders for at least 25 years, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.


Youth sex offenders must report for 25 years
Associated Press-- An appeals court in California has decided juveniles convicted of sex crimes in federal court can be required to register as sex offenders for 25 years.


Woman can't sue over son's death, court says
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle-- A state appeals court says it sympathizes with the mother of a slain Redwood City man, but California law does not authorize her to sue San Mateo County for her son's murder by a teenager who walked away from an unlocked probation camp.