CDCR
NEWS:
SACRAMENTO – Three California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisons were certified today by the American Correctional
Association (ACA) during the 142nd Congress
of Correction in Denver, Colorado.
NEWS:
Realignment
A second-phase plan for public safety
realignment in Stanislaus County calls for adding 40 positions, reopening 72
beds at the Honor Farm and continuing to develop programs for former prison
inmates.
By Jenny Espino, The Record Searchlight-- Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko on
Monday announced the lights are back on for half of a jail floor he closed in
2009 when finances got tight.
Fire Camps
Daily
Democrat-- A Capay Valley
wildland fire was to have been held in check Monday after cooler overnight
weather Sunday allowed firefighters to build a containment line around the
blaze and contain hotspots.
California Institutions
By Amanda Perez, KFSN-- A plan to convert Valley State Prison for Women
in Chowchilla is upsetting people in the neighboring community of Fairmead, who
believe they've already been left behind.
California
Parole
By Salvador Hernandez, The Orange County Register-- A man convicted of soliciting his girlfriend, a friend, and a
former neighbor to kill his estranged wife multiple times during a three-year
span is scheduled for a parole hearing Tuesday afternoon.
CDCR Related
Former correctional officer gets 18 months for prison contraband scheme By Denny
Walsh, Sacramento Bee-- Former California Correctional Officer Bobby Joe Kirby's son ran
into a financial bind and his father decided to help him. He got the extra
money peddling cell phones and tobacco to inmates at the Lassen County minimum
security camp where he worked.
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