CDCR NEWS:
By OPEC Staff
Brooke Crain, 19, daughter of Correctional Officer Todd Crain,
finished 8th overall in the Women’s BMX Cycling at the 2012 Olympics in London,
the Associated Press reported.
NEWS:
California Institutions
Los
Angeles Times
The rate of the number of inmate beds being emptied by
California's diversion of low-level offenders to county jails instead of
state prisons is slowing.
Death Penalty
Judge backs wording of initiative torepeal California death penalty
By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee
Sacramento
Superior Court Judge Timothy M. Frawley issued a tentative ruling Thursday that
rejected efforts by death penalty proponents to change the wording on a ballot
measure that would repeal capital punishment in California.
CDCR Related
GoldMedalists Have Fans In San Quentin
By
Derek Wilson, Patch
Bob and Mike Bryan are not only the best in
the world, they're the best in the Yard.
The brothers captured the gold medal in
doubles tennis Saturday during the Olympics, defeating the French duo of
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra 6-4, 7-6 (2). The champions hugged and
saluted the crowd in London after the thrilling final.
Fresno County's painfuljail overhaul
By Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times
Fresno --Standing on the footsteps of the Fresno
County Jail, where he had just been released one recent afternoon, Juan Diaz rated the food inside a 2. The state
prison at Coalinga, where he served three years on a weapons conviction, earned
a 10.
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