CDCR
NEWS:
SACRAMENTO-- At the 2012 Governor's Volunteering and Service
Awards, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. last night announced Scott Budnick as the
"Volunteer of the Year" for his "marked devotion" to
helping California inmates get a higher education.
NEWS:
Realignment
By Joel Metzger, Calaveras Enterprise-- “We’re
doing darn good,” said Teri Hall, Calaveras County chief probation officer. She feels confident with this statement, because it’s backed up with a
study performed by the Chief Probation Officers of California that examined the
statewide impacts of Assembly Bill 109.
KNVN-- The days of handing out "Get out of jail for
free cards" are about to end in Shasta County. County Supervisors voted
Tuesday to send certain inmates to jails in El Dorado and Lassen counties. It's
all in an effort to free up space in the Shasta County facility for so-called
frequent-flyers. Which means repeat offenders are held in jail and forced to
face justice.
Fire
Camps
By Sally Morris The Trinity
Journal-- In a recent report entitled “Thumbs Up!” the
Trinity County grand jury voiced nothing but praise for the Trinity River
Conservation Camp outside of Lewiston, urging local officials to do everything
they can to ensure its continued operations here as such state-run camps begin
to face an uncertain future.
By Wyatt
Buchanan, SF Gate-- The number of state prison inmates available to perform
crucial, labor-intensive tasks in battles against wildfires could soon drop
dramatically, due to California's shift of low-level offenders from state
prisons to county jails.
California
Institutions
By Julie
Small, KPCC-- California is building the largest prison medical facility in the nation
— and it’s doing it at a record clip. That’s because the state has to comply
with a federal court order to improve health care for inmates.
California
Inmates
By David Ruiz, Sacramento Bee-- An inmate suffered multiple stab wounds today in an attempted homicide
at California State Prison,Sacramento, officials said.
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Related
The Associated Press-- California and state prison employees have
reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison
in Crescent City got access to employees' personal information, including
Social Security numbers.
Imperial Valley Press-- A local emergency was declared for Imperial County today
after a major storm hit Imperial County on Monday.
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