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GALT - Three local employees from the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Department have been
honored for their heroism and leadership by state officials.
Mother Lode Gun Club hosted the 3rd annual Tuolumne County Shoot Off last Saturday.
CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Sierra Conservation Center Crisis Response Team) at the end of the day triumphed over all, defending their title from last year.
CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Sierra Conservation Center Crisis Response Team) at the end of the day triumphed over all, defending their title from last year.
SOLEDAD, Calif. -- An inmate is dead after being stabbed in an attack that triggered a fight at a state prison in central California.
A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says two inmates repeatedly stabbed the victim Saturday in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says two inmates repeatedly stabbed the victim Saturday in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
CDCR Related
AIDS-related deaths among all state and
federal prisoners dropped from 24 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2001 to
five per 100,000 in 2010, according to a report by the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). In 2010, 72 inmates in state prisons and seven in federal prisons died from AIDS-related causes.
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The Stockton Record
GALT - Three local employees from the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Department have been
honored for their heroism and leadership by state officials.
They are:
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Correctional Officer Paul Davis from Deuel Vocational Institution in
Tracy received the Gold Star award for heroism, courage and sound
judgment. Davis subdued a violent inmate and protected another inmate
who had been stabbed. The attack happened during a 2011 riot that
involved 160 inmates. Davis was one of the first officers to respond.
» Erin Brock, superintendent of the Northern
California Youth Correctional Center, received the Executive of the Year
award. Officials say Brock made tremendous strides in improving the
overall treatment of the youth and bringing the institution closer to
meeting court-ordered mandates. She has improved staff morale and
implemented departmental programs at both N.A. Chaderjian and O.H. Close
youth correctional facilities. Under her leadership, the Sex Behavior
Treatment Program received a high ranking among the top 7 percent in the
country.
» Ray Knight, a senior youth
correctional counselor from N.A. Chaderjian, was named the Division of
Juvenile Justice Officer of the Year. Knight is a trainer in the Crisis
Prevention and a Management/Use of Force program. Knight is responsible
for developing a statewide youth behavior treatment program. Officials
say he has "successfully supervised the treatment and security of some
of the most violent youth in the state." His creativity has been praised
by court experts and the Prison Law Office.
They were honored at a ceremony Friday in Galt.
Vendor Fair Set for California Health Care Facility in Stockton
STOCKTON – Businesses who wish to sell their products to the new California Health Care Facility (CHCF) now under construction in Stockton are invited to attend a vendor fair in that city to learn how to become certified to do business with the State of California.
The event will be held September 19 in the Bob Hope Theater, 242 East Main Street, in downtown Stockton, from 2-4 pm. The fair is co-sponsored by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California Correctional Health Care Services, Department of General Services (DGS), the Department of State Hospitals and the City of Stockton.
“With more than 2,000 staff on the site every day, the new health care facility will have many of the same needs as a small city,” CHCF Chief Operating Officer Nate Elam said. “In addition, because we are operating a health care facility, we will have specialized needs as well.”
“We expect to spend several millions of dollars a year to operate the California Health Care Facility and would like every vendor who wants to do business with us to be prepared by attending our workshop in Stockton,” Elam said.
Representatives from the sponsoring state agencies will be on hand to explain general contracting procedures and the process for being certified as a Small Business or Veteran-owned and to explain the types of products that the 1.2 million square foot medical facility will be purchasing during the late stages of construction and after it opens.
The CHCF is expected to receive the first of 1,722 inmate patients in July, 2013 and will employ approximately 2,400 people in up to 160 professional classifications, creating a $220 million payroll that will add an estimated $1 billion a year to the local economy.
Since January, 2011, more than half of the $1 billion in construction costs for the new facility has been awarded to businesses and contractors in Stockton and the surrounding area and more than half of the 5,500 construction jobs have been filled with craftsmen from within a 50-mile radius of Stockton.
More information about the California Health Care Facility is available at http://www.chcfstockton.com/ Information about CDCR is available at www.cdcr.ca.gov
Mother Lode Gun Club hosted the 3rd annual Tuolumne County Shoot Off last Saturday.
CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Sierra Conservation Center Crisis Response Team) at the end of the day triumphed over all, defending their title from last year.
In second place was the California Grizzlies Junior Rifle Team.
The CDC swept the pistol competition in both the Action Pistol as well as the Bulls Eye Pistol.
Coming in third in the Rifle phase was the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office, as well as third overall after the Grizzlies.
In the Action Pistol Competition, the Sonora Police Explorers barely edged out by the Sheriffs Office by one point, and followed close behind by the California Highway Patrol.
In the Bulls Eye Pistol, with the CDC on top of the scoreboard, the CHP came in second followed by the Sheriff’s Office, Grizzlies and Explorers.
The event was a fundraiser for the Bayer Family of which donations can still be made to them at the Umpqua Bank in Sonora or Jamestown to the “Heidi Bayer Cancer Fund.”
The Vietnam Veterans Color Guard opened the event with Colors proceeded by the National Anthem sung by Shelby Reed, of Hughson. Doug Miller was on hand for the festivities representing Senator Berryhill’s Office.
CDC (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Sierra Conservation Center Crisis Response Team) at the end of the day triumphed over all, defending their title from last year.
In second place was the California Grizzlies Junior Rifle Team.
The CDC swept the pistol competition in both the Action Pistol as well as the Bulls Eye Pistol.
Coming in third in the Rifle phase was the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office, as well as third overall after the Grizzlies.
In the Action Pistol Competition, the Sonora Police Explorers barely edged out by the Sheriffs Office by one point, and followed close behind by the California Highway Patrol.
In the Bulls Eye Pistol, with the CDC on top of the scoreboard, the CHP came in second followed by the Sheriff’s Office, Grizzlies and Explorers.
The event was a fundraiser for the Bayer Family of which donations can still be made to them at the Umpqua Bank in Sonora or Jamestown to the “Heidi Bayer Cancer Fund.”
The Vietnam Veterans Color Guard opened the event with Colors proceeded by the National Anthem sung by Shelby Reed, of Hughson. Doug Miller was on hand for the festivities representing Senator Berryhill’s Office.
A
new acting warden has been appointed to Centinela State Prison as
former Warden Domingo Uribe Jr. “is away from the institution,” a
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman said
Friday.
“He’s (Uribe) not resigned, he’s not retired,” said Terry Thornton, deputy press secretary for the CDCR, adding this “means that he is away from the institution. I don’t know what he intends to do, but since he is away from the institution,” Amy Miller was assigned as Centinela’s acting warden.
The change became effective Thursday, she said, but didn’t give any more details on the matter. She did confirm however that the decision to step away from the position was Uribe’s.
“People do have lives and sometimes they make personal (decisions), so I don’t know if we’ll ever know the reason,” she said, referring to Uribe’s move.
Thornton also said Uribe is “technically still employed by the state of California,” adding “he has not indicated what his intentions are in regards to his employment.”
A warden is a prison’s chief executive officer who oversees staff and is responsible for the custody, treatment, training and discipline of all inmates, according to Thornton.
Uribe, 55, was appointed as Centinela’s warden in December 2010, according to Thornton.
He has been with CDCR since 1983, Thornton said, adding Uribe started as a correctional officer and was promoted through the ranks.
A 2011 Centinela State Prison housing plan reports the prison is designed to house 2,308 but holds 3,308 inmates.
Centinela State Prison also employs about 1,200 people, the same report notes.
“He’s (Uribe) not resigned, he’s not retired,” said Terry Thornton, deputy press secretary for the CDCR, adding this “means that he is away from the institution. I don’t know what he intends to do, but since he is away from the institution,” Amy Miller was assigned as Centinela’s acting warden.
The change became effective Thursday, she said, but didn’t give any more details on the matter. She did confirm however that the decision to step away from the position was Uribe’s.
“People do have lives and sometimes they make personal (decisions), so I don’t know if we’ll ever know the reason,” she said, referring to Uribe’s move.
Thornton also said Uribe is “technically still employed by the state of California,” adding “he has not indicated what his intentions are in regards to his employment.”
A warden is a prison’s chief executive officer who oversees staff and is responsible for the custody, treatment, training and discipline of all inmates, according to Thornton.
Uribe, 55, was appointed as Centinela’s warden in December 2010, according to Thornton.
He has been with CDCR since 1983, Thornton said, adding Uribe started as a correctional officer and was promoted through the ranks.
A 2011 Centinela State Prison housing plan reports the prison is designed to house 2,308 but holds 3,308 inmates.
Centinela State Prison also employs about 1,200 people, the same report notes.
SOLEDAD, Calif. -- An inmate is dead after being stabbed in an attack that triggered a fight at a state prison in central California.
A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says two inmates repeatedly stabbed the victim Saturday in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
Jonathan Parsley said an unknown number of other inmates in the yard then began to attack each other.
Four inmates suffered injuries from the brawl, two of whom had to be airlifted to a hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
The name of the dead inmate is being withheld pending notification of his relatives.
Authorities have limited inmate movement at the maximum-security prison as an investigation into what happened continues.
A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says two inmates repeatedly stabbed the victim Saturday in a yard at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
Jonathan Parsley said an unknown number of other inmates in the yard then began to attack each other.
Four inmates suffered injuries from the brawl, two of whom had to be airlifted to a hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
The name of the dead inmate is being withheld pending notification of his relatives.
Authorities have limited inmate movement at the maximum-security prison as an investigation into what happened continues.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2012 --
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIDS-related deaths among all state and
federal prisoners dropped from 24 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2001 to
five per 100,000 in 2010, according to a report by the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). In 2010, 72 inmates in state prisons and seven in federal prisons died from AIDS-related causes.
The rate of AIDS-related deaths among all state and federal prison inmates declined on average about 16 percent each year from 2001 through 2010. Among all inmates with HIV/AIDS, the AIDS-related death rate dropped on average about 13 percent each year, from 134 deaths per 10,000 inmates with HIV/AIDS in 2001 to 38 per 10,000 in 2010.
In 2010, the estimated rate of HIV/AIDS among state and federal prisoners dropped to 146 cases per 10,000 inmates from 194 cases per 10,000 in 2001. This was an average decline of about three percent each year, consistent with the decline across states with small, medium and large prison inmate populations.
Based on the latest available data, the rate of AIDS-related deaths among persons ages 15 to 54 in the U.S. general population was seven deaths per 100,000 in 2009, which was slightly higher than the rate of six deaths per 100,000 inmates for AIDS-related deaths in state prisons for the same age group.
The number of male inmates in state or federal prisons who had HIV/AIDS declined from 19,027 at year end 2009 to 18,337 at year end 2010, while the number of females who had HIV/AIDS decreased from 1,853 to 1,756 over the one-year period.
The decrease in HIV/AIDS deaths among state prisoners was driven mainly by declines among males, black non-Hispanics, and inmates age 35 or older. The number of AIDS-related deaths among male state prisoners declined from 89 deaths in 2009 to 69 in 2010. Among black non-Hispanic state prisoners, it dropped sharply from 70 to 43 deaths, and among state prisoners age 35 or older the number dropped from 87 to 60 deaths. These declines in HIV/AIDS deaths were offset by slight increases among white non-Hispanic state prisoners (from 15 to 23 deaths) and prisoners under age 35 (from seven to 12 deaths).
California, Florida, New York and Texas housed 51 percent of state prisoners with HIV/AIDS, but held 37 percent of all state prisoners in custody. As a percentage of their custody population, New York state prisons had the highest percentage of HIV/AIDS inmates (5.5 percent), followed by Louisiana (3.5 percent), and Maryland and Florida (3.2 percent each).
The findings in this report are based on information from BJS's National Prisoner Statistics Program (which annually collects information from the 50 state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons on prisoner counts, characteristics, admissions and releases), and from BJS's Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (which collects individual-level data on causes of inmate deaths and characteristics of inmates who died).
The report, HIV in Prisons, 2001-2010 (NCJ 238877), was written by BJS statistician Laura M. Maruschak. The report, related documents and additional information about the Bureau of Justice Statistics' statistical publications and programs can be found on the BJS website at http://www.bjs.gov/.
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), headed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lou Leary, provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice, and assist victims. OJP has six components: the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime; and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. More information about OJP can be found at http://www.ojp.gov.
The rate of AIDS-related deaths among all state and federal prison inmates declined on average about 16 percent each year from 2001 through 2010. Among all inmates with HIV/AIDS, the AIDS-related death rate dropped on average about 13 percent each year, from 134 deaths per 10,000 inmates with HIV/AIDS in 2001 to 38 per 10,000 in 2010.
In 2010, the estimated rate of HIV/AIDS among state and federal prisoners dropped to 146 cases per 10,000 inmates from 194 cases per 10,000 in 2001. This was an average decline of about three percent each year, consistent with the decline across states with small, medium and large prison inmate populations.
Based on the latest available data, the rate of AIDS-related deaths among persons ages 15 to 54 in the U.S. general population was seven deaths per 100,000 in 2009, which was slightly higher than the rate of six deaths per 100,000 inmates for AIDS-related deaths in state prisons for the same age group.
The number of male inmates in state or federal prisons who had HIV/AIDS declined from 19,027 at year end 2009 to 18,337 at year end 2010, while the number of females who had HIV/AIDS decreased from 1,853 to 1,756 over the one-year period.
The decrease in HIV/AIDS deaths among state prisoners was driven mainly by declines among males, black non-Hispanics, and inmates age 35 or older. The number of AIDS-related deaths among male state prisoners declined from 89 deaths in 2009 to 69 in 2010. Among black non-Hispanic state prisoners, it dropped sharply from 70 to 43 deaths, and among state prisoners age 35 or older the number dropped from 87 to 60 deaths. These declines in HIV/AIDS deaths were offset by slight increases among white non-Hispanic state prisoners (from 15 to 23 deaths) and prisoners under age 35 (from seven to 12 deaths).
California, Florida, New York and Texas housed 51 percent of state prisoners with HIV/AIDS, but held 37 percent of all state prisoners in custody. As a percentage of their custody population, New York state prisons had the highest percentage of HIV/AIDS inmates (5.5 percent), followed by Louisiana (3.5 percent), and Maryland and Florida (3.2 percent each).
The findings in this report are based on information from BJS's National Prisoner Statistics Program (which annually collects information from the 50 state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons on prisoner counts, characteristics, admissions and releases), and from BJS's Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (which collects individual-level data on causes of inmate deaths and characteristics of inmates who died).
The report, HIV in Prisons, 2001-2010 (NCJ 238877), was written by BJS statistician Laura M. Maruschak. The report, related documents and additional information about the Bureau of Justice Statistics' statistical publications and programs can be found on the BJS website at http://www.bjs.gov/.
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), headed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lou Leary, provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice, and assist victims. OJP has six components: the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime; and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. More information about OJP can be found at http://www.ojp.gov.
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