Visitation critical for inmates during, after incarceration
Thomas Betar, Deseret News
The bold red balloons struggled vainly for his attention. They danced from strings tied to the mailbox, the car, even the top of a hedge, but still John Espinosa Nelson could not see them from the prison window.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
California prison officials try high-tech approach to contraband cell phones
Rina Palta, corrections.com
People stuff them in footballs and toss them over barbed wire fences into prison yards. They're smuggled in by prison visitors or correctional officers who sell them for hundreds of dollars behind bars.
State prisons lock up solar power
Central Valley Business Times
Four state prisons in California are now partially powered by the sun, with on-site photovoltaic systems running at full capacity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says Monday.
CALIFORNIA PAROLE
Search for parolee leads to marijuana garden in Tulare County
Visalia Times-Delta
The search for a wanted parolee resulted in the discovery of a marijuana processing operation and 14 arrests late last week in south Tulare County.
REALIGNMENT
Prison reform one year later
Heather Tirado Gilligan, California Health Report
The brutal beating of Brandy Marie Arreola — allegedly by a man released from jail just days before the attack — has become a key example for critics of a law shifting responsibility for thousands of convicted felons from the state to the counties in October of last year. But others, including some noted criminal justice experts, say that understanding the effects of the new law will take careful analysis beyond looking at a few headline-grabbing cases.
The realignment story in California is still being written
Ed Coghlan, cafwd.org
California's Realignment of public safety turned "one year old" on October 1st. This historic program is what the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation calls on its website "the cornerstone of California's solution to reduce overcrowding, cost and recidivism" in the state's correction system.
Funding fight on if Prop. 30 fail
Kevin Yamamura, The Sacramento Bee
Kevin Yamamura, The Sacramento Bee
Long before political
ads dominated the airwaves and arguments erupted over which Nov. 6 tax
initiative best serves schools, Gov. Jerry Brown sought crucial support from
county officials in a cramped conference room one block from the Capitol.
CDCR RELATED
Pay soars for prison doctors under receiver
Critics say overseer appointed by federal judge provided ‘Cadillac’ care for convicted felons
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — A pharmacist at Corcoran State Prison was paid more than $196,000 last year, nearly double what is typical across the state.
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