CALIFORNIA PRISONS
Fairfield
Daily Republic and Associated Press
VACAVILLE —
California Medical Facility still is providing inadequate care to inmates
despite a decade of oversight intended to improve care, the state inspector
general said Monday, citing poor nursing care and a recent change in policy
that means there are no doctors at the facility after normal hours.
The
Vacaville prison facility failed on half of 14 key benchmarks.
CORRECTIONS RELATED
Nashelly
Chavez, Sacramento Bee
At
the age of 11, West Sacramento native Michael Rizo first entered the juvenile
justice system after he stole something from his neighbor’s yard.
“I started messing up around
elementary school, just started getting influenced by negative people,” Rizo said.
In the years that followed, he moved
in and out of foster care, often running away from home and living in abandoned
houses. Rizo said he continued to act out as he got older, participating in
gang activity and a string of robberies.
Paul
Payne, Press Democrat
A
proposal before voters this November to make the state’s less-violent prisoners
eligible for release sooner has widened the gulf between law enforcement and
advocates of reducing prison overcrowding.
Proposition
57, developed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would allow inmates to earn credits for
completing educational and rehabilitation programs. It would also allow judges
— not prosecutors — to decide whether to try certain minors as adults.
Deborah
McKeon, Temple Daily Telegram
BELTON, TEXAS — Larry Don Patterson, arrested Tuesday in connection with two 43-year-old murders in California, was a Bell County registered sex offender.
The
Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force arrested Patterson in Oakhurst,
Okla., in a heavily wooded area, according to officials.
Patterson
is suspected, along with William Lloyd Harbour, 65, of murdering Valerie Janice
Lane, 12, and Doris Karen Derryberry, 13, just north of Sacramento, Calif.
Harbour
was arrested in Yuba County.
OPINION
Bakersfield
Californian
There
are many very bad, dangerous people on California’s death row. Among the more
than 700 inmates awaiting execution are people who have murdered and tortured.
In many cases, their crimes are beyond the imagination.
They
deserve to be executed for their crimes. But they almost surely won’t be.
Instead, they will sit on death row for years. And years. And years. The
likelihood of them dying of old age or disease is much greater than the chance
they’ll be subjected to lethal injection, or any other legal means of
execution.
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