CDCR NEWS
Imperial
Valley News
Sacramento,
California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following
appointments:
Michael
Martel, 62, of Rancho Murieta, has been appointed warden at the California
Health Care Facility, Stockton, where he has been acting warden since August
2016 and served as chief deputy warden in 2016 and as a correctional lieutenant
from 1990 to 1996. Martel served as retired annuitant chief deputy warden at
the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation headquarters from
2012 to 2014, where he was an associate warden of reception centers in 2007, a
lieutenant from 1998 to 2000 and a labor relations specialist from 1996 to
1998. He served as warden at San Quentin State Prison in 2011, where he was a
correctional officer from 1981 to 1986. Martel served in several positions at
Mule Creek State Prison from 2007 to 2011, including warden and chief deputy
warden. He held several positions at California State Prison, Sacramento from
2000 to 2007, including associate warden, facility captain and correctional
captain. Martel was a correctional sergeant at Folsom State Prison from 1986 to
1990. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation
is $145,440. Martel is a Republican.
abc
News
Officials
at Valley State Prison (VSP) are investigating the death of an inmate as a
possible homicide.
On
Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, around 9:10 a.m., inmate Efrain Rodriguez, 44, was
found unresponsive in a dormitory. Life-saving measures were initiated and an
ambulance was called to the scene, but Rodriguez was pronounced dead at 9:45
a.m.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
Capital
Public Radio
What’s
life behind bars like at the infamous San Quentin Prison?
The
new podcast "Ear Hustle" takes listeners inside the prison to listen
to stories from the inmates themselves.
The
project won the Radiotopia podquest challenge and a 10-episode season will be
funded through 2017.
CORRECTIONS RELATED
Christina
Gray, Catholic SF
Locally
incarcerated men and women will continue to receive handmade cards with
messages of hope this Christmas and next year from young Catholic students and
others as a prison pen pal program launched by the archdiocese earlier this
year is extended into 2017.
The
Pen Pal Jr. program introduced by the archdiocese’s office of restorative
justice for the Year of Mercy connects adolescent Catholic school and religious
education students to prisoners in San Francisco County Jail and San Quentin
State Prison.
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