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Inmate Walkaway Apprehended, Returned to North Kern Prison
KERN – On September 12, 2013, at approximately 1:30 am, officials at North Kern State Prison (NKSP) received information that inmate Michael Valdez, 27, who had walked away from the institution’s...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Two Top CDCR Executive Appointments
SACRAMENTO — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today announced that the California State Senate has confirmed Dan Stone as the Director of Adult Parole Operations and...
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Minimum Security Inmates Missing from CSP-Corcoran
CORCORAN, CA - On Sunday, September 15, 2013 at approximately 9:30 p.m. two Level I (Minimum Custody) inmates assigned to work at the Dairy (which is outside of the electrical fence perimeter) were...
View ArticleInmate Death at Kern Valley State Prison Being Investigated as a Homicide
DELANO – Officials at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell.Inmate Steven Brenneman, 40, was pronounced dead...
View ArticleCDCR and L.A. County Sign Contract to Allow County Jail to House Inmates in...
Utilizing inmates in camps will ease L.A.County’s jail population and improve prospects for inmate rehabilitationLOS ANGELES – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the...
View ArticleCDCR, Caltrans Expand Parolee Work Program
Roadside clean-up crews learn work skills, save tax dollarsFRESNO - A joint program between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Caltrans that helps parolees cultivate...
View ArticleWalkaways from California State Prison-Corcoran Captured in Oxnard
Minimum-security inmates arrested without incidentOxnard, CA - Special Service Unit agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety (OCS) in...
View ArticleCDCR Investigators Track Down Escapee From 1977
SACRAMENTO – Michael R. Morrow, 70, who escaped from a California state prison in 1977, was apprehended on September 23 in Garland County, Arkansas, said the California Department of Corrections and...
View ArticleIn-custody Homicide Under Investigation
CORCORAN – Investigators at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran (CSATF) and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office are investigating a September 20,...
View ArticleSalinas Valley State Prison Homicide Under Investigation
SOLEDAD – Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) officials are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell on Friday, October 4, 2013.The victim, age 31,...
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Condemned Inmate Timothy Michael Russell’s Death Investigated as a Suicide
SAN QUENTIN – Condemned inmate Timothy Russell, 53, who was on California’s death row from Riverside County, was found unresponsive in his cell late Friday evening in San Quentin State Prison....
View ArticleInmate Death at California State Prison-Corcoran Investigated as a Homicide
CORCORAN – Investigators at California State Prison-Corcoran (CSP-Corcoran) and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the death of a 48-year-old inmate as a homicide. Today at...
View ArticleTwo Calipatria State Prison Correctional Officers Recovering from Inmate Assault
CALIPATRIA – Two correctional officers are being treated for injuries they suffered from an attack by a Calipatria State Prison inmate Sunday.On October 13 at 9:45 a.m., a correctional officer...
View ArticleHigh Desert State Prison Sergeant Injured from Inmate Attack
SUSANVILLE – A High Desert State Prison (HDSP) sergeant is recovering from injuries suffered during an unprovoked attack by an inmate Monday night.The assault occurred on October 14 at 6 p.m. after...
View ArticleCalifornia State Prison-Corcoran Officer Attacked by a SHU Inmate
Three other correctional officers also injured in attackCORCORAN – A California State Prison-Corcoran (CSP-Corcoran) correctional officer was stabbed by an inmate this afternoon.The incident happened...
View ArticleCDCR Signs Contract with San Diego County to Allow County Offenders to...
Housing county offenders in fire camps will provide additional beds for the county and bolster the state’s firefighting forceSACRAMENTO – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...
View ArticleJuvenile Offenders Donate To Stockton Victims Group
Funds will help San Joaquin County Victim Witness ProgramSACRAMENTO – Juvenile offenders from the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton have donated 20 percent of their earnings from...
View ArticleJuvenile Offenders Donate To Stockton Victims Group
Funds will help San Joaquin County Victim Witness ProgramSACRAMENTO – Juvenile offenders from the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton have donated 20 percent of their earnings from...
View ArticleInmate Death at Kern Valley State Prison Being Investigated as a Homicide
DELANO – Officials at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell.Inmate Carmen T. Guerrero, 48, was pronounced...
View ArticleCDCR’s Checks on 1,267 Sex-Offenders during Operation Boo
Sweep results in 90 arrests statewide; weapons, drugs and child porn confiscatedSACRAMENTO – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) parole agents arrested 90 of the 1,267...
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