At California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC), on November 22, at about 0820 hours, Inmate Ronald D. Yandell, 62, drew an inmate-manufactured weapon against two officers while he was being escorted back to his cell after a scheduled appointment at the institution’s central health building.
One of the officers deployed three applications of pepper spray. Yandell dropped the weapon, was placed in restraints and was removed from the incident site without further incident. No staff was injured. An inmate-manufactured weapon was found at the scene.
The case will be referred to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office for possible felony prosecution.
Yandell was received from Contra Costa County on March 18, 2004, sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.
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VIOLENCE IN CDCR CALIFORNIA MODEL PRISONS
Although only some CDCR prisons are “officially” CA Model prisons; all CDCR institutions are expected to embrace the CA Model of prison management.
CDCR) has fully embraced a model of prison management based on no criminological principles. CDCR inmates and staff are less safe thanks to the new idea of prison management.
The aptly named California Model of prison management is based on warm fuzzy feelings and not on any science or research. This bad prison management model may be a contributor to the increase of inmate murders within CDCR this year.