Kern Valley State Prison Inmate Killed by Another Inmate
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Inmate David Dodd, 58, was assaulted at Kern Valley State Prison and died at the scene. The attacked happened in the morning of April 5, 2024. According to the California…
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DOJ: California Corrections facial hair ban amounts to religious discrimination
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By Alan Riquelmy The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed a complaint against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over its prohibition on facial hair, calling it religion-based employment…
Inmate Dies After Attacking a CDCR Correctional Officer
CDCR is investigating a staff assault where an inmate died at Soledad State Prison (Correctional Training Facility). A press release says an incident started around 1100 hours on March 21,…
Attempted Murder of two CDCR Correctional Officers
On March 20, 2024, an inmate at California’s Salinas Valley State Prison attempted to murder two correctional officers. The inmate was housed in the prison’s restrictive housing unit, slipped his…
Calif. to transfer hundreds of death row inmates out of San Quentin
In 2016 the California voters showed that the citizens of California wanted to keep the death penalty. Proposition 66 passed by voters to speed up executions. Shortly after, Governor Newsom…
Two Officers Attacked in Separate Incidents at California State Prison Lancaster
On March 18, 2024 two correctional officers were attacked by inmates in two separate incidents. Inmate Armenta resisted being placed in handcuffs by a correctional officer. During the struggle, the…
CDCR Inmate Discipline Process, Step-By-Step
I know this blog is followed mainly by people already in the corrections profession. However, I have received enough questions regarding inmate discipline from folks outside of corrections I decided…
Folsom prison inmate sexually batters department nurse
It is very unfortunate, but California correctional officers get battered on almost a daily basis. Most of these violent attacks against officers are reported internally, however not reported to the…