On November 26, 2024, at about 1813 hours, At High Desert State Prison, officers observed Inmate Person Zachary Barron attacking Inmate Juan Linares. Barron used an improvised weapon, to stab Linares multiple times. Officers responded and quelled the attack.
Linares was immediately transported to the institution’s Correctional Treatment Center (CTC) for advanced medical care. However, his condition worsened, requiring life-saving measures, including CPR and wound care, by Correctional Officers and medical staff. Despite their efforts, Linares was pronounced deceased at 7:09 p.m. by a physician at an outside hospital.
Linares, 44, was received by CDCR from Alameda County on Oct. 20, 2009, to serve 36 years to life for second-degree murder.
Barron, 32, was received by CDCR from San Bernardino County on Dec. 5, 2019, to serve 14 years to life for first-degree murder. He has been placed in restricted housing while the incident is under investigation.
The HDSP Investigative Services Unit and the Lassen County District Attorney’s Office are conducting investigations into this incident. The Office of the Inspector General has been notified, and the Lassen County Coroner will determine Linares’s official cause of death.
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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
Multiple inmates received injuries consistent with weapons being used. A total of eight uncontrolled weapons were discovered,” noted a program lieutenant at Calipatria State Prison concerning a riot between rival gangs involving 30 inmates on Nov. 29, 2022. Photo by Hédi Benyounes via Upsplash
In July 2022, populations inside all California prisons began being forced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to intermix across hostile groups, resulting in dangerous gladiator-style fights, which include intentions of severe injury and murder.
In April 2022, Connie Gibson, director of the Division of Adult Institutions, framed the new policy as “expanding rehabilitative efforts.” All persons are required to participate in general population activities under threat of discipline, that is, being placed in “higher level housing” if persons resist this change to intermixing.
In her letter to announce this change from the practice of bifurcating populations, she framed intermixing populations as a longstanding policy although a review of historical actions suggests otherwise.
Bifurcating populations has been policy on and off at some sites for decades to increase safety and decrease violent assaults, particularly along gang lines. The result of Gibson’s implementation of the CDCR’s mandate is the context of gladiator-style fights some of which appear, based on our evidence, to be encouraged and/or neglected by correctional officers with possible spillover into gang retaliation actions in community settings.
ATTENTION THIS IS THE RESULTS OF CDCR POLICIES MURDER .. just because they are CDCR does NOT make KILLING INMATES LEGAL VIDEOS ARE BLASTED ON YOUTUBE CDCR NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE