from: CDCR
Wasco State Prison (WSP) officials are investigating the death of David Dominguez as a homicide after he was attacked by two other incarcerated persons on Aug. 24, 2024.
At approximately 2:30 p.m., staff observed Dominguez being physically supported by other incarcerated persons in the dayroom. He told staff he had suffered a seizure and fell. An emergency medical alert was immediately issued, and responding medical staff determined he needed a higher level of care. He was transported to the triage and treatment area, and an ambulance was summoned while life-saving measures were performed. Dominguez was pronounced deceased by a paramedic at 4:07 p.m.
A subsequent review of the audio-video surveillance system showed incarcerated persons Jose Landeros and Michael S. Padilla entering Dominguez’s cell and engaging in a physical altercation.
Landeros and Padilla have been placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by WSP Investigative Services Unit and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office. Additionally, incarcerated persons Robert Rubalcava, Leonel A. Torres, Zakary W. White and Mario Aguillon have been placed in restricted housing pending the investigation. The Office of the Inspector General was notified, and the Kern County Coroner will determine Dominguez’s official cause of death.
Dominguez, 29, was received from San Diego County on Oct. 4, 2023, sentenced to three years for extortion by means of force or threat and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, with enhancements for street gang act.
Landeros, 27, was received from Riverside County on March 6, 2020, sentenced to 16 years for second-degree robbery with an enhancement for use of a firearm. He was also sentenced by Kern County on Jan. 5, 2022, to three years, four months for second-degree robbery, assault with a firearm and false imprisonment with violence.
Padilla, 37, was most recently received from San Bernardino County on May 25, 2023, sentenced to 22 years for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, a second-strike offense, with enhancements for fleeing the scene and for a prior felony conviction of a serious offense.
Robert Rubalcava, 40, was most recently received from San Bernardino County on Sept. 29, 2023, sentenced to 14 years for attempted second-degree murder as a second striker, with enhancements for use of a firearm and street gang act.
Leonel A. Torres, 40, was received from Santa Barbara County on Nov. 8, 2019, sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder.
Zakary W. White, 27, was most recently received from Riverside County on Feb. 1, 2024, sentenced to six years for vehicle theft with prior vehicle-related theft convictions as a second striker.
Mario Aguillon, 37, was received from Los Angeles County on Feb. 2, 2005, sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. On Nov. 15, 2013, Sacramento County sentenced him to life with the possibility of parole for an in-prison offense of assault, a second-strike offense, with an enhancement for a prior felony conviction of a serious offense.
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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
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