Author: Don Chaddock, Inside CDCR editor
From the northern state to the southern border with Mexico, correctional staff across California are volunteering to raise funds to...
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Every year, CDCR inmates assigned to CALFIRE fire crews at Alder Conservation Camp #20 in the Humboldt Del Norte Unit...
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Thirty years before Johnny Cash's concerts at Folsom Prison, the "Alton Giant" visited the institution while touring the west coast....
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While families on the outside were carving turkey, those incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano, were treated to a special...
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When Brandon Lugar attended the Basic Correctional Officer Academy in 2013, he didn't realize he would later become a parole...
Parole Agents F. Thor and J. Castro were invited as guest mentors to attend Clovis Unified School District Student Success...
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CDCR inmates who participate in California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) programs are giving back to various crime victims’ support groups...
While Secretary Ralph Diaz, Division of Adult Institutions Director Connie Gipson, and several governmental leaders, reform advocates and formerly incarcerated...
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Valley State Prison (VSP) held its first Suicide Prevention events during the fall -- one for staff and one for...
Over six days, CDCR Secretary Ralph Diaz and Division of Adult Institutions Director Connie Gipson toured Norwegian prisons, training facilities...
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