Author: Don Chaddock, Inside CDCR editor
Special Olympics Northern California made an unforgettable splash this year, hosting multiple exhilarating Polar Plunges across the region. From the...
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In this Weekender Digest, we look at Polar Plunges, welding at CTF-Soledad, and the history of women in California prisons....
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Across California, CDCR and California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) dove into the Polar Plunge benefiting Special Olympics. The following...
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On Wednesday, March 5, at approximately 9:56 a.m., a riot was declared at California State Prison (CSP) Sacramento, involving approximately...
During a 1965 conference of Federated Women’s Clubs, the superintendent of the California Institution for Women discussed the history of...
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Two correctional officers were injured when they responded to an attack by an incarcerated person against a clinic officer, who...
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Tipton “Tip” Craig Kindel, retired assistant director of communications, passed away Feb. 28, 2025. He was 81. Kindel built a...
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California Institution for Men (CIM) recently honored the memory of Correctional Officer Manuel “Manny” Gonzalez, slain in the line of...
Tiffany Orff, a vocational welding instructor, is shaping futures and igniting hope at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) at Soledad....
John Jones, a retired correctional sergeant from California Institution for Men (CIM), passed away Feb. 17, 2025. He was 61...