Author: Don Chaddock, Inside CDCR editor
During Patient Safety Awareness Week, Receiver J. Clark Kelso talks about the receivership and prison health care in this latest...
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High Desert State Prison Correctional Officer Joseph Cruz-Solis unexpectedly passed away March 7, 2025. He worked for CDCR for eight...
CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Macomber discusses the importance of ensuring patient safety during Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 10-14. “As we...
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Christopher Padalinski, retired clinical psychologist, passed away Feb. 26, 2025. He worked for the department for a decade, retiring in...
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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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