Beyond the Badge
In Beyond the Badge, we highlight CDCR employees and retirees, their careers and efforts to achieve work-life balance through hobbies, volunteering and community involvement.
A mother-son team, both employed at California Institution Men (CIM), have turned on their home sewing machines to make masks...
Jessica Lieland, a physician's assistant at North Kern State Prison, is swapping scrubs for a military uniform. On Tuesday, April...
Folsom Women’s Facility Licensed Vocational Nurse Laura Nunes saw the supply shortage and took it upon herself to make a...
Dedicated staff providing essential care inside CDCR facilities are celebrated daily, but especially during National Nurses Week.It’s why institution leadership...
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A 19th century literary figure serves as inspiration for Northern California native B. Clay Shannon, a CDCR Case Records Analyst....
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San Quentin State Prison is the oldest state correctional facility in California and Richard "Dick" Nelson has made it his...
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CDCR employee Kimberly Henson knew from an early age she had an affinity for bovines, especially longhorn steer. Now, she...
Lt. Ricardo Jauregui and Lt. Thomas Presson have similar life stories. The two went to high school together and later...
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Around Thanksgiving a rare snowstorm hit Lancaster, where staff braved icy snowy roads to get to work at CSP-Los Angeles...
When Brandon Lugar attended the Basic Correctional Officer Academy in 2013, he didn't realize he would later become a parole...