CDCR Time Capsule
Much like opening a time capsule, these CDCR stories are reprinted from their original sources. Explore the history of CDCR as written at the time.
Former Correctional Officer William Conroy describes how incarcerated females were employed at San Quentin. This is the third of a...
Read More About 1911: Former officer describes life for females
Former Correctional Officer William Conroy, who worked at San Quentin State Prison from 1903 to 1907, wrote this piece regarding...
Read More About Dec. 19, 1911: Former officer describes prison jobs
Former Correctional Officer William Conroy, who worked at San Quentin from 1903 to 1907, described life in prison for a...
Read More About Dec. 18, 1911: Officer describes prison life for new arrival
San Quentin Warden James A. Johnston described reception, recreation, parole and the general treatment of inmates at the state’s oldest...
Read More About 1914: San Quentin warden focuses on redeeming offenders
California Medical Facility was given an 8mm film that appears to have been shot in the mid- to late-1970s or...
Read More About 1970s Officer training film emphasizes empathy
Folsom Correctional Officer Lyle Herman, Jr., died June 29, 1988, after suffering head injuries when he intervened during a robbery.
Read More About 1988: Officer Lyle Herman slain trying to stop robbery
"Twenty years ago, the only place you would see a female in a male prison was in an office behind...
Read More About 1989: Department director declares women a major force
"Folsom recently hired the department's first full-time women firefighters. Marianne Breeland and Kathy Williams, both former correctional officers, transferred to...
Read More About 1989: First full‑time women firefighters hired in department
"As he left the stands at the conclusion of San Quentin's seventeenth annual field and track meet, Warden James B....
A 1921 Folsom Prison inspection report, penned by Agent AC Jensen, landed on the Inside CDCR desk. Photographs and detailed...