Law Enforcement Operations
CDCR works with other agencies in joint law enforcement operations to help protect the public.
In the early morning hours on March 23, the CDCR Crisis Response Team from three prisons joined the Blythe Police...
Thanks to hard work of investigators at Pelican Bay State Prison, other CDCR staff, and outside law enforcement partners, seized...
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 132, The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, legislation that will allow incarcerated transgender,...
Today, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced the closure of Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy. The...
CDCR parole and Special Services Unit agents assisted numerous federal, state, city and county agencies shutdown a deadly fentanyl distribution...
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Across the state, CDCR officials work to prevent gang-related criminal activity in the state's correctional institutions. One such effort involved...
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CDCR's Crisis Response Team One, a joint High Desert State Prison, or HDSP, and California Correctional Center team, assisted the...
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A multi-agency parole compliance sweep netted guns, drugs and arrests. The sweeps were conducted in the cities of Hanford, Lemoore...
CDCR parole agents arrested 110 of the 1,252 sex-offender parolees contacted during compliance checks during Operation Boo 2018. Statewide, new...
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CDCR parole agents arrested more than 70 of the 1,377 parolees contacted during 2017 Operation Boo Halloween compliance checks. “Our...
Read More About Operation Boo 2017 nets 70 arrests during compliance sweep