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Inmate Walks Away from Minimum‑Support Facility at Salinas Valley State Prison

SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are looking for a state prison inmate who walked away...

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Inmate Who Walked Away from Mount Bullion Conservation Camp Apprehended

MARIPOSA – A minimum-security inmate who walked away from the Sierra Conservation Center (SCC) Mount Bullion Conservation Camp (CC #39)...

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Inmate Walks Away from Mount Bullion Conservation Camp

MARIPOSA – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are searching for a minimum-security inmate who walked away from...

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Calipatria State Prison Investigating Inmate Death as a Homicide

CALIPATRIA – Calipatria State Prison (CAL) officials are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide. On Friday, March...

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North Kern State Prison Investigating Inmate Death as a Homicide

DELANO – North Kern State Prison (NKSP) officials are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide. On Sunday,...

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Corcoran Officers Quickly Quell Multiple Riots

CORCORAN — Around 110 members of custody staff at California State Prison, Corcoran (COR) responded to a series of violent...

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Condemned inmate Stevie Lamar Fields dies of unknown causes

SAN QUENTIN —Condemned inmate Stevie Lamar Fields, 60, who was on California’s death row from Los Angeles County, was pronounced...

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More than 200 CDCR inmate firefighters respond to Oroville spillway crisis

OROVILLE ― Erosion and flooding along emergency spillways near the Oroville Dam forced mass evacuations Sunday and 234 inmate firefighters...

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Kern Valley State Prison Officers Quell Large‑Scale Riot

DELANO – Custody staff at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) quickly contained, isolated and controlled a large-scale incident on the...

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Condemned Inmate Fernando E. Caro Dies of Unknown Causes

SAN QUENTIN —Condemned inmate Fernando Eros Caro, 67, who was on California’s death row from Fresno County, was pronounced dead...

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