Video: Meet a Town Bankrupted by Private Prisons
Real video from the town of Littlefield, Texas and the story of how the town was left with $10 million in debt by GEO Group after they built and abandoned a private prison in the community... LINK -...
View ArticleJanuary 20, 2012
This is CCPOA's 5150 information hotline for Friday, January 20, 2012. CCPOA NEWS Meet & Confer Notices– CCPOA has requested a number Meet & Confer negotiations concerning a variety of...
View ArticleMeet & Confer Notices: Week of January 20, 2012
Meet and Confer notices for the week of January 20th including: Emergency Revision of January 2012 Institution Activation Schedule and Issuance of February 2012 Institution Activation Schedule;...
View ArticleMore Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions
America’s unionized workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: lockouts. From the Cooper Tire factory in Findlay,...
View ArticleThe pension clock is ticking
It's the norm in January: After the governor proposes a new budget and delivers his State of the State address, legislators slide into hibernation until spring. Oh, there's some rustling around in the...
View ArticleNewark burglary suspect involved in fatal crash dies
One of three burglary suspects involved in a police chase and car crash that killed a Pleasanton man last week has also died, police said. Rajwaun Watkins, 20, of Oakland and Hayward, died Friday at...
View ArticleMilpitas parolee arrested, three handguns seized
Milpitas Police Department officers arrested 53-year-old Milpitas resident Johnny Munoz on charges of being a felon in possession of weapons and drugs on Jan. 17 at about 11 a.m. Munoz, a known...
View ArticlePolice briefs: Man arrested after foot chase
Salinas police and county probation officers captured a parolee Thursday after a chase that started when he climbed out a second-story window. Probation officers went to an apartment in the 900 block...
View ArticleSuspect was recently released from prison
A man Butte County Sheriff's deputies arrested Thursday night following a brief vehicle and foot chase is a low-level offender recently released to the area from prison. Officials said Stephen...
View ArticlePrisoners ride shift; inmates return to Shasta County under new state law
Randy Cates, a 38-year-old homeless man staying at the Good News Rescue Mission in Redding, has been in and out of prison before. But this time it's different. Cates was among the first of Shasta...
View ArticleOur View: Signs of progress in state prisons
Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment already is having a positive impact on the statewide prison system. The population in these overcrowded prisons has dropped by 11,000 inmates -- to 133,000 -- in just...
View ArticleSuspect killed by Selma cops was wanted parolee
Fresno County authorities say the man fatally shot by police officers at a motel over the weekend was a parolee wanted for burglary and sexual assault. The coroner on Monday identified the man as...
View ArticleInvestigators: Man shot in Selma was a wanted Parolee
Action News has acquired cell phone video showing what happened at a Selma hotel right after police shot and killed a suspect. A resident of the Villager Inn Motel shot the video after hearing...
View ArticleTestimony starts in grand theft trial of Westlake Village parolee
Testimony began Monday in the trial of a parolee on charges he stole thousands of dollars from a woman. Prosecutors allege Daniel R. Coffman, 57, convinced the woman his wife froze his assets and that...
View ArticleCDCR’s Matt Cate talks to Sacramento Press Club
California's enormous budget problem is making it difficult for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to comply with the court-ordered reduction in its prison population, Corrections...
View ArticleFour months in, some California judges want more say over state’s new...
Some California Superior Court judges are calling for a major shift in Gov. Jerry Brown's 4-month-old realignment policy -- the power to keep track of certain nonviolent felons for a lot longer than...
View ArticleMore parolees than expected entering Yolo County
While Yolo County officials have more figures concerning prison realignment, the full effects won't be known for at least several more months, if not years. Chief Probation Officer Marjorie Rist...
View ArticleMore state prisoners may be moved to Rio Cosumnes jail
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors chair said last week the county will continue to feel Gov. Jerry Brown’s ongoing push to help slash California’s deficit by shifting some of the state’s...
View ArticleSolano’s First Sweep of Felons Under Gov’s New Prison Realignment Program
Three arrests off the top, during Solano County law enforcement officers' very first sweep of felons under the Governor's new prison realignment program. "They are dangerous people that are coming out...
View ArticleEditorial: Lawmakers spin their wheels on pension reform
A joint Senate/Assembly conference committee will hold its third (ho-hum) informational hearing today on the 12-point pension reform plan that Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled with such fanfare last October....
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