Dogs take bite out of big cell phone business in prison (Kern Valley)
Kern Valley State Prison is one of six maximum security units in California. But inside, prisoners run a lucrative business that extends beyond prison walls. "If you have an Internet ready phone or...
View ArticleHusband, 2 others arrested in 1998 slaying of prison guard
Cold-case detectives Monday arrested the husband of a prison guard who was shot to death on a freeway off-ramp in Anaheim in 1998, six months after he took out a $1 million life insurance policy on...
View ArticlePrivate prisons increase profits, per diem - California accounts for 13% of...
Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BB+' initial Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Corrections Corp. of America (CCA). Fitch has also assigned a 'BBB-' rating to the company's $785 million secured credit...
View ArticleUPDATE: Transient parolee arrested in fatal stabbing
Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a suspect in Sunday’s fatal stabbing of a Hesperia teen in Apple Valley. Clarence Hogue, a 26-year-old transient and parolee, was arrested late this morning on a local...
View ArticleUpdate: Calif. budget crunchers hear youth-prison closure debate
Players in the fight to shut down — or keep open — the last of California’s state-run youth prisons are meeting this week where the action is: Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Finance, where the...
View ArticleJanuary 2012
CMF January 11 – A resistive inmate tried to strike a sergeant with his fists. The inmate subsequently struck the sergeant with his head. The sergeant sustained a red mark on the forehead....
View ArticleAB 109 Negotiations UPDATE
Over the last several months, CCPOA and the state have been in negotiations regarding the impact of the AB 109 Reductions. Due to AB 109, passed by the Legislature and the “Overcrowding Order” issued...
View ArticleHigh-Needs Kids and Juvenile Justice Reforms
As California and the nation continue to struggle with budget crises, creative and cost-effective approaches in the provision of services for high-needs youthful offender populations are becoming...
View ArticleDeath Penalty Sought In Arizona (private) Prison Murder (Hawaiian inmates)
Arizona prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for two Hawaii prison inmates charged with murdering another prisoner from Hawaii while all three were incarcerated in a privately-run prison in...
View ArticleCrime Report: Parolee Arrested with Burglary Tools
The following information was provided by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. The suspects have not been convicted of a crime. A 34-year-old male was arrested for a felony parole violation in the 9700...
View ArticleCalif. fugitive who tweeted in Atlanta nabbed
California parole officials arrested fugitive Julian Chenier as he tried to board a plane in Nashville after they received a tip from an 11Alive viewer. The California Parole and Apprehension Team was...
View ArticleSUSPECT NAMED IN HOME ROBBERY OF MTS CHAIRMAN
The man who eluded police on Interstate 8 Tuesday night is a suspect in an armed robbery at the home of the Metropolitan Transit System board chairman, San Diego police said Wednesday. Investigators...
View ArticleNew Mexico: More on CCA rape verdict
A federal jury Thursday ordered over $3 million in damages to three former inmates raped by a prison guard at Camino Nuevo Women’s Correctional Facility in 2007. The intertwined state and federal...
View ArticleContra Costa feeling impact from state prison shift
More than four months after California transferred responsibility for low-level offenders to counties, law enforcement officials in Contra Costa County are seeing far more inmates than projected. Last...
View ArticleDisturbing Complaint Against Private Prison
The nation's largest private prison company's "negligence, recklessness, and flagrant failure to protect" an inmate allowed other prisoners to stab him 140 times, killing him, the dead man's family...
View ArticleMTA Chapter Statewide Meeting: March 3rd
MTA Chapter Statewide Meeting on March 3rd in Salinas, CA - view the flyer below for more details and RSVP information. View the Flyer (.pdf format)
View ArticleFebruary 17, 2012
This is CCPOA's 5150 information hotline for Friday, February 17, 2012. CCPOA NEWS CCPOA Endorses Greg Kraft For Assembly–Correctional peace officer Greg Kraft recently announced his candidacy for the...
View ArticleCalifornia’s top labor official quits
Amid government layoffs, budget cuts and looming contract talks, the state's top labor relations official is stepping down. Ronald Yank told Department of Personnel Administration staff on Tuesday...
View ArticleRepublicans challenge Democrats on pension reform
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday challenged Gov. Jerry Brown to get Democratic support for the pension reforms he introduced four months ago. GOP leaders in the Senate and Assembly announced a...
View ArticleCuomo draws line over his NY pension reform plan
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Legislature on Wednesday that he's willing to risk a shut-down of government to create a cheaper pension system for the next generations of public workers. "It is one of the...
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