SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012-13 budget proposals would reduce the state’s workforce by some 3,000 positions, mostly from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The savings would fill just a tiny fraction of the $9.2 billion budget hole projected through June 2013.
STOCKTON – Construction is under way on the California Health Care Facility, a nearly $1 billion medical prison. When completed by the end of 2013, the 1.2 million-square-foot facility will provide long-term medical and mental-health care to 1,722 state prisoners. Construction work is expected to generate 5,500 temporary jobs over the next two years. The facility will employ 2,400 doctors, nurses and correctional staffers with an annual payroll of $220 million.
MADERA COUNTY – State officials are moving ahead with plans to convert the Valley State Prison for Women into a male prison to reduce overcrowding.
SACRAMENTO – A woman imprisoned for shaking her grandson to death has petitioned Gov. Jerry Brown for clemency. Her conviction was overturned by an appeals court and then reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
SAN LUIS OBISPO – A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) firefighter, Crisanto Leo Lionell, died of presumed natural causes in early January during a training exercise with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. Lionell was received by CDCR on Feb.10, 2010, to serve an 11-year sentence.
