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California ups early inmate release estimate amid objections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State prison officials say as many as 17,600 California inmates may be released early due to the coronavirus, 70% more than previously estimated and a total that victims and police say includes dangerous criminals who should stay locked up. The releases also are causing...
2 California prisoners die of suspected virus complications
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two more inmates at San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco died from what appear to be complications of the coronavirus, corrections officials said Monday. The inmates, including one on death row, died Sunday at outside hospitals, the California Department of Corrections and...
Inmate stabbed to death at California prison
DELANO, Calif. (AP) — An inmate was stabbed to death at a Central California prison, authorities said Monday. Omar Orane, 40, was attacked by another inmate last Thursday morning at Kern Valley State Prison, according to a statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Guards used...
2 California prisoners die of suspected virus compliactions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two more California state prisoners died Friday from what appear to be complications of the coronavirus, corrections officials said. An inmate from San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco and another from Avenal State Prison in Kings County died at outside hospitals, according...
US prison populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of COVID-19. It made her feel bad to leave when she had so few days left at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. She said she...
Another California death row inmate dies; virus suspected
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another California death row inmate has died from what appears to be complications of the coronavirus amid an outbreak sweeping through San Quentin State Prison, authorities said Monday. Troy A. Ashmus, 58, died Monday outside of the prison near San Francisco, according to the...
White supremacist on California death row attacks guard
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A white supremacist gang member on California's death row attacked a guard, who was slashed in the hand, corrections officials said. Todd Givens, 51, tried to cut the neck of a correctional officer who was picking up food trays Thursday morning in a housing unit at San Quentin State...
Another California death row inmate dies; Virus suspected
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another California death row inmate has died from what appears to be complications of the coronavirus amid an outbreak sweeping through San Quentin State Prison, authorities said Wednesday. Jeffrey J. Hawkins, 64, died Tuesday at a hospital outside of the prison near San Francisco,...
Another California prisoner dies from COVID-19 complications
AVENAL, Calif. (AP) — Another California state prison inmate has died from what appears to be complications of the coronavirus, corrections officials said Monday. The inmate from Avenal State Prison in Central California died Monday at a hospital outside of the facility but no other information was being...
Two guards stabbed at California high-security prison
FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — A convicted killer stabbed two guards at a high-security California prison Monday but both were expected to survive, officials said. Correctional officers were releasing inmates into a yard Monday morning at California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom when a prisoner who was being...
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