Tag: CDCR

ShasCo DA’s Office granted TRO preventing CDCR from increasing credits for violent second-strikers

From the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office: SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie A. Bridgett announced today that she and 27 other elected District Attorneys across California have been granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) preventing the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR) from enacting an increase of 50% credits to 66% credits for second-strikers with […]

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Highway renamed in honor of CDCR officer killed in Shasta County crash last year

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following the death of High Desert State Prison Correctional Officer Richard Bianchi Jr., who passed away after a solo-vehicle crash near Old Station in Shasta County last year, the Assembly Transportation Committee passed Assembly Concurrent Resolution 32 by naming a highway in his honor on Monday, April 12. The bill was passed on a unanimous vote of […]

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CDCR officer killed in rollover crash near Old Station

UPDATED: Sunday, June 28, 12:10 p.m. See Original Story below. OLD STATION, Calif. — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials yesterday announced that a man found deceased after a solo-vehicle, rollover crash near Old Station in Shasta County was that of 53-year-old, CDCR Correctional Officer Richard A. Bianchi. According to a CDCR release announcing Bianchi’s death, prison officials […]

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Escaped prison inmate pursued, captured after Menifee wreck

MENIFEE — A convicted felon who walked away from Folsom State Prison on Dec. 22 was apprehended Wednesday, Jan. 16, after leading officials on a vehicle pursuit in Menifee. The inmate was one of two men who escaped from California prison facilities within a 24-hour period. The other escaped inmate was apprehended in the Wrightwood area Dec. 25. An officer […]

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