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The Use of Deadly Force Against Parolee Delvin Wright by the California Department of Corrections

Last year, a parole agent for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the department) chased and fired one gunshot at a dangerous parolee, Delvin Wright, during an arrest operation. The shot missed, no one was hurt, and the parolee was arrested. However, the operational tactics used by the parole agent before and during the shooting unnecessarily endangered the agent and several uniformed police officers, who were potentially in the line of fire, as shown in the attached graphic. Within 24 hours, the department cleared the parole agent of any wrongdoing based solely on the agent's account of the shooting, while ignoring numerous and conflicting outside police reports calling into question the agent's operational tactics...

Posted: August 2, 2008
Subject: Prison Reviews  Doc type: Reports  Author: OIG
Tags: cdcr, oig