Corrections Headlines

Marin County sues “good neighbor” CDCR over “non-revocable parolee release”

Marin County prosecutors hope they have persuaded state prison officials to abandon a plan that would have granted unsupervised release to a man convicted in the 2001 starvation death of his 19-month-old son and child abuse involving his 12 other children.

Winnfred Wright, the self-anointed leader of the Family, a cultlike Marin County group that included five women and 13 children, is scheduled to be released from prison next week. The state had planned to release Wright under a program started in January that allows nonviolent offenders to be paroled without supervision...

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