Csp Sacramento
March 29, 2012
Inmate serving time for murder stabbed at CSP-Sac
An inmate serving time for a murder conviction is hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed in his Northern California prison cell.
The Associated Press erroneously reported that 30-year-old Melvin Kibbee had died. In fact, state prison officials say he survived three puncture wounds to his chest....
LINK - SFGate.com
October 7, 2011
Inmate stabbed to death at California State Prison-Sacramento
An inmate was stabbed to death this morning at California State Prison-Sacramento.
The inmate was attacked at the Folsom area prison during regularly scheduled recreation time. The prisoner, who was incarcerated in the Secure Housing Unit, was assaulted about 7:45 a.m. today.
Medical personnel pronounced him dead 15 minutes later from multiple stab wounds...
LINK - SacBee.com
May 20, 2011
CCPOA Member Alert - Large Scale Riot at CSP Sacramento
At approximately 10:00 a.m this morning, roughly 180- 200 inmates were involved in multiple melees within the maximum-security B-Facility at CSP Sac. At this time there has been just one report of an officer suffering an injury during the incident...
February 25, 2011
Medical Inspection - CSP-Sacramento (February 2011)
Enclosed is the Office of the Inspector General's final report on its second inspection of medical care delivery at the California State Prison, Sacramento. The purpose of our inspection was to evaluate and monitor the progress of medical care delivery to inmates at the institution.
The report finds that based on our weighted scoring system encompassing 19 components, the California State Prison, Sacramento received 76.3 percent of the total weighted points possible. This is a 11.1 percentage point improvement over the score of 65.2 percent from our first inspection of this prison issued in November 2008...
October 27, 2008
Inmate escapes from prison
An inmate walked away Saturday from a minimum-security facility outside the walls of Folsom's California State Prison-Sacramento.
At approximately 9 p.m. inmate Robert Ivan Micheletti was found missing from his bunk in a dormitory setting. Micheletti, 42, was admitted June 3 on a drug-possession conviction…
LINK - FolsomTelegraph.com
June 28, 2008
Domestic Terrorist Levar Washington Sentenced to 22 Years
A former inmate in a California state prison who became part of a domestic terrorist cell that planned to attack United States military operations, "infidels," and Israeli and Jewish facilities in the Los Angeles area was sentenced this morning to 22 years in federal prison.
United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Levar Washington, 30, who was recruited into the terrorist cell while in state prison and subsequently recruited others into the plot, this morning. Washington pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to wage war against the United States and a weapons charge.
Two other defendants in the case - Kevin James, who formed the terrorist group which he dubbed Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, or JIS, while in a California state prison, and Gregory Patterson - also pleaded guilty last year to the terrorism conspiracy charge. Patterson is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9, and James is scheduled to be sentenced on February 9, 2009…
LINK - ImperialValleyNews.com
May 30, 2008
New Folsom Prison frees up some space
Inmate overcrowding is lessening at the state prison nicknamed New Folsom, but a questionable convict death last month currently clouds a program that moves California inmates to out-of-state private custody.
Progress on prison crowding comes under legislation, AB 900, designed to fund prison construction, provide for transfer of California inmates out-of-state and reduce the number of drug offenders housed in state prisons.
At the local California State Prison, Sacramento, just uphill from Folsom State Prison, officials have nearly emptied a couple of gymnasiums formerly full of what are known as "bad beds," said spokeswoman Judy Loer. Bad beds are any non-regulation sleeping arrangements that have been made up in prison gyms and clinics around the state's penal institutions…
LINK - EDHTelegraph.com (El Dorado Hills Telegraph)
February 29, 2008
Video: No Way Out of the California State Prison Merry-go-round?
This article originally ran in December, 1998, but may of the observations and issues remain.
December 1998 Atlantic Monthly
Interviews with prisoners and inmates illustrate a clear need for change in the California prison release program that is under consideration now. Prisons are run on fear. The gangs rule. Most inmates have no skills. They want and need education and training before they hit the streets.
David Rocha went into Section A at SAC (California State Prison outside of Sacramento) to talk to inmates and guards about the control gangs have over the lives of prisoners in prison and on the streets. The inmates in Section A are "no good" former gang members who have left their gangs and are in protective custody within the prison system. Some have release dates and hope for a new crime-free life outside of jail. Is there a way out for them?
LINK - IndyBay.org
February 21, 2008
Some prisoners are vulnerable to crime behind bars
There is societal pecking order within the inmate population and it appears that child molesters are on the bottom of the food chain. "Even in a criminal world there's a code," said Placer County Sheriff Ed Bonner. "Child molesters are not well thought of in any quarters."
A week ago a prison inmate, serving a life term for killing his mother in Rocklin almost a decade ago, allegedly fatally stabbed another inmate. Steven Matthew Schultz, 28, reportedly used a homemade "shank" last Thursday to slash the throat of convicted sex offender Shannon Lee Graling, 53, at the California State Prison-Sacramento in Folsom…
LINK - EDHTelegraph.com
February 14, 2008
Sex Offender Slain at New Folsom Prison
An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, who was serving a 400-year sentence for molesting a child, was slashed in the throat and killed Thursday, prison officials said. Shannon Lee Graling, 53, was slashed with an "inmate-made weapon" just before 8 a.m. while pushing a laundry cart, according to a prison news release. He died just over an hour later…
LINK - SacBee.com
January 25, 2008
Cellmate a Suspect in Folsom Inmate’s Death
An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, was discovered dead Wednesday morning with an apparent stab wound to his neck, according to prison authorities. Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said that shortly before 10 a.m., a doctor doing a routine check found the 33-year-old victim unresponsive in his cell at the Folsom facility. He was pronounced dead with what appears to be a stab wound…
LINK - SacBee.com
