Hdsp
November 10, 2011
High Desert State Prison Gym Facility B Agreement
This Agreement represents the full and complete understanding, reached by and between the parties, at the conclusion of the meet and confer negotiations on August 30, 2011 regarding the HDSP Realignment of Medical Guarding and Deactivation of Non-Budgeted Administrative Segregation Unit Overflow Positions...
October 19, 2011
Inmate accused of killing cellmate at High Desert State Prison
An inmate is accused of killing his cellmate at High Desert State Prison on Tuesday, authorities say.
Ivan Mejia, 26, was found dead in his cell Tuesday evening, said prison spokesman Lt. Charlie Hahn. Prison authorities say they suspect Mejia's cellmate, 27-year-old Angel Gomez, in the killing and have placed him in the Administrative Segregation Unit pending further investigation, Hahn said.
Mejia's exact cause of death has not been released by the coroner's office, Hahn said...
LINK - SacBee.com
September 30, 2011
Local Agreements – High Desert
Please see the attached documents regarding local agreements reached at High Desert State Prison which address Additional Activities Facility B Gym and Medical Realignment in Ad-Seg...
January 13, 2010
U.S. court revives California inmate’s lawsuit over lockdowns
An appeals panel on Tuesday reinstated a federal civil rights lawsuit in Sacramento, ruling that a series of lockdowns primarily targeting African American inmates at a Susanville prison amounted to racial discrimination.
The lockdowns in 2002 and 2003 at High Desert State Prison followed assaults on prison staff carried out or planned by one or two black inmates.
Correctional officials at the prison "apparently believe that, without showing any linkage between the perpetrators and the prisoners subjected to the lockdown, it was enough to assume that race alone tied (them) together. … An assumption of this kind is grounded on race," a three-judge panel of the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a sharply worded opinion…
LINK - SacBee.com
June 1, 2008
Five HDSP employees win Gold Star Medals
Two correctional sergeants and three correctional officers from High Desert State Prison in Susanville were honored by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in a ceremony on the West Steps of the State Capitol on Friday, May 16. The five officers were among nearly 100 CDCR employees recognized at the ceremony by CDCR Secretary James Tilton.
The Gold Star Medals, CDCR's second highest commendation, were presented to Correctional Sergeants Aaron Audette and Todd Posch and Correctional Officers Douglas Brooks, William Denton and Tina Lucas.
According to a press release from HDSP, the five employees earned the award for the their actions in a September 2007 incident…
LINK - LassenNews.com
