by Bob Walsh
The boys decided to tear up five dorms at the California State Prison at Susanville yesterday morning. This used to be a pretty mellow place which operated primarily as a feeder for fire camps. Now most of the actual minimum custody inmates are sentenced under realignment to county jails rather than state prison that is leaving more violent, gang oriented inmates in housing not truly designed for them. This makes I think five significant disturbances in CA state prisons this week.
Two officers were injured in this mess though apparently not critically. Four inmates were hurt bad enough to need to be transported off grounds. Two the them are critical. Several other staff and several more inmates received medical attention at the facility.
The one news article I read on this said that "a group of inmates broke out of a dorm and fought with other inmates." To me, group means "gang", as opposed to, say, the Christian Men's Reading Group.
Speaking of minimum custody, I was told yesterday (single source, unverified) that the DOC now has a specific policy of NOT referring ORWD (off-reservation work detail) walk-aways as escapes because they do NOT want the inmates to get additional time, they want them to do their time and hit street as soon as possible.
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