The opening of a new technology training center at Folsom State Prison’s Women’s Facility in California this October marks a milestone in a three-year-old program that is the only authorized ...
The Prison Industry Board has approved the expansion of the Folsom-based California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) Electronic Waste (E-Waste) Collection and Computer Refurbishment program to two ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robbie Hall earned 60 cents an hour sewing masks at a factory in a women's prison in Chino. She was hospitalized with a serious ...
In September, after months of organizing via smuggled cellphones and outside go-betweens, prisoners across the country launched a nationwide strike to demand better working conditions at the numerous ...
FRESNO, Calif. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) announced today the successful conciliation of a charge filed with the ...
From 20 years in prison to success as an optician, one man hopes to inspire more paths to redemption
VACAVILLE, California (KOVR) — The California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) on Wednesday launched a new program at Solano State Prison that, for the first time, allows inmates to apply for and ...
Some people never learn, and many of the people who never learn seem to work for the State of California. Case in point: The California Prison Industry Authority has made the mindboggling decision to ...
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CHINO, Calif. (KABC) -- It is a remarkably unusual site to see men in a distinctly military environment, operating in tandem and with precision, while also knowing they are inmates at the California ...
Having spent the early part of his career as a military police investigator and as a narcotics officer in Alabama, Charles Pattillo has seen firsthand how job skills, particularly high-level skills, ...
VACAVILLE -- The California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) on Wednesday launched a new program at Solano State Prison that, for the first time, allows inmates to apply for and secure jobs months ...
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