Avenal State Prison News

As many as 3,000 prison inmates in central California deemed to be at risk from a potentially lethal lung disease may need to be moved to other regions under an order from a court-appointed federal overseer.

The day after a federal receiver ordered two state prisons to exclude inmates especially vulnerable to valley fever, experts hailed the directive as a step toward addressing an alarming public health problem.

Davis was chief deputy warden at Avenal State Prison from 2010 to 2012, at which time he moved to Valley State and began his position as acting-warden. Davis, who began in his career in 1994, served at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran as business manager and correctional lieutenant.

Ronald Davis, 43, of Visalia, has been appointed warden at Valley State Prison, Chowchilla, where he has served as acting warden since 2012.