Correctional Training Facility News

Soledad, Calif- Central Coast News takes you behind the bars, and into the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.

Gabilan Conservation Fire Camp Commander Peter Spoto is reporting Phillip Anthony Lopez, an inmate at the fire camp, was discovered missing at 1:05 a.m. this morning.

More than 220 inmates from the state prison in Chino have been moved to the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad after a racially motivated riot damaged seven housing units at the California Institution for Men in Southern California, officials said.

Local members of the state's largest employee union met Thursday in response to proposed state budget cuts that have them fired up and talking strike.

"On Friday, June 19, approximately 17 buses carrying children and their caregivers visited California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo and Correctional Training Facility in Soledad." - CDCR Press Release 6/19/09 "On Friday, June 26, 32 buses filled with more than 700 children and their caregivers traveled from major cities across California to one ...

An inmate at the state Correctional Training Facility in Soledad got 12 more years in prison for battery on a correctional officer, Dean Flippo, Monterey County district attorney, said Thursday.

SOLEDAD Dozens of prison workers from Salinas Valley State Prison and the Correctional Training Facility stood outside the prisons Wednesday afternoon protesting furloughs and layoffs.

Soledad Calif- The Service Employees International Union held a protest today in Soledad.

The warden of a Northern California prison acted inappropriately when he failed to discipline a correctional officer and allowed him to keep working at the institution after he was convicted of two felonies in connection with a hit-and-run accident last year, according to a report released today by a state prison watchdog.

Former Moss Landing resident Donald Diggs waited patiently Friday morning to see his wife and her 11-year-old godson who sees Donald as his father - on his side of the bars that separate him from the world.

On Friday, June 19, 17 buses filled with more than 500 children and their caregivers will travel from major cities across the state to California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo and Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.

It took a King City resident nearly three years to find a stable job the last time she was laid off in 2001.

State government jobs in Monterey County, particularly at the two prisons in Soledad, appear vulnerable as California's budget crisis grows more dire.