Christopher Acosta showed me a kite that had been intercepted at Corcoran State Prison, reporting on a gang’s battle with a rival there. An inmate doing push-ups in the SHU’s exercise yard ...

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However, most of the inmates at the Corcoran SHU are not there because of a specific infraction. They were “validated” as a member of a prison gang and indefinitely removed from the general ...

A Mexican mafia member and shot caller who ran gang activities in South Los ... Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in the city of Corcoran. He died in the prison hospital.

Dale Shawn Brakebill and Joe Sanchez of Corcoran State Prison in Fresno. The March 1993 rape of inmate Eddie Dillard, a 23-year-old Los Angeles gang member imprisoned for assault with a deadly ...

He also talks about life inside the gang, from rules to prison tattoos and methods of ... Pelican Bay, and Corcoran. He was a member of the Nuestra Raza before rising to the rank of commander ...

Nowadays, he has a YouTube channel called Paradigm Media News, where he does interviews with other former gang members and talks about life since leaving prison. He is the author of "Nuestra Familia." ...

The “That 70s Show” alum, who was sentenced to 30 years to life for raping two women, was transferred from North Kern State Prison in Delano, Calif., to Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran ...

after a brief stay at the notorious Corcoran State Prison – the onetime maximum-security home of Charles Manson. But after a little over two weeks there, Masterson was transferred to California ...

California state records show former actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson has been moved to Corcoran State Prison to serve a prison sentence that has him eligible for parole in 2042.

CORCORAN, Calif. (KABC) -- California is rethinking its prison system in an effort to reduce the recidivism rate which has averaged about 50% over the past 10 years. At California State Prison ...

A Mexican mafia member and shot caller who ran gang activities in South Los ... Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in the city of Corcoran. He died in the prison hospital.