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2007-08-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Mike 2007-08-16 14:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The mind boggles...only in Cali would a prison be called a "Deuel Vocational Institution".

Posted by BA 2007-08-16 15:22|| 2007-08-16 15:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like there'll be good eatin there for awhile though...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-16 15:25|| 2007-08-16 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 while a big-rig truck hit and killed others.

The driver was ticketed for a moo-ing violation.

Posted by mrp 2007-08-16 15:37|| 2007-08-16 15:37|| Front Page Top

#4 As long as he doesn't milk the State coffers.

Posted by BA 2007-08-16 15:39|| 2007-08-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Amazing that no people got hurt... can't see a modern car standing up to a cow impact...

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 15:43|| 2007-08-16 15:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Quoth the CDCR:
DVI's primary mission is as a reception center for Northern California counties, and houses inmates who come to DVI primarily from 19 Northern California county jails. Staff process these inmates by compiling and evaluating the inmates' criminal records, life histories, medical and physiological histories, and social histories. The information is used to determine the inmates' custody score and to identify any specific placement needs the inmate may have. Once the reception process is completed, the inmate is transferred to one of the 33 State prisons where they serve the remainder of their prison sentence.

DVI's secondary mission is to provide general population housing to inmates who are serving their prison sentence at DVI. General population inmates provide support to DVI by working in maintenance jobs, food service jobs, janitorial jobs, as well as other jobs that serve in supporting the operation of the prison. Prison Industries Authority (PIA) assignments are also available to general population inmates. PIA assignment include jobs at DVI's dairy and in the furniture fabrication plant.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-08-16 17:22|| 2007-08-16 17:22|| Front Page Top

#7 BA,

Deuel Vocational Institution, also known as "DVI" or sometimes "Tracy", is a California state prison located in Tracy, San Joaquin County, California.

The facility was opened in 1953 and named for the late California state Senator Charles Deuel who sponsored legislation establishing the institution. The facility has been expanded and reorganized several times, in 1959, 1981 and 1993. Its current head warden is Claude Finn.

Today the primary purpose of DVI is to serve as a reception center for newly-committed prisoners to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from northern California county jails. The facility also houses a small number of minimum- and low-security inmates (classified by CDCR as levels I and II) and provides some Prison Industries Authority (PIA) facilities at a dairy and a furniture fabrication plant. As of January 2006, the total count of prisoners at DVI was 3,748, with 3,162 of that number assigned to the reception center.

As a result of DVI's primary function as a reception center, in which a large number of felons of different propensities for violence, disciplinary and security issues pass through before being classified and transferred to other facilities, DVI has a long-standing reputation for being violent and dangerous. The facility use to be referred to as "gladiator school" by inmates and staff. This was due to the fact that DVI was widely known for the fights that took place within the prison walls.

DVI also has a 110-inmate farm. There they grow vegetables for the prison, raise cattle for slaughter, and raise dairy cows for milk supplied to the school systems in the area.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-08-16 22:31|| 2007-08-16 22:31|| Front Page Top

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