Deuel Vocational Institution News

Richard Henry Kase made it clear in court Monday while receiving a state prison sentence of 90 years to life what he felt about the cellmate he killed at Tracy's Deuel Vocational Institution two years ago.

Arraignment was postponed earlier this week for the driver involved in the Colusa County bus crash last year that killed 11 people.

State prison officials lifted visiting restrictions Wednesday prompted by threats of the swine flu.

Jurors found Richard Henry Kase guilty today of first-degree murder for killing his cellmate in 2007 at Tracy's Deuel Vocational Institution because the cellmate wouldn't stop talking.

A 27-year-old jail inmate escaped from the San Joaquin County Courthouse Wednesday and led authorities on a foot chase before Stockton police found him hiding in a Dumpster just south of the Crosstown Freeway.

Two high-risk sex offenders - one of whom raped and burned a Fresno woman in 1985 and the other considered mentally unstable - have been released from prison within the past week and now live in Stockton under no direct supervision.

A Jamestown man is suing the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Jim Mele for alleged false imprisonment.

A 54-year-old man convicted of killing his estranged wife in her Ben Lomond home in 1984 has been denied parole in a hearing at Deuel Vocational Institution, a state prison near Tracy, where he is incarcerated.

David Paradiso had a long history of mental illness with spikes of paranoia and may have attacked a judge this week intentionally to draw gunfire, his former attorney said Thursday, echoing earlier comments by ...

Sonny Anderson, 28, of San Lorenzo is being held on numerous felonies in connection with the November attack of a woman that left her with a collapsed lung, a broken jaw, a dislocated elbow, a bloody nose and ...

The public is invited to a meeting at Tracy's Deuel Vocational Institution to hear the state prison's warden give an update on operations and ask questions.

Jan 12, 2009 3:12 pm US/Pacific Quintin Watts, the driver of a casino-bound bus that crashed, killing 10 last October, has been released from a vocational institution after serving three months for a parole ...