Sierra Conservation Center News

Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Sierra Conservation Center inmate who escaped from prison in July and allegedly set fire to a landmark home off of Highway 108.

One time escaped Sierra Conservation Center inmate George Landecho Lopez has been charged with burglary, arson and possession of stolen property stemming from a July 18, 2008 fire at 6900 O'Byrnes Ferry Rd.

After about 24 years of inmates navigating paths through stands of bunk beds, the gymnasium at Sierra Conservation Center stands empty, part of a statewide effort to make prisons safer and healthier for inmates and staff.

Two young Bay Area women took a painful journey recently when they ventured into a prison to teach inmates a lesson on parenthood.

Inmates at Sierra Conservation Center and Fire Camp in Round Valley are being offered the chance to actually be rehabilitated, rather than being simply incarcerated, with a reinstated General Education Development preparation, or GED program, which if successfully completed is the equivalent to a high school diploma.

Emergency personnel are responding to a big rig roll over accident on O'Byrnes Ferry Road, north of Sierra Conservation Center, according to the California Highway Patrol.

By 2014, a power line could tarnish foothill views along Highway 108-120 from Oakdale to the New Melones power plant.

Visitation at the state's 33 adult prisons, including Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown, has been suspended until further notice following the diagnosis of an inmate in Centinela State Prison in Imperial County as probable for the H1N1 "swine flu" virus.

Staff at Sierra Conservation Center raised $2,324 at a benefit barbeque and bake sale Wednesday afternoon at the prison.

In Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, the state-mandated furloughs that began Friday could save the state a combined $678,000 per month, according to figures from the state controller's office.

Furloughs at a state prison are just a little bit different than a Department of Motor Vehicles office because you just can't let everybody go home at once.

A correctional officer at Sierra Conservation Center was arrested Monday after he allegedly sold drugs to an inmate or inmates, prison authorities said.

A pipeline and reservoir being built to house Sierra Conservation Center's wastewater on a local ranch was delayed due to lack of funding, but work has resumed on the project.

Prisoners involved in a Friday evening riot at Sierra Conservation Center remain on lockdown as officials continue to investigate what sparked a fight between Hispanic and African-American inmates.

Acording to Lt. Jimmy Hurtado the Sierra Conservation Center experienced a Friday evening riot involving approximately 60 inmates.

State workers, including 1,300 Sierra Conservation Center employees, are facing a 10 percent salary reduction, which prison officials say will cost the state more in the long run.

Freedom did not come easily Wednesday for Ellie Nesler. But even a paperwork mixup, a change in her prison-release location and a tongue-lashing at the hands of a sentencing judge could not keep Nesler from ...

Would the early release of about a third of Calfornia's more than 150,000 prison inmates affect public safety? That is the question before a three-judge federal panel now weighing a lawsuit claiming that ...

A converted gym at Sierra Conservation Center now houses rows upon rows of bunk beds.

Local law enforcement and prison officials are warily watching as a federal panel of judges considers releasing tens of thousands of inmates early to address problems with the system's mental- and ...