Updated Jan. 27, 2010
CDCR layoffs delayed
More than 800 Local 1000 members, including about 50 Unit 1 members,
have received a 30-day reprieve from layoff. The delay comes after an
alert prison teacher discovered that the state was involved in a
possible mail fraud scheme.
On Jan. 8, Don Wiley, a prison vocational teacher at Chuckawalla Valley
State Prison in Blythe, received a 30-day layoff notice dated Dec. 31.
Wiley went to his local postmaster to try to find out why it took so
long for the metered letter to travel from the California Department of
Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) headquarters in Sacramento to
Blythe. Postal inspectors determined that, although the letter's "meter
date" was Dec. 31, it had not actually been mailed until Jan. 6 - an
apparent violation of federal law.
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