California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

And I think it also is showing up in the criminal justice arena.

We do a lot of work with CDCR out of Sacramento.

And so, you know, concern there as people are coming out of incarceration um for a long period of time some of them short period of time finishing their last two years at our big program in fresno but there's still stigma around that and there's stigma that i like your idea of i don't think it's pollyanna yeah

i just think we need to

And thank you so much, Zach, for all your efforts.

One other thing, I don't want it to be lost that individuals like Mr. McComber, who is the head of California state prison system, the CDCR in terms of programming, have done an amazing job of opening up the prison to more programming.

We have ideas now with OMCP.

OMCP is Occupational Mentor Certification Program.

And, It just makes me so happy of how many people she did help with her page dedicated to the incarcerated.

And if any of the CDCR girlies would come to me and go like, I need help with this.

I'm in California.

Can you help me? And I'm like, no, I can't.

And that was Taylor to the core.

It's tragic, but I'm grateful for the things she did do to help so many other people and touch so many lives.

Like, I'm not a CDCR wife, but I saw what she did with other people, and you can hear the stories of how she impacted.

And she didn't have to support us, but she was there rah-rah-rah-ing the whole time getting us started with this podcast.

A couple of important notes before we begin.

Because a third panelist joined the event by phone from prison, portions of the conversation were monitored and recorded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Our goal was to have an open and candid discussion, but the conversation necessarily unfolded with an awareness of those conditions.

To protect our incarcerated panelist, we have edited their contributions out of the version you are about to hear, and we have also removed some additional sensitive material.

That is three days after Laci Peterson disappeared, and it is a version of events that puts them nowhere near Covina Avenue on Christmas Eve.

Two weeks or so after Laci Peterson disappears, a lieutenant with the California Department of Corrections named Xavier Aponte hears about an inmate at his prison who has allegedly been talking about Laci.

The inmate is Shawn TenBrink.

His brother, Adam TenBrink, knows burglar Steven Todd.

The Menendez brothers, imprisoned 37 years in the gruesome murder of their parents, are getting a second shot at freedom.

Lyle and Eric Menendez have been granted an early parole hearing for March 2027, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records show.

The move came after an administrative review to advance their next parole suitability hearing date was approved on September 3rd.

Both are serving life sentences without parole for the slayings the brothers were convicted of in 1996 of killing Jose and Kitty Menendez after their highly publicized and televised first trial ended in a mistrial.