correctional officer

When the correctional officer wheeled the chow cart past my cell on a Thursday morning, without placing a bagged breakfast on my food slot, I knew that it meant I had to stay for the weekend while the guys I had arrived there with transferred out—at this, I shouted a bone-chilling “Noooo!”

The demonstration followed prosecutors bringing a case against Gregory Rodriguez, a former correctional officer at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, who in January was convicted of 64 sexual abuse charges.

Laub, whose employment with the department has included a stint as a uniformed correctional officer at the Orange County jail, is accused of stealing her grandmother’s identity and savings for more than five years, prosecutors said.

Marjorie Burchfield, who was 14 when her father was killed and went on to become a correctional officer herself, called it “good news” and said she would personally work to ensure Masters’ appeal fails and he never gets out of prison.

The federal action comes as a lawsuit accusing a former correctional officer at the Central California Women’s Facility of widespread sexual assaults is slated to go to trial in a California court.