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Convicted murderer Theodore Streleski, a former Stanford University graduate student who killed a mathematics professor with a hammer in 1978, is expected to reject parole requirements at a hearing Thursday, preferring to complete his eight-year prison term, prison officials said. Lt.

The court-appointed receiver for California's prison healthcare system has asked prison doctors to end the practice of moonlighting within the state agency. Payroll data from the state controller's office show 1,910 state workers held both a full-time job and a part-time position in 2012. Almost half, 942, were employed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The controller's reports do not break out how much income came from those second jobs, but 2011 payroll records show they include a psychiatrist at the California Medical Facility who added $84,000 to her $268,000 state job filling in as a second psychiatrist, and a physician at California State Prison in Corcoran who supplemented his $248,000 state job with another $78,000 working medical shifts at the same prison.

Kenneth Eugene Parnell, whose abduction and confinement of a California boy in the 1970s became the basis of a TV movie, died of natural causes while serving a life sentence, state prison authorities said Tuesday. Parnell, 76, died at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on Monday night. One of California's most notorious child molesters, he was convicted of kidnapping Steven Stayner as the 7-year-old walked home from school in the Central Valley town of Merced in 1972. Parnell gave the boy a different name and kept him until Stayner escaped in 1980.

Kenneth Eugene Parnell, whose abduction and confinement of a California boy in the 1970s became the basis of a TV movie, died of natural causes while serving a life sentence, state prison authorities said Tuesday. Parnell, 76, died at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on Monday night. One of California's most notorious child molesters, he was convicted of kidnapping Steven Stayner as the 7-year-old walked home from school in the Central Valley town of Merced in 1972. Parnell gave the boy a different name and kept him until Stayner escaped in 1980.

The court-appointed receiver for California's prison healthcare system has asked prison doctors to end the practice of moonlighting within the state agency. Payroll data from the state controller's office show 1,910 state workers held both a full-time job and a part-time position in 2012. Almost half, 942, were employed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The controller's reports do not break out how much income came from those second jobs, but 2011 payroll records show they include a psychiatrist at the California Medical Facility who added $84,000 to her $268,000 state job filling in as a second psychiatrist, and a physician at California State Prison in Corcoran who supplemented his $248,000 state job with another $78,000 working medical shifts at the same prison.

Manson 'family' member Sandra Good turned down parole Friday and elected to remain in federal prison, because corrections officials demanded that she stay away from cult leader Charles Manson and his disciples. "I love my family," Good, 41, said at a news conference at the Federal Correctional Institution for Women. "The U.S. Parole Commission doesn't even know us. They've decided not to let me out to go to California, which is my home. They ordered me to another state, where I've never been."

Consider two takes on Christopher Hubbart, serial rapist. State psychologist No. 1: He is a bright, shy 43-year-old man who is trying to control his sexual urges, and is truly sorry for his 34 victims. State psychologist No. 2: He is dangerous, unable to control his sexual urges and can be counted on to rape again.

Gregory Ulas Powell, one of the notorious "Onion Field" murderers whose 1963 slaying of a Los Angeles police officer shattered the image of the invincible cop and changed police practices, has died. He was 79. Powell, who served 49 years of a life sentence, died Sunday at California Medical Facility in Vacaville, part of the state prison system, according to Lt. Andre Gonzales, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He had prostate cancer. On March 10, 1963, Powell and accomplice Jimmy Lee Smith kidnapped two police officers in Hollywood and drove them to an onion field outside Bakersfield, where they killed Officer Ian James Campbell.

The chief psychiatrist at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville recently was reprimanded by a state board for dispensing drugs without prescriptions. The action involved Dr. Paul Ernest Morentz's guilty plea in 1989 to a federal charge, a misdemeanor, involving prescription drugs for co-workers. He was hired full-time by the Department of Corrections soon after.

State prison officials are investigating reports that Charles David Rothenberg, who poured kerosene over his 6-year-old son and set him on fire in Buena Park in 1983, has threatened to kill his ex-wife and her husband and to kidnap his son when he is released on parole in December.

Manson 'family' member Sandra Good turned down parole Friday and elected to remain in federal prison, because corrections officials demanded that she stay away from cult leader Charles Manson and his disciples. "I love my family," Good, 41, said at a news conference at the Federal Correctional Institution for Women. "The U.S. Parole Commission doesn't even know us. They've decided not to let me out to go to California, which is my home. They ordered me to another state, where I've never been."