The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) requested a compassionate release on Oct. 1 for 86-year-old Ramiro Ruiz of Madera County. Ruiz was sentenced 28 years ago. He is serving a life sentence for repeatedly raping, sodomizing, drugging and chaining up his children. CDCR requested the compassionate release from prison, claiming his old age and dementia remove him as a threat to society. In court, Judge Dale Blea presided over the hearing and denied CDCR’s request in co

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the state of Arizona alleges gross negligence in the death of an inmate who died last November at the Tucson prison complex. Ford Hatchett has been following prison deaths in the state and has more on this latest lawsuit. | ABC15 Arizona