At a special meeting on June 13, the Gentry School Board reorganized, hired an interim principal for the intermediate school and approved a lengthy list of personnel changes for the coming school year.
Lester Daniel Marroquin warned guards that he heard voices telling him to hurt himself. Guards found him dead in his cell from drinking too much water.
California has an incarceration rate of 549 per 100,000 people, according to The Prison Policy Initiative. Here is a look at three recent, troubling cases involving California inmates.