It's Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft, founded more than a decade earlier and already a powerhouse in the world of personal computer software, executes an initial public stock offering that will raise $61 million for the company and leave 30-year-old co-founder Bill Gates unfathomably wealthy.
CDCR today announced that it has met an important benchmark to reduce the stateâs prison population. A Three-Judge Court order, affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, requires CDCR to cut its prison population to 124,000 by June 27, 2012 and ultimately reduce overcrowding by 34,000 inmates. On June 20, the most recent count, Californiaâs prison inmate population was 121,129.
Waikeria Prison. Waikeria Prison is on the northern border of the King Country in the midst of dairy farms. The prison itself has been a working farm since it was opened in 1912.Waikeria became a borstal (youth reformatory) in 1961 and a youth facility between 1981 (when borstals were abolished) and 1985. Since then it has been a menâs prison.Security classifications range from minimum to high security.aikeria Prison. Waikeria Prison is on the northern border of the King Country in the midst of dairy farms. The prison itself has been a working farm since it was opened in 1912.