The Bakersfield Californian
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A violent gang member who was sentenced to a prison term at North Kern State Prison and stabbed a correctional officer there has been denied parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
The board on Oct. 9 found James Flores, 48, poses a current and unreasonable risk to public safety and denied parole for five years, according to the DA’s office.
A DA’s news release noted that Flores on Sept. 2, 1998 was sentenced to prison for the murder of Jadesun Reyes and an assault with a deadly weapon on a separate victim out of Los Angeles County. But due to a change in the law, Flores was resentenced on the Los Angeles case to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Reyes.
On March 18, 2000 at North Kern State Prison, correctional officers tried to remove Flores from his cell to investigate his involvement in an assault with a weapon on another inmate when he stabbed a correctional officer, the DA’s office reported.
Flores was convicted on Oct. 13, 2000 by a Kern County jury for assault by a life prisoner, possession of a weapon and resisting officers and was sentenced Nov. 13, 2000 to 27 years to life in prison.
The Board of Parole Hearings found Flores had years of gang affiliations, admitted that his assault with a weapon on the correctional officer was gang motivated and has continued associating with criminal street gangs, the DA’s office said.
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