Border-crossing journalism from the Sacramento Valley
Konkow Maidu leader Patsy Seek shows one of the traditional huts she’s built out of tree bark along the Feather River in Oroville.
by Jennifer MacDonald
Patsy Seek combed the banks of Northern California’s Feather River, scoured the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and made house calls in Oroville searching for Native American children skipping school.
“I’d drag ’em out of bed,” she says. “They’d hide in the mountains and I’d go find them.”
por Leslie Layton
Temprano una mañana de invierno, en una celda de aislamiento de la cárcel del condado de Glenn, Reynaldo “Reny” Cabral se puso en posición de velocista, una posición que había tomado frecuentemente cuando jugaba para el equipo de fútbol americano de la escuela preparatoria de Orland. Luego se abalanzó, chocando su cabeza contra una capa de hule que cubre la pared de la llamada “celda de seguridad” en la cárcel.
Reny and Torrie at Enloe Rehabilitation Center
by Leslie Layton
Five months after his arrest in connection with the choking of his girlfriend, an Orland man said that psychosis drove him to ram his head into the wall of a Glenn County Jail cell.
Reynaldo “Reny” Cabral, 23, described himself as disoriented and desperate when he rammed his head in his isolation cell Jan. 8, breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed from the chest down. He is now a quadriplegic, and both Glenn County and MediCal have been billed hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical costs.
by Leslie Layton
Reynaldo “Reny” Cabral looked like he wanted to brush away the tears. But it’s easy to forget that he has little use of his arms, and though a shoulder twitched, the tears ran freely on this recent March afternoon in a hospital lobby.
It’s hard for most people to think of Reny as a quadriplegic, and he too is just getting used to the idea. On Jan. 8, Reny broke his neck in the Glenn County Jail, ending up paralyzed from the chest down.
por Leslie Layton
Arturo y Rosa Cabral, residentes de Orland por mucho tiempo, tienen mucho que lamentar, pero poco tiempo para pensar en sus penas.
Al final del año pasado, su segundo hijo Reynaldo “Reny” Cabral llegó a ser prisionero de su mente; su enfermedad mental dejó a su familia con pocas opciones para ayudarle. La familia Cabral se siente traicionada por las instituciones locales que no apoyaron a su hijo cuando lo necesitaba.
