The inmate who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Programm (MCRP) in San Diego was apprehended at a residential parking lot near Otay Mesa, announced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
Investigators with the CDCR Office of Correctional Safety, Special Service Unit took 21-year-old Joseph Vidrios into custody at 11:25 a.m. without incident, the agency reported. He was later transported to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, then referred to the San Diego District Attorney’s office for consideration of escape charges.
According to the CDCR, “Vidrios was received by CDCR in June of 2021 from San Diego County for second-degree robbery and assault with a firearm. He had been housed at the MCRP since January 2022”.
The Male Community Reentry Program is a voluntary program for eligible incarcerated people who have two years or less of their prison sentence to serve. The program provides them the tools to reenter the community with job training, mental health support, substance abuse treatment, family reunification, and housing.
CDCR officials say that 99 percent of all offenders who have left an adult institution, camp, or community-based program without permission have been apprehended since 1977.
