Prison officials — including victim — shocked by shooting

The 52-year-old correctional officer shot  on a North Kern State Prison yard from outside the facility’s security perimeter is “still kind of in shock that this happened to him,” authorities said Tuesday. The officer, an 18 1/2-year veteran of the state corrections department that officials declined to identify for security reasons, was said to be resting at home and in good spirits after suffering a minor wound in the freak incident Monday evening.