Is More Parole The Answer For Overcrowding in California Prisons?
Governor Jerry Brown has until Thursday to release a plan for reducing prison overcrowding in California. Releasing more inmates may not be popular, but one law professor says it could be the way to...
View ArticlePrison Health Advocates Call For More Steps to Stop Valley Fever Outbreak
On Monday afternoon, the federal receiver in charge of health care in California’s prisons ordered the state prison to remove inmates from two Central Valley prisons who are especially at risk of...
View ArticleState Raises Questions About Moving Inmates At Risk of Valley Fever
In a motion filed in U.S. District Court yesterday, the state Attorney General raised questions about the federal order to exclude inmates especially vulnerable to valley fever from two Central Valley...
View ArticleNew Study Gives Snapshot of Realignment Results
The California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department offered a glimpse today of how realignment is working. The program diverts low-level offenders to county jails in an effort to reduce state...
View ArticleFederal Judge: Move Inmates At Risk Of Valley Fever
All inmates at risk of developing a serious form of valley fever must be removed from two Central California state prisons within the next 90 days. That’s what a U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday,...
View ArticlePrison Medical Facility Opens in Stockton
California prison officials opened a new medical facility in Stockton today designed to improve treatment for 1,700 of the state’s sickest inmates. The opening of the 200-acre facility will also ease...
View ArticleCalifornia Prison Hunger Strike Continues; State Responds
The number of California prison inmates on a hunger strike has dramatically dropped. But 12,000 inmates still refused to eat for a fourth consecutive day Thursday to protest the common use of long-term...
View ArticleState Attempts to Track Effect of Realignment
A state board agreed this week to partner with the Public Policy Institute of California to examine the effects of a change to the state’s criminal justice policy called realignment. California’s...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Won't Delay Release of Thousands of California Inmates
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to delay the release of thousands of inmates from California’s prisons. In a decision announced today the Justices denied a stay requested by Governor Jerry Brown....
View ArticlePrison Hunger Strike Supporters Take Fight to Capitol
As an inmate hunger strike in California stretches on, prison reform advocates want the rest of us to know what it’s like inside a SHU. Katie Orr reports from Sacramento. Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa spends...
View ArticleBrown Releases Plan to Ease Prison Overcrowding
Thousands of California inmates may be transferred to other facilities in an effort to ease prison overcrowding. As Katie Orr reports from Sacramento, the plan comes after multiple federal court...
View ArticlePrisons Battle Heats Up at California Capitol
California Senate Democrats have approved their own plan to deal with the federal court order to reduce prison overcrowding. They pushed their proposal through the Senate Budget Committee today over...
View ArticleLegislature Overwhelmingly Approves Prison Plan
The California Legislature has overwhelmingly approved a deal between the Governor and leaders of the Senate and Assembly to reduce overcrowding in state prisons. California has been ordered by a...
View ArticleLawmakers Take Closer Look at State Prison SHUs
Members of the California legislature are focusing their attention on Security Housing Units within state prisons. Katie Orr has details on a hearing held today in Sacramento. Lawmakers on the Senate...
View ArticleAt Pelican Bay, A Look Inside California's Security Housing Units
Imagine spending 22 hours a day locked in a small, concrete room. Thats daily life for about four-thousand California prisons inmates. On a recent media tour, journalists got glimpse of that life on a...
View ArticleDo California's Security Housing Units Reduce Prison Violence?
Californias prison system uses Security Housing Units, or SHUs, as a way to isolate alleged gang members from the general inmate population. But gangs remain a problem in prisons and the outcry over...
View ArticleCalifornia Begins Sending Inmates to Private Prisons
California is beginning to transfer inmates out of its state prisons. As Katie Orr reports from Sacramento, the transfers are part of a court-mandated plan to reduce overcrowding in state prisons...
View ArticleBrown Praises Counties' Creativity In Implementing Realignment
California Governor Jerry Brown is praising counties and law enforcement agencies for their work implementing his landmark criminal justice system overhaul known as “realignment.” But as Ben Adler...
View ArticleAudit Finds That California Prisoners Were Illegally Sterilized
A California State Audit has found that dozens of women in state prisons were sterilized illegally. Health Care Reporter Pauline Bartolone says prison medical officials are faulted for not following...
View ArticleFresno County Sheriff Responds To Gov. Brown In Prop 57 Dispute
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims and California Governor Jerry Brown are locked in a dispute over which prisoners might be eligible for early release if voters approve Proposition 57. It's a measure...
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