By Salvador Solorio Journalism Guild Writer President Obama is calling for $1.1 billion in new federal funding to combat growing heroin and … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2016
Exonerated After 34 Years With No Compensation
By Noel Scott Journalism Guild Writer After 34 years of imprisonment, Lewis Jim Fogle was exonerated in Pennsylvania by DNA evidence. His compensation … [Read more...]
Ban the Box Underway Across The Country
The “Ban the Box” movement is gaining support across the country, boosting the chance of people with criminal records to get jobs, a report … [Read more...]
Wrongful Convictions Cost Californians Millions of Dollars
By Charles David Henry Journalism Guild Writer It has cost California taxpayers more than $220 million to overturn 600 wrongful convictions over two … [Read more...]
Private Prisons Profits Compound Mass Incarceration
America should take the millions of dollars that private jail and prison companies make and instead spend it to solve the country’s mass incarceration … [Read more...]
Calif. $15.6 Billion Budget for Criminal Justice Programs
By Chung Kao Staff Writer Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2016-17 budget proposes a total of $15.6 billion for judicial and criminal justice programs—an increase … [Read more...]
Court Allow Brown’s Initiative on Next General Election Ballot
By Forrest Jones Journalism Guild Writer The California Supreme Court ruled, on June 6, that Gov. Jerry Brown may present his prison reduction … [Read more...]
Overcrowding in County Jails Changes Bail Practices
Overcrowding in county jails has California reviewing its bail practices. California’s bail practices have clogged the jails and become a tool that … [Read more...]
Dear Kid CAT by William Jones Centinela
Dear Kid CAT Hello, my name is William Jones. I’m a 49-year-old lifer doing seven to life plus three years for attempted murder in 1988. I’m writing … [Read more...]
The Affects of PTSD on Juvenile Inmates {Part 2}
This is the second installment of a two-part series detailing the impact of trauma on incarcerated men’s likelihood of success at the parole … [Read more...]