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Archives for June 2018

Privacy advocates suffer setback with DNA collection

June 11, 2018 by Salvador Solorio

Privacy advocates suffered a major setback when California’s Supreme Court refused  to throw out a law provision that allows the state to obtain and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ACLU, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Buza, California’s Supreme Court, DNA Act, DNA profiles, Goodwin Liu, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Michael T. Risher

Positive changes in the criminal justice system lead to prisoners adjusting to free society

June 11, 2018 by Achilles

Positive changes in America’s criminal justice system are exposing significant changes in helping long-term prisoners adjust to a free society. “It’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: American Bible Academy, Fathers and Families, Friends Outside, Gretchen Newby, Richard Vlavianos, San Joaquin Parole Re-Entry Court, Stockton

Norco program provides more than just an education

June 11, 2018 by Forrest Lee Jones

Prisoners at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco are getting a higher education and earning time off their sentences through the Norco … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION Tagged With: Bryan Reece, California Rehabilitation Center, Communications Storytelling class, ged, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Jason Parks, Norco, Norco College, Rand Corp

Indiana hires formerly incarcerated

June 11, 2018 by William Harris

More and more employers are hiring former inmates with the assistance of Indiana’s state and local government reported the Indianapolis Business … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brooke Daunhauer, Eric Holcomb, hiring former inmates, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Business Journal, Indy Chamber, San Quentin News

Corcoran prison 30 years later

June 11, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

California State Prison, Corcoran has changed dramatically since it opened 30 years ago, according to an officer who has been there since the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andy Vidak, Assemblyman Rudy Salas, California State Prison, Corcoran, Corcoran City Council, CSP Corcoran, Hanford, Jeanette Zamora-Bragg, Martin Biter, Mayor Raymond Lerma, Patricia Nolen, Vice Mayor Sidonio Palmerin

China teaches prison inmates e-commerce before reléase

June 11, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

More than 30 prisoners at Qiao Si Prison, the largest prison in China’s Zhejiang Province, received a training course in e-commerce last December, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alibaba, china, e-commerce, Jenny W. Hsu, marketable skills, online business methods, Qiao Si Prison, Taobao University, Zhejiang

US Appeals Court rules on deportable convictions

June 11, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff

For the purpose of deportable convictions, a carjacking conviction in California does not always qualify as a violent crime, according to a recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 140 (2010), 559 U.S. 133, Board of Immigration Appeals, California Penal Code 215(a), Johnson v. United States, Nieves-Medrano  v. Holder, Ninth Circuit, Solorio-Ruiz v. Sessions

Tulsa county jail’s mental health pod a step in the right direction

June 11, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

  The Tulsa, OK, county jail used to place their mentally ill inmates in the same bare cells as everyone else. Now, the jail sports a new mental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: David Van Risseghem, Jail Administrator David Park, jail mental health, National Alliance on Mental Illness, psyche-patient issues, Tulsa, Tulsa World

Trump’s federal staff cuts hurt

June 11, 2018 by Dejon Joy

CDCR, California State Prisons,

President Trump initiated a hiring freeze and applied federal staff cuts that have appeared to be counterproductive to correction officers, staffers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Allenwood, correction officers, federal staff cuts, hiring freeze, http://www.news.vice.com, PA, Trump, VICE news

Transgender suing Massachusetts challenging placement all-male prison

June 11, 2018 by Forrest Lee Jones

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A transgender woman is suing the Massachusetts Department of Correction for requiring her to serve her sentence in an all-male prison. In the lawsuit, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston Globe, Jennifer L. Levi, LGBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Massachusetts Department of Correction, texas, The New York Times, transgender inmate, Transgender Rights Project

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