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DAPO’s Parole Reentry Expo puts resources front and center in Oakland

January 25, 2022 by Vincent O'Bannon

In October, a Parole Reentry Center was opened in Oakland, California, that promises a new approach to parolee services. The California Department of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Parole and Release, Re-Entry, Recently Posted Tagged With: cdcr, reentry programs

Victims and prosecutors angered by transfers of condemned prisoners

January 14, 2022 by Vincent O'Bannon

Death Row

Prisoners sentenced to death can now be transferred to other California prisons, according to the California Department of Corrections and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Death Penalty, Recently Posted Tagged With: cdcr, DEATH PENALTY, Death Row

CA Supreme Court: No pot for prisoners

December 29, 2021 by Brandon T. Genest

California prisoners cannot have marijuana, the state Supreme Court has ruled.  The court reversed a 2019 appellate court ruling that temporarily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Legal, Mental Stimulation, Recently Posted Tagged With: California Supreme Court, pot

Prisoners required to be vaccinated for in-person visits, off-site work

December 28, 2021 by Administrators

https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

CDCR INFORMATIONAL RELEASE Recently issued court orders require all incarcerated people to be fully vaccinated, or to have been granted an approved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Health Care, Recently Posted Tagged With: cdcr, COVID-19, visitation rights

Invisible warriors: Author shines light on California’s incarcerated female firefighters

December 26, 2021 by Joshua Grant

Risking their lives for minimal pay, incarcerated female firefighters in California work to save residential neighborhoods and national … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Recently Posted, Women in Prison Tagged With: CAL FIRE, women in prison

California allocates $7.5m in reparations for women forcibly, unknowingly sterilized

November 27, 2021 by William Tobert

California has allocated $7.5 million for reparations to survivors who were subjected to state-sponsored sterilization or involuntary sterilization, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Legal, Prison Stories Tagged With: legal, women in prison

Transphobia continues unabated in prison

November 27, 2021 by Cassandra Evans

Incarcerated trans women continue to be targeted for sexual assaults, physical abuse and gender discrimination while being forced to be housed in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR

Pizza makes it all better?

November 27, 2021 by Steve Brooks

Satire / Humor - Talk about a morale booster! If you almost died during the coronavirus outbreak at San Quentin State Prison, you may be entitled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Editorial Tagged With: cdcr, COVID-19, Humor

CDCR’s grand gesture: The pizza party apology

November 23, 2021 by Joe Garcia

State’s COVID settlement offer includes pizza party as ‘morale booster’ Prison officials offered a series of concessions including a pizza party … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Institutions, Money, Politics Tagged With: COVID-19

Legislative Digest

November 16, 2021 by San Quentin News

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a number of new measures into law aimed at criminal justice reform and the reduction of prison sentences for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Legal, RESOURCES Tagged With: legal

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