The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if mandatory life-without-parole sentences apply retroactively for juvenile offenders. The court picked the case of … [Read more...]
Fox Report Cites Progress And Challenges of Realignment
Gov. Jerry Brown met with sheriffs and probation and county administrators at a conference in Sacramento in January to get their thoughts about … [Read more...]
Federal Judge Dumps ‘Postcards Only’ Rule
A federal judge has tossed out a Ventura County jail policy limiting prisoners to postcard mail, Courthouse News Service reports. The September ruling … [Read more...]
New ‘Blueprint’ Aims to Reduce Mass Incarceration
A rare detailed plan to slash the 2.3 million population in the United States prisons and jails was published recently in a special issue of the … [Read more...]
Prison More Desirable Than County Jail for Many Prisoners
Inmates sent to Fresno County jail say they would rather serve their sentences in state prison, reports KQED. The jail is seeing an influx of … [Read more...]
Campaign to Stop Transfers Sparks Plea to State Leaders
Opposition has surfaced to transferring most of the prisoners in a popular program at California State Prison at Lancaster. More than three-quarters … [Read more...]
Faulty Lab Testing Spurs Review of Convictions
Federal officials are reviewing convictions based on potentially flawed hair sample lab analysis. The concern surfaced when The Washington Post … [Read more...]
S.F. Launches Neighborhood Courts
San Francisco’s Neighborhood Courts were created by the District Attorney’s Office as a means to use restorative justice to reduce recidivism and … [Read more...]
Tax Initiative Props. 30 vs. 38
Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30 ballot proposal is aimed at funding public schools, prison realignment, and reducing the state’s debt. A competing … [Read more...]
Gov. Brown Appoints New Corrections Board
A new board has been created to cope with the major changes in the future of California prisons. Creation of the board is in response to last year’s … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- …
- 45
- Next Page »