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Prisons increasingly turning to scanning incoming mail

March 21, 2023 by Bostyon Johnson

us mail evelopes

Many prisons are substituting scanned copies for the delivery of original mail to residents as a way of limiting the amount of drugs entering prisons, … [Read more...]

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‘Fangs of inflation’ bite prisoners

March 21, 2023 by C.K. Gerhartsreiter

Rising Food Cost

If the fangs of inflation took a trifling nibble out of meager incarcerated living standards over the past few months, then in November they took a … [Read more...]

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Federal legislation to lower cost of phone calls

March 21, 2023 by Joshua Strange

Lower phone call costs are on the horizon for America’s incarcerated people, thanks to new federal legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden … [Read more...]

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PRISON, REHABILITATION, AND WASTED POTENTIAL

March 21, 2023 by San Quentin News Contributor

Bill Keller, Marshall Project founding editor talks about his new book, What’s Prison For?  By Charlotte West Charlotte West: Why did you … [Read more...]

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Folsom Lake College reentry program to receive federal funds

March 21, 2023 by Michael Callahan

Nearly $1M in funding intended to tackle recidivism, violence in the community  A college program for the incarcerated in California has received … [Read more...]

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Suicide on the rise among prisoners

March 21, 2023 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho

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There has been a sharp increase in suicides in prisons and jails due to isolation in the pandemic, staff shortages and drug use, The Wall Street … [Read more...]

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UCSF apologizes for unethical experiments

March 21, 2023 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

Male nurse pushing stretcher gurney bed in hospital corridor with doctors & senior female patient

A major California hospital has apologized for subjecting prisoners to unethical treatments by two doctors in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the … [Read more...]

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month

March 21, 2023 by CDCR

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Women’s rehabilitation given consideration with early farm concept 

March 21, 2023 by CDCR

By Don Chaddock, Inside CDCR Editor  1920s farm was early gender‑responsive rehabilitation The 40-room 1880s-era building at the California … [Read more...]

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CEMETERY TALES

March 21, 2023 by CDCR

A twist of fate for two women  By California Department ofCorrections and Rehabilitation ■ Mary Hill avoids being first woman buried in San … [Read more...]

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