In 2015, California settled Ashker v. Governor, a historic class-action lawsuit brought by the...
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CA Officials Don’t Hold Agencies Responsible When Officers Misuse Police Databases
California’s law enforcement agencies hit record numbers of instances of misusing the...
California’s Juvenile Lock-ups: High Costs, High Recidivism
As the number of kids in state lockups has plunged in California, per capita juvenile incarceration...
Therapeutic Youth Lock-up Included in CA Budget Proposal
California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017-2018 includes money for a...
Inmate Medical & Personal Data stolen at CA Prisons—-Symptomatic of Far More Serious Problems With CDCR Med System?
THE CASE OF THE VANISHING LAP TOP Last month, I got a call from an California prison inmate whom I...
NO SAFE PLACE: A Troubling Suicide at a California Women’s Prison & a Report Pointing to Chronic Failures in the Facility’s Suicide Prevention Practices
Erika Rocha was 35 years old when she committed suicide on April 14 of this year, in the mental...