California’s law enforcement agencies hit record numbers of instances of misusing the...
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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...
CA’s New Prisons Chief, the Homelessness Plan, Baca’s Guilty Plea, and Chief Beck on the “Ferguson Effect”
MEET CA’S NEW REFORM-MINDED CORRECTIONS CHIEF, SCOTT KERNAN The California Department of...