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LA to Join Host of CA Counties Sending Text Reminders to Improve Court Appearance Rates
In April, the California Judicial Council instituted a “zero bail” order for misdemeanors and...
Each Murder in Stockton Costs Taxpayers $2.5 Million, Says Report
A new report quantifying the cost of gun violence in Stockton, CA, estimates that each shooting...
New Screenings for Childhood Trauma Raise Hopes, Challenges
California health officials are gearing up for the launch of a statewide screening effort that aims...
DJJ Watch: The Secrets of Data Collecting Inside California’s Youth Prisons
Even if a fight between two kids is documented, the reason behind the fight may not be, and that is...
$68 Million in State Funding Goes to Local Pretrial Reforms, While CA Voters Wait to Decide Fate of Bail Reform Law
San Francisco's longstanding pretrial program is saved by not receiving state funding.
The Historic & Amazing Day When LA’s Supervisors Dumped Their Monster Jail Project, the Sheriff Told Scary Stories, & Sup. Sheila Kuehl Pronounced Incarceration a “Failed” Experiment
"It's a rare and impactful moment...a confluence that happens when an idea whose time has come...
Who’s Helping the 1.9 Million Women Released From Prisons and Jails Each Year?
By Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative Given the dramatic growth of women’s incarceration in...
A $17 Million Boost From the Arnold Foundation Will Fund Research and Innovation to Reduce Prison Populations
On Wednesday, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, through its Arnold Ventures company, announced...
Is LA County’s Mira Loma Women’s Jail Project Dead? And Did the New Sheriff Help Kill It?
It’s not yet a done deal, but absent some kind of dramatic intervention, it appears that the...