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What Newsom didn’t say in his virtual State of the State speech and why it matters
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo Canada News· 1 week agoIn a speech aimed at California’s critics, Newsom didn’t mention his efforts to pass a...
Supreme Court denies California’s appeal for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from California corrections officials who sought...
San Quentin closure: From The Sacramento Bee archives, Sam Stanton’s award-winning execution story
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe Bee’s Sam Stanton won the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award for deadline writing for his coverage...
Is California’s death penalty ‘racially discriminatory?’ Why civil rights groups say so
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoCalifornia criminal justice reform organizations are challenging the state’s use of the death...
California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that has been home to the largest death row...
Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoA plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the...
Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff routinely report people in their...
California Democrats want Gov. Gavin Newsom to close five more prisons by 2027. Here’s why
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoCalifornia Democrats want to see more prison closures as the state’s inmate population continues to...
‘Insulting,’ ‘unrealistic’: Will lawmakers halt Newsom’s plan to reform San Quentin prison?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoLawmakers raise concern over plan to reimagine California’s oldest correctional facility while a...
California lawmakers revive effort to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoAn inmate from the Puerta La Cruz conservation camp in Warner Springs puts out burning downed trees...