How did California’s prisons become so overcrowded?
Yesterday, I wrote about a case at the US Supreme Court that will decide whether or not California will be required to release as many as 40,000 prison inmates. Above is a radio piece I did on the same topic. It gets into the background of the court case: how California’s prisons got so over-stuffed and why courts haven’t been able to fix the problem yet.
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Inside the Division of Juvenile Justice
Michael Minor is chief deputy secretary of the Division of Juvenile Justice at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It’s his job to help shape the future for this department that’s potentially on the budget chopping block. KALW’s Holly … Read More
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Inside the Division of Juvenile Justice
Michael Minor is chief deputy secretary of the Division of Juvenile Justice at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It’s his job to help shape the future for this department that’s potentially on the budget chopping block. KALW’s Holly … Read More
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Commentary: Why the decline in prison jobs for inmates?
Mike Cogh By Richard Gilliam File this in the “shooting yourself in the foot” file. In years past, convicts performed many of the day-to-day jobs that kept a prison running smoothly. I remember arriving at the Reception Center in Chino, … Read More
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Occupy San Quentin protest large, peaceful
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