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Thousands of California inmates may be transferred to other facilities in an effort to ease prison overcrowding. As Katie Orr reports from Sacramento, the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to delay the release of thousands of inmates from California’s prisons. In a decision announced today the Justices…
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A state board agreed this week to partner with the Public Policy Institute of California to examine the effects of a change to the state’s criminal…
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California prison officials opened a new medical facility in Stockton today designed to improve treatment for 1,700 of the state’s sickest inmates. The…
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A federal three-judge panel is reiterating its order to California Governor Jerry Brown to reduce prison overcrowding. Today’s ruling even removes any…
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The California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department offered a glimpse today of how realignment is working. The program diverts low-level offenders to…
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The top Democrat in the California Senate is calling for more crisis access to mental health services to help reduce the state’s overcrowded prisons. But…
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“The best of the bad options”. That’s how the Department of Corrections is characterizing its plan to reduce prison overcrowding in California. Katie Orr…
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On Monday afternoon, the federal receiver in charge of health care in California’s prisons ordered the state prison to remove inmates from two Central…
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Governor Jerry Brown has until Thursday to release a plan for reducing prison overcrowding in California. Releasing more inmates may not be popular, but…