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California Senate Democrats have approved their own plan to deal with the federal court order to reduce prison overcrowding. They pushed their proposal…
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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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As an inmate hunger strike in California stretches on, prison reform advocates want the rest of us to know what it’s like inside a SHU. Katie Orr reports…
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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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The number of California prison inmates on a hunger strike has dramatically dropped. But 12,000 inmates still refused to eat for a fourth consecutive day…
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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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All inmates at risk of developing a serious form of valley fever must be removed from two Central California state prisons within the next 90 days. That’s…
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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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In a motion filed in U.S. District Court yesterday, the state Attorney General raised questions about the federal order to exclude inmates especially…