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State audit says California’s prisons are not prepared for natural disasters
The audit from the California Office of the Inspector General warns lives could be lost if prisons don’t improve their ...
How Alcatraz became America’s most notorious prison
Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” ...
L.A. County inmate death marks 13th suspected homicide in California prisons this year
A convicted Los Angeles County rapist was allegedly killed by a fellow inmate over the weekend amid a surge of prison ...
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California Prisoners Organize Work Slowdown to Protest Degrading Conditions
To address unjust policies and conditions, more than 70 incarcerated workers inside Centinela State Prison collectively ...
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California’s Death Row Inmates Experience Life after Newsom’s Moratorium
Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...
This California student could go to prison for taking four chickens. Was it a crime or a ‘rescue’?
Just four months after she graduates on May 17 with a bachelor’s degree in social movement strategy, the straight-A student will stand trial in a Sonoma County courtroom for her June 2023 incursion ...
Man once convicted in Monterey County killed in Southern California prison
Renee A. Rodriguez, A Man once sentenced in Monterey County, died in a Los Angeles County prison after an attack from another ...
Veteran’s jail death leads to lawsuit, CA cop convicted: Latest legal stories
Thousands of legal cases reach U.S. courts every year. Read on to learn about a veteran’s death at a Texas jail that’s led to a federal lawsuit, a former California police officer convicted of a ...