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Courthouse News Service9h
California prison guards can’t dodge inmate death and desecration suit
A federal judge said Monday there's no rule barring a plaintiff from making inconsistent or contradicting prior arguments ...
Shore News Network45m
California man who dumped wife’s legs in dumpster gets 15 years to life for murder
A California man who discarded his wife’s legs in a dumpster before assuming her identity to open credit cards and sell their ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Mercury News13d
California pauses prison medical parole program, opting for early release or incarceration
Kyle Buis, a California Correctional Health Care Services spokesperson, characterized the program as “on pause” as patients ...
Truthout1d
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 ...