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Joe Garcia CalMatters Grace Coleman thinks about her crime a lot — like all the time, every day. Killing two people while driving drunk forced her to start seeing herself through an unfiltered lens of accountability. Since the day after that terrible night in late 2020, she has moved...
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Juvenile justice groups are pressing California lawmakers to allow parole consideration after 25 years for some people who were sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as young adults. Under current law, people who committed serious crimes before age 18 can petition the state’s parole board after serving...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Convertir una prisión estatal en un centro de rehabilitación, como la administración Newsom busca hacer con San Quentin, significa cambiar la forma en que los guardias hacen su trabajo. En lugar de evitar la “familiaridad excesiva” con las personas encarceladas, los guardias penitenciarios deberían preguntarles sobre...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Converting a state prison into a rehabilitative center, as the Newsom administration seeks to do with San Quentin, means changing how guards do their jobs. Instead of shying away from “overfamiliarity” with incarcerated people, prison guards should ask them about their families or favorite NFL teams....
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Las personas condenadas por distribuir fentanilo se enfrentarán a penas penales más severas el próximo año en virtud de una nueva ley determinada por el aumento de las muertes por sobredosis. La ley aumenta la pena por vender o distribuir más de un kilogramo de fentanilo añadiendo...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters People convicted of distributing fentanyl will face stiffer criminal penalties in the coming year under a new law shaped by rising overdose deaths. The law increases the penalty for selling or distributing more than one kilogram of fentanyl by an automatic addition of three years to the original...
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Mientras el estado se prepara para cerrar sus prisiones juveniles, los trabajadores de la División de Justicia Juvenil podrían recibir bonos de hasta $50,000 para permanecer en el trabajo hasta ese entonces, según pudo saber CalMatters. Si se aprueba, el bono parece estar entre los más grandes que ofrece...
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As the state prepares to close its youth prisons, workers for the Division of Juvenile Justice could receive up to $50,000 bonuses to stay on the job until then, CalMatters has learned. If approved, the bonus appears to be among the largest offered by the state to retain a...
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TACOMA, Wash. — President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week ending the federal use of private prisons, but the order does not include privately run immigration facilities, like the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. Formerly known as the Northwest Detention Center, the facility is run by GEO Group...
Joe Garcia CalMatters Grace Coleman thinks about her crime a lot — like all the time, every day. Killing two people while driving drunk forced her to start seeing herself through an unfiltered lens of accountability. Since the day after that terrible night in late 2020, she has moved...
Juvenile justice groups are pressing California lawmakers to allow parole consideration after 25 years for some people who were sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as young adults. Under current law, people who committed serious crimes before age 18 can petition the state’s parole board after serving...
Nigel Duara CalMatters Convertir una prisión estatal en un centro de rehabilitación, como la administración Newsom busca hacer con San Quentin, significa cambiar la forma en que los guardias hacen su trabajo. En lugar de evitar la “familiaridad excesiva” con las personas encarceladas, los guardias penitenciarios deberían preguntarles sobre...
Nigel Duara CalMatters Las personas condenadas por distribuir fentanilo se enfrentarán a penas penales más severas el próximo año en virtud de una nueva ley determinada por el aumento de las muertes por sobredosis. La ley aumenta la pena por vender o distribuir más de un kilogramo de fentanilo añadiendo...
Mientras el estado se prepara para cerrar sus prisiones juveniles, los trabajadores de la División de Justicia Juvenil podrían recibir bonos de hasta $50,000 para permanecer en el trabajo hasta ese entonces, según pudo saber CalMatters. Si se aprueba, el bono parece estar entre los más grandes que ofrece...
As the state prepares to close its youth prisons, workers for the Division of Juvenile Justice could receive up to $50,000 bonuses to stay on the job until then, CalMatters has learned. If approved, the bonus appears to be among the largest offered by the state to retain a...
TACOMA, Wash. — President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week ending the federal use of private prisons, but the order does not include privately run immigration facilities, like the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. Formerly known as the Northwest Detention Center, the facility is run by GEO Group...