California Correctional Crisis

As prison population grows, the parolee population grows too. A series of pieces on the North County Times has recently highlighted the expe...

Sunday's editorial in the Sacramento Bee provided a critical take on the impact of prison overcrowding on state expenditures. The empha...

For those interested, here's the program for this coming Saturday's Women Defenders Fall Seminar, which will focus on prisons. It s...

(image from Megan's Law website ) As many readers may know, many states have implemented laws that meticulously regulate the lives of r...

This story comes in a bit too late for Halloween, but I think it merits some reflection. The CDCR parole department conducted a special oper...

(image: http://www.daylife.com) One of the less reported developments following the elections was the failure of Prop L, which aimed to pro...

The Chron reported yesterday that Governor Schwarzenegger won a reprieve from the 9th Circuit Court , after failing to come up with the mone...