Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Letters from Sanctuary City: More on the Federal-State Divide

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Regular readers may recall our invitation to stay tuned for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' decision regarding the city's ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Criminalization and Jurisdiction: Thoughts on the Federal-State Divide

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Yesterday's news about the policy to refrain from federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries raise an interesting issue. One of the...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Obama and Holder: Feds to Stop Raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries!

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Federal news that have direct bearing on Californians: The Department of Justice has sent a memo to prosecutors in the fourteen states that ...
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Words From Within Walls

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In the course of working on the blog, my correspodence has become more varied than it used to be. Among other things, I get, and treasure, m...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Guard-to-Inmate-Ratios: The View from CCPOA

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In the new issue of Peacekeeper, Mike Jimenez, President of CCPOA, discusses prison guard pay cuts and furloughs on the CCPOA website. As i...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

More on Out-of-State Incarceration

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California currently houses over 8,000 prisoners in privately-operated, out-of-state facilities. Contracting with private prison companies ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Compare and Contrast: Empty Beds in NYC

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Robert Gangi's New York Times Op-Ed yesterday provides an interesting contrast to California's overcrowding. In New York, prison po...