California Correctional Crisis

Several commentators remarked this week of the role of images in the Plata litigation. Courtesy of Mother Jones, here is a series of images...

Two big stories, coming in the heels of Brown v. Plata, present a spectrum of issues that should have us occupied in the next few years as C...

Our previous post was devoted to Justice Kennedy's opinion in Plata, and discerning readers may have noticed we did not discuss the dis...

As per legal requirements, the Supreme Court reviewed the factual findings of the three judge panel using a standard of "clear error...

Today, the Supreme Court decided, 5-4, to uphold the three-judge panel decision in Plata v. Schwarzenegger (now Brown v. Plata) . Justice Ke...

As many of you probably noticed, we're posting with less frequency than usual these days; CCC will be on a mini-hiatus until late July d...

Former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford is to become the executive director of Death Penalty Focus . The L.A. Times reports : On Thursd...