California Correctional Crisis

Prisoners to Begin Hunger Strike on July 1st in Pelican Bay State Prison (from www.indybay.org ) Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (...

Check out the Justice Policy Institute's report, Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ine...

Today I attended a compelling lecture by Dr. Craig Haney of UC-Santa Cruz on the individual psychological consequences of imprisonment in Ca...

L.A. Times story here on the new report by Loyola Prof. Paula Mitchell & 9th Circ. Judge Alarcon. $4 billion since 1978...

This weekend's Huffington Post featured an extremely distressing story about California's women institutions and the health and san...

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...