Tuesday, December 27, 2011

California Prison Population Reduction: First Benchmark

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December 27th was the first benchmark for reporting the progress in prison population reduction to the federal three-judge panel. CDCR's...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

California Chief Justice Urges Reconsidering Death Penalty

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In an interview in today's Los Angeles Times , California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye expressed her concerns about the death penal...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

CDCR Publishes Decrowding Photos

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 When we started the California Correctional Crisis blog in 2008, we opened with a post linking to  this story from NPR , and included an im...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Realignment: An Opportunity to Rethink Corrections

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Some of the recent developments in realignment implementation, such as the request for jail expansion in Los Angeles County and Riverside...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Realignment: How Not To Do It, the Construction Version

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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) are raising some serious concerns about rehabilitation implementation. They are circula...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

New Execution Procedures Deemed Unconstitutional

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Those who have been following up on death penalty practices in California recall that, after a six-year hiatus, CDCR instated new proceeding...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Realignment: How Not to Do It

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Our outrage-de-jour for today comes from that paragon of punitivism, Riverside County (also responsible for many of CA's death sentences...