California Correctional Crisis

The  California Sentencing Institute,  an initiative of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, has a new  interactive map tool  distin...

This evening I attended a town hall event with Senator Mark Leno  and other guests. The event focused on criminal justice reform in Califo...

Much of what we've written about this year has to do with the scaling back of the punitive project because it has become financially uns...

Yesterday's election results elicited happiness from many quarters. President Obama begins his second term confronted with serious econo...

The Chron reports : A ballot measure to repeal California's death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole has gained...

Please watch UC Hastings Dean Frank Wu interviewing me about my book in progress on the impact of the financial crisis on the American corre...

In two weeks, California voters will be offered the opportunity to vote on three criminal justice initiatives: Prop 34, which woul...