California Correctional Crisis

Students for Sensible Drug Policy are holding their annual conference at UC Hastings in San Francisco this coming Saturday. Yours truly wi...

The powerful short film A Sentence Apart depicts the lives of three people with family members in California prisons. And until March 15...

“Those swept up in this system too often had their rights rescinded, their dignity diminished, and the full measure of their citizenship rev...

Lots of things moving in the right direction in the world of solitary confinement. For one thing, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has just intr...

The SHU hearings in Sacramento yesterday were a success from the inmates' rights perspective. The Sac Bee reports : Corrections offici...

I'm hard at work on book revisions and other projects, and updates have been scarce. But there are lots of big news, so here is a roundu...

Tune in NOW for the legislative hearings regarding the SHU, gang validation policies, and the new CDCR regulations to remove gang status.