Friday, April 25, 2014

Big Developments on the Federal Sentencing Front

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The last few months in Federal sentencing have been rather monumental, at least in rhetorical terms. In 2010, as readers may recall, Congres...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

New Bill Proposes Allowing Counties to Import/Export Inmates

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One of the declared purposes of the Realignment was to benefit from the added rehabilitative value of doing time within one's community ...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Judge Karlton Declares Prop 9 Unconstitutional

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I am thrilled to report another important legal development: Judge Karlton of the Northern District has declared Prop 9, otherwise known as ...

Behind the Hunger Strike

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Todd Ashker. Photo courtesy CDCR, reproduced from New York Magazine In the aftermath of the hunger strike against conditions in the SHU...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

This Saturday: SSDP's Western Regional Conference

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Students for Sensible Drug Policy are holding their annual conference at UC Hastings in San Francisco this coming Saturday. Yours truly wi...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

A Sentence Apart: Watch Free Documentary about Families of Inmates

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The powerful short film A Sentence Apart depicts the lives of three people with family members in California prisons. And until March 15...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

More Voting Controversies

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“Those swept up in this system too often had their rights rescinded, their dignity diminished, and the full measure of their citizenship rev...