California Correctional Crisis

Hello Everyone, I'm writing to invite you to an upcoming talk at Manny's , the new café/civic engagement center in San Francisco (...

California's death chamber: closed. Source: Office of the Governor . Today's stunning, forward-thinking announcement from Govern...

Governor Newsom's announcement of a death penalty moratorium is a breath of fresh air after decades of stagnation. Since the reinstatem...

This just in: Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to announce he is taking executive action to try to eliminate the use of the death penal...

A great light has dimmed. San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi (Hastings '85) has died, leaving behind a tremendous legacy of advoc...

Today CDCR announced that, effective March 1, they will eliminate inmate copayments for healthcare , because an internal analysis reveals th...

A short while ago I posted about the bipartisan enactment of the First Step Act, a bipartisan compromise bill  offering evidence-based reha...