California citizens need to vote for prison rehabilitation as a priority: money for teachers, instructors, prisoner jobs instead of lockdown overtime and more guards. Finally, we close with an update on our legal challenge.Our class action constitutional challenge to long-term solitary confinement ...
A defense psychiatrist said White’s depression included bingeing on sugary foods. Jurors bought the argument, which became known as “the Twinkie defense,” and convicted White of voluntary manslaughter. He would serve less than five years in prison, andin 1985 would kill himself. ...
000 guards and other prison-system employees. a prison guard who started his career at the age of 45 could retire after five years with a pension that very nearly equaled his former salary. the head parole psychiatrist for the california prison system was the state’s highest-paid public ...