We have always led in incarceration, going all the way back to 1848. From 1848 to 1871, we had the highest lynching rate in the nation. People don’t talk about Los Angeles County that way, but that’s a fact. And it came off of policies that were pushed by law enforcement, and ...
San Bernardino County and the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, which is thelargest women's prisonin the state and is located in a rural area of Central California. Prosecutors said Wednesday that federal authorities will investigate whether the...
While Texas cuts costs by building more low-security housing and making far heavier use of inmate labor, California provides comforts not found there. For example, California has cafeterias for employees. At Calipatria and Centinela prisons in Imperial County, air-conditioning systems were installed ...
In the late 1980s, he filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County -- and every one of its 101 Superior Court judges -- to compel action to relieve jail overcrowding. The judges, before whom he frequently was required to appear, called the action part of a campaign that was “perverse and...
Kenneth Larkins is just one of more than 2,000 inmates at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County who has tested positive for the coronavirus. A dozen prisoners have died. SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) - California prison officials did a poor job requiring inmates and staff to wear masks to ...
inmate telephone recording has been the lack of staffing to monitor every single call,” said John Shaffer, a corrections technology expert and one of the authors of the NIJ study who spent 31 years working in Pennsylvania state and county prisons. “And, frankly, most inmate calls are ...
A test of new technology for scanning incoming prison mail identified drugs in fake legal documents, confirming suspicions that confidential communications between inmates and their attorneys or the court system can be exploited to smuggle contraband.
by Holly Ober,University of California, Los Angeles Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As calls increase for better water quality monitoring and mitigation in rural and economically disadvantaged communities, emerging research adds prisons, jails and detention centers to the areas of concern. A new ...
“We are used to dealing with this kind of thing like flu outbreaks that a lot of places aren’t," said Brad Curry, the chief of staff for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the jail. After the swine flu outbreak in 2009, which infected hundreds of prisoners across the...
“We are used to dealing with this kind of thing like flu outbreaks that a lot of places aren’t,” said Brad Curry, the chief of staff for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the jail. After the swine flu outbreak in 2009, which infected hundreds of prisoners across th...