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Daily Report: Public Safety

Prosecutors' opposition could limit release of third-strike inmates

December 19, 2012, 12:05 AM

State inmates serving life terms are starting to file resentencing petitions with local judges following the passage of Proposition 36, the ballot measure that overhauls California's controversial three strikes law. But opposition from local prosecutors and other factors could limit the number... + read more

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Fewer felons eligible to serve sentences in county jails

November 5, 2012, 12:05 AM

As California struggles to meet a court-ordered reduction of its prison population, newly released figures show corrections officials overstated the number of low-level offenders eligible to be diverted to local jurisdictions as part of Gov. Jerry Brown's public safety realignment plan. At... + read more

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Disabled inmates suffer in shift to county jails

October 8, 2012, 12:05 AM

One day in March, a blind man was booked into the San Bernardino County jail. A parole violator, he could see only four inches in front of his face. At the West Valley Detention Center, according to his account, deputies assigned him the upper bunk in a cell at the top of a tall staircase.... + read more

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Timeline: How the three strikes law changed California

September 30, 2012, 12:05 AM

The state’s crackdown on habitual criminals was fueled by a Fresno father whose daughter had been murdered. + read more

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Interactive: Assessing risks among California's prisoners

September 30, 2012, 12:05 AM

Amid another debate over California’s three strikes law, never-before-released inmate profiles show a high number of substance abusers but much fewer prisoners with high-risk “criminal thinking” scores. + read more

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Advocacy groups wary of new plan for prison isolation units

September 13, 2012, 12:05 AM

State corrections officials are moving forward with a plan for handling prison gangs and other violent groups, including changing rules that have kept some inmates locked in special isolation units for decades. But the initiative is raising concern among prisoner rights advocates and... + read more

Daily Report: Public Safety

Calif. to start bringing back inmates in out-of-state prisons

July 12, 2012, 12:05 AM

With severe overcrowding easing in state lockups, California is winding down a controversial deal with the nation’s biggest private prison operator and will bring thousands of inmates housed in facilities as far away as Mississippi back to California within the next few years. Currently... + read more

Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Public Safety

Medical probation bill would release some inmates early

June 11, 2012, 12:05 AM

Faced with an influx of inmates, sheriffs across the state are backing a bill that would allow some felons to leave jail before they have completed serving their sentences. The legislation would apply to inmates who are dying or are so physically incapacitated that they pose no threat to... + read more

Daily Report: Public Safety

California resisting order to hand over lethal injection drug

May 30, 2012, 12:05 AM

California prison officials are trying to keep possession of a scarce lethal injection drug, contesting a federal court order making it illegal to use “foreign manufactured” sodium thiopental. In late 2010, California was one of several states scrambling for thiopental, an... + read more

Daily Report: Public Safety

Corrections officials unveil new policies for isolation units

March 9, 2012, 4:28 PM

State inmates with alleged ties to prison gangs will no longer be routinely locked in isolation units, and prisoners assigned to the controversial facilities will face shorter mandatory terms, according to policies unveiled today by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. If... + read more

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Reform could transfer hundreds of inmates out of isolation units

October 27, 2011, 12:05 AM

Hundreds of California prisoners locked in stark segregation units could be transferred to regular prison cells under new policies being developed by state corrections officials. The transfers could include inmates who have been held for decades at Pelican Bay State Prison’s windowless... + read more

Daily Report: Money and Politics

Repeal of death penalty could save millions of dollars, analysis finds

October 10, 2011, 12:05 AM

A nonpartisan analysis of a California ballot initiative to abolish the death penalty found that it could save the state and counties in the "high tens of millions of dollars" every year. The Legislative Analyst’s Office review of the proposed initiative, which hasn't... + read more

MORE ON: california prisons

Prosecutors' opposition could limit release of third-strike inmates

Fewer felons eligible to serve sentences in county jails

Disabled inmates suffer in shift to county jails

Timeline: How the three strikes law changed California

Interactive: Assessing risks among California's prisoners

Advocacy groups wary of new plan for prison isolation units

Calif. to start bringing back inmates in out-of-state prisons

Medical probation bill would release some inmates early

California resisting order to hand over lethal injection drug

Corrections officials unveil new policies for isolation units

Reform could transfer hundreds of inmates out of isolation units

Repeal of death penalty could save millions of dollars, analysis finds

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