January 10, 2011, 12:05 AM
Esteban Nunez received a huge break a week ago when former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted the 22-year-old’s sentence for manslaughter, reducing his prison time by more than half. It was the second decision regarding Nunez’s incarceration that benefited the young man, son of...
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November 24, 2010, 12:06 AM
A federal jury has convicted an Oakland woman of health care fraud for her part in a scam that billed Medicare for power wheelchairs that were medically unnecessary, federal officials said yesterday. Donna K. Wells, 52, was found guilty Monday of one count of health care fraud after a week-...
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November 7, 2010, 11:16 PM
California’s prison crisis is proving to be something of an economic opportunity for other states. Last week, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced a deal to send more inmates to facilities out of state in order to meet a court order to...
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November 3, 2010, 12:05 AM
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into complaints of lax care at Northern California nursing homes, and threatening civil or criminal charges against serious violators. The federal investigators will look at inappropriate use of psychiatric medications and poor care that results in...
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October 28, 2010, 12:05 AM
The drastic decline in the population of the California Youth Authority is one of the great success stories in the state's mostly abortive attempts to reform its criminal justice system. "The radical decline in the CYA population is one of the state's and nation's best kept...
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October 13, 2010, 12:05 AM
California health regulators are joining state and federal investigators in examining the practices of Prime Healthcare, a Southern California hospital chain with an unusually high rate of life-threatening infections, according to letters released to California Watch yesterday. In the letter...
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March 10, 2010, 12:08 AM
The question has loomed large for years: Is the Los Angeles Unified School District neglecting its non-English-speaking students? A study last year by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at USC seemed to think it was possible. After tracking an entire group of students who started out as sixth...
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