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DateTitle
April 06, 2009 What Welfare Reform Teaches Us About Reforming Parole
March 04, 2009 Smart On Crime Ways To Reduce Prison Spending
December 24, 2008 California Needs a New Clemency System
December 10, 2008 Human Rights Violations in California’s Own Backyard
December 07, 2008 Holiday Season Thoughts About the California Prisons
September 05, 2008 Stopping the School to Jail Pipeline in California
August 14, 2008 $3 Billion for California Prison Health Care in This Terrible Year of Budget Deficits Can Be Avoided if Our State Government Acts
July 30, 2008 Closure Tomorrow of Two Notorious California Juvenile Prison Facilities is Beginning of Needed Reform
June 16, 2008 $30,000 a Day for Care of Brain Dead Prisoner? Medical Release Legislation Provides Rare Opportunity to Alleviate Deficit and Prison Crowding
June 13, 2008 Prison University - Enrolling California Students Now
June 12, 2008 State Auditor Finds Proposed California Death Row Facility to Cost Millions More Than Originally Projected
May 29, 2008 California State Senate Fails to Pass Prison Health Construction Bond: Federal Court Receiver Demands $3.5 Billion, With More to Come, Worsening State Budget Deficit
May 27, 2008 California Senate Vote Today on $7 Billion Prison Health Care Construction Bill
May 18, 2008 Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis
May 10, 2008 The Runner Initiative: Running California's Economy into the Ground with Failed Correctional Policies
May 06, 2008 Lawsuit Could Leave Governor Schwarzenegger Between a Rock and a Hard Place on Prisons
May 06, 2008 California Taxpayers to File Lawsuit to Prevent $12 Billion in Prison Construction Debt Payments
April 28, 2008 Democratic Senators Call for Prison Plan from Schwarzenegger Administration—Inmate Population “A Bouncing Ball” Making Budget “Virtually Impossible”
April 25, 2008 The Prison State in California and the Nation
March 21, 2008 Legislation Protecting Families and Helping to Rehabilitate Imprisoned Youth in California to be Heard in Committee
March 17, 2008 California is $2 Billion More In Debt as of Friday
February 29, 2008 Transformational Politics Needed to Solve Our National and California Prison Problems
February 15, 2008 Solving California's Prison Crisis: A Ballot Initiative Coming to a Grocery Store Near You
January 24, 2008 California Prison Health Morass Now in the Hands of a New Receiver Appointed by Federal Court Judge
January 14, 2008 Reforming Our Prisons in 2008: Can California Get Rational Sentencing and Parole Reforms in the Crucible of the Budget Crisis?
December 28, 2007 California Prison Reform and the Progressive challenge for 2008
November 30, 2007 Are California Progressives Blind to the Prison-Industrial Complex?
October 11, 2007 Parolee ID Bill Should be Signed by Governor Schwarzenegger
October 11, 2007 Fiscal Savings and Medical Release Bill Presents Schwarzenegger With Rare Opportunity
October 03, 2007 Former Gang Members Ask Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign AB 1049 for Youth Parole Re-Entry Programs
September 27, 2007 The Absurdity of Incarcerating the Incapacitated: California Prisons are Wasting Taxpayers’ Money and Endangering the Public
September 24, 2007 Historic Federal Three Judge Panel to Hear Arguments Today on California Prison Overcrowding
September 19, 2007 66 California Inmate Deaths Preventable According to Prison Receiver Robert Sillen
July 24, 2007 Analysis of Federal Court Decisions on Overcrowding of California's Prisons and Medical Care
July 23, 2007 Federal Court Judges Order Convening of Panel to Consider California Prison Population Cap and Other Remedies for Unconstitutional Overcrowding
July 12, 2007 Perata Sends Schwarzenegger Strongly Worded Message on Prisons as Committee Approves New Corrections Head
July 11, 2007 California Prison Medical Court Receiver Robert Sillen Bares All Before Sacramento Press Club
June 29, 2007 California Responsible For 1 out of 5 New Inmates in the U.S. in Prison Last Year
June 28, 2007 Romero Predicts Three Federal Judge Panel Will Be Appointed--One That May Cap California's Prison Population
June 21, 2007 Prison Crowding Makes States Look to Rehabilitation
June 06, 2007 California Sentencing Reform Bill to be Voted on Today by State Assembly
May 15, 2007 California Prisons, Post-Partisanship, and the Death of Democracy
May 11, 2007 In Time of California's Prison Crisis, Prop 36 Is Solution
May 09, 2007 Peter Schrag's "Modest Proposal" on Exporting California Prisoners
May 08, 2007 Death Chamber Secrecy is But One Example of Why We Need Sunshine in California Prisons
May 07, 2007 Major Changes in Sentencing, Prisons, and Penal System Quietly and Methodically Advancing in Sacramento
May 02, 2007 How California Got into the Mess We're In with Prison Sentences: There Will Never Be Enough Red Meat for Some
April 27, 2007 Senate Leader Don Perata’s Floor Speech on California Prisons
April 26, 2007 Prison Bill Passes Legislature and Goes to Governor
April 25, 2007 Outline of Prison Deal to be Voted on Tomorrow by California Legislature
April 25, 2007 Perata and Nunez Send Joint Letter to Schwarzenegger on Prison Bill to be Voted on Tomorrow
April 25, 2007 Prison Deal Announced by Assembly and Senate Democratic and Republican Leaders
April 19, 2007 Stanford Report and Recommendations Show Need for a Sentencing Commission in California to Complete Reform Already Under Way
April 16, 2007 Split in Assembly Republican Caucus Over Prisons as Spitzer Rebuked by Speaker and Republican Leader
April 14, 2007 UCLA Finds Gov's Prop. 36 Proposal $109 Million Short
April 11, 2007 Reforming Life Sentences for Youth Offenders in California
April 04, 2007 SB 40: THE PRISON REFORM BATTLE CONTINUES IN CALIFORNIA!
March 26, 2007 SB 40 Will Not "Fix" California's Sentencing Scheme and is Unconstitutional
March 22, 2007 Is a California Prison Reform Deal Imminent?
March 22, 2007 Bad News for California's Prisons This Week
March 20, 2007 SENTENCING BILL WORSENS CALIFORNIA’S STATE PRISON CRISIS
February 22, 2007 LAO Report Warns About Schwarzenegger's Prop 36 Funding Cuts, Advises Rejection
February 20, 2007 Prisoner Transfers Out of California Ruled Illegal
February 20, 2007 What a California Sentencing Commission Might Do
February 14, 2007 Thoughts of a California Correctional Officer About Prisons, Inmates, and Their Keepers
February 12, 2007 California Needs Systemic Prison Reform, Not Exporting Prisoners Out of State
February 09, 2007 California Republican Legislators--A Gang that Can't Shoot Straight on Prisons
January 30, 2007 Beware of the California Prison-Industrial Complex
January 26, 2007 New Poll and Yet Another Bipartisan Report Lead to the Same Conclusion: We Need to Reform Sentencing in California
January 25, 2007 An Open Letter on California Prisons From Federal Court Receiver Robert Sillen
January 22, 2007 Why California Needs a Sentencing Commission
January 19, 2007 Politics or a Post-Partisan Approach to Prisons? A Sentencing Commission with Teeth Independent of the Department of Corrections is the Answer
January 15, 2007 A California Prison Proposal That is Disturbingly Akin to Eugenics
January 12, 2007 Governor Slashes Prop. 36 Drug Treatment Funds, Turns Back On Prison Reform
December 22, 2006 Schwarzenegger's Press Office Admits Prison Guards Union Was Calling the Shots Last Year
December 21, 2006 So Much for "Moderation": A Vote for Arnold was a Vote for More Prisons
December 12, 2006 THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A ‘BAD’ BOY. PRISON REFORM IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
December 11, 2006 California's Desperate Need for Prison and Sentencing Reform
October 27, 2006 Why Prison Reform Doesn’t Happen
October 18, 2006 California Now Paying More for Poorer Quality Medical Care for Prisoners
September 07, 2006 A View From Inside the California Prisons by a Doctor Who Treats Prisoners
August 30, 2006 Prison Bills Being Rushed Through California Legislature the Product of Politics, Time, and Lack of Will
August 29, 2006 Prison Bill Package Introduced in Senate and Assembly: Schwarzenegger’s Proposals a “Non Starter”
August 24, 2006 California Prison “Sunshine” Bill Passed by Wide Bipartisan Margins Now Goes to the Governor
August 18, 2006 California Assembly Has Passed a Prison Reform Bill—Allowing Reporters Access to Prisoners
August 07, 2006 Hopefully at Last We Will Begin to Clean up the Mess in California’s Prisons
August 07, 2006 State Senate President Pro tem Don Perata’s Views on Prison Reform
August 02, 2006 State Controller Audit Confirms Massive Wasteful Spending and Abuse in California Prison Medical System
August 01, 2006 Federal Judge in Sacramento Adds Schwarzenegger Finance Director as Defendant and Orders Governor to Ask Special Legislative Session to Fund Mental Health Workers in Prisons
July 31, 2006 California’s Prison Crisis 2006: Is the System Beyond Help?
July 28, 2006 The One Real Solution to Overcrowding in California’s Prisons
July 26, 2006 California Prison Receiver To Meet With Schwarzenegger, Perata, and Nunez
July 23, 2006 New Proof Today That Schwarzenegger Views Prison Mess as Just a Political Problem
July 20, 2006 Office of Inspector General Reports California Prisons Waste Millions—It’s “Like Auditing Spaghetti”
July 12, 2006 Susan Kennedy May Be Deposed as California Prison Mess May Be Turning into a Scandal for Schwarzenegger Administration
July 07, 2006 Schwarzenegger and Prison Reform—“Where’s the Beef?”
July 06, 2006 California Prison Medical Care a Major Scandal and Disgrace According to Receiver Appointed by Federal Judge
July 05, 2006 Reforming the California Prison System Requires More Than Posturing and Finger Pointing
July 05, 2006 California Prisons Must be Therapeutic To Protect the Public
June 26, 2006 After Three Years, Schwarzenegger Finally Ready To Act on Prison Reform (Hopefully): Calls Special Session of Legislature
March 21, 2006 Prison Rehabilitation: A Name on a Door
March 20, 2006 State Prison Chief Resignation Calls into Question Governor’s Commitment to Reform
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