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How Gavin Newsom plans to transform California’s infamous San Quentin State Prison
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCalifornia’s infamous San Quentin State Prison is headed for a major transformation as Gov. Gavin...
Gavin Newsom wanted $380 million for San Quentin reforms. Why advisers suggest a different plan
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOne of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top 2023 budget priorities involved securing millions to...
California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that has been home to the largest death row...
California to transform infamous San Quentin prison with Scandinavian ideas, rehab focus
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGov. Gavin Newsom this week will announce plans to remake San Quentin, one of the state's most...
‘Reimagining’ Old Idaho Penitentiary puts historic gun collection in limbo | Opinion
Idaho Statesman McClatchy via AOL· 4 months agoFormer Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or...
‘Insulting,’ ‘unrealistic’: Will lawmakers halt Newsom’s plan to reform San Quentin prison?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLawmakers raise concern over plan to reimagine California’s oldest correctional facility while a...
California lawmakers revive effort to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn inmate from the Puerta La Cruz conservation camp in Warner Springs puts out burning downed trees...
Appeals court rules lawsuit by family of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 can proceed
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA federal appeals court rejected the state's bid to toss out a lawsuit filed on behalf of a California prison guard killed three years ago by COVID-19.
Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences
Associated Press via AOL· 1 year agoSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of...
Gavin Newsom wants to reform California prisons. Why Democrats traveled to Norway for ideas
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCriminal justice reform advocates want lawmakers to “witness, study, and learn from Norway’s...