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California prison guards are dying too young. How Norway (yes, Norway) can help
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoGov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how incarceration is done in the Golden State, using concepts...
The path to prison is often paved by illiteracy. Yet many prisoners aren't being taught to read.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSALEM, Ore. — Vincent Valdez's childhood memories are tinted by the vodka-filled water bottle he...
Column: If California really wants to reduce crime, not just talk about it, it'll cost $42 million
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople walk through the exercise yard at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif., in...
Lack of buses keeps Los Angeles jail inmates from court appearances and contributes to overcrowding
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoUp to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court...
Sanatorium suit, 7-Eleven shootings, slave ship ceremony: News from around our 50 states
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAlabama Mobile: Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to...
She beat the odds to get a college education while in prison. Now free, she seeks to make the...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO — Sandra Brown walked gingerly down a walkway to the side door of Decatur Correctional...
Man accused of killing woman on L.A. subway is linked to earlier violence on Metro train
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCommuters make their way up an escalator at the North Hollywood Metro station. A 45-year-old man...
After Children on School Bus Were Kidnapped and Buried Underground, 14-Year-Old Miraculously Led...
People via Yahoo News· 6 months ago“I thought to myself: If we’re going to die, we’re going to die getting the hell out of here,”...
The Week in Photos: California's wells are drying up; and migrating birds favor a San Gabriel...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhat else you may have missed: McCarthy leverages majority in debt ceiling negotiations; musician's...
Salem native Stephen Bingham's time as an activist lawyer -- and a fugitive -- explored in new film
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJan. 13—It was a story that made national and international headlines over decades. In 1971, lawyer Stephen Bingham had visited prison-rights activist George Jackson, an inmate at California's ...