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California jails are holding thousands fewer people, but far more are dying in them
Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPeople are dying in custody at record rates across California. They’re dying in big jails and small...
A man was given the death penalty after footage of him being roasted in jail by Comedy Central's...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJeff Ross at the "Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin" on September 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills,...
Anti-bias training can save Black moms’ lives. New bill would turn up heat on compliance
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta is working with leaders of the state’s Legislative Black...
Jaywalkers in California have something to look forward to in 2023
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis past summer, Phoenix Hamilton got a ticket after she walked across the street. It was Linden...
Here's why Texas leads the nation in number of workplace deaths
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNine days before Christmas 2021, Daniel Licerio and a coworker at a Fort Worth food-processing...
Did Drug Decriminalization Cause a 'Catastrophe' in Oregon?
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 months agoYes on 110 Three years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking ballot initiative that...
How many people die each year in jails and prisons? No one knows
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHigh Desert State Prison in Indian Springs, Nev., where at least 55 Nevada prison inmates died after...
Is the swastika a symbol of hate or peaceful icon? Faith groups try to save reviled emblem
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor many, the cross with bent arms is a painful symbol of evil, hate and genocide. For others, it's...
Column: Violent crime is spiking in Trump's California. These counties blame everyone but themselves
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSome fault criminal justice reform for increasing rates of violent crime. But homicides in...
An outrageous death penalty proposal, even for Florida | Editorial
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFlorida Gov. LeRoy Collins’ hands trembled when he could no longer put off signing a death warrant. There would be 29 of them. His secretary said it made her physically ill to type them at first ...