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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...
Newsom's plan to transform San Quentin prison lacks details but is moving ahead
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoGov. Gavin Newsom has sweeping plans to transform San Quentin State Prison into a place where...
California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIncarcerated men including Khiem Tran, foreground, work in the coding center at California's San...
Facing a stigma, many ex-convicts in the U.S. struggle to find work
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNearly 80 million Americans, or about one-third of the total U.S. adult population, are living with...
Ex-Florida Supreme Court justice urges former colleagues to readmit disbarred Miami lawyer
Miami Herald via AOL· 11 months agoWilliam Castro, a permanently disbarred Florida attorney who was swept up in a Miami corruption...
Teens can get life sentences, but this Knoxville woman is fighting for their second chances
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor years, Knoxville's Imani Mfalme-Shu’la and the Community Defense of East Tennessee have fought...
Lubbock judge hands down 60-year prison sentence in child sex assault case
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Lubbock District judge handed down a 60-year prison sentence on Dec. 20 to a 33-year-old man who...
State lawmakers field bills to empower judges to rethink long sentences
Gannett via AOL· 3 weeks agoPROVIDENCE – State lawmakers are once again weighing a proposal that would allow people serving long sentences to ask a judge for a “second look” at their punishment after 10 years. Matching ...
Special report: Ohio's juvenile detention system struggles with violence, neglect
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOhio's youth prison and juvenile detention centers are failing. Kids in the state's juvenile justice...
Former Ingham prosecutor makes binding decision on juvenile lifers. Victims' families are outraged
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 12 months agoLANSING — Crystal Grigonis said she had one thing to cling to after she was nearly killed in a knife...