NEWS
Prison Overcrowding
California unlikely to meet prisoncrowding reduction requirement
By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times
California's progress
in relieving its teeming prisons has slowed so much that it probably won't
comply with a court-ordered population reduction, and judges have raised the
prospect of letting some inmates out early.
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California Inmates
GregoryPowell, ‘The Onion Field’ Killer, Dies at 79
By William Yardley
Gregory Powell, who was
convicted of kidnapping and killing a Los Angeles police officer in 1963, a
brutal crime that inspired the popular book and film “The Onion Field,” died on
Sunday in a prison hospital in Vacaville, Calif. He was 79.
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CDCR Related
By Christina Villacorte, The Daily Breeze
With
its own jails nearing capacity, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is poised
to make an unprecedented request to the county Board of Supervisors: outsource
the incarceration of about 500 inmates to a correctional facility 100 miles
away.
New
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The
mother of a missing Stockton woman was encouraged when legislation was passed that would allow convicted killer Wes
Shermantine to be taken from death row to potential burial sites of
victims. Now she's simply frustrated.
Ex-Inmates Meet, Eat AfterIncarceration
By Trey Bundy, NBC Bay Area
They’re not the young
men they were when they went to prison decades ago.
OPINION
Governor, stop stalling on theprisons
The Los Angeles Times
California has tried shipping its prison
inmates to out-of-state private correctional facilities. It has tried
overhauling its parole system to send fewer nonviolent inmates back behind the
barbed wire for violating minor parole conditions. And, most radically of all,
it has completely realigned its corrections system to shift responsibility for
housing and supervising nonviolent offenders to counties, cutting the state
prison rolls by tens of thousands of inmates.
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