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CDCR educators volunteer long hours, achieve less than 3%recidivism

By Dana Simas, CDCR

A positive wave of change has taken over the female inmates at California Institution for Women (CIW) in Corona.

NEWS:

Realignment

Report: LA among counties sending more to prison

By Rina Palta, KPCC

A new report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) echoes widespread concerns California may not be on track to reduce its prison population quickly enough to comply with a federal court order.

CDCR Related

Inmatesconvicted as juveniles could get reprieve

By Hannah Dreier, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Criminals who were sentenced as juveniles to die in prison would get a chance at freedom if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law.

Life term for juvenile unconstitutional, state high courtrules

 

By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times

Sentencing a juvenile offender to 110 years to life in prison for attempted murder is cruel and unusual punishment, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, striking down a sentence in a Los Angeles County case.

Dismantling education in favor of prisons?

Ventura County Reporter

With the last fireworks of the Ventura County Fair, summer comes to a close and the school year appears on the horizon. As parents fill their children’s backpacks full of pens, pencils, notebooks, rulers and calculators, the hope of a promising future through hard work and dedication to studying reinvigorates the population after a laid-back summer.

OPINION

Crowded prisonshave to release more inmates

San Francisco Examiner

California’s prisons remain desperately overcrowded despite years of litigation and intervention by federal judges.