‘The Strike’: When Collective Action Leads to Prison Reform
The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...
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27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests
The lawsuit contends that the new policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attendance at worship services and other ...
Lawsuit accuses gynecologist at California women’s prison of abusing patients for years
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women in Chino ...
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Family of repeat child sex predator says California law that freed him from prison must be changed
The family of a twice-convicted child molester believes the California law that has now freed him from prison should not exist in the first place. Kevin Ellis, 67, was 11 years into serving a ...
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Why incarcerated workers play a key role in fighting California’s fires
when he first entered prison, he never imagined that he would become a firefighter. Brian Conroy, left, and Andrew Hernandez work at the Ventura Training Center in Camarillo, California ...
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California National Guard supports wildfire response following devastating fires in SoCal
While Cal Guard air crews are no strangers to disaster response missions in their home state, with the majority of units and servicemembers located in Southern California, many find themselves ...
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Brickbat: Fox in the Henhouse
Gregory Rodriguez, a former guard at the Central California Women's Facility in ... and sexual battery on nine female prisoners at that prison. The jury also found him not guilty of 21 counts ...
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Gregory Barbaccia named federal CIO
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The U.S. government has a new federal chief information officer, Palantir alum Gregory Barbaccia, who started in the role Monday ...