Prisons

The state has left the operation of Country Villa Plaza and 17 other nursing homes in licensing limbo for more than five years. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters

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Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, April 5. CalMatters politics reporter Ben Christopher here, filling in for Emily Hoeven. Emily will be back next week. Rife with indecision and inconsistencies As California nursing homes slowly recover from the COVID-19 siege that killed thousands, the role of state regulators in protecting the frail and elderly has come […]

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벤 크리스토퍼

• 4월 6, 2021

California Capitol, home of the Assembly and Senate. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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Prosecutors feud over criminal sentencing laws

California's district attorneys are squabbling over whether California should continue to soften criminal penalties.

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댄 월터스

• 2월 21, 2021

Sara Kruzan sits for a portrait in Coto de Caza on Jan. 14, 2021. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters

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Victims behind bars: Trafficking survivors still struggle despite state laws

California has evolved in how it treats victims of sex trafficking. But many victims, most of them Black women, are still sitting behind bars for crimes they committed while being trafficked.

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Byrhonda Lyons

• 1월 27, 2021

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Will reducing criminal penalties reduce crime?

California is testing whether easing up on penalties for crime will result in less crime in the long run.

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댄 월터스

• 1월 24, 2021

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Justice delayed: Courts overwhelmed by pandemic backlog

From child support to insurance fraud, court cases are delayed throughout California. Only half as many civil and criminal cases were resolved last summer compared with pre-pandemic numbers. “Justice has not shut down. Justice has slowed down,” according to an attorneys' group.

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Robert Lewis

• 1월 19, 2021

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More criminal justice reforms will create a just and safe California

Reducing California’s corrections budget is the right strategy, and efforts should be made to overturn extreme sentencing laws.

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게스트 코멘터리

• 1월 12, 2021

Demonstrators march toward the west gate entrance of San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 2, 2020. Over 700 people gathered to demand Gov. Newsom and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation do more to protect incarcerated people from COVID-19. Photo by Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group

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High-risk inmates aren’t prioritized in state’s early releases

More than 7,500 prisoners sent home in the program — which aims to slow the spread of COVID-19 — would have been released within months anyway. Thousands with health conditions remain in prison, and the virus keeps spreading.

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Byrhonda Lyons

• 12월 11, 2020

A gloved hand points to a holding cell at the hospital ward of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles on April 16, 2020. About 3,000 inmates were recently transferred out of jails to prisons, but on Thursday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation again suspended transfers following a rise in coronavirus cases. Photo by Chris Carlson, AP Photo

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COVID-19 infections hit record high in California prisons

The virus is surging in California's overcrowded prisons as early releases slow. And county jails are struggling with a backlog of inmates awaiting transfers to state facilities.

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Byrhonda Lyons

• 11월 30, 2020

Patients at the Central Coast’s Atascadero State Hospital walk the halls in 2006. Due to COVID, patients have at times been confined to their units, but still mingle in bathrooms, the dining hall and common day rooms. Of the state’s psychiatric hospitals, Atascadero houses the largest number of mentally ill inmates from state prisons. Photo by Peggy Peattie, ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

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Could California’s psych hospitals be ordered to admit inmates with COVID?

The Department of State Hospitals is facing pressure in federal court to speed up admissions of mentally ill inmates from the COVID-riddled state prison system.

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Lee Romney

• 11월 18, 2020

Tens of thousands of people incarcerated in county jails are eligible to vote under California law, but many will not cast ballots this election due to lack of information and delays receiving mail-in ballots. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/file

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Pandemic slows legal voting from California jails

Tens of thousands of jailed Californians who are eligible to vote won't be able to this year because of issues tied to the pandemic.

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Michael Lozano

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Isabella Fertel

• 10월 30, 2020