Criminal Justice

时事通讯

A big budget, slices of pork, and a win for correctional officers

Lawmakers pass $215 billion budget, but more work remains. Budget includes Placerville pork. Progressives suffer some setbacks.

经过 Dan Morain • 6 月 14, 2019

正义

As Newsom rethinks juvenile justice, California reconsiders prison for kids

Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California's shrinking juvenile detention system away from the adult corrections bureaucracy and shifting it into the system for social services.

经过 Charlotte West • 6 月 13, 2019

时事通讯

Police use of force, a hedge against Trump, and childcare for candidates

Law on use of police force moves closer to reality. Democrats continue push for health care legislation. Senate approves "Trump insurance" bill.

经过 Dan Morain • 5 月 30, 2019

正义

A Capitol Crime: How a 16-year-old murder reached California’s highest offices

Gov. Jerry Brown's grant of clemency to the brother-in-law of Speaker Anthony Rendon underscores not just Brown's thinking, but California's evolution on crime and punishment.

经过 Dan Morain • 5 月 9, 2019

时事通讯

Newsom moves to end death penalty, college admissions fraud, legislator accused

Newsom to sign death penalty moratorium, Californians caught up in college admissions scandal, legislator charged

经过 Dan Morain • 3 月 13, 2019

时事通讯

From Stephon Clark to the death penalty, a pendulum swing on justice

Revisiting lethal force, the death penalty and humane treatment of inmates. LAUSD trusts in state funding. Soda lobbyists. PG&E lets the bankruptcy begin.

经过 Dan Morain • 1 月 30, 2019

时事通讯

Harris rallies in Oakland, Newsom sues ‘Surf City’ and CA Republicans take on privacy

Kamala Harris launches her 2020 presidential campaign in Oakland. Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an example of an Orange County beach town. And Mike Males on kids.

经过 Dan Morain • 1 月 28, 2019

评论

My turn: We need a bold vision for juvenile justice. Gov. Newsom’s plan falls short

No one has credibly explained why teens of every demographic and locale stopped committing crime. Before we rush to approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's “reform” of the Division of Juvenile Justice, we need solid analysis, not pleasing myths and prejudices, not self-serving credit-grabbing.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 27, 2019

政治

Jerry Brown—most forgiving governor in modern California history

Gov. Jerry Brown issued his regular Christmas pardons this week, concluding a record-breaking eight years that make him the most forgiving governor in modern California history.

经过 本·克里斯托弗 • 12 月 24, 2018

政治

What Jerry Brown fixed and couldn’t fix

Gov. Jerry Brown spoke of things he fixed, tried to fix and fears can never be fixed. He sat in the main room of the home he and Anne Gust Brown have built on land his great grandfather, August Schuckman, bought for $1 an acre in the 1850s. Newsom has not yet stopped by the Browns’ home. It’d be worth the trip.

经过 Dan Morain • 12 月 22, 2018