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Tag: california correctional health care services

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
Posted inJustice

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

Byrhonda Lyons by Byrhonda Lyons December 11, 2020December 14, 2020

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.

An inmate is moved after a session with a psychologist at the the mental health unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, June 9, 2014. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo
Posted inJustice

Overtime at California’s prisons swelled to almost half a billion dollars last year

by Raheem Hosseini August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
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