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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

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

by Lee Romney November 18, 2020November 18, 2020

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.

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

Pandemic slows legal voting from California jails

by Michael Lozano and Isabella Fertel October 30, 2020October 31, 2020

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People hosted by the Center for the American Progress Action Fund and the SEIU at the Enclave in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 27, 2019. Photo by Gage Skimore via Flickr

Who will Newsom pick for Harris’ Senate seat?

by Emily Hoeven August 12, 2020August 12, 2020