Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences of more than 600 people condemned to California’s death row to life without the ...

On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, I finally left San Quentin State Prison, finally left East Block, and the notoriety of Death Row. I had transpacked nine weeks earlier, living out of the two boxes of ...

BISMARCK, ND—U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland last week sent the U.S. pardon attorney a fierce email… ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – The lead climate regulator of California has been challenged in multiple lawsuits over recent adjustments “to a leading climate program (that) will create additional pollution in the ...

DUBLIN, CA – One-hundred and three staff sexual abuse and harassment survivors at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin will share a record $115 million settlement with the Federal Bureau of ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking in a recent panel, Premal Dharia, who serves as Executive Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration and a board member of the Law and Justice Journalism project, ...

The standard story that we always here – a project is going into a certain location, its so many units, therefore a traffic study is done to determine the impact on key intersections in town. They ...

Davis, CA – I thought I was in a time warp reading the staff report for the budget priorities. There we are in 2024, and I’m writing about OPEB, roads, and the city’s General Fund reserve. I could ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The public’s reaction to the targeted killing of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson this month has uncovered a nationwide crisis, with Americans calling for accountability from a ...

In 2015, Jill Leovy wrote a book: Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America. Ghettoside, a blend of street reporting and scholarship, introduced and elaborated the idea that high-crime communities ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) last Thursday urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the Doe v. Garland decision, which ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Twenty-one retired federal judges—appointed by six different Presidents, both Republican and Democrat—from district courts and appellate circuits throughout the U.S. – sent a letter ...