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Three strikes reform could save $100 million a year
Voters will have the chance to dramatically remake California’s criminal justice system this fall. A ballot initiative to repeal the death penalty in California has already qualified for the November...
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CDCR Releases Plan to Cut Billions in Prison Spending and Meet Federal Court...
SACRAMENTO – In the wake of a declining prison population resulting from Realignment, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today released a plan to cut billions in...
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Juvenile Sentencing & Community Values
The recent Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama, which concerns the imposition of life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders, offers an important opportunity for people of faith to...
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws
Illustration by Victor Juhasz On July 15th, 1995, in the quiet Southern California city of Whittier, a 33-year-old black man named Curtis Wilkerson got up from a booth at McDonald’s, walked into a...
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California Facing More Prison Woes
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Just six months after declaring “the prison crisis is over in California,” Gov. Jerry Brown is facing dire predictions about the future of the state’s prison system, one...
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US Supreme Court Rejects Brown’s Bid to Halt Prisoner Releases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s argument that a lower court’s prisoner reduction order threatens public safety. The state had sought a stay of a lower court’s ruling, which...
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California’s Prison Mess
Under a 4-year-old order to reduce the state’s prison population, Gov. Jerry Brown is preparing, finally, to file a plan with the court outlining how he and the California Department of Corrections and...
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California Cites ‘Massive Prisoner Release’ in Supreme Court Appeal
Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City last year use the prison yard. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times) California lawyers late Friday filed the state’s full appeal to the U.S. Supreme...
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Jerry Brown Considers Prison Alliance Between Private Company, Union
Governor Brown with Assembly Speaker John Perez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has no intention of releasing state prisoners...
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What Kennedy’s Absence Means for Civil Rights
During his tenure on the nation’s highest court, Justice Anthony Kennedy was certainly nothing close to liberal. Even his fabled credentials as a “swing” justice have been burnished a bit beyond his...
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