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14 Feb 2024, 4:07 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
From California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, via NACDL's news update: A second University of California, Irvine study shows most California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) job training programs lower recidivism rates. . . . [read post]
4 May 2010, 5:20 pm by SOIssues
What's been referred to as a correctional-industrial complex — consisting of prison workers, the people who sell products to prison systems, and the growing private-prison industry — that's a very powerful force. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 9:47 am
In 2008, California confiscated more than 2,800 cell phones. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 11:06 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
California's Pelican Bay State Prison (where the current hunger strike largely originated) has 1,024 cells intended for isolation. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 2:31 pm
A California lawmaker is trying to protect the state's marijuana industry by barring law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal drug agencies on pot busts.Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, proposed that California would become a so-called sanctuary pot state. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 1:08 pm by Joe Wojciechowski
Stoltmann Law Offices has been following the Justice Department’s case against former Ameriprise Financial advisor Yilin Hsu Lee, a/k/a Li Lin Hsu, since 2016 when she was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 4:22 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
A former California firework wholesaler office manager was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $146,000 from his employer by claiming the money was to obtain city firework sale booth permits. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 3:59 pm by Ernesto Falcon
It exempted VoIP calls from privacy protections, it deregulated the prison telecom industry to allow for charging inmates' families insane rates, it hindered state public safety efforts, and it prevented the state from addressing its broadband monopoly problem. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 6:11 pm
The line on blurring lines of authority is interesting in the prison context — one of the critiques of private prisons is that the contractual structure blurs lines of authority. [read post]
1 Sep 2019, 10:08 am by Cannabis Law Group
Local industry insiders say a number of properties are now on the market simply because of their civil abatements. [read post]
13 May 2019, 1:51 pm by Ernesto Falcon
The law is so bad that it also affects other issues, such as the need to regulate the prison industry’s exploitive communications practices for inmates and their families. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 4:33 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
Beard of Turlock, California to one year in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for four counts of mail fraud and two counts of federal workers compensation fraud. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 5:23 pm by Jordan D. Maglich
Federal authorities arrested a California man of Pakistani descent on charges that he masterminded an investment scheme that raised nearly $50 million from investors. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 11:50 am by luiza
Jeff Carpoff, the owner of California-based DC Solar, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 3:23 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
She was also sentenced to seven months in prison, suspended for 18 months of community control. [read post]
10 May 2011, 8:15 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
California Company and Its CEO Sentenced for Conspiring to Illegally Export Industrial Valves to Iran GWC Valve International Inc., a company headquartered in Bakersfield, Calif., and its chief executive officer, David Meador, 52, were sentenced on Monday in the Eastern District of California for conspiracy to export services related to industrial valves to Iran. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 4:47 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
    Author Robert Elliott, executive vice president, Amaxx Risk Solutions, Inc. has worked successfully for 20 years with many industries to reduce Workers Compensation costs, including airlines, healthcare, printing/publishing, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality and manufacturing. [read post]