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22 May 2007, 10:13 am
[JURIST] The California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District [official website] has ruled that the state may continue to transfer prisoners out-of-state [JURIST report] while litigation proceeds over the challenged program to deal with California's prison overcrowding [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 3:43 pm
Reported the Sacramento Bee:California used to have the nation's largest state prison system, topping 173,000 inmates at its peak in 2006. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 3:21 pm
Images of California's overcrowded prisons are so striking that the U.S. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 4:08 pm
[JURIST] The Sacramento County Superior Court [official website] Tuesday struck down a plan by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [official website; JURIST news archive] to transfer prisoners to private out-of-state facilities in order to reduce prison overcrowding. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 2:18 pm
This front-page article from today's Sacramento Bee, which is headlined "Gubernatorial hopefuls split on California prison changes," suggests that mostly standard ideas are coming from the leading candidates looking to take over one of the most dysfunctional sentencing and prison states. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 7:27 pm
Mule Creek State Prison just outside of Sacramento in Ione, California houses over 3,000 men and is the only California penal institution designated a “sensitive needs yards” facility. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 12:12 pm
SACRAMENTO, CA—In an effort to reduce prison populations throughout the state, California governor Jerry Brown announced today that he would release all inmates who seemed as though they were nice enough people. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 3:05 pm
In the recent California case, plaintiff had years of experience working in prisons when she took a job as a building trades supervisor at a facility in Sacramento in 2014. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 2:35 pm
The new law, enacted by the legislature and the governor to deal with overcrowding of California's prisons and jails, was meant merely to modify and expand a previous state law that allowed prisoners, both in the state prison system and county jails, to have their sentences reduced if they met certain good behavior criteria. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 3:42 am
[JURIST] California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday filed a stay order [case summary] in California's 3rd District Court of Appeal [official backgrounder] to block a ruling unfavorable to his plan to transfer excess prisoners to out-of-state facilities [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Feb 2016, 12:56 pm
The Supreme Court of California [official website] on Friday ruled that Governor Jerry Brown [official website] can put his plan to ease prison over-crowding on the ballot this November, reversing a lower court's previous ruling. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 9:20 am
They're not normally known for headline-grabbing punitive damages awards, but earlier this year a Sacramento jury awarded $28 million in punitive damages against a nursing home, and now another Sacramento jury has awarded $10 million in punitive damages against the state prison guards union, according to this Associated Press story. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 12:53 pm
However, it is well established that all prisoners in state and federal facilities are entitled to receive adequate physical and mental health care. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 8:03 am
" Some recent related posts: Federal judicial panel orders California to drastically cut prison population California begins SCOTUS appeal process for federal ruling ordering prisoner release Updates on all the prison craziness in California Editorial suggests why federal judges have had to be involved in California prison reform [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 2:16 am
As reported in The Sacramento Bee, Trilochan Oberoi, a Sikh man, has filed suit in California state court to challenge the California Department’s rejection of his application to become a prison guard. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 1:49 pm
Sacramento County's drug court - which gives drug users the opportunity to undergo treatment rather than serve time in jail - has seen its funding shrink in recent years, even as the state shifts responsibility to counties for dealing with people convicted of drug related crimes as part of its effort to comply with a federal directive to ease overcrowding in California prisons. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 6:09 am
She was convicted of a crime and were sentenced to state prison or under the authority of the California Department of Corrections, you can request a certificate of rehabilitation and forgiveness. ...Sacramento Personal Injury Attorney http://sacramentopersonalinjuryattorney.blogsml.com/ [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 6:04 pm
"State ordered to shrink prison population by 44,000 inmates": Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton of The Sacramento Bee have this news update. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 10:49 am
Raybon, involves five inmates in a California state prison who were convicted on felony charges after being found with marijuana in their cells. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 4:14 am
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"A Sacramento judge refused Monday to take the first step toward capping the population in California's jam- packed prisons. [read post]
