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Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR Facilities

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR Facilities

This dashboard provides COVID-19 infection and testing information as of May 27th, 2020 in 35 state priso ...

This dashboard provides COVID-19 infection and testing information as of May 27th, 2020 in 35 state prisons and facilities under the jurisdiction of CDCR. Across California, CDCR facilities have repor ...

May 27, 2020
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VANGUARD’S Exclusive Look at Homeless Lawsuit against City/County of Sacramento, Police Chief & Sheriff to Stop ‘Sweeps’ that Violate County/CDC Guidelines

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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VANGUARD’S Exclusive Look at Homeless Lawsuit against City/County of Sacramento, Police Chief & Sheriff to Stop ‘Sweeps’ that Violate County/CDC Guidelines

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento con ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento continue to ignore CDC COVID-19 guidelines and orders of the Sacramento County Health Officer by c ...

May 27, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Cop’s Memorial Day Killing of Black Man Encouraged by Local DA Culture

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Cop’s Memorial Day Killing of Black Man Encouraged by Local DA Culture

by Rory Fleming Minneapolis, Memorial Day 2020. A Black man’s head lies on the asphalt, and the white Min ...

by Rory Fleming Minneapolis, Memorial Day 2020. A Black man’s head lies on the asphalt, and the white Minneapolis police officer holds an upright position, with his knee snugly pressed against the fir ...

May 27, 2020
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Supreme Court Affirms Ohio Judge’s Order to Release Medically Vulnerable Incarcerated People

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Supreme Court Affirms Ohio Judge’s Order to Release Medically Vulnerable Incarcerated People

By Linh Nguyen & Metyia Phillips On May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court refused the Trump Administration’ ...

By Linh Nguyen & Metyia Phillips On May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court refused the Trump Administration’s request to block a lower judge’s trial ruling to release over 800 medically vulnerable incarc ...

May 27, 2020
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Court Reverses Denial of Petition for Release as SB 1437 Continues to Be Found Constitutional

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Court Reverses Denial of Petition for Release as SB 1437 Continues to Be Found Constitutional

By Dominique Kato CALIFORNIA - The Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, reversed the trial court's ...

By Dominique Kato CALIFORNIA - The Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, reversed the trial court's denial of the defendant’s Penal Code section 1170.95 petition, a petition to dismiss a murder c ...

May 27, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georg ...

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georgia for a murder he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit. More than 40 years after he wa ...

May 27, 2020
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Lawsuit to Release Vulnerable Prisoners Filed against Shelby County Jail

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|Date: May 26, 2020
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Lawsuit to Release Vulnerable Prisoners Filed against Shelby County Jail

By Metyia Phillips TENNESSEE - A lawsuit (Busby v. Bonner) has been filed on behalf of all medically vuln ...

By Metyia Phillips TENNESSEE - A lawsuit (Busby v. Bonner) has been filed on behalf of all medically vulnerable inmates in Shelby County, asking for their release. Shelby County Jail is located in Ten ...

May 26, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: May 26, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation th ...

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation that requires law enforcement in the state to adopt scientifically-based lineup procedures to pre ...

May 26, 2020
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Community Leaders Ask District Attorney Candidates Their Visions for Public Safety Beyond Mass Incarceration

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|Date: May 25, 2020
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Community Leaders Ask District Attorney Candidates Their Visions for Public Safety Beyond Mass Incarceration

By Dominique Kato On May 22, Working Families, a progressive grassroots political party working to build ...

By Dominique Kato On May 22, Working Families, a progressive grassroots political party working to build a multiracial movement of working people to transform America, hosted a webinar with community ...

May 25, 2020
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City and County Must Leave Homeless Alone, Orders County Health Officer – Homeless Union Doesn’t ‘Trust’ Officials, Still Plans to File Lawsuit

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|Date: May 24, 2020
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City and County Must Leave Homeless Alone, Orders County Health Officer – Homeless Union Doesn’t ‘Trust’ Officials, Still Plans to File Lawsuit

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Homeless advocates hailed the Sacrame ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Homeless advocates hailed the Sacramento County Health Officer’s new guidelines revealed late Friday that mirrored federal CDC recom ...

May 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: When a Two-Year Sentence Becomes a Death Sentence

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|Date: May 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: When a Two-Year Sentence Becomes a Death Sentence

The refusal to let pregnant people out of prison shows just how deep our mass incarceration obsession run ...

The refusal to let pregnant people out of prison shows just how deep our mass incarceration obsession runs — particularly in Indian Country. By Ruth Anna Buffalo and Kimberly Craven Andrea Circle Bear ...

May 24, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justi ...

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justice system—did we just execute an innocent man? And perhaps more importantly—why? That is the q ...

May 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: H.R. 40 (Reparations) Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: H.R. 40 (Reparations) Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

The conversation surrounding reparations is underway and the U.S. government must take a leading role. By ...

The conversation surrounding reparations is underway and the U.S. government must take a leading role. By Sheila Jackson Lee For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan ...

May 23, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— inc ...

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— incarcerated witnesses who testify in exchange for leniency in their own cases – Oklahoma moved ah ...

May 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Portland, Oregon’s Seismic DA Result Demands Our Attention

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|Date: May 22, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Portland, Oregon’s Seismic DA Result Demands Our Attention

by Rory Fleming With the election of Mike Schmidt as Multnomah County District Attorney confirmed on May ...

by Rory Fleming With the election of Mike Schmidt as Multnomah County District Attorney confirmed on May 19, a new era should be dawning in Portland, Oregon. Succeeding Rod Underhill, a Democrat who s ...

May 22, 2020
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VANGUARD’S COVID-19 & JAILS WEBINAR: Lawyers Paint Dark Picture of the ‘Virus’ and Jails from Coast to Coast

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|Date: May 21, 2020
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VANGUARD’S COVID-19 & JAILS WEBINAR: Lawyers Paint Dark Picture of the ‘Virus’ and Jails from Coast to Coast

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Lawyers from New York to the San Fran ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Lawyers from New York to the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento weighed in on the murky but deadly subject of COVID-19 in local j ...

May 21, 2020
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COVID-19 Pandemic Cited as Reason for Failure to Complete Court Classes

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|Date: May 21, 2020
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COVID-19 Pandemic Cited as Reason for Failure to Complete Court Classes

By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - In a series of hearings in Sacramento County Superior Court here Wednesday ...

By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - In a series of hearings in Sacramento County Superior Court here Wednesday, the talk was mostly about finishing classes, not murder and mayhem. In the end, all of the ca ...

May 21, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Why Freedom of Expression and Public Health Must Coexist

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|Date: May 20, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Why Freedom of Expression and Public Health Must Coexist

By Norma Chávez-Peterson, Abdi Soltani and Hector Villagra For centuries, people in this country have ass ...

By Norma Chávez-Peterson, Abdi Soltani and Hector Villagra For centuries, people in this country have assembled to demand change and protest abuse of power. Protests have been central to nearly every ...

May 20, 2020
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Missouri Executes First Person Since COVID-19: A Man Who Claimed Innocence

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|Date: May 20, 2020
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Missouri Executes First Person Since COVID-19: A Man Who Claimed Innocence

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- After nearly two decades in and out of courtrooms to fight for his innocence, ...

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- After nearly two decades in and out of courtrooms to fight for his innocence, Missouri man Walter Barton was executed on May 19, 2020, marking the first execution in the nat ...

May 20, 2020
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California Takes Another Step Toward Relieving Family Debt

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|Date: May 20, 2020
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California Takes Another Step Toward Relieving Family Debt

San Diego County Eliminates Over $40 Million of Old Juvenile Fees By Shellsea Lomeli SAN DIEGO, CA - San ...

San Diego County Eliminates Over $40 Million of Old Juvenile Fees By Shellsea Lomeli SAN DIEGO, CA - San Diego County recently joined the majority of counties in California that have discharged old ju ...

May 20, 2020
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