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Santa Rita Jail Quarantines 3 Housing Units – 3 New Cases Reported – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: August 14, 2020
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Santa Rita Jail Quarantines 3 Housing Units – 3 New Cases Reported – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

(Page 1: San Francisco County Jails, Page 2: Alameda County Jail, Page 3: Sacramento County Ja ...

(Page 1: San Francisco County Jails, Page 2: Alameda County Jail, Page 3: Sacramento County Jail) 1. Alameda County Jail (Santa Rita Jail) - Highlights On Thursday, August 13, Santa Rita Ja ...

August 14, 2020
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Cases Double At CA Mens Colony In One Week – 97 to 183 – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

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|Date: August 14, 2020
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Cases Double At CA Mens Colony In One Week – 97 to 183 – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

As of August 14, there are 9,257 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the CDCR system, and 20,306 ...

As of August 14, there are 9,257 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the CDCR system, and 20,306 tested in the past 14 days. There have been 53 deaths across the system thus far. In the past w ...

August 14, 2020
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Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law

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|Date: August 14, 2020
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Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law

By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – The Fair Juries Act continues to move through the California Legislature, th ...

By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – The Fair Juries Act continues to move through the California Legislature, this week passing Assembly Judiciary Committee in an 8-0 vote on its way to the Senate. Senator S ...

August 14, 2020
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Solano County Jail – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: August 10, 2020
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Solano County Jail – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (August 3rd - August 10th) Solano County Jail has no active cases in custody, ...

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (August 3rd - August 10th) Solano County Jail has no active cases in custody, but two more positive cases have been identified since last week, bringing the total to 4 cases ...

August 10, 2020
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Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 Cover-Up – Quarantined Housing Cut Short Without Explanation, <10% of Population Tested - Weekly Highlights - COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: August 10, 2020
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Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 Cover-Up – Quarantined Housing Cut Short Without Explanation, <10% of Population Tested - Weekly Highlights - COVID-19 in CA Jails

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Larkin White COVID-19 in Santa Rita Jail The Alameda County Sher ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Larkin White COVID-19 in Santa Rita Jail The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) provided less information in their daily COVID-19 updates these last two we ...

August 10, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Passes California Senate Public Safety Committee

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|Date: August 10, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Passes California Senate Public Safety Committee

The California Racial Justice Act will prohibit the use of race, ethnicity or national origin in sentenci ...

The California Racial Justice Act will prohibit the use of race, ethnicity or national origin in sentencing and convictions The criminal justice system disadvantages people of color at every step of t ...

August 10, 2020
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Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

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|Date: August 09, 2020
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Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the CDCR system, we hope to tell more of the individual stories of incarcerated people during this ...

August 09, 2020
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CA State Senator: California Police Need to ‘Come Clean’ on Abuse Records

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|Date: August 05, 2020
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CA State Senator: California Police Need to ‘Come Clean’ on Abuse Records

By Ayanna Gandhi SACRAMENTO – “California police need to come clean on abuse records,” wrote California ...

By Ayanna Gandhi SACRAMENTO – “California police need to come clean on abuse records,” wrote California State Senator Nancy Skinner in an opinion article to the East Bay Times recently, noting that h ...

August 05, 2020
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Testing Rates Drastically Decrease as Positive Cases Persist in Solano County – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: August 04, 2020
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Testing Rates Drastically Decrease as Positive Cases Persist in Solano County – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 27th - August 3rd) Solano County Jail has one active case in the jail, a ...

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 27th - August 3rd) Solano County Jail has one active case in the jail, and two total positive cases since testing began in June. 231 total tests were administered as o ...

August 04, 2020
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Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

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|Date: August 04, 2020
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Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

Last week you may have seen it, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on ...

Last week you may have seen it, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on Thursday that it had reduced its prison population below 100,000 incarcerated people for the fi ...

August 04, 2020
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20 State AGs Support Challenge to Unlawful Revision of Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law

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|Date: August 04, 2020
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20 State AGs Support Challenge to Unlawful Revision of Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law

By Linh Nguyen SACRAMENTO – In an amicus curiae brief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined ...

By Linh Nguyen SACRAMENTO – In an amicus curiae brief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in support of a lawsuit that challenges an unlawful revisio ...

August 04, 2020
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Minimal Testing & Defining Asymptomatic Cases As Recovered – How Santa Rita Jail Brought Down Its COVID-19 Case Count Amidst An Outbreak – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: August 03, 2020
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Minimal Testing & Defining Asymptomatic Cases As Recovered – How Santa Rita Jail Brought Down Its COVID-19 Case Count Amidst An Outbreak – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of August 2 ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of August 2, the recent outbreak in Santa Rita Jail appears to be subsiding, in sync with a decrease in ne ...

August 03, 2020
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CDCR Healthcare workers to Govn. Newsom – “If CDCR does not release more than half of the prison population, stop all transfers, and follow public health guidelines, more people will die.” – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

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|Date: August 03, 2020
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CDCR Healthcare workers to Govn. Newsom – “If CDCR does not release more than half of the prison population, stop all transfers, and follow public health guidelines, more people will die.” – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVI ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 31, there are a total of 8,096 confirmed COVID-19 cases in t ...

August 03, 2020
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Legislation Would Allow for Decertification of Bad Cops

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|Date: August 03, 2020
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Legislation Would Allow for Decertification of Bad Cops

In the last two months, we have seen people across the country take to the streets to demand an end to po ...

In the last two months, we have seen people across the country take to the streets to demand an end to police brutality and ask for accountability. However, California is one of only five states that ...

August 03, 2020
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Alameda County Jail – COVID-19 Outbreak Coverup? – Weekly Highlights – COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: July 27, 2020
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Alameda County Jail – COVID-19 Outbreak Coverup? – Weekly Highlights – COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Larkin White & Nikki Suzani Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes Two staff members at Sant ...

By Larkin White & Nikki Suzani Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes Two staff members at Santa Rita Jail (SRJ) died this weekend as the jail battles a serious COVID-19 outbreak. They are t ...

July 27, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

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|Date: July 27, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on Sa ...

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on San Quentin) - Testing, Cases, Releases (May 2020 - July 2020) May 30th 2020: Chico Transfer 121 ...

July 27, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

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|Date: July 26, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COV ...

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 24, there are a total of 7,481 confirmed COVID-19 cases in ...

July 26, 2020
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Solano County Jail Reports First COVID-19 Case – Questions Persist About Accuracy of Counts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

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|Date: July 26, 2020
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Solano County Jail Reports First COVID-19 Case – Questions Persist About Accuracy of Counts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 20th - 25th) Solano County Jail reported its first positive case of COVI ...

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 20th - 25th) Solano County Jail reported its first positive case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, July 22. The Solano County JDF has still not reported any positive cases. 22 ...

July 26, 2020
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California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

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|Date: July 22, 2020
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California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of ...

By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of Los Angeles, advocated for the expansion of cell phones in California state prisons in a video ...

July 22, 2020
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Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2020
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Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentence ...

Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentences. On Monday, Senator Scott Wiener along with co-sponsor Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo announc ...

July 21, 2020
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Santa Rita Jail Quarantines 3 Housing Units – 3 New Cases Reported – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Cases Double At CA Mens Colony In One Week – 97 to 183 – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Vanguard Discusses Wrongful Convictions at Its 10th Annual Fundraiser, Mark Godsey as the Keynote Speaker (with Video)

Commentary: Most Important Planning Issues Facing Davis

Guest Commentary: Labor Relations at UC Davis in Light of COVID

Nevada City Police Chief Addresses BLM Protesters Attacked by Trump Supporters

Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law

Navajo Nation Asks Trump to Commute Death Sentence before Aug. 26 Execution

Neighbor Chases 3 Home Invasion Suspects with Golf Club

First-time DUI Offender Sentenced to 6 Days in Yolo County Jail

Santa Rita Jail Quarantines 3 Housing Units – 3 New Cases Reported – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Santa Rita Jail Quarantines 3 Housing Units – 3 New Cases Reported – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Cases Double At CA Mens Colony In One Week – 97 to 183 – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Cases Double At CA Mens Colony In One Week – 97 to 183 – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law

Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law

Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 Cover-Up – Quarantined Housing Cut Short Without Explanation, <10% of Population Tested - Weekly Highlights - COVID-19 in CA Jails

Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 Cover-Up – Quarantined Housing Cut Short Without Explanation, <10% of Population Tested - Weekly Highlights - COVID-19 in CA Jails

Racial Justice Act Passes California Senate Public Safety Committee

Racial Justice Act Passes California Senate Public Safety Committee

Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

CA State Senator: California Police Need to ‘Come Clean’ on Abuse Records

CA State Senator: California Police Need to ‘Come Clean’ on Abuse Records

Testing Rates Drastically Decrease as Positive Cases Persist in Solano County – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Testing Rates Drastically Decrease as Positive Cases Persist in Solano County – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

20 State AGs Support Challenge to Unlawful Revision of Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law

20 State AGs Support Challenge to Unlawful Revision of Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law

Legislation Would Allow for Decertification of Bad Cops

Legislation Would Allow for Decertification of Bad Cops

Alameda County Jail – COVID-19 Outbreak Coverup? – Weekly Highlights – COVID-19 in CA Jails

Alameda County Jail – COVID-19 Outbreak Coverup? – Weekly Highlights – COVID-19 in CA Jails

California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

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