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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release pr ...

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release prisoners in light of the threat to COVID-19 shows promise of moving forward efficiently with Mar ...

October 19, 2020
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CDCR Reports Deuel Vocational Institution Shutting Down Due To COVID-19 State Budget Cuts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: October 12, 2020
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CDCR Reports Deuel Vocational Institution Shutting Down Due To COVID-19 State Budget Cuts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives This week, we are highlighting a narrative ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives This week, we are highlighting a narrative from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York. Adapting to life in a 30-man communal ...

October 12, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin, Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway, CDCR Continues ICE Transfers During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 In CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: October 05, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin, Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway, CDCR Continues ICE Transfers During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 In CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the barbed wire fence at Folsom State Prison was supposed to mark the end of a grueling 22-year se ...

October 05, 2020
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State Prison Transport Delays and Pandemic Cause Convicted to Do More Time

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|Date: September 27, 2020
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State Prison Transport Delays and Pandemic Cause Convicted to Do More Time

By Susana Jurado SACRAMENTO – It’s a little like a higher math problem—the bottom line, as Assistant Publ ...

By Susana Jurado SACRAMENTO – It’s a little like a higher math problem—the bottom line, as Assistant Public Defender Pamela Dominisse explained here in Sacramento County Superior Court, is that becaus ...

September 27, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 20, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner ...

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner ...

September 20, 2020
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Families Of Those Who Died From COVID-19 In San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits, Outbreak In Folsom State Prison Continues – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 20, 2020
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Families Of Those Who Died From COVID-19 In San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits, Outbreak In Folsom State Prison Continues – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marsh ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marshall Project, incarcerated writer Michele Scott testifies to the conditions within the world’s l ...

September 20, 2020
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CDCR Inmate to Face Trial after Bunk Mate Found Unresponsive in Cell

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|Date: September 20, 2020
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CDCR Inmate to Face Trial after Bunk Mate Found Unresponsive in Cell

By Danae Snell SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court preliminary hearing here exposed the parti ...

By Danae Snell SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court preliminary hearing here exposed the particular circumstances of inmate Darryl Staples, who was found unresponsive in a pool of his own b ...

September 20, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19, Gavin Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Incarcerated Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison, COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 13, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19, Gavin Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Incarcerated Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison, COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For th ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For the past three days, Thanh Tran laid in a fetal position fighting off COVID-19. In Tran’s buildin ...

September 13, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives From San Quentin Compare Quarantine To Solitary Confinement, 2 More COVID-19 Deaths This Week – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 06, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives From San Quentin Compare Quarantine To Solitary Confinement, 2 More COVID-19 Deaths This Week – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband co ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband contracted COVID-19 back in July while serving time at San Quentin Prison. Although he has since ...

September 06, 2020
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Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Claims Jail Population Increasing As CDCR Refuses Transfers – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 31, 2020
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Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Claims Jail Population Increasing As CDCR Refuses Transfers – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Linh Nguyen Jail News At the beginning of the week, the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, burning about ...

By Linh Nguyen Jail News At the beginning of the week, the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, burning about 20 miles from Santa Rita Jail, threatened the safety of the population with smoke that made bre ...

August 31, 2020
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San Quentin News Relaunched, Victims Raise Concerns As CDCR Continues To Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 30, 2020
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San Quentin News Relaunched, Victims Raise Concerns As CDCR Continues To Reduce Prison Population During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Aug. 28, t ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Aug. 28, there are a total of 10,377 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the CDCR system - 859 of them emerged in ...

August 30, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 30, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, fil ...

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, filling his 250-year-long sentence with art as an illustrative journalist and comic book artist. T ...

August 30, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 23, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas recently shared an excerpt with Business Insider discussing the state of COVID-19 inside San Qu ...

August 23, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 20, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 ...

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 has an enhanced chance of spreading, it didn’t help San Quentin State Prison on June 1 when 122 ...

August 20, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the Califo ...

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the California Dept. Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) ignored the Marin County Health Official warni ...

August 17, 2020
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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 16, 2020
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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narrati ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narratives Despite the outbreak raging through San Quentin, several journalists from the San Quentin n ...

August 16, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San ...

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San Quentin and CDCR as a whole has emerged with a public health crisis—critics charge largely of ...

August 13, 2020
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Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

Posted by David Greenwald
|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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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

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

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|Date: July 29, 2020
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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “ ...

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” as decisions led to an explosive and deadly Covid-19 outbreak at ...

July 29, 2020
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