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

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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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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

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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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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

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

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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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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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Alameda County Jail – COVID-19 Outbreak Coverup? – Weekly Highlights – COVID-19 in CA Jails

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|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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35 Prosecutors Call on Governors to Reduce Prison Populations to Limit COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2020
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35 Prosecutors Call on Governors to Reduce Prison Populations to Limit COVID-19

On Friday, 35 elected prosecutors representing over 31 million people across the country issued an open l ...

On Friday, 35 elected prosecutors representing over 31 million people across the country issued an open letter to governors, calling upon them to dramatically reduce state prison populations to mitiga ...

July 17, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

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|Date: July 10, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of ...

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide and over 1,500 people who are incarcerated or work in ...

July 10, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

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|Date: July 03, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

By Scott Colom and Miriam Aroni Krinsky As countless Americans take to the streets in defense of Black li ...

By Scott Colom and Miriam Aroni Krinsky As countless Americans take to the streets in defense of Black lives and call for the transformation of policing, we must not neglect the threat that COVID-19 c ...

July 03, 2020
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Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 02, 2020
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Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

By Taric Mansour Incarcerated people in San Quentin are searching for answers, as overcrowding and poor o ...

By Taric Mansour Incarcerated people in San Quentin are searching for answers, as overcrowding and poor operating conditions continue to increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus. In response t ...

July 02, 2020
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Prosecutors and Sheriff Talk about Decarceration during the COVID Pandemic

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 08, 2020
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Prosecutors and Sheriff Talk about Decarceration during the COVID Pandemic

On Friday, the Pretrial Justice Institute Hosted a discussion on the role of the prosecutor and sheriff i ...

On Friday, the Pretrial Justice Institute Hosted a discussion on the role of the prosecutor and sheriff in COVID-19 decarceration. Miriam Krinsky from Fair and Just Prosecution called COVID-19 “a tick ...

June 08, 2020
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Sentencing Project Talks Strategies on Reducing Incarceration during COVID-19

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|Date: May 15, 2020
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Sentencing Project Talks Strategies on Reducing Incarceration during COVID-19

By Metyia Phillips The Sentencing Project recently hosted a Zoom talk about current COVID-19 decarceratio ...

By Metyia Phillips The Sentencing Project recently hosted a Zoom talk about current COVID-19 decarceration strategies used across the nation, ranging from mobilizing jail releases to providing persona ...

May 15, 2020
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A Discussion on Closing Jails and Prisons

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 07, 2020
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A Discussion on Closing Jails and Prisons

Closing jails and prisons goes beyond simply closing down a building. If done right, it means changing t ...

Closing jails and prisons goes beyond simply closing down a building. If done right, it means changing the laws so that fewer people end up incarcerated—an important issue in a system of mass incarce ...

May 07, 2020
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Demands Immediate Decarceration Efforts in Five States

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|Date: May 06, 2020
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Demands Immediate Decarceration Efforts in Five States

By Nancy Martinez On May 5, 2020, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts’ Seventh Congressional D ...

By Nancy Martinez On May 5, 2020, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts’ Seventh Congressional District published a letter addressed to the governors of California, Illinois, Massachusetts, N ...

May 06, 2020
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Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 16, 2020
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Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

Can the end result of the global pandemic threat of COVID-19 be a fairer and more equitable justice syste ...

Can the end result of the global pandemic threat of COVID-19 be a fairer and more equitable justice system? That’s what prosecution candidates from across the country—Janos Marton from Manhattan, Mel ...

April 16, 2020
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COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons Can Have a Global Impact; Doctors Call for Decarceration to Reduce COVID-19 Implications

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|Date: April 16, 2020
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COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons Can Have a Global Impact; Doctors Call for Decarceration to Reduce COVID-19 Implications

By Linh Nguyen Doctors shared knowledge on the implications of the threat of COVID-19 in jails and prison ...

By Linh Nguyen Doctors shared knowledge on the implications of the threat of COVID-19 in jails and prisons on incarcerated populations and the world, and how to flatten the curve for incarcerated popu ...

April 16, 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

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

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

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

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

35 Prosecutors Call on Governors to Reduce Prison Populations to Limit COVID-19

35 Prosecutors Call on Governors to Reduce Prison Populations to Limit COVID-19

Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

Prosecutors and Sheriff Talk about Decarceration during the COVID Pandemic

Prosecutors and Sheriff Talk about Decarceration during the COVID Pandemic

Sentencing Project Talks Strategies on Reducing Incarceration during COVID-19

Sentencing Project Talks Strategies on Reducing Incarceration during COVID-19

A Discussion on Closing Jails and Prisons

A Discussion on Closing Jails and Prisons

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Demands Immediate Decarceration Efforts in Five States

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Demands Immediate Decarceration Efforts in Five States

Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons Can Have a Global Impact; Doctors Call for Decarceration to Reduce COVID-19 Implications

COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons Can Have a Global Impact; Doctors Call for Decarceration to Reduce COVID-19 Implications

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