California’s most high-profile prison will be reorganized as a rehabilitation center under a plan the governor is expected to announce Friday — a move hailed as revolutionary by some prison reform advocates but derided by prison abolitionists as mere window dressing in place of the more dramatic changes they want. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected […]
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Prison Rehab: Can California Learn from Norway?
California has a recidivism problem. Two-thirds of people incarcerated in the state will return to prison within three years, either through new offenses or parole violations, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data. In Norway, by contrast, recidivism is down from 60 to 70 percent in the 1980s to about 20 percent today. […]
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Artists Inside
Tucked in the golden rolling hills of the Tomales Bay watershed, a dozen miles north of Mt. Tamalpais, sits the Marin Museum of the American Indian in Miwok Park. Henry Frank, the museum’s vice president, sits beneath a canopy of redwoods in late October while scrolling through his phone for photographs he took of hawks […]
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‘A Wake of Destruction:’ Warren’s Probation Report Sheds New Light on Cruz Waiver
By the time a Humboldt County Superior Court judge agreed to release Jason Anthony Warren from jail on Aug. 24, 2012 to allow him to get his affairs in order prior to being sentenced to a six-year state prison bid for illegally possessing a firearm, the then 27-year-old Warren had already amassed a criminal record […]
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County Nabs $20 Million for New Transitional Jail Facility
Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey announced yesterday that the state has approved a $20 million funding request to build a multi-use addition onto the county jail that officials hope will revolutionize offender rehabilitation locally. The funding will be matched with $1.5 million from the county to build a three-story structure on the gravel lot adjacent […]
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The Revolving Door
If you just got out of prison, chances are you’re going back — and soon — according to a recent study by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. The study — which analyzed recidivism rates of prisoners released in 30 states between 2005 and 2010 — found that about two-thirds of people released from state prisons are […]