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Eric Risberg/AP PhotoWhile involuntary servitude is largely banned in California, there is one exception — as punishment for a crime. -
Martin do Nascimento/CalMattersGov. Gavin Newsom starts defining his legacy on a four-day statewide tour that focuses on priorities interrupted by crisis and the COVID pandemic, including homelessness, criminal justice and health care.
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California spends more than $15 billion a year on its prison system. Now, with the number of people behind bars plummeting, the Newsom administration is moving to shut down more institutions. -
For the second year in a row, there’s an effort underway to reform and significantly reduce the use of solitary confinement in California.
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The state’s prisons are no longer a world rehabilitation model, but Stockholm Prize winner Francis Cullen says the system could return to greatness.
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Oregon voters passed a measure that strips language from the state’s constitution allowing for slavery and involuntary servitude when used as a punishment for a crime.
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A bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom would make the nation’s most wide-ranging changes to solitary confinement.
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A bill that passed the Assembly would create a “community campus” on prison grounds where inmates cook their own food and secure jobs before their release.
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Lawmakers advance a California gun control bill to allow citizens to sue manufacturers and distributors over illegal and “ghost” weapons.
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The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of its prison inmates. The state of Oregon mirrors the national…
