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Brian L. Frank/CalMatters/CatchLightMost condemned California prisoners will never be released, but some of them gained new opportunities after Gov. Newsom suspended the death penalty. -
Martin do Nascimento/CalMattersThe potential release of two men who were convicted of molesting children in the Sacramento region has California lawmakers racing to revise elderly parole rules.
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For the second year in a row, there’s an effort underway to reform and significantly reduce the use of solitary confinement in California. -
The state’s prisons are no longer a world rehabilitation model, but Stockholm Prize winner Francis Cullen says the system could return to greatness. -
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. -
A bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom would make the nation’s most wide-ranging changes to solitary confinement. -
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. -
Lawmakers advance a California gun control bill to allow citizens to sue manufacturers and distributors over illegal and “ghost” weapons. -
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…
