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Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending small cuts to the state prison system, avoiding the closures of additional facilities.
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The state’s high court ruled Gov. Tina Kotek didn’t have the power to revoke a commutation after a person completed their sentence. The justices wrote that Terri Lee Brown’s “imprisonment is unlawful.” Kotek revoked Brown’s commutation last year.
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Gov. Kate Brown is using her executive authority to close three Oregon prisons, a move her office said would save the state more than $44 million dollars.
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Two of the larger issues of our time, environmental degradation and mass incarceration, come together in one movement with The Prison Ecology Project. Its…
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Where you start in society often determines where you end up in society. If you start poor, odds are good you'll end up poor... and maybe in prison, too.…
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The state of Oregon will not be building new prisons anytime soon. The legislature decided two years ago to put more money into programs that will prevent…
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Attorneys for California, and those representing prison inmates, are presenting a federal judge with starkly different views of prison guards' use of…
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California has been granted an additional month to reduce its prison population, as negotiations continue on a longer-term delay.Federal judges issue a…
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The Supreme Court has rejected California's appeal of a lower-court order that could force the state to release thousands of California prison inmates…
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Democratic lawmakers on key policy committees say they want to limit California's practice of keeping hundreds of inmates in solitary confinement for…
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California has a few more weeks to find a solution to its prison overcrowding. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled state officials have until the…