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Bill To Reduce Punishment For Drug Possession Finding Support
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco State Senator Mark Leno is more and more optimistic that his bill, which would reduce punishment for possession of small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine...
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SF Sheriff’s New Jail Plans Faces Criticism From Activist Group
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A long-running plan to rebuild the jails above San Francisco’s Hall of Justice received criticism from activists who showed up at a meeting on Monday to review Sheriff Ross...
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California Releasing Thousands Of Inmates Early To Relieve Overcrowded Jails
(CBS SF) — California county jails are releasing thousands of inmates before they’ve completed their sentences. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 13,500 inmates across California are being...
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Funding Request For New Jail In San Jose Cleared
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has voted to support an application to request state money to fund a new jail facility in San Jose. The Board unanimously adopted a...
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Female Populations Grow In U.S. Jails, But California Bucks The Trend
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — California may be helping to reverse a decades-long trend of growing populations of women in U.S. jails. Possibly due to the 2014 passage of Proposition 47, which reduced some...
View ArticleActivists Raise Concerns About Conditions In Alameda County Jails
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Inmate rights activists told an Alameda County Board of Supervisors committee Thursday that they’re concerned about the conditions at the county’s two jails, the Glenn Dyer Jail in...
View ArticleDeputies End Inmates Standoff Inside Santa Cruz County Jail
SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) — Santa Cruz County deputies have ended an escalating standoff inside the county jail after inmates used “mattresses as makeshift barricades and prepared tools for offensive and...
View ArticleNewsom Targets Prison System Cutbacks Among Tough New Budget Measures
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to significantly shrink the footprint of California’s prison system, partly because of massive budget cuts prompted by the pandemic but also because of...
View ArticleCalifornia May Have Paid Out-Of-State Inmates More Than $40 Million In Job...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than $40 million in California funding intended to help people left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic probably went to inmates in out-of-state jails and prisons, it was...
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