Legally, bail has only one purpose: to guarantee that people show up for their court dates. Bail amounts are set by panels of judges in each county and they vary widely. ...
California has what one might call a pressing problem when it comes to its prison system. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed a lower court’s conclusion that ...
If you’re convicted of committing a felony in California, you can end up in many kinds of prisons. Steal a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme – you might end up in minimum ...
Police have a prominent role in society – the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly. And one group of law enforcement officers also have a lot of political sway. From Jerry ...
Right now, about 1% of the adult population in the U.S. is in prison or jail. The vast majority, 95%, will not spend the rest of their lives locked up, but will return to ...
Last week, a new law debuted that’s supposed to save the state millions of dollars a year. The new law, passed last year, is called “medical parole,” and it allows inmates ...
Yesterday morning, May 23, the Supreme Court ruled that California must reduce its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates to correct the persistent violation of ...
President Barack Obama's first executive act when he took office in 2009 was to issue a memorandum that said he was "committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness ...
California’s attorney general says the state has a correctional crisis. KAMALA HARRIS: We have a prison system right now that is accommodating twice the number of people it ...
Salinas, California is an agricultural town of about 150,000 people – mostly Latino, located just about in the middle of the state. Law enforcement officials and community ...