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California voters will decide in November whether to remove an exemption for involuntary servitude from the state constitution under a proposal the state Legislature approved Thursday.
Inmates can also serve in support roles at the camps, including cooking, laundry and water treatment plant operation. Live Updates: Fires in California leave at least 10 dead, decimate Los Angeles ...
Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", [11] which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails.
Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.
Each prison is designed to house different varieties of inmate offenders, from Level I inmates to Level IV inmates; the higher the level, the higher risk the inmate poses. Selected prisons within the state are equipped with security housing units, reception centers, and/or "condemned" units. These security levels are defined as follows: [9]
Gov. Gavin Newsom went far beyond the promise he made in his first year in office to close at least one California state prison. But now, he is resisting calls from criminal justice advocates and ...
Aerial view of Sierra Conservation Center, a California prison and one of the major training facilities for incarcerated firefighters Incarcerated firefighters clear a fire line near Santa Barbara, California in December 2017. Today, approximately 3,100 incarcerated people live and work out of 44 camps run by the California Department of ...
In this year's budget, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom said it was "committed to right-sizing California's prison system to reflect the needs of the state" and could close three more ...