On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, I finally left San Quentin State Prison, finally left East Block, and the notoriety of Death Row. I had transpacked nine weeks earlier, living out of the two boxes of ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – The lead climate regulator of California has been challenged in multiple lawsuits over recent adjustments ...

BISMARCK, ND—U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland last week sent the U.S. pardon attorney a fierce email… ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Judge Lana S. Kim of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Airport Courtroom this week told an accused, who ...

DUBLIN, CA – One-hundred and three staff sexual abuse and harassment survivors at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin will share a record $115 million settlement with the Federal Bureau of ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking in a recent panel, Premal Dharia, who serves as Executive Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration and a board member of the Law and Justice Journalism project, ...

The standard story that we always here – a project is going into a certain location, its so many units, therefore a traffic study is done to determine the impact on key intersections in town. They ...

Davis, CA – I thought I was in a time warp reading the staff report for the budget priorities. There we are in 2024, and I’m writing about OPEB, roads, and the city’s General Fund reserve. I could ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The public’s reaction to the targeted killing of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson this month has uncovered a nationwide crisis, with Americans calling for accountability from a ...

In 2015, Jill Leovy wrote a book: Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America. Ghettoside, a blend of street reporting and scholarship, introduced and elaborated the idea that high-crime communities ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) last Thursday urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the Doe v. Garland decision, which ...