FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - Caught on Camera

Gavin Newsom gets $380 million for San Quentin reforms. But he won’t commit to prison closures

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to wrest budget dollars from skeptical lawmakers for his plan to reform San Quentin State Prison — but the spending plan does not commit to closing more facilities, as some Democrats wanted.

Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2023

Can California’s most notorious prison become a rehab center? Ex-residents weigh in

Thanh Tran and James King, formerly incarcerated advocates, on life inside the notorious San Quentin and the governor’s transformation plan

The Guardian - US · Mar 21, 2023

‘Ending San Quentin’: plan would turn prison into ‘Norwegian style’ rehab center

Gavin Newsom wants to overhaul California’s oldest prison into a facility focused on training programs and education

The Guardian - US · Mar 17, 2023

Gov. Newsom vetoes bill to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, citing safety concerns

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Thursday to limit solitary confinement in California's jails, prisons and private detention centers, rejecting advocates' hopes to restrict a practice that many experts have likened to torture.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 30, 2022

Anita Chabria: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it?

Why have any soft feelings for those locked in solitary confinement in our prisons, jails and immigrant detention centers? They must be the worst of the worst, right? The unrepentant serial killers, the gang leaders carrying on business as usual behind bars, the criminals with nothing to lose and no…

Los Angeles Times · Aug 3, 2022

More COVID-19 outbreaks reported at California prisons, among inmates and staff

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Outbreaks are underway at several state prisons among both inmates and staff, data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show, amid a broader surge of COVID-19 spreading across California and nationwide.

Tribune News Service · Jun 1, 2022

Some California police are biased. A report says they have no clear plans to fix that

A scathing report by California's Auditor of five large police departments finds evidence of officer bias against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, and there's no goal to improve.

WEKU · May 1, 2022