This holiday, I was very lucky, at the Great Dickens Fair, to score a beautiful original edition of Allan Pinkerton‘s The Burglar’s Fate and the Detectives. It is a true
Darnell Hill, an inmate at San Quentin, writes about Christmas in prison. We repost his words in full today. Christmas in prison is like knowing it’s something you’re supposed to
Matthew Cate leaves CDCR and will take over the California Association of Counties. The L.A. Times reports: Under Schwarzenegger, Cate oversaw dramatic expansion of state prisons in an attempt to
New chief of California’s prisons named Jeffrey Beard, the former head of Pennsylvania’s prisons, favors shorter sentences and community treatment. The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation. Jeffrey Beard, 65,
Map of shooting incidents courtesy Mother Jones;interactive version on the website. Much of the commentary on Sandy Hook has highlighted the rise in the number of public shooting incidents in
Image courtesy clubrunwithus.com. Among the information that has come to light in the last few days was the fact that the innocent children and adults who were slaughtered two days
Photo courtesy ibtimes.co.uk. In the aftermath of the dreadful Sandy Hook tragedy, much of my Facebook wall is the arena of political debates about gun control and about national mental
In case you missed or skimmed yesterday’s New York Times article by John Tierney, go back and read it — Tierney eloquently and compellingly restates all the points we’ve collected
States closed twenty prisons in 2012, check out the Sentencing Project’s new report, “On the Chopping Block 2012: State Prison Closings” — the largest was the California Rehabilitation Center at estimated