Tag: jail
Lowering capacity of overcrowded state prisons and fitting the punishment to...
California has the most overcrowded prisons in the entire country. These prisons are so beyond capacity the Supreme Court deemed the state in violation...
UCSD student left in DEA cell for 5 days demands $20...
UC San Diego student Daniel Chong, who nearly died after being left in a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) holding cell for almost five days...
Ban on death penalty qualifies for Nov. ballot
A measure that would replace capital punishment with a life sentence without the possibility of parole has qualified for California’s November ballot. The growing...