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Governor candidates back closing 3 prisons
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (698+ words) The 22-foot-tall concrete wall with guard towers that surrounds Green Bay Correctional Institution, built in 1921 to replace a wooden fence, looms over surrounding traffic and businesses in Allouez. (Julius Shieh / Wisconsin Watch) USA Today Network//October 15, 2026// MADISON — If elected, both…...
As Gov. Newsom’s Term Nears End, Advocacy Groups Urge Him to Commute Life Sentences
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (700+ words) By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media The members of the Drop Life Without Parole (Drop LWOP), a grassroots coalition and sentencing reform group, along with other advocacy organizations, are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences of more…...
Advocates Urge Newsom to Commute 5,000 California Life Without Parole Sentences
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (777+ words) Drop LWOP, along with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, the Anti-Violence, Safety and Accountability Project (ASAP), human rights advocates and family members of incarcerated people, called for the release of California prisoners serving life without parole (LWOP) during a…...
Otay Mesa Jail Death: Brian Andrew Holmes Identified
15+ hour, 33+ min ago (261+ words) A 34-year-old man jailed since May on sexual assault-related charges has been identified as the inmate who died in an apparent suicide at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa last week. Brian Andrew Holmes was found hanging in…...
25 years behind bars: Kern County pays $13.5M after conviction overturned
13+ hour, 46+ min ago (181+ words) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Vicente Benavides spent 25 years of his life behind bars and more than two decades on death row in San Quentin. Now, Kern County is paying Benavides $13.5 million after his conviction was thrown out. The former farmworker was…...
Parole release renews victims’ rights, public safety concerns in Butte County
17+ hour, 32+ min ago (536+ words) CHICO, Calif. — The 2022 parole release of Lloyd Clinton Edwards, who was sentenced to three life terms plus more than 51 years in prison for violent crimes, is renewing concerns in Butte County about California’s parole system and its impact on victims....
Local leaders advocate for parole reform in Chico
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (225+ words) Congressman James Gallagher and local law enforcement leaders are calling for reform to California's parole system after Lloyd Edwards â a man originally sentenced to 3 life terms plus 51 years for raping women in Chico â was released early under a…...
50-year-old inmate found dead in Saint John correctional centre
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (319+ words) A 50-year-old inmate was found dead in the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre last week. 50-year-old inmate found dead in Saint John correctional centre ‘In all our hearts forever’: Longest-serving TDSB principal, Barrie Sketchley, dead at 85 Trump says Canada will…...
34 Kirikiri inmates acquire vocational skills for reintegration
20+ hour, 44+ min ago (1161+ words) Thirty-four inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos, on Wednesday graduated from a skills acquisition programme designed to prepare them for reintegration into society. The graduands, comprising 17 male and 17 female inmates, completed various vocational training programmes under the…...
Mental Health Court (Circuit Court – First Circuit, Honolulu)
20+ hour, 56+ min ago (262+ words) The Judiciary is one of three branches of state government in Hawai`i. The other two are the executive and legislative branches. As an independent government branch, the Judiciary is responsible for administering justice in an impartial, efficient and accessible manner…...