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GONE, BABY, GONE Shipping Prisoners Out of State by Raj Jayadev , Metro Newspapers A San Jose mother tries to prevent the Department of Corrections from sending her son to an out-of-state prison WHEN Beatrice Patlan's 18-year-old son Raymond was sentenced to prison in 2007, there was only one thing...
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Sentence reviewed for inmate in vegetative state A convicted murderer left in a persistent vegetative state by a prison beating and whose care and custody have cost the state more than $1 million since December will get a chance to have his life sentence recalled. The state Board of Parole Hearings referred...
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Delano residents air thoughts on prison plan DELANO -- North Kern State Prison appears to be a good neighbor, but the road that leads to it could use some improvements. That's what state environmental planners heard from several people at a meeting Thursday regarding plans that would add more buildings...
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From: Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (TiPS) <matt@thecapitalalliance.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:04:21 AM Subject: TiPS Periodic Update 2-15-08 You are receiving this update as a registered user of the Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (TiPS) website. If you are receiving...
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Redemption and rehabilitation San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial January 18, 2008 Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty for minors as cruel and unusual punishment, citing medical and social-science evidence that teens lack the maturity to be held accountable to the same...
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Sirhan Sirhan Victim: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, who was shot and killed in Los Angeles in 1968. Where is he now? Though Sirhan contends he was hypnotized during the murder -- and requested that the Ambassador Hotel not be demolished to preserve evidence of his innocence -- he remains in Corcoran...
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States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions NEW YORK TIMES By ADAM LIPTAK When a state panel recommended last April that Tennessee abandon the three chemicals used in executions across the nation in favor of the single drug usually used in animal euthanasia, the state¹s corrections commissioner said...
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California's broken parole system The Sacramento Bee reports that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to save money by cutting the corrections budget, perhaps by releasing as many as a third of the inmates in California prisons because they're non-violent and no danger to anyone...
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Editorial: Early release of prisoners has to be considered Prison costs are a big part of fiscal crisis; controlling them is part of the solution Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, December 27, 2007 Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B6 Print | E-Mail | Comments (6)| Digg it | del.icio.us With...
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As the Prison Budget Goes, So Goes the Budget Deficit By: Brian Leubitz Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 10:13:43 AM PST And both are skyrocketing. That we are unable to control our prison spending will lead to just one more in a laundry list of budget disasters in the coming years, but nothing in our budget has...