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NAACP Lobbies for Release of Man Who’s Already Supposed to Be Out of Santa Clara Jail

Carlos Harris has already served a 20-year sentence for a crime he says he did not commit, and a judge ordered his release from Santa Clara County Jail last week. But thanks to bureaucratic red tape, the jail can not release him.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Farm-To-Table Dining May Be Coming To SF Jails

Sheriff Vicky Hennessy wants to explore the possibility of bringing a more farm-to-table culinary situation to San Francisco's jails. "It would be locally sourced food, the kind I like to eat," Hennessy tells

San Francisco Jail Lacking Many 'Basic Security Functions'

San Francisco County jails have a problem, and it's one that goes beyond the much talked about seismically unsafe Jail No. 4 that's in need of replacement. It appears that since 2014, the

City Spits On, Rejects $80 Million In State Funds Intended For New Jail

Though expected, we now know that the Board of Supervisors' December vote to kill the proposed new jail means that San Francisco will definitely turn down $80 million in state grant money that

Arts & Entertainment

Someone Recorded a Live Album At SF County Jail

SF County Jail No. 2 Pod E serves as the music venue for a new live album by jazz and soul artist Naima Shalhoub, and it's titled Live in San Francisco County Jail.

Mayor Will Allow Peskin To Start His Supervisor Term On December 8th

So now Supervisor-elect Aaron Peskin has an official start date. The District 3 leader was voted back into his old job last month, and today we learn that he'll return to work on

Mayor Lee Could Delay Start Of Peskin's Term In Order To Push Through New Jail Project

With Aaron Peskin's November election to the District 3 seat, the Board of Supervisors is set to make a shift to the left. However, what day he officially begins his job is ultimately

Inmate Escapes S.F. Jail One Month Before Scheduled Release

The man pictured at right is loose on the streets of the Bay Area after outrunning a corrections officer who was escorting him to take out the trash. He is Timothy Deshone Midgett,

Oh No, Ed Jew: Surrender

Poor Ed Jew! Not only is he doomed to spend the rest of his life with "disgraced" and "former" in front of his name, but he's in terrible danger of losing his crown

Oh No Ed Jew: Building Wheelchairs For Poor Children

How is disgraced former SF Supe "Tapioca" Ed Jew's fight to avoid his jail term for lying and saying he lived in SF coming along? Not so well, if San Francisco's District Attorney

Woman Charged With Faking Rape For Better Zip Code

In a storyline ripped from a rejected Desperate Housewives spec, Laurie Ann Martinez, a psychologist at Folsom Prison, was charged with faking her own rape in order to get her stubborn husband to

Facebook to Censor Inmates' Pages

In an effort to become the most boring place on the world wide web -- or maybe it's just us? Since our friends post the most meh stuff now, we've resorted to following

Bryan Stow Beating Suspect Sentenced to Jail

Giovanni Ramirez, 31, the man accused of beating Giants fan Bryan Stow at the Dodgers opening game this year, was sentenced to time in jail today. The parolee was given 10 months in

Philip Garrido and Charles Manson: Prison Buds

The man convicted of kidnapping, raping, and holding Jacyee Dugard in captivity for 18 years will be sent to the same prison as noted Manson Family founder Charles Manson at Corcoran State Prison.

Johannes Mehserle Released from Jail

Early this morning, former BART cop Johannes Mehserle was released from the Los Angeles County Men's Jail. He served just over 11 months of a two-year sentence for the death of Oscar Grant,

Solano County Prison Camp Inmate On the Lam

Have you seen this man? He's Nathan Simpson, 30, and he escaped from a detention facility in Solano County on Sunday night. CBS 5 reports: "Simpson is described as a white man with

John Walker Lindh Still Studying Islam, Earning Liberal Arts Degree

In part of a "long-running campaign to clear his son's name ", Frank Lindh, father of noted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, spoke to law students at University of San Francisco on Wednesday. According

San Bruno Jail Installs 16 Condom Machines

If Oz taught us anything, it's that prisoners will have sex. That said, in an effort to curb sexually transmitted diseases, the San Francisco County Jail's San Bruno clink installed 16 condom machines

S.F. Rally Highlights Prison Overcrowding; S.F. Jail Population Plummets

A group of people are expected to hold a rally in front of the State Building in San Francisco today. It's part of "a statewide day of fasting and advocacy actions" geared at

Bernie Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years for Ponzi Scheme

Ponzi-schemer and former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange Bernard Madoff was handed a 150 year prison sentence by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin this morning. In the courtroom, Madoff explained

Husbands of Laura Ling and Euna Lee Speak Out

Last night. before a vigil for Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who are currently serving a 12-year jail sentence in North Korea for illegally crossing the border, the inmates' husbands

Ed Jew Lands 1 More Year In Jail for Perjury

After last week's sentencing was postponed due to an ill judge, disgraced former SF Supervisor Ed Jew was sentenced in state court today to an additional year in the pookey "for lying on

Tiger-Attack Victim Lands 10 Days in the Clink

Big-cat attack survivor Kulbir Dhaliwal, who saw his fame quotient skyrocket last year after Tatiana the tiger escape from her grotto and went on a fatal rampage, was handed ten days in jail

Bernie Ward Heads to Federal Prison

Disgraced former KGO talk show radio host Bernie Ward, who was sentenced to more than seven years in the clink this last August for kiddie porn possession, was moved from the Santa Rita

Grace Cathedral/Burning Man Arsonist Paul Addis Sentenced

Mentally-estranged dreamboat Paul Addis -- you know, the guy who performed last year's premature ignition at Burning Man and most recently tried to burn down Courteney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette's chapel of love?