SF News Activists Move to Reclaim Compton’s Cafeteria Site From Private Prison Operator San Francisco’s Board of Appeals has granted LGBTQ advocates the right to challenge the continued operation of a for-profit reentry facility run by private prison giant GEO Group at 111 Taylor Street—the site of the historic 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot.
SF News California’s Effort to Reduce, Overturn Unjust Prison Sentences From 2021 through 2024, the state of California ran a pilot program that aimed to correct excessive sentences from '90s-era “tough on crime” policies.
SF News Senate Judiciary Committee to Investigate Bureau of Prisons, and Former Dublin Wardens Specifically A Congressional investigation is looking into why a regional prisons official and former acting warden of FCI Dublin was able to rise the ranks despite a history of inmate-beating charges for which other guards got fired.
SF News California Will Now Automatically Seal Criminal Records of Many Ex-Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentences A new state law hailed as “the most expansive and comprehensive record-clearing law of its kind in the country” will seal the criminal records of everyone who’s served their time, though there are a few exceptions for sex offenders and violent felons.
SF News 41 California District Attorneys Press State to Reverse Regulations That Would Give 76,000 Inmates Early Release A coalition of district attorneys are petitioning the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to repeal new regulations that took effect May 1 that grants early release for tens of thousands of inmates in state prison for good behavior.
SF News SFist Interviews: Oakland's Malkia Cyril On '13th' And Social Media Surveillance One major theme of Selma director Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary 13th is the protean way that systems of oppression can change to cling to power. The film's name, for example, is a reference
