SF News Report: One-Third of All California Prisoners Released Early During COVID Ended Up Back In Prison A new analysis tracks what became of California prison inmates released early during the COVID outbreaks of 2020 and 2021, and finds that just over 30% of them committed crimes again and found themselves back in prison.
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 Notorious Dublin Women's Prison Is Being Shuttered For Good, Feds Say Seven months after it abruptly closed following years of abuse allegations and convictions involving staff and a former warden, the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin (FCI Dublin) is being shut down for good.
SF News Judge Rips Chaotic Closure of Dublin Women’s Prison, Orders That Transferred Prisoners' Rights Be Restored Every prisoner has now been abruptly transferred out of the federal women’s prison in Dublin, but some have been hauled as far away as Florida, and a judge is ordering their belongings returned and their medical care restored.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF News [Update] FBI Raids Dublin Women's Prison, Warden and Three Others Ousted Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations descended on the women's prison FCI Dublin Monday morning for unknown reasons, but it likely is connected with an ongoing cascade of abuse allegations against officer there.
SF News Ex-Warden of Dublin Women's Prison Convicted of Sexually Abusing Inmates The jury returned swiftly with a verdict in the trial of former FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia, and he's been found guilty on all eight counts he was charged with, seven of which stemmed from sexually abusive conduct toward three female inmates.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Is Closing Down Two Prisons California's Correctional Department just announced the closure of two prisons and the shrinking of six others, state Sen. Scott Wiener issued a statement about his latest bomb threat, and former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani faces sentencing today.
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 Second COVID Surge Takes Shape In CA Prisons Amid Revelations About Lax Mask-Wearing Among Staff There have now been over 3,300 new cases in California prisons in the last 14 days, and a new report suggests that mask-wearing and other safety protocols have been lax or non-existent at some prisons during the pandemic.
SF News Massive Fraud Scheme Netted 'Hundreds of Millions' For CA Unemployment Scammers Using Prison Inmates' Names A scam involving the names and identities of tens of thousands of California prison inmates — including convicted wife murderer Scott Peterson — has apparently enabled scammers and some inmates themselves to make off with at least $140 million.
SF News San Quentin Outbreak Grows to 219 Cases; Family Members Decry Prison System Mistake A COVID-19 outbreak that began about two weeks ago at San Quentin State Prison has now infected 219 inmates, and it sounds as though it was completely preventable.
SF News First State-Funded Inmate Sex Reassignment Surgery Takes Place In San Francisco Thursday marked the first court-mandated sex reassignment surgery for an incarcerated person in the United States, and the procedure took place in San Francisco. As KRON 4 reports, 57-year-old convicted murderer Shiloh Heavenly
SF News Escaped Inmate From Vacaville Prison On Loose An inmate went missing from a minimum-security correctional facility in Vacaville late Sunday night, and he remains at large, as CBS 5 is reporting. It's unclear if 29-year-old Jarvis Brown poses any sort
Arts & Entertainment Trove Of Historic Photos Found From Inside San Quentin A Sacramento photography teacher who teaches a course in the history of photography San Quentin State Prison was recently shown a banker's box full of thousands of negatives, all shot inside the prison,
SF News Former Trans Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Speaks Out About Her New Transition, To Civilian Life Many of you will recall the plight of trans prisoner Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who last year became the second trans inmate to be granted state-funded sex reassignment surgery only to be paroled shortly thereafter.
SF News Tenderloin SRO To Become Free Housing For Ex-Cons In a pioneering program that came out of a partnership between the SF Superior Court, the Adult Probation Department, and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, ex-convicts will be getting free, temporary supportive housing in
SF News Video: Local Teen Thrilled To Marry Accused Attempted Murderer Behind Bars The Brits love to poke fun at trashy, gun-toting Americans and trust the British press was all over the story about the 3-year-old in New Mexico who accidentally shot both his parents. Add
SF News Eric Holder Is Essentially Trying To End The War On Drugs In a major speech today in front of a meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a sea change in the federal government's prosecution and sentencing
SF News 700 Convicted Criminals Soon Returning to S.F. You've heard about this thing called "realignment," right? Because the Supreme Court ruled that California's prisons were too ridiculously overcrowded, prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes are getting "realigned" and sent back to city
SF News S.F. to Get All Kindly About Felons Now; Cue Fox News' Special Report OK, so, to be clear, we're all for having criminals do their time, regret their crimes, and we believe that many of them can be rehabilitated and return to society as respectable citizens
SF News Supreme Court Orders California to Release 30,000+ Prisoners; Scalia Freaks Out The Supreme Court today issued what amounts to an injunction against the State of California and its prisons, ordering the state to release 30,000 prisoners from the overcrowded system. The 5-4 majority
SF News State Receives Bids for Huge Death Row Complex at San Quentin Despite pending legal action from Marin County trying to block the project, the Department of Corrections went forward to begin reviewing nine bids they received from contractors for Phase 1 of a $356
SF News CA to Release Thousands of Prisoners In an effort to ease prison overcrowding, a panel of federal judges "tentatively ruled that California must release tens of thousands of inmates." (Please release Susan Atkins! Please release Susan Atkins! Please release
