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Recent Posts
- Op-Ed | Hochman’s “Zero Tolerance” Crusade Returns Us to Mass Incarceration Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is filing felony charges under Proposition 36, which will lead to a flood of low-level cases in the courts, jails, and prisons, disproportionately affecting Black, Brown, and unhoused residents, while Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to fund the enforcement of the measure.
- ACLU Prevails as Supreme Court Upholds Due Process for ImmigrantsThe U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan detainees under the Alien Enemies Act, ruling that the federal government must provide constitutionally sufficient notice before carrying out removals.
- Remembering Marcus “Wali” Henderson: Friend, Humanitarian, and Carceral Journalism MentorMarcus "Wali" Henderson, the Editor-in-Chief of the San Quentin News, chose to spend his final days befriending and collaborating with media, despite being silenced on the prison's slavery-laden history, and his legacy will continue to inspire and inform the work of journalists in the future.
- Columbia Student May Be Deported Due to Misleading Affidavit in Court CaseICE submitted a misleading affidavit to a federal judge in order to obtain a search warrant to target Columbia University students for deportation, and the affidavit was unsealed in court as part of a lawsuit filed by the students.
- Op-Ed| Yolo Western Region, Groundwater, Foodshed Imperiled by County InactionThe Concerned Citizens group is urging the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to place a moratorium on wells in the Yolo focus area in order to protect the water that makes local food possible.