CA Public Safety Committee OK’s Host of Bills Aimed at Police Brutality
By Heather Hamilton STATE CAPITOL – The California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety here has…
Governor Signs AB 1460 Bill Requiring Ethnic Studies Courses at CSU
Special to the Vanguard The bill that would make ethnic studies a requirement at the California State…
Santa Rita Jail Tested Less Than 7% Of Population Last week – Claims Outbreak is Resolved
Overview There is a new and ongoing outbreak in Santa Rita Jail as of Sunday, August 16….
QAnon Conspiracy – Lawmaker Reveals Death Threats for Legislation Ending Discrimination against LGBT People
By Sahar Swaleh SACRAMENTO – Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 145 in January 2020, proposing that all…
Fair Juries Act Reflects Community Diversity, Now One Step Closer to Becoming Law
By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – The Fair Juries Act continues to move through the California Legislature, this…
Solano County Jail – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails
By Nikki Suzani Highlights (August 3rd – August 10th) Solano County Jail has no active cases in…
Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 Cover-Up – Quarantine Housing Cut Short Without Explanation, <10 Percent of Population Tested
By Larkin White COVID-19 in Santa Rita Jail The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) provided less information…
Racial Justice Act Passes California Senate Public Safety Committee
The California Racial Justice Act will prohibit the use of race, ethnicity or national origin in sentencing…
Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Conditions – Protests For Better Treatment & More Releases
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the CDCR system, we hope to…
CA State Senator: California Police Need to ‘Come Clean’ on Abuse Records
By Ayanna Gandhi SACRAMENTO – “California police need to come clean on abuse records,” wrote California State…
Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000
Last week you may have seen it, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on Thursday…
20 State AGs Support Challenge to Unlawful Revision of Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law
By Linh Nguyen SACRAMENTO – In an amicus curiae brief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined a…
Minimal Testing & Labelling Asymptomatic Cases as Recovered – How Santa Rita Jail Brought Down COVID-19 Cases Amidst an Outbreak
By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of August 2, the recent outbreak in Santa…
CDCR Healthcare workers to Gov. Newsom – “If CDCR does not release more than half of the prison population, stop all transfers, more people will die.”
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes…
A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin
By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag This visualization is created by the Covid In-Custody Project — an…
BSCC Gives CDCR $15m For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19
(Dashboard updates daily – M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and…
California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons
By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of Los Angeles,…
Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders
Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentences. On…
Legislative Black Caucus on the Passing of Representative John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian
The following is a statement by the California Legislative Black Caucus on the passing of John Lewis…
Outbreak in Santa Rita Jail – 101 Active Cases in 2 Days – Weekly Highlights -Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails
By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 18, there are 101 active COVID-19…
