Jun 20 For Corrections Officers and Cops, a New Emphasis on Mental Health
By Simone Weichselbaum The relentless pressures of prison life on inmates’ mental health – gang violence, solitary confinement and arbitrary discipline, among them – have long been subjects for psychological and academic research. But the cu...
Jun 14 California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Som...
The main players in California’s “treatment-industrial complex” are the very same ones involved in the for-profit prison industry. By Sarah Cronin | June 14, 2017 California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown...
Nov 2 California prison guards have good reasons to fear death penalty re...
As correctional peace officers working inside California prisons, we take Proposition 62 very personally, because it directly impacts our safety and the safety of the inmates we oversee. Proposition 62 would repeal California’s death penalty...
Nov 2 Why I’m voting to keep the death penalty alive in California
After 30 years as a journalist in California, I’ve come to believe that my industry can unintentionally distort the public’s understanding of the death penalty. I’m not referring to political distortions rife in the state’s initi...
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