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American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.
Maybe it's just a sign of our angry and divided times, but I'm finding that critics often don't read past the headline or the ...
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SBF Ends Up in 'Victimville', One of the Most Violent Prisons in California
The fallen founder of the FTX exchange has been incarcerated at the brutal Victorville medium security facility in ...
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Federal prison will take California’s ‘most dangerous’ Aryan Brotherhood inmates
He expected to be on the next bus to a federal prison yard, and prosecutors said at the time they’d work to make that happen. Nearly 18 months later, he’s still in the same California State ...
Sam Bankman-Fried's latest California prison once housed Al Capone
The federal correctional institution currently holding former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was once home to Al Capone and former ...
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A major roadblock stands in California’s way to a transformed prison system
One windy January afternoon Katie Jackson stood on the West Steps of the Capitol as she described how a man locked up in a California prison managed to break into a control room where she was ...
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Fish Tanks, Plants and Podcast Studios — Some States Try a New Approach to Incarceration
One of the most outspoken critics of the effort has been Steve Brooks, an incarcerated journalist at the prison. He wrote that even at its best, the redesign would not scale to California’s massive ...
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A major roadblock stands in California’s way to a transformed prison system
One windy January afternoon Katie Jackson stood on the West Steps of the Capitol as she described how a man locked up in a California prison managed to break into a control room where she was working ...