• WTOP

    What makes people happy? California lawmakers want to find out

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend

  • Why are women's prisons in California passing out condoms?

    The Central California Women’s Facility has begun passing out condoms to inmates, many of who are trans-women.

  • Oklahoma lawmaker says prison rapes are increasing

    (The Center Square) - Oklahoma Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, said he knows some people around the state capitol call him a troublemaker and other things. But that is not stopping him from speaking out about what he calls an escalation of rapes in the state's prisons. Humphrey, who chairs the House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee, said Wednesday he had received several calls about rapes since March 17. One correctional officer has been...

    • KFDI

    Inmate death reported at El Dorado prison

    Kansas corrections officials are investigating the death of an inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Officials said 39-year-old John Lewis Wardrup was found unresponsive in his cell on Monday, and medical treatment was unable to revive

  • A whistleblower, a sudden death, and the most dangerous prison in California

    After graduating from the academy to become a California correctional officer, Valentino Rodriguez thought he’d be joining a supportive brotherhood, committed to protecting the incarcerated, with honesty and accountability. But upon starting his job at the high-security New Folsom facility in Sacramento, Rodriguez reported encountering personal harassment while witnessing inmate mistreatment inside the most dangerous prison […]

  • Politico reports on California's new rural legislative leaders

    The headline is "Rural California can finally claim both legislative leaders as its own," and Camille Von Kaenel.  She's writing about the topic I took up here--but she does so with the resources of a journalist with more time to gather details of the symbolic meaning and possible real-world consequences of Robert Rivas' ascension to chair of the California Assembly and Mike McGuire's recent taking the reins of the California Senate.  For the first time since 1969, both of California's...

  • Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Reports To Prison

    "They Came For Me, They Can Come For You" - Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Reports To Prison Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Peter Navarro voiced frustration at a press conference on March 19, just before turning himself over to authorities in Miami, Florida, to begin his four-month sentence at the city’s minimum-security prison. The former Trump White House trade adviser is the first official from President Donald Trump’s administration to serve jail time. He...

  • Editorial: California still hasn't fixed its undemocratic recall rules

    A fringe conservative group has launched yet another recall targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom for — well, for the same reasons as the six times before. If history is any guide, the petition drive will fizzle out long before it gathers the more than 1.3 million valid signatures required by the 160-day deadline. That's what happened in the previous recall attempts against the governor during his first term, including the last one that resulted in a special election in 2021. That time recall supporters...

  • New Report Says California One of the Most Dangerous States in US

    California ranks fifth in the country for violent crime rate and property crime rate, with a 1 in 200 chance of being a victim of violent crime.

    • KHON2

    Lawmakers seek unbiased Lahaina fire reports in coming weeks

    Several lawmakers are questioning whether the public will get an unbiased answer as to what caused the deadly Lahaina fire.

  • DNR Report: People, ATVs fall through ice in Northland lakes

    Minnesota Department of Natural Resources report for the week of March 18.

  • Petition: Tell Lawmakers in California and Hawaii to Ban Octopus Farming

    Please sign this petition to demand lawmakers in California and Hawaii follow Washington's incredible lead and ban octopus farming, too!