Column: To reduce crime, fix San Quentin - Los Angeles Times
A plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation.
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A plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation.
California plans to remake San Quentin as a new kind of prison, modeled after Scandinavian ideals that value rehabilitation over punishment. An L.A. re-entry facility has already made the change.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how incarceration is done in the Golden State, using concepts pioneered in Scandinavia. California prison guards visited Norway to see what it would mean.
A master's degree program in humanities for California prison inmates, launched in collaboration with CSU Dominguez Hills, is described as 'groundbreaking.'
Activists are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to transform California's oldest prison into a Scandinavian-style rehabilitation center.