Better Health Care, Better Prisons?
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog In a recent New York Times op-ed, columnist Nicholas Kristof cites the case of Curtis Wilkerson as an...
View ArticleCalif. Prison Woes Tracked in Newspaper’s Interactive Maps
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog The Sacramento Bee has posted some new online maps in advance of the potential release of 27,000...
View ArticleCourts Push Back on California Prisons
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog How will California resolve its chronic prison overcrowding problems? With court-imposed deadlines...
View ArticleAfter Prison, Calif. Women Find No Care
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog Women parolees in San Francisco and Alameda counties face long waiting lists for access to health and...
View ArticleIs Schwarzenegger’s Prison Plan Good Enough?
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog Facing a court-ordered deadline to reduce overcrowded state prison populations, Gov. Arnold...
View ArticleA Pound of Cure: Tracy Velazquez on Prisons and National Health Care Reform
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news blog In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Tracy Velazquez of the Justice Policy Institute said national...
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California Prisons Report: A Look Inside with Hastings Scholar Hadar Aviram
By Bernice Yeung | Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Prisons & Public Health news series Despite a year of legal sanctions and budget cuts, the California Department of Corrections and...
View ArticleResidential lead pollution cleanup in West Oakland will use new green technology
Soil polluted with lead has long plagued the South Prescott neighborhood of West Oakland. But cleanup is finally getting underway. This Saturday, June 25, the community is invited to learn more about...
View ArticleMissed EPA grant stalls West Oakland brownfields cleanups
After more than a decade of getting approved for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants to remediate "brownfields" (contaminated properties), Oakland has been turned down. This is the first such...
View ArticleWest Oakland keeps fighting for cleaner air
Two years after Newsdesk.org first examined high levels of air pollution in West Oakland, progress towards helping this community breathe easier is moving slowly. Thorny projects, including cleanups at...
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