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14 lis 2024 · While California’s prison population has since declined to approximately 96,000, overcrowding persists, with some facilities operating at over 120% capacity. In 2020, San Quentin State Prison faced nearly 3,000 COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff, highlighting ongoing challenges in an overcrowded environment.
10 lip 2020 · California will release up to 8,000 prisoners this summer in an effort to create more space and prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in prisons.
8 gru 2023 · Hundreds of Californians released from prisons could receive direct cash payments of $2,400 under a program aimed at easing the transition out of incarceration.
1 maj 2021 · More than 10,000 inmates convicted of a second serious but nonviolent offense under the state’s "three strikes" law will be eligible for release after serving half their sentences.
27 lip 2020 · California's San Quentin State Prison had zero coronavirus cases, until an inmate transfer in May sparked one of the worst outbreaks in the state and the country. Authorities are now...
10 lip 2020 · “After witnessing the deadly effects of COVID-19 inside California’s dangerously overcrowded prisons, Governor Newsom’s plan is the right decision to help protect the lives of people living and working inside prisons and in surrounding communities.
10 maj 2023 · Individuals newly released from prison are 40 times as likely to die of opioid overdoses than members of the general population, researchers say. In response, California corrections officials aim to arm departing inmates with an antidote that can be used to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning.
