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Sex for KFC: What REALLY happened between guards and inmates at California women's prison where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman served time as it's shut down over 'rape club' scandal
8 months, 1 week ago

Sex for KFC: What REALLY happened between guards and inmates at California women's prison where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman served time as it's shut down over 'rape club' scandal

Daily Mail  

A notorious prison in California - known as the 'rape club' by inmates, and 'club fed' for celebrity inmates like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin - will be closed down after years of rampant sexual abuse by staff against female prisoners. FCI Dublin, located in the Bay Area, has been plagued for years by rampant staff sexual abuse against female …

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California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row
2 years, 10 months ago

California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment.” Newsom said Monday it’s an …

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California moves to dismantle US’s largest death row
2 years, 10 months ago

California moves to dismantle US’s largest death row

Al Jazeera  

The goal is to turn a section of San Quentin State Prison into a ‘positive, healing environment’, California officials say. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions in the US state, is now moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. “We are …

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California moves forward on plans to shut down death row
2 years, 10 months ago

California moves forward on plans to shut down death row

LA Times  

Nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that halted executions in California, the state is accelerating an effort to move incarcerated people off death row and into other prisons. California voters in 2016 approved Proposition 66, an initiative to speed up executions in the state’s complicated death row system. That effort, called the Condemned Inmate Transfer …

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Editorial: Every prison cell is now a coronavirus death row
4 years, 5 months ago

Editorial: Every prison cell is now a coronavirus death row

LA Times  

San Quentin is California’s most famous, most picturesque, most aged, most poorly designed and most lethal state prison. About 400 miles to the south, at the California Institute for Men in Chino, the coronavirus spread swiftly among more than 600 inmates, causing multiple deaths and putting other inmates directly in harm’s way. The prison’s notorious execution chamber has been quiet …

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Inside The Prison Where 8 In 10 Of The Incarcerated Have Gotten Coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Inside The Prison Where 8 In 10 Of The Incarcerated Have Gotten Coronavirus

Huff Post  

Above: Jonathan White with his family. Smith, the DRC spokeswoman, said that if the positive and negative groups switched places, those areas would have been “thoroughly cleaned and disinfected,” but people inside don’t think it was enough. By moving people with COVID-19 symptoms around in an attempt to create isolation areas, MCI staffers may have “inadvertently spread it a little …

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