For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice

Spike Bradford
Published: September 18, 2012

Forum will be this coming Saturday, Sept. 22, in Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street near Broadway, Oakland. Registration starts 12 noon, program starts at 1 pm.
Organized by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Flyer is attached.  We'll be discussing this at our membership meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20.

Dear friends and comrades,

 

End the Shackling of Pregnant Women

For Immediate Release—September 12, 2012

California Prisoners Make Historic Call for Peace between Racial Groups in California Prisons & Jails

Press Contact:  Isaac Ontiveros

                         Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity

Don't contaminate our world-class water

Contra Costa County jail expansion in Richmond on hold

By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Contra Costa Times

Posted:   09/06/2012 03:54:12 PM PDTUpdated:   09/06/2012 04:11:02 PM PDT

MARTINEZ -- Acknowledging the strong community opposition, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston is backing off on plans for a 150-bed jail expansion in Richmond.

If Kansas officials don't take remedial action in less than 50 days to address Eighth Amendment violations at the prison, the Justice Department issued notice of intent to file a federal lawsuit to compel reform

By Tim Carpenter
The Capitol-Journal