Single-bed cells or close another prison? CA lawmakers weigh how to cut incarceration costs

Assemblymember Gregg Hart said California needs to weigh the benefits of rehabilitation with the stubbornly high cost of incarceration.

'I filmed a movie entirely inside a prison cell'

Bryan Larkin stars in Jailbroken, an 87-minute, real-time psychological thriller set entirely inside a single prison cell.
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He died in a jail cell, pleading for help. No one told his father why

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COMPTON, California – The man in the suit arrived in an unmarked car on a spring morning in 2020 with the worst news James Brown ...
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Mentally ill people are stuck in jail because they can't get treatment. Here's what's to know

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...

Mother gives birth over Buncombe County jail toilet, attorney claims

A baby was born in a Buncombe County jail cell in December. Her mother claims she complained to jail staff for days without ...
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Mentally ill people are stuck in jail because they can’t get treatment. Here’s what’s to know

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...