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  • June 2008
    • California to End Last Outpost of Segregation: Prisons

      California to End Last Outpost of Segregation: Prisons

      (Newser) - California will fully integrate its prison system next month, making it one of the last states to do so, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The state will end the practice of separating new arrivals to the nation's largest prison system based on race. Both guards and inmates are bracing for a spike in racial violence in cramped cells. More »

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      California   segregation   racial tension   prison system   integration   California Department of Corrections

  • March 2008
    • Error Sends Former Radical Back to Jail

      Error Sends Former Radical Back to Jail

      (Newser) - Five days after her release from prison, police today re-arrested a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army and said she had to serve another year. Authorities said they made a clerical error and freed Sara Jane Olson too soon, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Olson, 61, had served six years of a 14-year sentence for plotting to blow up police cars in 1975. More »

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      domestic terrorism   guerrilla groups   California Department of Corrections

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