Subject: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

• Jail Date

  February 7, 1996

• Insider Art

  March 19, 2008

• Cell Phoney

  Making phone calls from jail, Harley Mike allegedly helped three prisoners escape and conned parole agents, sheriff's deputies, and judges.

  August 16, 2006

• Hidden Treasure

  Half a century ago, ex-heroin dealer Alfredo Santos created an epic work of art inside San Quentin. Now, he's coming back to be honored for it.

  July 23, 2003

• San Quentin Blues

  The prison guards' union angrily ripped the rug from under the governor in February

  April 2, 2003

• Alien Culture

  September 26, 2001

• Old Wounds

  News reports about the lawyers whose dog killed Diane Whipple have stirred unpleasant memories among a few of their former clients

  March 14, 2001

• Girl Problems

  The juvenile justice system is ignoring delinquent girls -- and creating a social time bomb

  July 19, 2000

• Broken Fix

  In a radical approach, San Francisco is making addiction a health issue rather than a law enforcement imperative. So far, though, treatment on demand has been a costly pipe dream.

  December 22, 1999

• Dead Man Not Praying

  The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

  February 3, 1999

• Cothran

  January 27, 1999

• Unspun

  August 6, 1997

• Fewer Pen Pals

  As more prisons move to ban skin mags, California prisoners' rights lawyers turn a deaf ear to inmates' howls

  April 23, 1997

• The Grid

  December 18, 1996

• Unspun

  November 27, 1996

• Dog Bites

  September 4, 1996

• Prison Legal News Suing San Francisco, Sheriff's Department, and City Attorney Over Unanswered Public Records Request

  So much for the Sunshine Ordinance...​ The public records request was not very complicated. Prison Legal News (PLN), a Seattle-based nonprofit and monthly journal, wanted to review all the litigation filed against the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, including settlements and verdicts. PLN filed the records request with the Sheriff's Department on July 9, 2008, but was made to redirect its efforts to the city attorney's office, which finally produced a spreadsheet of 722 cases fiv

  August 20, 2009

• Does Gavin Newsom really have a foster brother who's been in and out of prison?

  September 16, 2009