Subject: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

• News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

  July 3, 2007

• Tupac's Fam to Broke Death Row: Get Off My Nuts!

  July 24, 2007

• "Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America" at SFSU - Today's Calendar Pick

  February 16, 2008

• 1 in 100 Behind Bars: California is Doing its Part!

  February 29, 2008

• Buddha Behind Bars

  April 30, 2008

• Wear Orange

  March 5, 2008

• Incarceration Nation

  February 13, 2008

• Dance Theater Jail piece '51802' Makes Audience Its Bitch

  September 26, 2007

• Barred for Life

  Desperate prison lifers turn to Charles Carbone when trying to navigate the unfair process of parole denials

  August 15, 2007

• Make Your Mama Cry

  August 1, 2007

• Breaking Down Walls

  A liberal intellectual and a right-winger on Death Row discover they have much in common

  April 25, 2007

• Unchained Melody

  Music and poetry, not plot, create A Place to Stand's emotional impact

  March 21, 2007

• Speaking of Phones...

  August 16, 2006

• 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

• Suspended Sentence

  After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction

  January 18, 2006

• Baring Equality

  The cases of a young defendant and a repeat offender attorney show power and privilege tip the scales

  November 9, 2005

• Bullshitting the Lie Detector

  Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

  May 25, 2005

• Not About Nightingales

  This Tennessee Williams production packs a punch, but it's too loud

  March 2, 2005

• Lucifer, Arisen

  A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil*

  *with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in suppo

  November 17, 2004

• The Unlikely Lambs

  Carandiru reveals the human side of Brazilian prisoners, then leads us to their slaughter

  May 19, 2004

• Live to Tell

  Even big-name stars can't overpower the stories of exonerated death row inmates

  December 10, 2003

• Innocence Arrested

  Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed -- and how to stop it.

  October 29, 2003

• Habitat for Inhumanity

  The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

  July 30, 2003

• 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

• The Russian Card Game

  A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash

  February 12, 2003

• Throwing Away the Key

  Why Gov. Davis' just-say-no parole policy is wrong, Exhibit No. 1: Eddy Zheng has earned a college degree in prison, sings in a church choir, works with at-risk youth, has the support of clergymen, college professors, his prison counselor, and the

  June 5, 2002

• Rockin' Through the Night

  The Alcatraz Night Tour is fascinating and beautiful. Then it's cold and eerie. And then it's -- let's get outta here!

  February 6, 2002

• The Last Hope

  A new law gives one more chance at freedom to abused women sent to prison for killing their batterers

  January 23, 2002

• Transcendental Incarceration

  The first San Bruno Jail inmates to take part in an experimental meditation program say it has helped to free their minds, if nothing else

  February 21, 2001

• A Sentence Without an Ending

  The "used-car rabbi" gets probation instead of jail, but the question of what he did with millions of dollars in donations remains unanswered

  January 17, 2001

• Hard Labor

  County Jail No. 3 is a hellhole. Can an ancient, intense form of meditation improve life for the inmates?

  December 20, 2000

• A Walk in the Dark

  The rest of the country is re-appraising the death penalty; California sues to keep a minister from comforting those facing execution

  October 25, 2000

• Girl Problems

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

  July 19, 2000

• Record Caper

  Long-missing Alcatraz files make their way back to the Bay Area

  May 17, 2000

• South to the Future

  New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates

  February 23, 2000

• Dead Head

  Mr. Death

  February 9, 2000

• South to the Future

  Mumia Abu-Jamal Changes Name, Urges Supporters to Expand Campaign

  October 6, 1999

• Cothran

  June 16, 1999

• The Mission District Squeeze

  When can a repeat felon manipulate the police and fire departments to crush a law-abiding bar and restaurant? When the felon's a San Francisco pol, and the bar's on Mission Street.

  February 24, 1999

• Dead Man Not Praying

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

  February 3, 1999

• The Housing Authority's Dirty Dozen

  Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

  July 22, 1998

• Zoom Lens

  July 15, 1998

• Perverted Justice?

  Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  June 3, 1998

• Gangs of Marin

  May 6, 2009

• Schwarzenegger Proposal Could Burden Underfunded S.F. Jails

  Be sure to wear a flower in your hairThis week has seen California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger scrounging for a few billion dollars beneath the sofa cushions after his stop-gap measures for narrowing the state's budget shortfall went down to defeat in Tuesday's special election. Among the consequences of the election results, which necessitate immediate cuts to state services across the board, could be the release of up to 40,000 inmates from California prisons. Schwarzenegger has proposed transf

  May 21, 2009

• Premature Burner Paul Addis May Have Been Granted Parole, But Don't Expect Him at This Year's Burn

  Paul Addis' entry in the Best Mug Shot Ever competition​ Starting August 31, a sizable portion of San Francisco will dust off their faux-fur legwarmers, bloomers, and stale MDMA to spend a week on the playa exchanging bodily fluids and other things at this year's Burning Man festivities. The ostensibly anti-establishment, anti-consumer party is marked here in the city by recent local events like Sports Basement's second annual Prepare for the Playa party, where self-proclaimed "burner-preneurs

  August 7, 2009

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

  September 16, 2009

• Further Proof That Incarceration Is No Fun: Inmates File Federal Suit Over Alleged Price Gouging In Prison Cantina

  But no one loves pricey coffee​As hard-liners say, "you do the crime, you do the time." But if you feel you're getting ripped off by paying too much for prison coffee -- to quote Doug Llewelyn, "You take 'em to court." Eight inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City in the far north of California last week filed a federal class action suit in San Francisco court alleging price gouging in the jailhouse canteen. The defendants include the current warden, the former warden, the prison'

  October 12, 2009

• Update: How Much Does Prison Coffee Have To Cost Before Inmate Files Federal Suit? Less Than You'd Think.

  The crux of a Constitutional lawsuit...​Last week we reported on a lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court by an octet of inmates charging they were being price-gouged at Pelican Bay prison in the far north of California. We noted that the e-filing of the case, sadly, didn't include the actual prices of the allegedly exorbitantly priced coffee and other goods, and we wondered what it would take to get prisoners to claim jailhouse java prices are criminal. The answer: $1.10. The sudden jac

  October 19, 2009