By Faith Fistler / Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Kent State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. While Christina Ray was incarcerated, she experienced the effects of limited feminine hygiene products firsthand. "When I was incarcerated at Franklin County Jail, literally every morning they would throw in a supply bag and we d have, like, six rolls of toilet paper and six giant, disgusting pads," Ray said. " .
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The Golden State has permanently expunged an unprecedented 11 million criminal arrest records in the first six months after the implementation of a criminal-justice reform bill - according to data just released by the California Department of Justice. Assembly Bill 1076 required the state DOJ to automatically clear eligible records for people with arrests but not convictions, for people with convictions on most crimes that did not carry a prison sentence, and for those who have successfully completed their sentence. Jay Jordan is CEO of the Alliance for Safety and Justice. .
More than 250 new laws take effect Saturday in Indiana. They range from legalizing the ninja weapons known as throwing stars, to creating a 25-foot buffer around police investigations, to adding cameras to catch heavy-footed Hoosiers speeding through work zones. You don t have to thumb too far through the stack of new laws to realize social issues caused some of the biggest dust-ups at the Statehouse this year. .