After a trip to Alabama that helped him see the connection between slavery and the death penalty, Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen is working to call back the death sentences of 15 men convicted from his county.
A plan for reforming San Quentin and incarceration in California was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation.
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California plans to remake San Quentin as a new kind of prison, modeled after Scandinavian ideals that value rehabilitation over punishment. An L.A. re-entry facility has already made the change.