By Amanda Tripp “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world” -Malala Yousafzai In recent years we have become frustrated and even outraged by traditional methods of punishment [...] Continue Reading
Police
Because I said so. . .
By Mike Rhodes The video of Fresno police officer Rudy Ruiz denying Jesse Paz and his daughter permission to get on a bus at Manchester Center went viral. Over 100,000 people have viewed the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Advocates Demand End to Secretive Deportation Program
By Angélica Salceda Federal immigration agents are working inside Fresno County Jail to deport people through a program that lacks transparency, oversight, and accountability On the heels of the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Public Defender’s Office Under Fire from ACLU
By Amanda Tripp A lawsuit accusing the Fresno County Public Defender’s office of providing inadequate defense will continue to move forward; mid-April Judge Mark Snauffer ruled in favor of allowing [...] Continue Reading
High School Club Cofounders Visit State Prison
By Boston Woodard On Sept. 18, a first of its kind symposium was held inside the California Medical Facility (CMF) state prison in Vacaville. POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club is for students [...] Continue Reading
Professor and Radio Host To Take Action Against Georgia
By Floyd D. Harris, Jr., and Jean Kennedy Dr. Jean Kennedy, a professor and radio host who spends time in both California and Georgia, plans to submit an Action Plan to the California State Senate [...] Continue Reading
AB 953: “We Are Not Targets” March on Sacramento
By Hannah Brandt At 6 a.m. on Sept. 2, a charter bus pulled up to the St. Rest Baptist Church in west Fresno to meet 40 bleary-eyed passengers headed to a rally in the state capital to promote AB [...] Continue Reading
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and He’s Counting on You for Help
By Maria Telesco For the past 14 years, women incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla have received a holiday gift bag, courtesy of the prison’s Inmate Family [...] Continue Reading
OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Dear Board of Supervisors: I, Hazel Grace DeRossett, am the Mother of Shemaiah Lindsey, an inmate in the Fresno County Jail. History is repeating itself. I respectfully request the Board pass some [...] Continue Reading
Shutting Down the Board of State and Community Corrections
By Quentin Savage On June 26, 2015, members of Californians United for a Responsible Budget gathered to disrupt Phase One of the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) assembly in [...] Continue Reading
To Serve and Protect
By Hannah Brandt On Feb. 23, 2014, 18-year-old Joseph Ma was running with a couple of his buddies. One of them might have had a gun. The former special education student from West Fresno Middle [...] Continue Reading
Ghetto by the Sea: A POPS the Club Anthology
By Boston Woodard Ghetto by the Sea is the second anthology by some extraordinarily talented teenagers and young adults at Venice High School in Los Angeles County. These writers, poets, artists and [...] Continue Reading