2025年1月13日 · Incarceration and justice reform’s ripple effects continue to be felt heavily in our society. Our prison news coverage delves into the complex issues surrounding the penal system, shedding light on the ongoing challenges and reforms that impact the lives of those behind bars and the communities they return to- including reporting by prison journalist Steve Brooks, who was selected to ...

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‘Dog Man’ series, Spears memoir top charts of SJ library’s most borrowed books in 2024. San Jose Public Library has released lists of the books that were checked out the most by library visitors in 2024, with Britney Spears’ memoir leading among adults and a book in the “Dog Man” series by Dav Pilkey the most checked-out title among children and among all age groups.

2024年11月5日 · ‘The future of our democracy’: Thousands of Santa Clara County teens pre-register to vote. Santa Clara County’s Registrar of Voters Office and Office of Education said more than 7,000 16- and 17-year-olds have pre-registered to vote during the 2024 election cycle.

2025年1月4日 · Rising threats against public officials is a national problem. Between 2013 and 2016, there were, on average, 38 federal charges involving threats to public officials per year, according to the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center, a research center.That average sharply increased between 2017 and 2022, when an average of 62 federal charges were brought annually ...

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Berkeley Journalism has a long history of supporting journalism at San Quentin. Professor Bill Drummond, who covered prison issues for the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s, has taught college courses for dozens of prisoners at San Quentin since 2012. He has also taught a UC Berkeley Journalism class, which received the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Service to the Community in 2015, that ...