Bay Area Reentry News
10/6/17: KTVU: Alameda County public defenders take a knee for racial justice
10/3/17: Mercury News: Bail reform: Awaiting trial, but can't afford bond? Silicon Valley moving to free more suspects
10/2/17: San Francisco Examiner: Public Defender Jeff Adachi faces off with SF judge over contempt charge for attorney defending client
9/27/17: KQED: Bail or Jail? Tool Used by San Francisco Courts Shows Promising Results
9/22/17: CBS SF Bay Area: San Francisco Senior Accused of Petty Crime Fighting $350,000 Bail
9/20/17: San Francisco Examiner: SF to use Prop. 47 funds for 32 residential treatment beds for drug addicts
9/12/17: Pacific Research Institute: Court Ruling Shuts Down Effective Private-Sector Restorative Justice Program
8/17/17: KQED: Forced Out: When Leaving the Country Means Leaving Your Kids
8/15/17: East Bay Times: Selection panel makes final picks for powerful Oakland Police Commission
8/10/17: Slate: The Exploitation of "Beautiful Kate"
8/3/17: The California Sunday Magazine: After the Shooting: A year in the life of Gwen Woods
8/2/17: Witness LA: San Francisco, Santa Clara County To Get Help Improving Their Pretrial Justice Systems
7/28/17: East Bay Times: A call for pot entrepreneurs, Oakland test drives new marijuana permit program
7/26/17: East Bay Times: Opinion: Document Prop. 47 savings, then put money to good use
7/25/17: KQED: What Does It Say When Jail Is a Safety Net for Pregnant Women?
7/24/17: Opportunity Institute: Innovative San Jose State Project Helps Inform Future Criminal Justice Leaders
7/14/17: NBC Bay Area: Unlikely Partnership Between SF Prosecutors and Prison Inmates is Forming Behind the Walls of San Quentin
7/14/17: San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. schools support kids whose parents are jailed
7/3/17: Los Angeles Times: California Supreme Court makes it harder for three-strike prisoners to get sentence reductions
6/30/17: The Crime Report: The Color of Justice
6/28/17: KQED News: Report: Bail Hits People of Color Hard, Strips $15 Million a Year from S.F. Residents
6/28/17: East Bay Times: Alameda county had hoped to hire 1,400 people with criminal records -- they've hired 6
6/25/17: Marin Independent Journal: Marin grand jury urges schooling for jail inmates
6/22/17: San Francisco Examiner: Mayor Lee proposes $72M package of diversion programs to help reduce jail population
6/13/17: KQED News: Mobile App Gives Felons a Fresh Start
6/7/17: NPR: Golden State Warriors Take On San Quentin Prisoners In Basketball
5/31/17: The New York Times: A Haven From Trauma's Cruel Grip
5/17: KQED: The Trials of Marvin Mutch
5/26/17: Huffpost: San Francisco Begins Providing Attorneys for Immigrants Who Can't Afford Them
5/16/17: San Francisco Chronicle: Income inequity gets SF rethinking fines, fees
5/12/17: KQED NEws: Ahead of Mother's Day, Bail Reform Groups Get Moms Out of Jail
4/17/17: The New York Times: A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science
4/14/17: KQED Radio: SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi Talks Immigration, Police Shootings and His New Documentary
4/2/17: San Francisco Chronicle: SF courts anything but safe for some immigrants in sanctuary city
3/31/17: San Francisco Examiner: SF implements new policies for treatment of transgender inmates
3/26/17: East Bay Times: Mass incarceration: Where are the jobs in new Alameda County re-entry program?
3/21/17: San Francisco Examiner: Federal oversight of SFPD to be extended
3/21/17: Guardian: Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco
3/4/17: San Francisco Chronicle: For SF's black defendants, it's hard to find jury of peers
2/10/17: San Francisco Chronicle: 100-year-old woman evicted from SF home
1/18/17: San Francisco Examiner: Opponents of new jail to have three years to reduce jail population
1/5/17: The Washington Post: Introducing Anne Kirkpatrick, just hired to fix Oakland's 'frat house' police department
12/28/16: SF Weekly: Richmond Adopts Housing Rights for Ex-Criminals
12/21/16: SF Weekly: Prison Company Known for Scandals Opens New S.F. Facility
12/12/16: The New Yorker: The Ex-Con Scholars of Berkeley
12/7/16: Mother Jones: Inside a Drug Treatment Center That Actually Works
12/1/16: The California Sunday Magazine: Table Service: One of San Francisco's best restaurants hires as many ex-felons as it can.
11/30/16: San Francisco Chronicle: S.F.'s largest mental health facility--the jail
11/30/16: San Francisco Chronicle: SF judge explains why 66,000 arrest warrants were discarded
11/28/16: San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco has become a predatory government
11/14/16: Oakland North: Alameda County to designate 1,400 county jobs for the formerly incarcerated
11/14/16: San Francisco Chronicle: SF courts ignoring thousands of quality-of-life citations
10/27/16: Next City: The Pop-Up Approach to Fighting Mass Incarceration
10/12/16: SF Gate: U.S. Justice Department urges changes in SFPD after fatal shootings
10/12/16: Fox 2: SF coalition announces plan to reduce city's reliance on county jail
9/23/16: Courthouse News Service: New San Francisco Bureau to Handle Police Shootings
9/16/16: The New York Times: A Formula to Make Bail More Fair
9/16/16: San Francisco Chronicle: Captive Lives
9/8/16: SF Gate: Floating homeless shelter could be game changer for S.F.
9/2/16: KQED News: One Year Out of Prison, Actor Takes on 'Othello'
9/1/16: SF Gate: SF sues landlord over state of housing for once-homeless vets
8/4/16: The Mercury News: Urban farm Planting Justice adds East Oakland site, hires ex-offenders
8/3/16: San Francisco Examiner: First-of-its-kind data release shows racial disparities in SFPD's arrest, use of force
8/1/16: East Bay Times: Santa Clara County prosecutors try new approach to ease racial tensions with cops
7/13/16: San Francisco Examiner: DA-launched review of SFPD recommends reforms, some already in works
7/11/16: San Francisco Examiner: Criminal justice reform brings SF's jail health services into focus
7/10/16: KQED News: Inside 'The Box': New Play Explores Life in Solitary
7/7/16: San Francisco Chronicle: Criminal justice reform will fail if we don't fix mental care too
6/30/16: SF Gate: Federal judge finds evidence of racial bias by S.F. police
6/28/16: The Daily Californian: Alameda County approves program to increase job opportunities for formerly incracerated people
6/27/16: Mother Jones: Why the San Francisco Police Department is Under Heavy Fire
6/22/16: SF Weekly: S.F. Jail's Trans Inmate Problem
6/7/16: The Washington Post: Public defenders can be biased, too, and it hurts their non-white clients
6/1/16: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: A Special Goodbye
5/25/16: The Marshall Project: Four San Francisco Cops Talk About the Problems Plaguing Their Department
5/20/16: CNN: Paying kids not to kill
5/19/16: SF Gate: SFPD Chief Greg Suhr resigns afer police killing of woman
5/15/16: The New York Times: A Plan to Flood San Francisco With News on Homelessness
5/11/16: SF Gate: Jeff Kositsky named 1st director of SF's new homeless department
4/24/16: New America Media: SF Dist. Attorney: Police Union Messaging on Prop. 47 'Disingenuous'
4/24/16: The New York Times: San Francisco Torn as Some See 'Street Behavior' Worsen
4/13/16: The New York Times: San Francisco Gives All a Fair Chance at Jobs, Housing
4/7/16: University of California: Novel doula training for incarcerated women and those at risk grows
4/7/16: The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Francisco police grapple with reducing fatal shootings
4/1/16: San Jose Mercury News: San Francisco police chief denies not telling DA's office of bigoted texts
4/1/16: The Atlantic: The San Franicsco Police Department's Bigotry Problem
3/27/16: PoliceOne.com: Amid push for San Francisco police reform, union escalates counterattack
3/16/16: The Washington Post: Cities begin to challenge a bedrock of justice: They're paying criminals not to kill
3/25/16: SF Weekly: SF's New Jail Dream Officially Dies; Now What?
3/9/16: The San Francisco Examiner: SF schools to reassess curriculum for kids with incarcerated parents
3/2/16: Ventura County Star: As San Francisco deliberates, it's a waiting game for jail project
2/18/16: Courthouse News Service: SF Police Told to Shoot Twice & Stop
2/16/16: San Francisco Chronicle: Overtime rising at S.F. Sheriff's Department
1/31/16: San Francisco Chronicle: Justice Department to review SFPD in wake of Mario Woods killing
1/27/16: Witness LA: Freedom For Sale: An Important San Francisco Bail Lawsuit Hits a Bump in the Road
1/25/16: San Jose Mercury News: San Francisco mayor asks feds for probe of police shooting
1/24/16: San Francisco Examiner: Jail health care services desperately need county oversight
1/16: MoveOn.org: Stop the Cycle of Court-Ordered Debt
1/20/16: San Francisco Examiner: Local man arrested by immigration officials after SFPD detention, possibly in violation of city law
1/13/16: ABC 7 News: Uber Eases Screening Reqiurements for Drivers with Criminal Past
1/12/16: San Francisco Examiner: Students with jailed parents may gain support
1/7/16: KQED News: Mayor Pushes SFPD to Fast-Track Use-of-Force Reforms:Chief Calls in Feds
1/5/16: San Francisco Examiner: Gascon, supes introduce mental health alternative to new jail
12/27/15: AP: The Big Story: Lawsuits seek to abolish country's bail bond system
12/10/15: San Francisco Chronicle: Mario Woods' Unnecessary Death
12/9/15: SF Weekly: After the Police Killing of Mario Woods, SF is "That Kind of Town"
12/7/15: San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. should drop new jail idea, tap alternatives to incarceration
12/7/15: San Francisco Chronicle: New jail needed in S.F., because current facility is unsafe for all
12/1/15: San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. supervisors need to press for answers on jail plan
12/1/15: San Francisco Chronicle: Mayor to OK Peskin taking office in time for crucial jail vote
12/1/15: The Crime Report: San Francisco Called a Model for Ending Mass Incarceration
11/30/15: San Francisco Magazine: Radical Chic: Radical Chic: S.F.’s Hottest New Restaurant Is Staffed Mostly by Ex-Cons
11/12/15: SF Gate: State offers S.F. $80 million for new jail but support is squishy
11/11/15: East Bay Express: Alameda County Traffic Court Eliminates Harsh License Suspension Policy that Punished the Poor
11/9/15: San Francisco Chronicle: The high cost of doing right by the city’s mentally ill
10/29/15: KQED: When the Mentally Ill Get Entangled in the Criminal Justice System
10/29/15: San Francisco Examiner: Federal lawsuit filed to overturn city's 'unequal' bail system
10/29/15: SF Public Defender: Federal Lawsuit Seeks to End Money Bail in SF
10/28/15: Oakland North: One year after Proposition 47's passage, is it working in the Bay area?
10/16/15: KQED: S.F. Sheriff Debate
10/13/15: Contra Costa Times: Richmond: New re-entry center unveiled for former inmates
10/2/15: San Francisco Chronicle: When it comes to diaper costs, S.F. has poor families covered
9/28/15: San Jose Mercury News: Specialty court helps struggling East Bay veterans clean up records, clean up lives
9/21/15: Hoodling: New Restaurant Cala Opens Tonight, With Unique Staffing Philosophy
9/11/15: KQED: Former Black Panther Launches Oakland Urban Farm to Give Ex-Prisoners a Fresh Start
9/11/15: San Francisco Chronicle: Expanding Navigation Center just the start in helping homeless
9/11/15: Time: San Francisco to House Inmates According to Gender Identity
9/6/15: San Francisco Chronicle: West Oakland Farms sows seeds of renewal for ex-inmates
Pacific Standard: Slow Poison: Even if the police don't kill me, a lifetime of preparing for them just might
KQED News: Contra Costa Plan for Jail Expansion Moves Forward Despite Opposition
The New York Times: Blending Tech Workers and Locals in San Francisco's Troubled Mid-Market
Stanford Report: A Second Chance at Success: Stanford Students Help Formerly Incarcerated People Become Entrepreneurs
Aljazeera: Set Free, Senior Convicts Struggle to Reenter Society
San Jose Mercury News: Kids of Incarcerated Parents Serve Parallel Prison Sentence
Community Works: The Sentence Unseen Portraits of Resilience
KQED: Report: African-American Adults 7 Times as Likely as Whites to be Arrested in San Francisco
SFGate: S.F. Study Finds Big Disparity In Arrest Rates Between Races
San Francisco Examiner: Housing should come before police
KQED: Ex-Con Starts Over with Antioch Roastery
Social Justice Solution: Documentary Captures How a H.S. in S.F. Jail Heals and Reduces Recidivism (Video)
SF Weekly: Public Defender No. 1: Jeff Adachi's Revolution
San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. sheriff sets lowest age in California for kids to visit loved ones in jail
Governing: Getting Out of Jail and Back to Work in 'Second Chance City'
KQED News: San Francisco Criminal Justice Leaders Push for Change at Race Summit
LA Times: Formerly Incarcerated Activist Fights to Give People a Chance to Change
KALW Public Radio: The Reentry Pod: A Place Where Inmates Prepare for Release