In June 2018, the Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill(AB) 1812, which amended Penal Code § 1170(d)(1). The new law took effect...

Visiting has been locked down for a couple of months now, and as they say, the natives are getting restless. I've said from the...

A few days ago I sort of went ballistic on FB and in email, after posting figures about the CoVid response from CDCR and being castigated...

Hello everybody. This is David, writing to you from a new perspective in my life. It's interesting, looking back, all the "phases" of my...

Hi folks, Just a quick note to lift your spirits, and hopefully your wallets as well. :-) Here's a brief preliminary report extracted...

Sooo... After being out almost 7 years, and going back inside for about two and a half years, finally my 12th prison back inside was the...

Support Letter Tips...

The Board seems intent on continuing parolees on parole as long as possible. In late 2018, my office filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas...

If only i could find some "Spare Time"...

Some of you may have heard from your lifers about a 'new' parole hearing format, even perhaps called 'the Canadian model of parole.' ...

This is something we talk about often. Our goal has always been to get to every prison that asks us to come--but--it's often an...

...that the BPH is now moving toward shorter parole hearings, less subjectivity in decisions, a new framework for hearings created just...

Hello everyone As many have predicted, the 2019-2020 legislative session seems to be boiling down to protecting many of the progressive...

It's been a couple of years since we held a lifer family seminar in the Bay Area--not because we wanted to ignore that side of the world,...

We're being contacted by many family members about family visiting and continuing problems. While this should not surprise anyone, it...

We've been doing seminars for lifer families for sometime now, but this year, as I discussed earlier, we decided to offer a choice of...

We'll try to tackle some of the questions posed at the recent Sacramento seminar that we either didn't have time to get to or for which...

Sounds crazy, right? But it's real. CDCR Undersecretary for Operations Kathleen Allison revealed that startling fact at last week's...

Hi everyone, this is David writing to you this fine Sunday afternoon. I just wanted to say for those of you who haven't been paying...

6:30 am and we're ready to roll, headed to KVSP to do the Connecting the Dots workshop for all 4 yards--150+/- guys. It'll be an all day...