This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more and longer prison sentences. Unfortunately, ...

To the editor — David Trieweiler’s Sept. 28 commentary (“Long Prison Sentences Don’t Keep Us Safe,”) persuades me that excessively long sentences are expensive, do great damage and are not needed for ...

For people, myself included, who are serving long prison sentences in New York, years pass, circumstances change, and lives take on dimensions that were not discernable at the time of sentencing. Yet ...

This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more and longer prison sentences. Unfortunately, ...

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison shown from the neck down wearing blue uniforms and navy sweat pants that say “CDCR prisoner” wait in line in 2016. When a 2016 California law made it possible for ...

When a 2016 California law made it possible for Lance Gonzalez to shorten his prison sentence by completing more rehabilitation programs and education, he hit the ground running. Gonzalez "poured ...