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Immigrant and human rights advocates have suffered a disappointing setback in California, where an 11-judge panel on Monday ruled as unconstitutional a historic state law banning private, for-profit prisons. This includes detention facilities that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 10:35 AM PDT
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta said last fall that he would seek a rehearing after the conservatives from a three-judge appeals panel ruled against historic state law banning private, for-profit prisons. This includes detention facilities that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue May 03, 2022 at 10:53 AM PDT
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking to return to court to defend a historic state law state banning private for-profit prisons after a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled against it. Advocates said at...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 10:26 AM PST
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California’s Otay Mesa Detention Facility, a privately operated immigration prison where the first detained immigrant to die from COVID-19 had been held, has failed yet another unannounced inspection. This is the second time since November 2020 that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Oct 06, 2021 at 12:55 PM PDT
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Conservative judges overturn California's ban on private prisons—with an assist from the Biden admin The immigrant rights movement both in California and across the country won a truly historic victory back in 2019, when the state passed a law banning private, for-profit prisons. That included facilities that detain immigrants. Advocates called it “a...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Oct 06, 2021 at 08:56 AM PDT
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In a major loss for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison profiteer GEO Group, a federal judge has largely upheld California law banning private prisons, including those that jail immigrants for the federal government....
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Oct 09, 2020 at 10:40 AM PDT
with 212 Recommends
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Notorious private prison profiteer GEO Group has sued California over a recent law banning private immigration detention centers in the state, claiming in its lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, “This...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Jan 03, 2020 at 11:09 AM PST
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California is banning new contracts on for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers effective January 1—so ICE is rushing to open some new detention centers before then. It took just five days after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ban before ICE...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Oct 29, 2019 at 06:58 AM PDT
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In a major victory for immigrant rights advocates, and a major blow for private companies that make massive profits off immigration detention, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill banning private, for-profit prisons, including those...
by Gabe Ortiz
32 comments
on Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 09:42 AM PDT
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California Governor, Jerry Brown, spoke this week at the California Climate Leadership Forum in Oakland, the city he governed before returning to state office as Attorney General and Governor. The ...
by Doctor Jazz
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on Thu Dec 18, 2014 at 03:54 PM PST
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California is home to AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 authored by State Senator Fran Pavley that caps and trades carbon pollution, mandates lower carbon fuel, higher mileage from ...
by RLMiller
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on Thu Feb 07, 2013 at 10:44 AM PST
with 45 Recommends
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This is a Gulf Watchers GOTV SPECIAL MID-TERM ELECTION EDITION: Focusing on 2 CA Local Ticket Items:
1) Kamala Harris for CA-AG
2) NO on PROP 23
California sets the direction for our ...
by ArthurPoet
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on Fri Oct 29, 2010 at 09:51 AM PDT
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Some friends shared their frustration with trying to make sense of the interrelationship of AB 32 (California's climate change law), Proposition 23 (a ballot measure to nix our climate change law), ...
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
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on Thu Oct 14, 2010 at 09:40 PM PDT
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By Kristin Eberhard
Originally posted on The MarkUp .
Now that Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has announced her opposition ...
by NRDCActionFund
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on Tue Sep 28, 2010 at 07:40 AM PDT
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Even a well-marketed cabbage cannot have it both ways in the real world.Whitman’s apparent hope that voters won’t connect the dots between her token opposition to Proposition 23 and her ...
by jdecock
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on Wed Sep 29, 2010 at 04:10 PM PDT
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It should come to no one's surprise that two of the wealthiest men in America, Charles and David Koch, who just happen to own Koch ...
by Steven D
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on Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 06:02 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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California AB 32 is the Global Warming Solutions Act signed ...
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
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on Mon Sep 13, 2010 at 07:00 PM PDT
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This fall, California voters will vote on Proposition 23, officially termed a "suspension" of California's global warming law (AB32) "until unemployment reaches 5.5%" and named by its supporters a "...
by RLMiller
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on Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 05:41 PM PDT
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The National Wildlife Federation chair Larry Shweigher just warmed us up.
The topic: "Next Steps for the Climate Movement"
starts with thanks to Maggie Fox, Larry Schweigher
and deep thanks to ...
by raines
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on Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 05:53 PM PDT
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In response to California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman calling for a ...
by citisven
38 comments
on Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 10:20 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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