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Press Releases:

May 2013: Jail Opponents Take Fight to Castaic

May 2013: California Prison Experts Weigh in on Governor’s May Budget Revise

May 2013: California Prison Experts Blast Governor’s May Budget Revise

May 2013: California Prison Experts Blast Governor’s Response to Court Order

May 2013: Prisoner Advocates Rally at SF State Building in Anticipation of Governor’s Response to Court Order

April 2013: Community Leaders to Gather at Toxic Jail Site on Earth Day, Call on San Mateo County to Abandon Controversial Project

March 2013: L.A. Residents Plan a Healthier and Safer City

March 2013: Advocates, Activists Plan to Send Strong Message to Top Corrections Brass during Major Prison Crisis Conference

March 2013: LA Residents Rally Against Controversial Women’s Jail Plan

March 2013: Women’s Survival is Focus of International Women’s Day Events in Los Angeles

March 2013: Los Angeles Residents Continue to Demand Cancellation of Massive Jail Project

February 2013: San Mateo County Residents Oppose Using New Tax to Fund New Jail

January 2013: Opposition to Controversial Chino Prison Expansion Grows

January 2013: Freedom Rally to Draw Hundreds to Chowchilla to Protest Women’s Prison

January 2013: Freedom Rally to Draw Hundreds of Bay Area Resident to Central Valley to Protest Women’s Prison

January 2013: Freedom Rally to Draw Hundreds of Angelinos to the Central Valley to Protest Women’s Prison

January 2013: Despite Mounting Pressure to Reduce the Prison Population, CDCR Opens New Women’s Prison

January 2013: Gov. Brown Backslides on Corrections Budget, Plans More Rat Holes

January 2013: Gov. Attempts to Justify Unconstitutional Prison Overcrowding

News Coverage of CURB:

Jerry Brown’s Corrections Budget Revise: More Cages, Little Else, Justice Not Jails 5/21/13

Supervisors look to beef up manpower at L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, LA Daily News 5/21/13

Several dozen protest Pitchess expansion proposal, Signal 5/18/13

Brown: spend more on schools, Central Valley Business Times 5/14/13

GOVERNOR IGNORES VOTERS’ MANDATE TO REDUCE PRISON POPULATION, Santa Monica Dispatch, 5/4/13

Prison overcrowding: Gov. Jerry Brown submits revised plan, ABC 30 5/3/13

Brown’s Prison Plan “Best of the Bad Options”, Capitol Public Radio 5/3/13

California Outlines Cuts to Cut Prison Population, Wall Street Journal 5/3/13

State Files Court-Ordered Plan To Reduce Prison Population, SF Appeal 5/3/13

Prison chief: plan to reduce state’s inmate population ‘ugly’, KCRA 5/3/13

Brown’s plan to reduce prison overcrowding falls short of court’s order, Ventura County Star 5/3/13

Advocates for CA inmate rights blast Jerry Brown’s prison plan, Sacramento Bee 5/3/13

California files court-ordered prison plan; critics blast it, Central Valley Business Times 5/3/13

Concerns expressed on plan to ease prison overcrowding, Daily News 5/2/13

Groups Allege California Prison Policies Amount to State-Sanctioned Torture, Fog City Journal 5/2/13

San Mateo County residents protest toxic jail on Earth Day, SF Bayview 4/23/13

CURB Pushes Brown for Humane Realignment Plan, JNJ 4/22/13

Redwood City Residents Protest ‘Toxic’ Jail on Earth Day, Redwood City Patch 4/22/13

Advocates push to bring prisoners home, SF Bay View 4/12/13

Sheriffs are banking on rehabilitation, Letter to the Editor LA Daily News 4/8/13

Evening News, KPFK 3/19/13

Sheriff Seeks to Replace Men’s Central Jail Cells With Classrooms, NBC 3/19/13

San Mateo jail: If land is too toxic for housing, how can a jail go there?, Mercury News 3/18/13

$900 millones para cárcel quiere Sheriff, La Opinion 3/18/13

Sheriff Lee Baca proposes almost $1 billion new jail to replace downtown facility, 3/16/13

Group Protests Expansion for Women’s Jails, ATVN 3/12/13

No More Jails Coalition Says New Women’s Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca’s Latest ‘Boondoggle’, LA Weekly 3/12/13

En marcha, por derechos de la mujer,  La Opinión 3/9/13

Demonstrators march for International Women’s Day, other causes, LA Times 3/9/13

Sacramento hearing exposes CDCR’s hidden agenda, SF Bay View 3/6/13

California Assembly reviews solitary confinement policies as prisoners threaten new hunger strike, SF Bay View 2/28/13

San Mateo County supervisors mull how to slice up Measure A pie, Mercury News 2/13/13

Public Tells Supes How to Spend $60M, Belmont Patch 2/13/13

Taxing decisions: County officials, public tackle sales tax priorities, San Mateo Daily Journal 2/13/13

CURB’s Campaign Against New Jail Heats Up, San Carlos Patch 2/12/13

Many speak out against possible CIM expansion, Daily Bulletin 1/30/13

Windy Click and Leslie Mendoza on Evening News, KPFA (min 28) 1/28/13

Officials insist inmates’ needs are being met at Central California Women’s Facility, Merced Sun-Star 1/29/13

Inside the women’s prison in Chowchilla, CBS 1/28/13

Protest against prison overcrowding draws hundreds, KSBY 1/27/13

Manifestación de la Libertad, Univision 1/27/13

VIDEO: Hundreds of prison protestors rally outside of Chowchilla, Merced Sun-Star 1/26/13

Thousands Rally Against Prison Overcrowding, KSEE 1/26/13

 Protest Against Overcrowding Held Outside Philadelphia Women’s Prison, CBS 1/26/13

Protest against prison overcrowding draws hundreds, The Tribune 1/26/13

Protest Against Overcrowding Held Outside Philadelphia Women’s Prison, CBS 1/26/13

Group to Protest Outside Jail Saturday, Redwood City Patch 1/26/13

Op-Ed: Angela Davis/Windy Click: Rallying to end women’s prison crisis in California, Fresno Bee 1/25/13

Chowchilla Freedom Rally to draw hundreds of Bay Area residents to Central Valley to protest women’s prison, SF Bay View 1/24/13

Groups set to protest crowding at Chowchilla women’s prison, Merced Sun-Star 1/24/13

California Sheds Prisoners but Grapples With Courts, New York Times 1/21/13

Crowding More Into Chowchilla Rally Jan, Prison Radio 1/16/13

Is Realignment a Model for Reform?, East Bay Express 1/16/13

Chowchilla prison shifts from women to men, Fresno Bee 1/16/13

Letters: Is California’s prison crisis over?, LA Times 1/12/13

Some on Death Row ‘low risk’ for parole, SF Chronicle 1/13/13

Gov. Brown tries to justify unconstitutional prison overcrowding, backslides on Corrections budget SF Bay View 1/11/13

The downside of Jerry Brown’s budget, SF Bay Guardian 1/10/13

Governor says California Prison Overcrowding, Heathcare Problem is Fixed, KSEE 24 News 1/8/13

Gov. Brown Moves to End Cap on Prison Population, The Patch 1/8/13

Governor asking court to remove prison limits, OC Register 1/8/13

Brown seeks to lift state inmate caps, LA Times Article 1/8/13

Chowchilla women’s prison squeezed, Merced-Star Sun 1/8/13