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We are HERE for you: Root & Rebound’s Response to COVID-19
On this page, you will find information about Root & Rebound’s response to coronavirus (COVID-19) as it impacts formerly incarcerated, currently incarcerated, and justice system-impacted people and their families.
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Opinion: California’s support...
Buffy Wicks and Felicia Espinosa | SFChronicle If you live in California, you probably think […]
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Federal Cannabis Regulations...
Drug Policy Alliance Washington, D.C — Today, the Federal Cannabis Regulations Working Group released its Principles for Federal Cannabis […]
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Oakland Org Wants...
by Zack Ruskin • 03/13/2021 • SF Weekly Last year, California spent over $15 billion on prisons. By contrast, […]
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How Al Harrington...
Rolling Stone | March 12, 2021 | By Mary Jane Gibson […] African Americans are […]
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Part 3: Removing...
Diana D’Abruzzo | ArnoldVentures.org Ban the Box legislation — also called Fair Chance — calls […]
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Part 2: ‘They’d...
Diana D’Abruzzo | ArnoldVentures.org Strict state occupational licensing laws are some of the biggest barriers […]
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Part 1: Locked...
by Diana D’Abruzzo | ArnoldVentures.org It wasn’t as if Sandra Johnson, 62, could forget she […]
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SC experts worry...
By Sara Coello [email protected] Dec 27, 2020 Updated Dec 29, 2020 As thousands of South Carolinians struggle […]
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California ‘bans the...
by Tamar Sarai Davis for Prism – Nov. 12, 2020 Keisha Murphy is on the […]
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Pandemic’s Deadly Toll...
November 12, 2020, 7:23 PM ET | Heard on NPR’s Morning Edition Prisoner’s rights advocates […]
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Millions Still Haven’t...
by Lydia DePillis, Oct. 30, 2020 | ProPublica It’s been 217 days since Congress instructed the […]
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IRS Whittles Mail...
by Richard Rubin | Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON— The Internal Revenue Service is still digging […]
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Katherine Katcher Nominated...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OAKLAND, CA – SEPT. 28, 2020 – Rep. Barbara Lee will celebrate […]
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The epidemic of...
The following is an excerpt. California realignment California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said publicly that […]
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Newsom Signs Law...
Sitting in a cloud of wildfire smoke at the site of the massive North Complex […]
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‘Only as Valuable...
Root & Rebound provided background for this piece. As California faces a devastating wildfire season, […]
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Inmate firefighters —...
BY OTIS R. TAYLOR JR. When wildfire season starts in California, Danielle Allen thinks of […]
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They were incarcerated...
Root & Rebound provided background for this piece. The pandemic isn’t the real reason why California’s […]
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Shortage of Inmate...
As wildfires continue to burn in every Bay Area county except San Francisco, the region […]
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Reformers Aim to...
Brandon Smith was incarcerated in Wasco State Prison in 2012 when a correctional officer approached […]
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Commentary: Fresno’s police...
BY FELICIA ESPINOSA AND KATHRYN FORBES JULY 22, 2020 12:05 PM Between 2000 and 2020, […]
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