Prayer can, and will, heal our California prison system
Spending more tax dollars on prisons is not the answer to averting crime or making our communities safer. And while more money needs to go into education, drug and mental …
A disease without a known medical cure
A disease named for the San Joaquin Valley, where the same soil produces the state’s agricultural bounty can turn traitorous. The disease, called the “silent epidemic”, known as “cocci”, became …
Prison suicide rate escalating
There are about 33,000 mentally ill prisoners in state prisons in California, close to 30 percent of the prison population. The number of suicides in state prisons has soared in …
Major health issues among California’s inmates
Our prison population, is comprised of a disproportionate number of minorities and low-income Americans — 37 percent of whom have chronic diseases, 65 to 80 percent of whom have struggled with …
