Search results for

The San Diego City Council has thrown down the gauntlet to Mayor Jerry Sanders. Yesterday the council clipped the mayor's budget power. Full Focus reporter Amita Sharma has more.

California will soon force thousands of inmates to move out of the state’s overcrowded prisons, and into private, out-of-state facilities. From Sacramento, Marianne Russ explains.

The opening scenes of

San Diego County is leading the fight against felons who re-offend. On Thursday's Full Focus, we'll talk with District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on a model program that works with felons so that they ca

The death penalty continues to be a divisive issue. But one man whose death row sentence was commuted is now advocating for the end of the death penalty. Host Gloria Penner talks to Billy Neal Moore

Faced with a federal judge's threat to take over the entire state prison system, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new plan to make some space in the seriously overcrowded facilities … one that in

Fewer people were sentenced to die this year in the United States than in any of the past 30 years. Juries sentenced 114 people to death row this year. In 1999, they sentenced 283. Death penalty opponents are calling it a turning point.

A comics historian and former head curator in the prints and photography division of the Library of Congress talks about his new book, 'Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress.'

Susan Hirsch's husband was a victim of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The cultural anthropologist has written a book about dealing with the tragedy, In the Moment of Greatest Calamity.

Prisoner-rights attorneys are asking a federal court to force California to reduce its prison population. Attorneys filed motions recently in two long-running lawsuits, arguing that the crowding has created cruel and unusual conditions in the state's prisons. KQED's Judy Campbell reports.