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What's the latest on efforts to reduce California's overcrowded prison system? KPBS Reporter Joanne Faryon updates us on the history behind the prison crisis, and the ideas that are being discussed to solve the problem.

A delegation of senior Afghan Army officials from Helmand province is in Camp Pendleton this week. They are observing Marine exercises and getting to know their Marine counterparts.

As part of KPBS' special coverage of life in California prisons, KPBS sent a team of journalists to the California Medical Facility at Vacaville. Producer Angela Carone went along to photograph life in the state's largest prison hospital.

U.S.-led efforts to deliver food and water to hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince and other hard-hit areas were starting to come together just as the search for anyone left alive under the rubble was winding down. "We are hitting our stride finally, and we're getting out everything that is getting to us," one Army commander said.

The California Medical Facility in Vacaville is the primary location for providing health care services to California's incarcerated men. It houses the state's oldest and sickest inmates. As the elderly inmate population continues to grow, so too will the health care needs and cost of providing care to this prison population. KPBS producer Angela Carone spent an afternoon photographing inside California largest prison hospital.

Haiti's already limited medical infrastructure was all but wiped out in the earthquake. Aid groups and the international community are rushing doctors and medical supplies to the country. Meanwhile, patients with compound fractures, severe lacerations and amputations are sleeping outside Port-au-Prince's main hospital as they wait for treatment.

Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh — governed by a former warlord — is often cited as an example of what's going right in the country. It also highlights what could go wrong if the West places too much power and money in the hands of local governments too quickly.

Fear is growing over the possibility that Governor Schwarzenegger may end a $5 billion California program that provides in-home care for the disabled and elderly. The move would be part of the governor's effort to patch a $20 billion budget hole.

What issues should Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger address in his State of the State speech? We speak to KPBS Political Correspondent Gloria Penner about the key issues California faces in 2010. And, after the speech, we talk to San Diego Union-Tribune Political Writer John Marelius to get his reaction to the governor's address.

KPBS reporter Joanne Faryon interviews 63-year-old inmate Glenda Virgil. Her profile is part of an ongoing look at the aging prison population.