The bill would limit confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days and prohibit placing anyone in solitary who is pregnant or has a physical or mental disability
"The avenues for drugs entering prisons during the first year of the pandemic ... remained staff, contractors, official visitors and mail," an official said
Domestic and international calls from wall phones and tablets are now free for "maintaining positive bonds between incarcerated people and their loved ones"
The Fresno County, California rule allowed suspects arrested for certain lower-level felonies and misdemeanors to be released soon after, without having to put up bail money
California judge rejects Peterson's request nearly 20 years after he was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife and unborn child on Christmas Eve 2002