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Oakland High School, 1872-1895. Oakland High was first located at 12th Street and Market Street, then at 12th and Jefferson Street. It has been at its current location at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Park Boulevard since 1928. The building that stood before its current manifestation was known as the "Pink Prison" or "Pink Palace."
Without additional prison closures, about one-fifth of the state’s total prison capacity will sit empty, new report shows. Gavin Newsom could save $1 billion by closing 5 California prisons ...
The town of Susanville — where local officials say they face economic devastation if they lose more than 1,000 prison jobs — sued the state last year. A rural California prison was set to ...
Duffy had the offending prison guards fired and added a librarian, psychiatrists, and several surgeons at San Quentin. Duffy's press agent publicized sweeping reforms. San Quentin remained a brutal prison where prisoners continued to be beaten to death. [60] The use of torture as an approved method of interrogation at San Quentin was banned in ...
The prison was mixed-sex, with female prisoners housed separately, until 1977, when overcrowding led to the transfer of the women to the federal prison in Dublin, California. [3] The prison was given increased barbed wire and armed guards in the early 1980s in an effort to dispel the facility's "Club Fed" image.
3rd prison to close in 3 months Last month, DOC closed MCI-Concord, which had been operating for 150 years. The closure creates an opportunity to redevelop a 37-acre tract that includes 18 buildings.
April 10 – The Oakland Athletics paid tribute to the four slain officers at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in a special ceremony before its home opener against the Seattle Mariners. A's players donned Oakland Police caps for the ceremony and debuted "OPD" patches on their white home uniforms, which were worn for the remainder of the 2009 ...
Ray J. Garcia leaves the federal courthouse in Oakland on Nov. 28. Garcia, the former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women's prison, was found guilty of eight counts of sexually abusing women ...