Fact Check: LaSuer on Immigrants and Prisons
Statement: “About 20 to 30 percent of the people in our state prisons today are from another country besides America. They’re in this country illegally,” Jay LaSuer, one of three candidates campaigning...
View ArticleSecond Opinion: How Do Former Inmates Sign Up for Obamacare?
Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series that answers questions from San Diegans on the Affordable Care Act. Ask yours here. The Question: How can former inmates sign up for the Affordable Care Act?...
View ArticleMorning Report: Barrio Logan, for Once, in the Spotlight
Just about everyone, liberal or conservative or in between, seems to agree that the city’s made a mess of the Barrio Logan neighborhood. It’s a crazy patchwork of family homes and pollution-belching...
View ArticleMeet the Women Prisoners Fighting San Diego County’s Fires
At the bottom of a dirt path off Palomar Airport Road in Carlsbad, just around the bend from a bustling Costco, 13 women in orange jump suits prepare for an afternoon of clearing brush and litter....
View ArticleProp. 47 Is Law — Now We Just Need Law Enforcement to Recognize It
As a psychiatric social worker in a busy urban clinic, I work with patients often just discharged from long prison stays. I have seen firsthand how incarceration only exacerbates mental health...
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