Tagged With "Correctional"

By Taylor Walker, Witness LA, January 14, 2020 On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his plans for the 2020-2021 budget, a $222.2 billion proposal that features important changes to probation and pretrial diversion, jail reforms, and a potential prison closure, among other big changes in the world of justice. Below, WitnessLA has compiled some of the highlights from the governor’s proposed criminal justice spending. Based on Newsom’s January budget proposal, spending for the...

"Excellent course. I can apply the skills learned professionally and personally. The speaker is very passionate about the ACE subject. Thank you for your expertise and encouragement/support." - Law Enforcement Attendee Dave Lockridge, Executive Director of ACE Overcomers: The Center for Resiliency, spent September 5th and 6th training 72 probation/correction officers in Ventura County. The day was spent equipping officers to succeed personally and professionally in a stressful environment.

Thank you for sharing this, Phil! Dave is a passionate ACEs champion and I love seeing him speaking with correctional officers. Not only do they likely encounter folks with ACEs, and experience secondary or vicarious trauma ... frequently those in the "helping professions" have had similar ACEs experiences while they were growing up. Love the participant quote and all the photos! Thanks for sharing, Karen

By Jason Fagone, Megan Cassidy, and Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom will release approximately 8,000 people incarcerated inside California’s prison system by August, in a move that comes amid devastating coronavirus outbreaks at several facilities and pressure from lawmakers and advocates. The releases, which were announced just before noon Friday, will come on a rolling basis, and they’ll include both people who were scheduled to be freed soon as well...