Sam Levin
The Guardian
Oakland, CA, United States
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US special counsel seeks gag order on Trump’s ‘inflammatory’ statements
Jack Smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to restrict ex-president’s statements in federal election subversion trial → Read More
As San Quentin prison vows to transform, its residents ask: is change possible?
Inside California’s oldest prison, a mix of hope and fear as the governor’s $380m plan to ‘reimagine’ incarceration begins → Read More
Isolated, no air conditioning: Louisiana youth in solitary cells amid heat, ACLU says
The children allege they are given only few minutes outside their cells, with some even being maced → Read More
Ilhan Omar condemns US’s failure to act since George Floyd: ‘A broken system’
Exclusive: three years after the murder, the Minnesota congresswoman talks prison abuse and her new police violence resolution → Read More
The last days of death row in California: ‘Your soul is tested here’
After decades locked alone in small cages in San Quentin, men sentenced to die brace for sweeping change → Read More
UN group to tour Los Angeles jails accused of ‘squalid, inhumane’ conditions
Advocates say it will cast welcome attention on a system mired in scandals of prisoner mistreatment and racial injustice → Read More
‘Stand your ground’: the US laws linked to rising deaths and racist violence
The shooting of Ralph Yarl, the Black teen who rang the wrong doorbell, revives concerns about expanding self-defense laws → Read More
Police charge white man for shooting Black teen boy who had wrong address
Ralph Yarl, 16, is in stable condition as outrage spread over the police’s initial decision to release the homeowner without charges → Read More
Man with schizophrenia was left naked in jail cell for weeks before death, video shows
Joshua McLemore died of malnutrition after 20 days in windowless Indiana jail cell with no medical treatment → Read More
She reported being abused by US prison guards. Now she faces deportation
Cristal, 31, was one of many to speak up against sexual violence in federal prison, but at the end of her sentence was taken by Ice → Read More
She lost her child in a home birth. Prosecutors charged her with murder
The medical examiner ruled the death of Kelsey Carpenter’s baby an accident – yet she faces life in prison: ‘I mourn every day’ → Read More
Can California’s oldest prison become a Norway-style rehab center? Two former residents weigh in
Thanh Tran and James King, formerly incarcerated advocates, on life inside the notorious San Quentin and the governor’s transformation plan → Read More
‘Ending San Quentin’: plan would turn prison into ‘Norwegian style’ rehab center
Gavin Newsom wants to overhaul California’s oldest prison into a facility focused on training programs and education → Read More
‘Unsung hero’: the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice
After Jen Angel’s shocking death, loved ones honor her legacy of punk zines, gourmet dinner nights and social justice projects → Read More
She asked the police to help her husband. They killed him instead
Sassie Smith’s husband, Takar, was fatally shot by the Los Angeles police while he was having a mental health crisis: ‘I won’t let this get swept under the rug’ → Read More
Patrisse Cullors on 10 years of Black Lives Matter: ‘A painful reminder of what hasn’t changed’
The BLM co-founder talks Tyre Nichols, LAPD’s killing of her cousin and the fight for abolition: ‘It’s not individual bad officers, it’s a culture of violence’ → Read More
California police kill double amputee who was fleeing: ‘Scared for his life’
Anthony Lowe’s family says they want to see Huntington Park police prosecuted: ‘I’m heartbroken and filled with rage’ → Read More
Eight days, 25 dead: California shaken by string of mass shootings
A series of four attacks have upended communities across the state, from a city to farming towns → Read More
Survivors recount rampant abuse at Los Angeles’ juvenile jails: ‘Helpless, hopeless, lost and lonely’
Three victims tell Guardian about their ordeal as nearly 300 sue LA county over decades of sexual abuse by officers → Read More
Jailed for life for stealing $14
David Coulson was imprisoned in California under draconian ‘tough on crime’ laws stemming from the 1990s. Now campaigners are calling for reform, reports Sam Levin → Read More