Prisons Archives - 48 hills

Movies

Screen Grabs: Hey SF, let’s get weird (the good kind)

Dennis Harvey - August 21, 2024

Alamo Drafthouse dives in. Plus: Lynne Ramsay retrospective, 'Strange Darling,' 'Secret Art of Human Flight,' much more

Crime

California’s reform era led to lower crime, despite what the news media reports

Tim Redmond - August 18, 2024

Moves to reduce incarceration were not associated with higher rates of violent crime—or property crime—a new report shows

Media

Media Week: Should Kamala Harris do more press interviews?

Tim Redmond - August 14, 2024

Plus: the Chron's Peskin problem, and what is a 'moderate' anyway?

Opinion

The Giants are struggling—and so are the ballpark workers

Marc Norton - August 6, 2024

Union members fighting over pay, benefits as new contractor takes over food and drink service.

Perspectives

Finally, Native American land returned to Native Americans in Berkeley

Tiny - March 18, 2024

At the ancient Berkeley shellmound, the Lisjan people get back their sacred land.

News + Politics

What the billionaires want

Tim Redmond - February 21, 2024

The agenda behind the big money is clear—and for more than 40 years, it's been a massive failure that created most of our social problems.

Homelessness

Tiny homes with giant restrictions are not a solution to homelessness

Tiny - January 25, 2024

Tiny tombs, I mean tiny homes Not a place to call our own Tiny tombs better describes the triggerr of those jail-like rooms The InsideNOTsafe is a...

Drug policy

Breed continues to push arrests as solution to substance-abuse issues

Tim Redmond - September 13, 2023

Evidence shows this policy never works as right-wingers continue to push their attacks on local judges

Art

Amid political backlash, ‘Undoing Time’ confronts legacy of carceral system

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - December 1, 2022

Berkeley Art Museum taps 12 artists to consider the foundational roots and effects of confinement in moving show.

COVID

COVID and wildfires are a double threat at state prisons

Tim Redmond - September 8, 2021

New outbreaks, and constant fire threats, have been largely ignored by the major news media.

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