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As the Police Review Commission, or PRC, seeks to fulfill its task as Berkeley’s main police oversight body, it continues to face criticism from the community and grapples with its limited power.
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Despite being free by some accounts, Banks was never granted those 11 years of his life back, though he was able to briefly experience playing in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons in 2013.
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The criminal justice sector is no exception — these are just three of the numerous people within Cal athletics whose impact away from the playing field shines just as bright, if not brighter, than their contributions on it.
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When Bill Drummond, journalism professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, or J-School, began teaching university-level courses at San Quentin State Prison, a student asked him to advise the prison’s inmate-run newspaper, San Quentin News.
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Though education alone cannot serve as a cure for social and economic mobility, it can certainly work as a gateway. We at the Clog have put together a list of some of the Bay Area’s pipeline programs that we feel are important to volunteer with and donate to.
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In February 2018, former Berkeley City Council candidate and activist Nanci Armstrong-Temple was restrained and arrested by Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, officers while helping to move a homeless encampment in front of Old City Hall — an act she referred to as “outside of the law and definitely outside of human decency.”
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In 2013, UC Berkeley alumni, Danny Murillo and Steven Czifra, met on campus and shared their backgrounds on being formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals. Together, Murillo and Czifra co-founded the Underground Scholars Initiative, or USI, a student-run organization for those who have been personally impacted by the U.S. criminal justice system.
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The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is facing several lawsuits from past and current inmates alleging excessive force and mistreatment of female inmates.
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