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Joseph Sena, 27, reads a document in his cell at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Sena spent years trying to make himself a better person after spending nearly half of his 27 years in prison for killing a man. He took courses in poetry and mental health and other topics at a central California prison, hoping to be seen as fit for parole and ready to live outside prison if the day he was free ever came. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs
Thu,03/02/23-9:21AM , 45 Reads
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived.
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At the onset of the pandemic, many prisons across the US suspended in-person visitation, disrupting rehabilitative programs. While things are almost back to normal, some prisoners wonder if the lost time will impact their fitness for parole. (March 2) (AP video/Noreen Nasir and Aaron Morrison)

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Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs
Thu,03/02/23-9:20AM , 15 Reads
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived.
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This photo provided by Kawena Alo-Kaonohi shows a view looking down into Kahakuloa village in Wailuku, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 2020. Two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, March 2, 2023, for a federal hate crime in the 2014 brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. (Courtesy of Kawena Alo-Kaonohi via AP)

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A hate crime lays bare Hawaii’s complicated race relations
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Thu,03/02/23-12:07AM , 448 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men wouldn't have brutally beaten a man if he weren't white, a U.S. judge said Thursday in sentencing them to yearslong prison terms for a hate crime in a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race.
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Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference, in New York on July 2, 2020. Maxwell says a federal appeals court should reverse her conviction on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women. The arguments her lawyers submitted Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely repeated claims she unsuccessfully made to a trial judge who sent her to prison for 20 years.( AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Ghislaine Maxwell's appeals arguments mirror earlier claims
Tue,02/28/23-11:35PM , 222 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court should reverse the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell or grant a new trial on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women for more than a decade, her lawyers argued in court papers Tuesday.
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