Here is something that I did not know…

“California has desegregated three of its 30 men’s prisons, according to California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton. A fourth facility, Folsom State Prison, is in the process of integrating its housing units this year.” The prisons in California are still officially segregated??? Honestly, I didn’t know that this defacto policy was still in existence 56 years after Brown vs. Board of Education desegregated our schools (at least on paper).

News 21 is reporting about the state of the criminal legal system in California as part of a series called Behind Bars: The California Convict Cycle. Fourteen journalists are spending the summer covering the crisis in California prisons.

To watch some of their series on prison segregation click on this link.