Political | Process

Richard Louis Brown says the governor should not close a prison in rural Lassen County, as planned.

• Leaders of one Northern California city say they are planning on suing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration over a proposed California state prison closure next year that would devastate the local economy.

• The Newsom administration’s reasoning behind the planned closure of the prison which for years has been a hub for inmate firefighting training was the declining numbers of incarcerated Californians, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in early releases for thousands of inmates.

SOURCE: SACBEE