Nicole Jones
Reporter/ProducerNicole Jones joined KALW's Crosscurrents team in 2010 as a reporter covering criminal justice and public safety. Jones is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Time's online edition and The Bay Citizen.
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Imagine you’re 18 years old and you commit a crime. A robbery. You go to prison at one of the only women’s facilities in the state. You get out a year… -
Much of the information young people receive is increasingly, if not exclusively, supplied by the Internet. A big part of this influx of information is… -
More of a police presence and better police community relations are good ways to prevent violence, but a group of young men in Oakland are trying a… -
It’s summer in California, which means fire season is in full force – and it could be the worst one in years. The California Department of Forestry and… -
Not too long ago, the men now sitting around a table at the Contra Costa Probation Office were in prison. “I want to ask how long have you been in… -
Criminal justice expert David Onek recently sat down with Stanford law professor Joan Petersilia to talk about California’s criminal justice realignment.… -
UC Davis police officers dousing a line of seated Occupy protesters with pepper spray should and could have been prevented, according to a scathing… -
In a conference room at the BART police headquarters in downtown Oakland, a DVD plays a scenario. The screen shows a woman, and she’s really angry. She’s… -
Santa Cruz Deputy Chief Steve Clark has been with the Police Department for 25 years. But there are some things that even experience doesn’t teach. Up… -
What does it mean to be a transgendered person in prison? A collection of writings on queer, transgender and prison politics shed light on these two…
