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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Occupy brought the movement to San Quentin State Prison on Monday afternoon. Over 600 people peacefully assembled in front of the prison’s East gate to… -
This week's criminal justice headlines.•How an infamous Berkeley human trafficking case fueled reform Advocates for increased prison terms say 10-year-old… -
A spokesperson with California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has confirmed that an inmate on a hunger strike at Corcoran State Prison… -
A new bill is on the block would allow counties to use AB 109 funds to pay for out-of-state contracts to house inmates, similar to how the states… -
Criminal justice realignment is changing the way probation officers are managing offenders, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Motivational interviewing… -
Last January, an alternative custody program was made law in California. So far 10 women have been released early and by the end of the next year, the… -
On a typical day at Brightworks, a private school in San Francisco’s Mission District, students are welding, listening to indie music, and writing novels.… -
Art can be extraordinary. It can convey beauty ... imagination ... and wonder. For some artists, it can literally communicate what their words cannot.In… -
The education of young people is increasingly, if not exclusively, coming from the internet. And a big part of it is from the website Wikipedia. The…
