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The upcoming screening of a prison documentary can change the way you think about life on the inside.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

The upcoming screening of a prison documentary can change the way you think about life on the inside.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Sep 25, 2025

It started as a volunteer program, Empathy in Action, that takes willing civilians inside the Correctional Training Facility, a “level two” pr…

Call me by my name, and other exercises in empathy from the local prison in Soledad.
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Call me by my name, and other exercises in empathy from the local prison in Soledad.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jan 19, 2023

SERGIO ZARAZUA IS 37 NOW, AND HE HAS BEEN LOCKED UP SINCE HE WAS 15. He keeps his head and face clean-shaven, which makes his already large ey…

Salinas Valley State Prison inmate death being investigated as homicide.
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Salinas Valley State Prison inmate death being investigated as homicide.

  • Kyarra Harris
  • Dec 27, 2022

The death of an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison is being investigated as a homicide. 

Black prison inmates in Soledad sue over a July 2020 raid that resulted in a mass spread of Covid-19.
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Black prison inmates in Soledad sue over a July 2020 raid that resulted in a mass spread of Covid-19.

  • Mary Duan
  • Feb 25, 2021

At the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad last July 20, a group of agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitat…

In Salinas, as lethal crime soars, 100 Mothers ask for peace.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

In Salinas, as lethal crime soars, 100 Mothers ask for peace.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Dec 3, 2015

For just one mother to bury a child, it’s harrowing. Sadly, in a violent city like Salinas, the number of mothers who endure the experience gr…

Inside Soledad prison: A documentary about race, humanity.
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Inside Soledad prison: A documentary about race, humanity.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Nov 26, 2015

A new documentary follows a white mafioso (John Piccirillo), a black ex-gangbanger (Sam Lewis) and a veteran prison warden (Ben Curry) prepari…

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