One prison in California should close, another receives works of art

By the deputy editor of Calmatters Adam Ashton:

Governor Gavin Newo should not expect many discounts from the next city on the line to lose a state prison.

Norco in Riverside County has been lobbying to close The California Rehabilitation Center argued that the city can find better use for the site. It was a hotel hotel before he was a state prison.

The prison is now about to close in 2026. The Newsom correction department said on Tuesday that the prison was no longer needed due to the falling population of the state.

It will be the fifth to close during the Newsom Administration.

Other cities in prison struggled with the closure of state or lobbying to hold on to jobsS

Not Norco. He publishes a Social Media Statement Saying that employees expect the “adaptive reuse” of the former hotel.

About 1,200 people work in prison. They do not have to be fired when the prison is closed because some will be able to transfer to other objects.

More about California prisons: Efforts to display a large -scale work of art within the walls of the once scandalous prison in California brings hope and a sense of community of a frequently neglected populationCalmatters’ reports Joe GarciaS

In 2023, Newsom revealed a plan for multi -million dollars for reorganize and rebrand the most old prison in the country in a facility focused on rehabilitation. Renamed to the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, the plan included new educational buildings and the transformation of the former Death Row residential unit into residential premises for the general population of prisons.

But these changes did not make a little to deal with the dumb exteriors, which still meant retaining its inhabitants, Joe writes. Joe works with Kai Bannon, a closed man and co -founder of the Non -profit San Quentin SkunkWorks to help the committee and raise money for murals for the facility, which was completed in July.

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About 2,300 undocumented immigrants who have been brought to the United States as children are ready to lose their health coverage by August 31 – a change that could potentially be Destabilize the insurance marketwrites Calmatters’ Anna B. IbaraS

Following the establishment of the Affairs Care Act in 2015, immigrants living in the country were illegally forbidden to buy health coverage through markets of state and federal, managed. But last year, with the Biden administration, the recipients of the childhood arrival (DACA) arrival action program, who were allowed to stay in the US and legally work, were allowed to buy insurance through the markets.

However, President Donald Trump’s administration canceled this policy in June in an attempt to “Stabilize the risk pool, lower premiums and reduce incorrect bookingsS “But experts say that the opposite is at risk of doing the opposite: since most DACA recipients are age 35 and younger, eliminating them from the pool, they cannot help compensate for the cost of covering more expensive persons who are suffering and more adult.

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By a higher education and workforce reporter Adam Echelman:

Students from the Cañada College in Silicon Valley can earn all the money they have spent on school in a few weeks. Nearby, at Laney College in Oakland, a typical student is needed for six years to reimburse college costs.

This analysis, Issued today The College Futures Foundation and the HEA Group shows the return on the investment of over 300 institutions in California, offering associated degrees and professional certificates. The analysis examines the average salaries of the graduates at each school and the cost of training, minus any grants or scholarships. The researchers compared these numbers to the amount of money that students would earn if they only had a high school.

The bay area had a high concentration of schools that gave a quick return on investment. Other regions have had many schools, especially private and profit, which have been to students over 10 years to reimburse college costs. Some schools do not give a return on investment, never.

In 2023, the Biden administration adopted a new set of rules requiring colleges to demonstrate that their graduates had won more than someone with high school. In the federal budget this summer, the Trump administration will impose its own requirements from next year.

The state legislation has approved a bill that will pay California, closed firefighters at $ 7.25 per hour during next year’s active fires. Calmatters Kayla Mihalovich And the video strategy director Robert Miex has a video segment of This historical change in pay As part of our partnership with PBS Socal. Watch it hereS

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