Are Freelance Journalists More at Risk Abroad?
The plane carrying former President Bill Clinton and two California freelance journalists detained in North Korea for more than four months landed in Burbank this morning. As international news coverage increasingly comes from freelancers and citizen journalists rather than employees of large news organizations, will there be more such incidents ahead?
California's Overcrowded Prisons
Yesterday, a three-judge federal panel ordered California to reduce its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates. The state prison system is operating at 190 percent of its designed capacity.