Riveras, in his interview with Lake County News, said he had made the Judicial Council of California an offer to give them a three-acre portion of the property — a third of its overall size — with additional buildings thrown in for $3 million. He said the state was only willing to pay $1.2 million for the property.

“Research shows that long prison sentences do not improve public safety and produce significant racial disparities,” said the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. Although the state’s prison population of 95,000 is its lowest since 1990, the committee said, “high incarceration rates and alarming racial disparities continue to plague our system.”

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to delay the implementation of Senate Bill 43, the landmark legislation that expands the criteria by which people can be detained against their wills by police, crisis teams and mental health providers.

A San Francisco judge has upheld California’s law against recording private conversations without the speakers’ consent, rejecting a challenge by two antiabortion activists who posed as fetal researchers to enter national meetings of abortion providers and secretly record their discussions.