Four prisoners are among the first to be released under state's medical parole program.
This article also appeared in the Bay Area edition of The New York Times.
About Katharine
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the weekly radio show and podcast, co-produced with PRX. Her journalism has won many national awards, including the Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award two years in a row and a Peabody award. Before Reveal, she was a senior writer for Salon and for Fast Company magazine. Mieszkowski has a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She grew up outside Houston, but now lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. @kmieszkowski