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		<title>Will the James Austin Jails Plan Suffer the Fate of the Vera Report Before It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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JAMES AUSTIN PLAN&#8230;MEET THE VERA REPORT
by Matthew Fleischer


The mood outside of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department was cheerful on Tuesday at a press conference announcing the debut of a report by nationally-renowned corrections expert Dr. James Austin. After Austin made his presentation, LA County Sheriff Lee Baca spoke about shuttering violence-plagued Men’s Central Jail by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff Baca Signs on (Cautiously) to Consider Innovative Austin Report Detailing How to Close Men&#8217;s Central Jail &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Since last fall Sheriff Lee Baca has insisted to the LA County Board of Supervisors that the county needs to spend $1.4 billion to build a state of the art jail  facility, so that the notorious and violence-plagued  Men&#8217;s Central Jail can be closed and torn down.
Now, however, Baca has tentatively signed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many People Locked Up Say Americans In New Survey, Antonio Goes to D.C. for Gangs, Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking&#8230;and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/news-round-up-too-many-people-locked-up-say-americans-in-new-survey-antonio-goes-to-d-c-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/news-round-up-too-many-people-locked-up-say-americans-in-new-survey-antonio-goes-to-d-c-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Villaraigosa]]></category>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Starting today, the very smart and talented Taylor Walker is helping me gather stories.  Eventually Taylor will be doing a story-gathering and commentary section of her own.  But right now, she&#8217;s helping me curate and write these multi-story posts.  More about&#8212;and from&#8212;Taylor Walker soon.

NEARLY 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY THAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solitary Confinement in AZ Extra Cruel &amp; Unusual says ACLU Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday, the ACLU filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) houses thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement conditions so harsh they violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
This is from Tuesday&#8217;s statement:
While other states also use solitary confinement, Arizona has added features that seem designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Cal ACLU Files Big Federal Law Suit Against Sheriff&#8217;s Dept. for Jails Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday morning, The ACLU of Southern California filed a federal class action suit  against the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department with the idea of getting a sharp-toothed federal injunction that will force the department, at legal gunpoint, if necessary, to make the changes necessary clean up its desperately troubled jails.
The suit makes it clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molina Lobs the G-Word at Baca, Accusations of Evidence Tampering &amp; More LASD News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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To be exact, Supervisor Gloria Molina tossed two G-words in Sheriff Baca&#8217;s direction during Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Supervisors meeting when she was questioning the sheriff about the Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s progress&#8212;or lack thereof&#8212;-in implementing the recommendations made last October by Special Counsel Merrick Bobb and the Office of Independent Review relating violence in Baca&#8217;s troubled jails.
Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Sheriff Was &#8220;Kept in the Dark&#8221; on Jails Abuse, Shouldn&#8217;t Heads Roll?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/aclu/2011/admin/if-sheriff-was-kept-in-the-dark-on-jails-abuse-should-heads-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Last week, Sheriff Lee Baca did a massive mea culpa when he met with the Times Editorial Board and told them he didn&#8217;t know, but should have known, about the pattern of abuse of inmates by Sheriff&#8217;s deputies in his massive jail system.
Okay, at first bounce the sheriff&#8217;s Captain Louis Renault stance was not terribly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Files Racial Profiling Suit Re: Creepy Incident With 56 Glendale Students</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/aclu-files-racial-profiling-suit-re-creepy-incident-with-56-glendale-students/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/aclu-files-racial-profiling-suit-re-creepy-incident-with-56-glendale-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The ACLU of So Cal filed a racial profiling lawsuit against Glendale Unified School District, the Glendale Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and LA County Probation on Thursday having to do with a 2010 incident in which 56 Hoover High Hchool students were rounded up and questioned for an hour.
The suit names individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incidents Where Deputies “Get Away” with Inmate Abuse May be on the Rise, says Independent Monitor&#8217;s New Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 In his most recent report on the jails,   Michael Gennaco,  head of LA County&#8217;s Office of Independent Review (OIR),  details 12 incidents, in relation to which, a total of more than 30 jail employees have been fired or suspended for either abusing inmates or helping to cover up abuse they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re:  the Jails Mess, Baca Says He&#8217;d Welcome a Civilian Commission, So Where are the Supes?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lausd/2011/admin/re-the-jails-mess-baca-says-hed-welcome-a-civilian-commission-so-where-are-the-supes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday morning, both the LA Times editorial board and WitnessLA called for the LA County Supervisors to appoint an independent civilian commission&#8212;a la the Christopher Commission (which looked into LAPD practices post Rodney King)&#8212;to investigate the civil rights mess that is occurring in the County&#8217;s jails facilities.
On Which Way LA?  Tuesday night, after [...]]]></description>
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