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		<title>California Prison Pop. Dropped by 8,000&#8212;So, Do We Have a Crime Wave Yet?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/criminal-justice/2011/admin/california-prison-pop-dropped-by-8000-so-do-we-have-a-crime-wave-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Realignment]]></category>
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NOTE:   LIGHT POSTING TODAY&#8212;DUE (HAPPILY) TO HOLIDAY SLOWDOWN&#8230;.BUT&#8230;.

NEW JAILS/LASD STORY COMING TOMORROW


ANYBODY GOT EARLY SIGN POSTS ON CRIME AND REALIGNMENT?
KPPC&#8217;S Julie Small reports that California&#8217;s prison population has dropped by 8000, mostly in response to California&#8217;s realignment strategy that began on Oct 1 and has resulted in the transfer of thousands of prisoners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Files Racial Profiling Suit Re: Creepy Incident With 56 Glendale Students</title>
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		<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>A Former Deputy Tells Another Jail Abuse Story, A View of Realignment, More Probation Chief Blevins&#8217; Exit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[LA County Jail]]></category>
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In the last few weeks, the LA Times&#8217; Robert Faturechi has been doing some fine and very welcome reporting on the issue of deputy abuse of inmates in the Los Angeles County Jails&#8212;which is important.
In Friday&#8217;s paper Faturechi tells of a young Sheriff&#8217;s deputy who says he was forced by his supervisor to beat a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supes Interview New Candidate for Probation Chief&#8230;Prison Hunger Strike, Part II&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)]]></category>
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Last week WitnessLA reported (based on the word of multiple inside sources) that Probation Chief Donald Blevins had been informed the week before that his tenure in LA County Probation was over;  he was being given the boot.
When other news outlets, like KPCC, called Probation to confirm our report they were told no such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up With the Solitary Confinement Hunger Strikers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>
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The hunger strike that began on July 1 at the  Pelican Bay SHU eventually spread to somewhere between 1700 to 6600 prisoners in 13 of the state&#8217;s prisons, according to the SF Chron. 
Now that the strike has ended, it is unclear what it has accomplished since, as the LA Times pointed out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California in State of &#8220;Political Paralysis&#8221; Over Prison Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison policy]]></category>

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WHY ARE WE SO STUCK?
While policymakers from both sides of the aisle in conservative states such as Texas, Mississippi and Kentucky, plus such red/blue states as Louisiana, are embracing sentencing reform and alternatives to incarceration, liberal California has somehow found serious reform impossible.
This week, Marisa Lagos of the San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prison Overcrowding and Waiting for Realignment</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/prison-overcrowding-and-waiting-for-realignment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison policy]]></category>

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On Tuesday,  the governor and the California Department of Corrections announced their collective plan to reduce the state&#8217;s prison population&#8212; and it comes down to one single word:  REALIGNMENT.
The plan was, as most of you know, put forth in answer to last month&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling mandating that California lower its inmate numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pew Recidivism Report: How CA Can Cut $233 Million</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/the-pew-recidivism-report-or-how-ca-can-cut-233-million/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/the-pew-recidivism-report-or-how-ca-can-cut-233-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
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This week the Pew Center on the States delivered another of its large and important reports on the state of incarceration in America.  
it&#8217;s called State of Recidivism:  The Revolving Door of American Prisons.  
(In the past, the Pew Center has looked at how many Americans are behind bars, and who those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murder of Flor Medrano, Comedic SCOTUS, The CDCR Cuts Rehab Programs, and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2011/admin/the-murder-of-flor-medrano-comedic-scotus-the-cdcr-cuts-rehab-programs-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2011/admin/the-murder-of-flor-medrano-comedic-scotus-the-cdcr-cuts-rehab-programs-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Beck]]></category>
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COULD THE COPS HAVE STOPPED FLOR MEDRANO&#8217;S KILLER?
In mid-November of 2009, Flor Medrano, a 30-year-old housekeeper and mother of a 3-year-old, sought protection from her murderous stalker boyfriend at the Wilshire Division of the LAPD.  Two officers went home with her and watched her front door from an unmarked police car.  But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutting Down CA&#8217;s Juvie Prisons, SCOTUS Ethics, a Needed Clemency &amp; More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2011/admin/shutting-down-cas-juvie-prisons-scotus-ethics-a-needed-clemancy-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2011/admin/shutting-down-cas-juvie-prisons-scotus-ethics-a-needed-clemancy-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[State government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State politics]]></category>
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BROWN WANTS TO SHUT DOWN THE STATE&#8217;S JUVENILE PRISONS, BUT SHOULD WE?
The short answer is YES.  They&#8217;re preposterously expensive and they&#8217;re a mess that seems immune to fundamental reform.
However, shutting them down must be done wisely or it will simply result in more kids being tried as adults and so shoved instead into the [...]]]></description>
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