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		<title>Trying Yet Another 14-year-old as an Adult, Dispute Over LAPD Discipline&#8230;and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/juvenile-justice/2012/admin/trying-yet-another-14-year-old-as-an-adult-dispute-over-lapd-discipline-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker




ANOTHER TRAGIC MURDER, ANOTHER 14-YEAR-OLD KID TRIED AS AN ADULT?
Los Angeles prosecutors plan to request that the 14-year-old who allegedly shot and killed his ICE agent father be tried as an adult. What is called a &#8220;fitness&#8221; hearing to determine whether the boy should be appropriately held to answer in an adult criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Penalty Initiative Qualifies, DA Candidates Opine (Badly), LA Thinks About April 30, 1992&#8230;&amp; Much More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker



While WLA was dark earlier this week, a few things happened that we wanted to make sure you didn&#8217;t miss:
DEATH PENALTY REPEAL WILL BE ON NOVEMBER BALLOT IN CALIFORNIA
First of all, on Monday, the initiative known as the SAFE California Act, officially qualified for the ballot.  This means that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Prison Phone Strategy, Death Row Guy Attorney&#8230; &amp; No Fiction Pulitzer</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/sentencing/2012/admin/new-prison-phone-strategy-death-row-guy-attorney-no-fiction-pulitzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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With Taylor Walker



 NEW UMBRELLA PHONE TECHNOLOGY WILL BLOCK CELL PHONE CALLS FROM PRISON SAYS CDCR

On Monday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it was implementing a new inmate telephone system  that will both curb unauthorized cellphone use in lock-ups, and also reduce call rates for prisoners&#8217; families. Global Tel*Link was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Must Reads: CA Juvie Facilites, an ICE Dention Dependant Town &#8230;&amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)]]></category>
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by Taylor Walker



TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE CA&#8217;S COSTLY JUVENILE PROGRAMS?
SF Chronicle&#8217;s Marisa Lagos reports on the advantages (and disadvantages) of the state&#8217;s controversial juvenile justice programs that the governor proposes to close and the effect that closure could have on the programs&#8217; resident youth.
Here&#8217;s a clip:
This is California&#8217;s solution to dealing with its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD Cuts, What KCET Found Inside Children&#8217;s Court, How the CDCR is Changing Methods&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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LAUSD BOARD GRITS TEETH&#8230;.THEN SLASHES AND BURNS:  VOTES TO CUT ALL ADULT SCHOOLS&#8230;.AND A LOT MORE, HOPES THAT A PARCEL TAX &#38; UNION CONCESSIONS WILL SAVE ALL
The LA Times Stephen Ceasar reports:
The Los Angeles Board of Education approved a preliminary, worst-case $6-billion budget Tuesday, a plan that would eliminate thousands of jobs, close all [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/criminal-justice/2011/admin/california-prison-pop-dropped-by-8000-so-do-we-have-a-crime-wave-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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>A Former Deputy Tells Another Jail Abuse Story, A View of Realignment, More Probation Chief Blevins&#8217; Exit</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/a-former-deputy-tells-another-jail-abuse-story-a-view-of-realignment-more-probation-chief-blevins-exit/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/a-former-deputy-tells-another-jail-abuse-story-a-view-of-realignment-more-probation-chief-blevins-exit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/supes-maybe-interview-new-candidate-for-probation-chief-prison-hunger-strike-part-ii-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/supes-maybe-interview-new-candidate-for-probation-chief-prison-hunger-strike-part-ii-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/catching-up-on-the-solitary-confinement-hunger-strikers/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/catching-up-on-the-solitary-confinement-hunger-strikers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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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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