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Break the Poverty Cycle

Can Cash Payments Improve the Health of Pregnant People and Children?

March 27, 2023
#NoSafePlace

CA’s Chief Probation Officers call for immediate limited court receivership for LA County’s youth facilities

March 23, 2023
#CommissionerAtLarge

How the failure to apply the state’s legal guidelines has resulted in unnecessary detentions in the county’s unsafe youth lock-ups

March 20, 2023
Death Penalty • Prison • Prison Policy • prison reform • Rehabilitation

Reinventing San Quentin

March 19, 2023
#InsideJob • Solitary

Ridding our nation’s prisons of solitary confinement is far harder than it should be: Part 1 of a 3-part series

March 16, 2023
Bill Watch • CDCR • Media • Prison • Prison Policy • prison reform

Bill Seeks Increased Media Access to Prisons and Incarcerated Interviewees

March 13, 2023
Break the Poverty Cycle

Can Cash Payments Improve the Health of Pregnant People and Children?

WLA Guest
March 27, 2023
Written by WLA Guest
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It was like money falling from the sky. Except the city of Los Angeles would be sending it to her in a debit card every month.

#NoSafePlace

CA’s Chief Probation Officers call for immediate limited court receivership for LA County’s youth facilities

March 23, 2023
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In what appears to be a completely unprecedented action, on Wednesday, March 22, the statewide...

#CommissionerAtLarge

How the failure to apply the state’s legal guidelines has resulted in unnecessary detentions in the county’s unsafe youth lock-ups

March 20, 2023
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Currently, 243 out of 379 (64%) of the youth in detention in the county’s two juvenile halls are...

Death Penalty • Prison • Prison Policy • prison reform • Rehabilitation

Reinventing San Quentin

March 19, 2023
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Criminal justice and rehabilitation experts, crime survivors, and formerly incarcerated people will...

#InsideJob • Solitary

Ridding our nation’s prisons of solitary confinement is far harder than it should be: Part 1 of a 3-part series

March 16, 2023
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“Segregation, isolation, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit," said the UN expert...

Bill Watch • CDCR • Media • Prison • Prison Policy • prison reform

Bill Seeks Increased Media Access to Prisons and Incarcerated Interviewees

March 13, 2023
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In 1994, then-California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill giving the state prison system more...

#JusticeBriefs

Three LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights in stable condition, shooter dead.

March 8, 2023
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At 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted this message: “Following closely...

#NoSafePlace

LA County Probation Chief Gonzales fired by Supervisors, his 2nd in command to take his place

March 7, 2023
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Los Angeles County Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales was fired by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews

Op-Ed: We Must Invest in LA’s Justice Involved Youth

March 6, 2023
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Simply put, justice-involved youth need programming in a secure, home-like environment that meets...

LA County Jail

Deadly LA Jails and Inconclusive Autopsies

March 5, 2023
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A new report says the coroner's office is misrepresenting the causes of deaths inside LA's jails.

#NoSafePlace

2 Stabbings & 2 drug overdoses at LA juvenile hall, then the county’s Board of Supes asked probation chief to resign

February 28, 2023
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On Monday of this week, the LA County Board of Supervisors asked Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales to...

CDCR

Gavin Newsom moved to close 4 California prisons. How many more can he shut?

February 27, 2023
4 Comments

California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special...

Prison

A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison.

February 21, 2023
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By Fred Clasen-Kelly, Kaiser Health News Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when...

Voting Rights

Constitutional Amendment Would Restore Voting Rights to People in CA Prisons

February 18, 2023
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A constitutional amendment proposed this month, ACA 4, would restore voting rights to people...

#NoSafePlace

State oversight board says LA Probation’s youth halls are dangerously out of compliance in 39 categories

February 15, 2023
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Last Thursday, February 9, the members of the California Board of State and Community Corrections...

#JusticeBriefs

New Federal Law Clarifies FCC’s Power to Cap Phone and Video Call Rates in Jails and Prisons

February 10, 2023
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As of January, a new federal law, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act...

Justice Watch

Lack of Rural Lawyers Leaves Much of America Without Support, including some California counties

February 8, 2023
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California, with 168,000 lawyers – the second-most of any state – also has seven counties with...

Open Vallejo

Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings

February 6, 2023
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For a generation, a secretive clique within the Vallejo Police Department has commemorated fatal...

LAUSD • School Discipline Reform • School to Prison Pipeline

New Community-Led Report Calls for LA School Police to Be Replaced With Holistic Care and Community Engagement

February 4, 2023
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Money should be spent caring for kids, not criminalizing them, according to the Police Free LAUSD...

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