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Archive - May 2010
Moms in Prison on Mother’s Day
In 1999, Sister Suzanne Jabro took a small delegation of women to Vally State Prison at Chowchilla...
Judicial Activism is in the Eye of the Beholder
WHOSE ORIGINALISM? Many conservatives have long been busy waving around the term “judicial...
Dangerous Jails: The Alarming 2010 ACLU Report
On Wednesday, the ACLU of Southern California issued a report on LA County’s Men’s...
Los Phoenix Suns
Another reason not to boycott Arizona, no matter how much you loath that new law. (If you...
LA Federal Jail Fight
Wednesday, 11:27 p.m. An out of control fight has jumped off at the LA Metropolitan Detention...
Nicole Bershon is the new Inspector General
As I had suspected (and hoped), the new LAPD Inspector General is Assistant IG, Nicole Bershon. ...
Will the LAPD’s New Inspector General Be a Woman?
Former LAPD Inspector General Andre Birotte was confirmed in early February by the US Senate as the...
iCops: California’s Internet SWAT Team
LA Times reporters, David Sarno and Jessica Guynn, have a very good piece on REACT, the task force...
The Education/Prison Disparity – 2010 Version
Okay, comparative cost time: The state of California spends 35 percent of its budget, or nearly $50...