AT THE JAIL COMMISSION COMMUNITY MEETING, A FATHER’S ANGUISHED TESTIMONY HAS EVERYONE...
Archive - May 2012
Mentally Ill Housed in Jails, Families’ Rights to Autopsy Photo Privacy, and more…
STATE’S MENTALLY ILL WAIT IN JAILS FOR HOSPITAL SPACE TO BECOME AVAILABLE California’s...
Jail Commission Has Community Hearing Wednesday Night, Wants Your Input
Both the Christopher and the Kolts Commissions made good use of public hearings in creating their...
Louisiana Prison Capital of the World, Brian Banks Exonerated, and more…
LOUISIANA LEADS THE WORLD IN INCARCERATION RATES Louisiana has more people behind bars per...
For All Our Service People, Present and Past, With Gratitude
Above is Karl Marlantes, the author of the excellent Vietnam novel, Matterhorn and, more recently...
WitnessLA is a Finalist for Three LA Press Club Awards
WitnessLA is very happy to report that we are a finalist in three categories for this year’s...
Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices Vs. Everybody Else by Matthew Fleischer
CRUEL & UNUSUAL: U.S. SENTENCING PRACTICES VS. EVERYBODY ELSE by Matthew Fleischer In...
Veteran PTSD Stigma, Homeboy & the Solar Industry, and Twitterature…
VETERANS COME HOME FROM BATTLE TO FACE PTSD STIGMA In honor of Memorial Day–and because...
Bill to Lift Media Ban on Interviewing Inmates, LAUSD Police Still Ticket Too Many Kids, and More…
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS MAY VOTE TO GIVE MEDIA MORE PRISON ACCESS (IT’S ABOUT TIME) A...
California’s Foster Care Bubble Kids: Will We Help or Abandon Them?
For years we have known that a high percentage of the state’s foster kids who age out of the...