PROLOGUE For 18 days in the summer of 2011, members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department...
Archive - July 2013
No, We should Not Boycott Florida….A School’s Bet on NonViolence ….NYTimes on CA’s Hunger Strike….
WHY BOYCOTTING FLORIDA WON’T HELP The deeply painful issues that have arisen for so many...
Cheating on LASD Sergeant’s Exams….27 Death Penalty Cases Reviewed for Errors…Hunger Strike Leaders Further Isolated
On Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Lee Baca sent out a department wide email indicating that a few...
Mentally Ill Packed into LA County Jails, Oversight Sought for CA Developmental Centers…and More
THE ISSUE OF LOCKING AWAY MENTALLY ILL IN LA COUNTY JAILS LA Times’ Steve Lopez paid a visit...
LA Supes Consider Jail Project, Disciplined Kern County Students Face Meager Education Alternatives…and More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS TAKE STEPS TOWARD NEW JAIL FACILITIES The LA County Board of Supervisors...
MORE POST TRIAL NEWS: Violence at an LA Prayer Vigil……”What Do I Tell My Boys Now?”….Zimmerman Juror’s Speedy Book Agent Deal……..and more
PLANNED LEIMERT PARK COMMUNITY RALLY DISRUPTED BY VIOLENCE, RALLIERS DISMAYED A well-organized...
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman—and the Interweave of Fear, Heartbreak and Injustice that Haunts the Verdict’s Aftermath
Since the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman was announced just a few minutes...
A Closer Look at the CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Deeper Juvie Justice Budget Cuts?, and a Heart-wrenching Essay
A BREAKDOWN OF THE HUNGER STRIKE AND ISOLATION BY A MAN WHO HAS ENDURED IT After the 2011 prisoner...
State Lawmakers Want Probe of Prison Sterilization… CDCR Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers…Bloomberg Op Ed Compares Jerry Brown to George Wallace
STATE LAWMAKERS UNHAPPY AT NEWS OF PRISON STERILIZATIONS On Thursday, state lawmakers got...
As Probation Arms More Officers, Are They Getting the Right Training? by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: Under AB 109—AKA realignment—thousands of low-level offenders who...