AG KAMALA HARRIS ANNOUNCES COMPREHENSIVE NEW LOS ANGELES PROGRAM TO LOWER RECIDIVISM On Thursday...
Archive - May 2014
LA Times’ Steve Lopez on the Jail Plan….Former Inmate Sues LASD for Alleged Abuse….Unusual Measure Would Drop Some Felonies to Misdemeanors….and California Judge Restores Voting Rights to Realignment Probationers
MORE ON THE LOS ANGELES SUPERVISORS’ DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A $2 BILLION JAIL...
3 Supes Pass $2 Billion Jail Plan Despite Objections & D.A. Jackie Lacey Works on a Project for Change
In a three to two vote, members of the LA County Board of Supervisors decided to move ahead with a...
Other Los Angeles Jail Plan-Related Stories, an Inmate Suicide at Twin Towers, More Discretionary Power for California Judges Sentencing Teens, and Arts Return to State Prisons
MORE ON THE VANIR LOS ANGELES JAIL PROPOSAL, LA’S HANDLING OF MENTALLY ILL INMATES (AND AN...
3 Reasons Why the Board of Supervisors Must Say No to the New Jail Plans
The latest version of the proposal to build at least two new county jails at a cost of up to $2.3...
Causes and Collateral Damage of Mass Incarceration, Fewer Kids Dying from Abuse in LA County…and More
NEW NATIONAL REPORT ON THE U.S. INCARCERATION CRISIS: THE FISCAL, FAMILIAL, AND SOCIETAL COST, AND...
Is America’s Outsized Prison Population Built on a Famous Research Lie?….& More
AMERICA’S EXPLODING PRISONS & THE GHOST OF OF ROBERT MARTINSON NY Times economic...