On Monday of this week, the LA County Board of Supervisors asked Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales to...
Archive - February 2023
Gavin Newsom moved to close 4 California prisons. How many more can he shut?
California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special...
A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison.
By Fred Clasen-Kelly, Kaiser Health News Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when...
Constitutional Amendment Would Restore Voting Rights to People in CA Prisons
A constitutional amendment proposed this month, ACA 4, would restore voting rights to people...
State oversight board says LA Probation’s youth halls are dangerously out of compliance in 39 categories
Last Thursday, February 9, the members of the California Board of State and Community Corrections...
New Federal Law Clarifies FCC’s Power to Cap Phone and Video Call Rates in Jails and Prisons
As of January, a new federal law, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act...
Lack of Rural Lawyers Leaves Much of America Without Support, including some California counties
California, with 168,000 lawyers – the second-most of any state – also has seven counties with...
Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings
For a generation, a secretive clique within the Vallejo Police Department has commemorated fatal...
New Community-Led Report Calls for LA School Police to Be Replaced With Holistic Care and Community Engagement
Money should be spent caring for kids, not criminalizing them, according to the Police Free LAUSD...