In his most recent report on the jails, Michael Gennaco, head of LA County’s Office of...
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Re: the Jails Mess, Baca Says He’d Welcome a Civilian Commission, So Where are the Supes?
On Tuesday morning, both the LA Times editorial board and WitnessLA called for the LA County...
2 Big Reasons Why the Calls for Sheriff Lee Baca to Resign are Dead Wrong
In a blogpost that appeared on the LA Times website in the late morning this past Friday, columnist...
26 Criminal Justice & Civil Rights Leaders Call for Fed Probe Into Jail Abuse
THE LETTER On Thursday afternoon, the ACLU released a letter signed by 26 criminal justice, civil...
ACLU Witnesses Detail Shocking Abuse in LA Jails—& Baca Dismisses It All
“I have never seen anything that approaches the patterns of violence, misfeasance and...
The ACLU Releases a Disturbing New Jails Report …and the News is Bad
Tuesday morning, the Southern California ACLU released a new and deeply disturbing report...