This report has has been updated, corrected and expanded as I got more information. Sometimes...
Crime and Punishment
When a Sex Offender Moves to Your Neighborhood
Okay, I believe in second chances, (and third chances, and fourth chances) and I also understand...
CA’s Unemployment at 12 percent, But What If You’re a Felon?
Unemployment in California is at 12.2 percent and expected to go higher when the new figures come...
Handicapping SCOTUS and Juvenile LWOP
Monday’s hearings on the two Florida cases, each involving juveniles who received sentences...
Suing California’s Prisons Over State-Ordered Solitary
Last February I linked to an NPR report by Michael Montgomery about a man named Ernesto Lira, a...
Tom Hayden on Alex Sanchez & the Power of Judges
Tom Hayden opens his latest column in The Nation magazine as follows: I never expected to write...