When former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca, former undersheriff Paul Tanaka, and other members...
Justice & the Law
For 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners’ rights today
The incident resulted in the deaths of 43 people, many of them inmates, and marked an important...
The Sudden Death of Near-Legendary San Francisco Public Defender, Jeff Adachi, Stuns Bay Area Leaders & the Many Ordinary People Whom He Championed
When the news flew around the state that San Francisco Public Defender, Jeff Adachi, 59, had died...
Does Race Affect Plea Bargaining? A New Study Says YES
Plea Bargains & Race We know that approximately 95 percent of all criminal convictions are the...
Is Trump’s Refugee Order Legal? How Lawyers & Judges Across the Nation—Including the Now-Fired Acting Attorney General—Answer the Question
YES, BUT IS IT LEGAL? After a weekend of many thousands of demonstrators mobbing the nation’s...