MORE TREATMENT, LESS INCARCERATION FOR LA COUNTY’S MENTALLY ILL EDITOR’S NOTE: As...
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Oakland Advocacy Center’s New Future, LA County & the Death Row 2%, and California Media Shield Bill Signed
AN OAKLAND HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER’S CHEERING NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Had his life played out a...
Released After 40 Years in Solitary, Tanaka’s Denials, Baca’s Pitchman Fiasco, and Gov. Brown’s Bill-Signing
JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF DYING PRISONER AFTER DECADES IN ISOLATION The Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen...
More on CA Prison Overcrowding…Beginning of Fed. Hearings on CA Mentally Ill Prisoner Abuse Claims…LA County Could Get More Out of Realignment…and Olmsted on Baca’s Endorsement
GOV BROWN’S CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST PRISON OVERCROWDING RULINGS Last week, federal judges...
Central CA School Replaces Zero-Tolerance With Restorative Justice…VA Group Aids Homeless Female Vets…Baca & Yor Health…and More
LE GRAND HIGH SCHOOL’S “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LEAGUE” ANNIHILATES ZERO-TOLERANCE...
Letters From Orange by Matthew Fleischer
WLA’s Matt Fischer continues to report on conditions for women in California’s prisons...
ABC 7 to Report Sheriff Baca Acts as Pitchman for Health Supplement Company….and More
According to an upcoming report on ABC 7 (appearing Monday at 11 pm) Sheriff Lee Baca has been...
Changing the Way We Deal with Sex-Trafficked Kids, Repairing the Juvenile Justice System, and For-Profit Probation
BREAKING AWAY FROM THE MISGUIDED HABIT OF CRIMINALIZING YOUNG SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS A notable new...
Detention Facilities as “De Facto” Mental Hospitals, New DOJ Report on LA County Juvie Camps, and More
THE DILEMMA OF JAILS AND PRISONS SERVING AS MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FACILITIES A new Wall Street...
LA Supes Vote $75 Mil for Kern County Jail….Brown Gets a Mini-Extension on Prison Problem…. More on the LASD Deputy & the 7 Shootings…
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS VOTE TO GIVE BACA $75 MILLION TO SEND INMATES TO KERN COUNTY LOCK-UP On...