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Supervisors Approve New County Jail Phone Contract. Are We Happy?
On Tuesday the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to accept a new contract with Public...
Georgia Parole Board Denies Clemency for Troy Davis – UPDATE
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice. – Desmond Tutu The path for...
Crime Continues to Decline as Does Victimizaton…and More
FBI RELEASES 2010 CRIME STATS SHOWING CRIME NUMBERS KEEP FALLING Despite a still lousy economy, FBI...
Why We Must Not Execute Troy Anthony Davis
Late on an August night in 1989, an off-duty Savannah police officer named Mark Allen MacPhail...
Rise in Assaults on LAPD Officers…Life WITH Parole in CA…New LASD Trouble
The LAPD Union’s blog asks why the disturbing rise in attacks on police...
DANGEROUS JAILS: Part 1 – by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is Part One of WitnessLA’s multi-part investigation...
Dangerous Jails, Part 1 Coming on Friday
We’d planned to have Part 1 of our LA Justice Report series Dangerous Jails out Thursday. But...
On Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? About Releasing Women Inmates
I was on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? on Wednesday night talking about the impending transfer...
Despite Criticism, Why it’s Good That Some CA Mothers in Prison Will Serve Part of Their Sentences at Home
On Monday of this week, the California Department of Corrections announced that up to 4000 of the...