Here’s a passel of updates while I work on work on another deadline. Included is the latest...
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The Great Prison Book Purge – UPDATED
Earlier this month it came to light that, since June of this year, US Federal prison authorities...
LA Homeboys – Then & Now
Last night I was going through scores of old snapshots for possible use in a new edition of my gang...
The Governator Vs. the Union
In the running of California’s prisons, one would assume that the warden is pretty much the...
The Judge…and the Student…
As we think about what kind of Attorney General Judge Mukasey might make, it is worth reading...
LA’s New (Cough) Schools (Cough, Cough)
Just when I was starting to feel a teensy, weensy bit optimistic that the LAUSD board had finally...
Shocking Children
This month’s Mother Jones Magazine (Sept/Oct) features a cover story by Jennifer Gonnerman...
Streaming to JENA
They came in bus load after bus load from all the states bordering Louisiana, and from states...
The Move-On Flap: Dumb….Meet Dumber.
I really, really, REALLY don’t have time to post today as I’m neck deep in researching...
Prison Kills
In 2002, a very angry U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson ruled that health care in the...