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Remembering Nipsey Hussle
The sad truth is that in the week prior to Nipsey’s death, there were 26 other shooting victims...
Supes Take Another Important Step to Get More Formerly Incarcerated People Into LA County Jobs
One out of every three working-age Americans has been convicted of one or more felonies, according...
#MeToo Behind Bars: Sexual Misconduct at the LA County Women’s Jail
The kind of misconduct that doesn’t make headlines is arguably as corrosive, and harder to track...
Kansas Sees 63% Decline in Youth Confinement Due to Justice Reforms
Kansas also shifts $30 million to fund for evidence-based programs to push youth...
Use of Pretrial Detention Increases “Precipitously,” Leads to Worse Outcomes for People Accused of Crimes
Approximately two-thirds of the more than 740,000 people locked up in local jails nation-wide have...
California Cities Have Shredded Decades of Police Misconduct Records
By Darwin BondGraham, The Appeal A landmark California transparency law making police misconduct...
LA County’s 42 Contract Cities Write Letter to Sheriff Villanueva Expressing “a Unique Set of Concerns” With His Actions
The California Contract Cities Association, which represents the 42 cities that contract for law...
Why the Death Penalty Has Lost Support From Both Parties
A generation ago, most Democrats and Republicans backed capital punishment. But in New Hampshire...
LA County Supes Approve New Dependency Drug Court for Families Caught up in the Child Welfare System
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted a motion to adopt a “Family...