CA PROP. 47 SAVINGS ESTIMATES $100 MILLION TOO LOW, SAYS REPORT Governor Jerry Brown has...
LA County Supes Vote to Explore Idea of Splitting Probation in Two
At Tuesday’s LA County Supervisors’ meeting, the board voted 4-0 in favor of triggering...
Report Says LA County Probation Dept. is Failing Incarcerated Kids Badly After They Are Released
LA COUNTY PROBATION’S JUVENILE REENTRY CRISIS More than two years ago, LA County Probation...
SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia is Dead.
There will be a zillion stories on the significance of a vacancy occurring in the nation’s...
CA’s New Prisons Chief, the Homelessness Plan, Baca’s Guilty Plea, and Chief Beck on the “Ferguson Effect”
MEET CA’S NEW REFORM-MINDED CORRECTIONS CHIEF, SCOTT KERNAN The California Department of...
Day of Reckoning: The Strange and Memorable Afternoon When Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Pleaded Guilty to a Felony
BACA GOES TO COURT On Wednesday afternoon, around five minutes before the 2:30 p.m. plea hearing...
Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca Pleads to Felony Charge That Would Likely Involve Time in Lock-Up
Early Wednesday morning the news began to leak that former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca had agreed...
OVER-CRIMINALIZATION: Why Are LA’s Foster Kids More Likely to Be Charged With Crimes?
THE OVER-CRIMINALIZATION OF LA’S FOSTER CHILDREN by Carrie Wang and Rachel Kohn Monserrat...
A Deal Is Struck! No Retrial for Two LA Sheriff’s Deputies Accused of Beating Jail Inmate, But Prison Sentences Likely
If all goes as expected, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies Joey Aguiar and Mariano...
Homelessness in LA, a Heartbreaking South LA Shooting, Prison Yogis…and More
A LOOK AT THE NUMBER$ AS LA COUNTY SUPES CONSIDER HOMELESSNESS PLAN ON TUESDAY The LA County Board...
Persons of Interest: Who Will Be LA County’s Next Probation Chief – by Jeremy Loudenback
PERSONS OF INTEREST Searching for LA County’s Next Probation Chief by Jeremy Loudenback LA...
Should ex-Mexican Mafia Hitman Rene “Boxer” Enriquez Be Paroled?
On Friday, Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, who by his own account is a former shot-caller and hitman for...
Trauma & Resiliency, Health and Activism: A Cross Generational Conversation Between BlackLivesMatter’s Patrisse Cullors and California Endowment’s Dr. Robert Ross
“The most important indicator of your life expectancy in this country is your zip code,” said...
RETRIAL: Two LA County Sheriff’s Deputies to be Retried for Assault on Inmate
Two days after an unusually mixed verdict was handed down on Tuesday afternoon, following the...
Probation Oversight, the SFPD Review, Homelessness in LA, and a Bill to Help Homeless Kids
SUPERVISORS VOTE YES ON EXPLORING OVERSIGHT COMMISSION FOR LA COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT On...
A Mixed Verdict of Guilty & Not-Guilty in the LA Sheriff’s Deputies Jail Abuse Trial Causes Confusion
A MIXED MESSAGE The verdict in the jail brutality trial of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies...
LASD JAIL BRUTALITY JURY HAS A (VERY MIXED) VERDICT: Not Guilty, Guilty & Can’t Agree
In a decidedly mixed verdict that came in just around 3 PM in the downtown Los Angeles federal...
Jury In LASD Jail Brutality Case “Hopelessly Deadlocked” on 1 Count for Each Defendant, Judge Uses Legal Crowbar
Just before lunch, the jury in the latest jail brutality case involving members of the Los Angeles...