Attorney Bryan Stevenson’s Spring 2012 TED talk called “We Need to Talk About...
Reforms Trump Talking About Race, Solitary and Kids’ Brains, Next Steps for NYC Solitary Ban, and LA Foster Care Reform Efforts
CHOOSE ACTIONABLE REFORM OVER NATIONAL DISCOURSE ON RACE In an op-ed for the LA Times, California...
Ezell Ford, LA County Crime Rates, Flashbang Grenades, and Kids’ Perceptions of Incarceration
EZELL FORD: BEFORE THE DEADLY ENCOUNTER WITH LAPD OFFICERS Going beyond Ezell Ford’s...
LA Supes Finally Approve 2 Foster Care Fixes….Can SF’s Community Court Halt the Revolving Door?….NYC Bans Solitary for Inmates Under 21….More on the “End of Gangs…..and the Pain of Losing Al Martinez
AFTER MUCH STALLING BY THE OLD BOARD, THE NEW LA BOARD OF SUPES QUICKLY MAKES 2 NEW FOSTER CARE...
4 LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Suspect of Theft and Bribe Taking…CA Poor Often Given Cut Rate Legal Defense, Report Finds….Will There Be Fed Indictments for former LASD Top Brass?…& LA Press Club Award to Charlie Hebdo
FOUR LA SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS INVESTIGATED FOR THEFT AND BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS Four...
Independent Investigations into Police-Killings, Restorative Justice in LA, Broken City Poets, and Streetcraft LA
STATES WEIGH ESTABLISHING OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION OF POLICE-INVOLVED DEATHS Several states...
Obama Proposes Free Community College…. Should a 19-Year-Old Get the Death Penalty?…Horses Help Traumatized Kids….Pens v. Guns
Post by The White House. FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR “ANYONE WILLING TO WORK FOR IT,”...
Standing With Charlie Hebdo
As certainly everyone reading this knows by now, gunmen attacked the offices of well-known French...
Brooklyn DA Targets Questionable Convictions….a “Suicide by Cop”….MacArthur Genius Probes Unconscious Racial Bias….and the MacArthur Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Reform Push
BROOKLYN’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOCUSED ON JUSTICE OVER CONVICTIONS The New Yorker’s...
Sheriff McDonnell’s Thoughts One Month In….Jail Beating Victims Win $5M in Legal Fees….Ferguson Grand Juror Sues….and Foster Kids
LASD SHERIFF JIM MCDONNELL MAKES MEDIA ROUNDS, DISCUSSES DUAL-TRACK SYSTEM, OVERSIGHT, REPLACING...
The End of Gangs? Uh, No. WLA Discusses This Particular New Contention on KCRW’s Which Way LA?
THE END OF GANGS—THAT WASN’T. A story called “The End of Gangs” by veteran...
Kamala Harris Talks Cops & Race….Start of Prison Terms Delayed for LASD 7….LAT Asks What Should Replace Men’s Central Jail….Jerry Brown Talks Criminal Justice….a Juvie Sex Scandal in Idaho….& More
AT SWEARING IN AG KAMALA HARRIS ENTERS NATIONAL CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE AND POLICE...
Jumpstarting Foster Care Reform, Kamala Harris’ New Initiative, the NYPD Protest, Indigent Defense, and Homeboy
NEW LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS MAY RESUSCITATE DCFS REFORM PUSH The two recently-elected LA County...
Ezell Ford Autopsy Released Showing 3 Shots, 1 in Back
The autopsy report for Ezell Ford’s death was released Monday after months of delay. It...
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year
Jason Lee singing John Prine’s classic “Christmas in Prison” WitnessLA Will be...
Michael Brown: “Deader than a Roadkill Dog”….Police Unions’ Open Letters: Violence Against Cops….Prosecutors’ PowerPoint Misbehavior…and More
A PARODY SONG ABOUT THE DEATH OF MICHAEL BROWN PERFORMED AT LAPD RETIREE’S DINNER While...
Political Words & the Murder of NY Cops….Unequal Justice?…Strip Searching Kids
AN ARRAY OF REACTIONS TO THE MURDERS OF NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS RAMOS AND WENJIAN The...
Part 4: “Drugging Our Kids,” Compensating Wrongfully Convicted, Rehabilitating CA’s Female Lifers, and WLA on Deadline LA
YOLANDA’S STORY: RESCUED BY A GROUP HOME DOCTOR WHO FOUND A DIFFERENT WAY TO TREAT TRAUMA In...