In a three to two vote, members of the LA County Board of Supervisors decided to move ahead with a...
Other Los Angeles Jail Plan-Related Stories, an Inmate Suicide at Twin Towers, More Discretionary Power for California Judges Sentencing Teens, and Arts Return to State Prisons
MORE ON THE VANIR LOS ANGELES JAIL PROPOSAL, LA’S HANDLING OF MENTALLY ILL INMATES (AND AN...
3 Reasons Why the Board of Supervisors Must Say No to the New Jail Plans
The latest version of the proposal to build at least two new county jails at a cost of up to $2.3...
Causes and Collateral Damage of Mass Incarceration, Fewer Kids Dying from Abuse in LA County…and More
NEW NATIONAL REPORT ON THE U.S. INCARCERATION CRISIS: THE FISCAL, FAMILIAL, AND SOCIETAL COST, AND...
Is America’s Outsized Prison Population Built on a Famous Research Lie?….& More
AMERICA’S EXPLODING PRISONS & THE GHOST OF OF ROBERT MARTINSON NY Times economic...
Sheriff’s Candidates Trade Barbs Over Deputy Cliques….& The LA Times Endorses McDonnell
NOTE: On Wednesday, the LA Times endorsed Jim McDonnell for LA County Sheriff.. You’ll find...
Report on Monday Night’s Sheriff Candidate’s Debate Coming
Monday night’s debate between five of the seven candidates for LA County Sheriff was an...
Model Educational Program in Some of LA’s Juvie Camps….1 in 25 of Death Sentenced Inmates Likely Innocent….Drug Offender Releases Did Not Cause Recidivism….and More
LA COUNTY’S EXPERIMENTAL EDU PROGRAM FOR LOCKED-UP YOUTH MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN KIDS’...
The #myNYPD Twitter Disaster, Shortage of Foster Parents for Kids with Higher Needs, Problems with New Clemency Initiative…and More
#MYNYPD SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN BACKFIRES Originally intended to inspire Twitter users to share nice...
Should We Spend $2 Billion on New Jails? Which Way LA? & Candidates Opine….and More
WHICH WAY LA? LOOKS AT NEWEST VERSION OF THE COUNTY’S EVER EXPANDING JAIL BUILDING...
Four Former LASD Undersheriffs Endorse Jim McDonnell for Sheriff….and Slam Paul Tanaka
At 10:30 on Thursday morning, four retired undersheriffs for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s...
New, More Expensive Los Angeles Jail Proposal, LASD Deputies Planted Guns in Marijuana Clinic, DCFS Director on Foster Care Reforms, and the New Clemency Criteria
LOS ANGELES JAIL REPLACEMENT PROPOSAL RELEASED, AND IS EVEN MORE PRICEY THAN THE LAST TWO BIDS On...
Supervisors on Recommended Foster Care Reform, From Prison to Campaigning for State Assembly, Federal Recidivism Study…and More
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RESPONDS TO COMMISSION’S FINAL FOSTER CARE REFORM RECOMMENDATIONS On...
When the LASD Spied on the City of Compton—and Forgot to Tell Anybody
Earlier this month, The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED ran a jointly produced story...
The Power of LASD Inspector General…Breakdown of Blue Ribbon Commission’s Foster Care Report…DOJ to Consider Thousands of New Clemency Requests…and More
DOES LASD CIVILIAN WATCHDOG MAX HUNTSMAN HOLD ENOUGH SWAY TO CLEAN UP THE DEPARTMENT? In January...
Are We Creating “Monsters?”….Education: The Next Juvenile Justice Reform….A Former “Bad Child” Speaks Out…Oregon Prisons Rethink Their Family Visit Policy
MAKING MONSTERS: A NEW LOOK AT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Beginning on Tuesday, April 22, PBS’s...
What Does CA’s Use of Juvie Isolation Look Like?…..Stop Locking Up Truant Kids in CA! ….The Lousy State of Education in Juvie Lock-Ups, CA’ s included….North Carolina Sheriff Takes On Wrongful Convictions….Farewell to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING LOOKS HARD AT CA’S JUVIE SOLITARY In addition to the shock...
$$ for Relatives Caring for Kids in the DCFS System, LASD Tightening Use-of-Force Policies & Putting Body Scanners in Jails….LAPD Commission Responds to Vehicle Camera Tampering….and Wolves
EDITORIAL: GIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO RELATIVES CARING FOR CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE...