On Tuesday morning, the trial for Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy James Sexton will begin. ...
LA’s Use of “Split Sentencing” Gets Worse (Can DA Jackie Lacey Help?)…..When CA Kids are “Double Charged” ….Pilot of Drug Smuggling Boat Sentenced for Coast Guard Murder
TUESDAY’S AB 109 REPORT SHOWS LA’S USE OF SPLIT SENTENCING GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER At...
Los Angeles DA Speaks Out Against Over-Incarceration, NYC Theater Troupe Hires Troubled Teens to Write & Perform…and Mother’s Day
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JACKIE LACEY SAYS LA NEEDS TO BE DOING MORE TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF JAIL Last...
LA’s New Program to Tackle Recidivism, Funding the New Jail Plan, KPPC Interviews Todd Rogers, and R.I.P. Farley Mowat
AG KAMALA HARRIS ANNOUNCES COMPREHENSIVE NEW LOS ANGELES PROGRAM TO LOWER RECIDIVISM On Thursday...
LA Times’ Steve Lopez on the Jail Plan….Former Inmate Sues LASD for Alleged Abuse….Unusual Measure Would Drop Some Felonies to Misdemeanors….and California Judge Restores Voting Rights to Realignment Probationers
MORE ON THE LOS ANGELES SUPERVISORS’ DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A $2 BILLION JAIL...
3 Supes Pass $2 Billion Jail Plan Despite Objections & D.A. Jackie Lacey Works on a Project for Change
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...