WITNESSLA ON MADELEINE BRAND SHOW AT 12 NOON WED TALKING ABOUT LEE BACA & THE LASD: ...
More on That Calderon Corruption Case—involving FBI Stings, Many Millions in Double Billing, and Fake Film Companies
California State Senator California Senator Ronald Calderon was taken into custody Monday morning...
LA’s $2M Child Abuse Reporting System Underused, Texas’ Example of Successful Prison Reform…and More
SYSTEM FOR CHILD ABUSE REPORTING BETWEEN LA DCFS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT USED ENOUGH BY...
Restorative Justice Transforms Colorado High School, Recommended Longreads, $6.4M for a Wrongful Murder Conviction…and More
REPLACING HARSH SCHOOL DISCIPLINE WITH CONFLICT RESOLUTION Once consumed by chronic suspensions and...
NY Ends Solitary Confinement of Kids, LA Times Book Award Finalists Announced, People of Color in Private Prisons…and More
NY BECOMES LARGEST PRISON SYSTEM IN THE US TO BAN ISOLATION OF INCARCERATED KIDS On Wednesday, the...
Feds Address Contra Costa Juvenile Hall’s Use of Solitary Confinement…a Call for LASD Oversight…and DCFS Simulates Home Visits for Social Worker Trainees
JUSTICE AND EDUCATION DEPTS JUMP INTO LAWSUIT AGAINST CONTRA COSTA’S ISOLATION PRACTICES IN...
Does a Newly Surfaced E-Mail Tie Paul Tanaka to the FBI’s Obstruction of Justice Case….& More
An internal sheriff’s department email that has recently surfaced appears to link former...
GARAGE GATE: The LA Times, Mark Ridley-Thomas & the Scandal that Isn’t
WHY IS THE LA TIMES STILL REPORTING ON MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS’ GARAGE? As of this week, the LA...
New LA Program for Child Victims of Sex-Trafficking, Reopening LAUSD Libraries, Holder Takes on Disenfranchisement, and Jerry Brown—Prisons and Playing Cards
LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES PROGRAM TO AID VICTIMS OF CHILD SEX-TRAFFICKING On Wednesday, Los...
LA Sheriff Scott Interview, LA Supes to Scrutinize Youth Indigent Defense, LASD IG Addresses Public, and Obama’s New Initiative for Young Men of Color
PATT MORRISON INTERVIEWS LA COUNTY INTERIM SHERIFF JOHN SCOTT In an interview with the LA...
Two Extra Years to Ease California Prison Overcrowding, More Than a Child Welfare Czar, and DOJ Sez: Equal Rights for Same-Sex Couples
JUDGES GRANT GOV. BROWN TWO MORE YEARS TO REDUCE PRISON POPULATION On Monday, the federal...
On Which Way LA? With Warren Olney Tonight at 7 pm
I’ll be on Which Way LA? tonight at 7 pm on KCRW, 89.9 talking about what these most recent...
Latest Fed Indictment of LASD Deputies Suggests Big Failures of Leadership
On the morning of April 16, 2012, Paulino Juarez testified in front of the Citizens Commission on...
Two More LASD Deputies Indicted Friday Morning
On Friday morning, US Attorney Andre Birotte announced that two more members of the Los Angeles...
OC Supervisors Block Plan to Release and Monitor Low-Risk Felons…Officers Who Shot at Women in Dorner Hunt to Return to Work…California Judges May Be Prohibited from Boy Scout Affiliation
ORANGE COUNTY SUPES REJECT SHERIFF’S PLAN TO ELECTRONICALLY MONITOR SOME LOW-LEVEL FELONS The...
New LA Sheriff Scott Takes On the LASD’s Infamous Smoking Patio
On Wednesday afternoon, an executive aide to LA County’s brand new sheriff John Scott sent...
Convictions in Coast Guard Killing, Probationers Jailed for Inability to Pay for Supervision, Admissions Blocked at New Stockton Prison, and Jobs for Justice-Involved Kids
US ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES CONVICTIONS IN DEATH OF CALIFORNIA COAST GUARD Chief Petty Officer Terrell...
Potential Partnership Between LA County and Homeboy Industries…Supes Address Foster Care Commission Recommendations…ACLU Sues California for Disenfranchising Probationers…and More
LA SUPES TO EXPLORE PARTNERSHIP WTIH HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES The LA County Board of Supervisors agreed...