HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES FORESEES MORE LAYOFFS WITHOUT DESPERATELY NEEDED FUNDING Of late, it has become...
New DOJ Report on Inmate Sexual Abuse, Gov. Brown Files Prison Overcrowding Proposal, and LASD Sheriff Contender Stories
US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REPORT SHOWS INCREASE IN ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES A...
Sheriff’s Race: A Candidate Has a Plan…Who’s the Interim?… A New Child Safety Czar for LA’s Foster Kids?
SHERIFF’S HOPEFUL BOB OLMSTED HAS A PLAN On Wednesday morning, as TV cameras rolled, retired...
Firearm Access Heightens Risk of Homicide/Suicide…Worthwhile Editorials…Private Prison Group Donates Max to Brown’s Campaign…and Sheriff Candidate Updates
ACCESS TO GUNS DOUBLES AND TRIPLES RISK OF BEING MURDERED AND COMMITTING SUICIDE, RESPECTIVELY...
Kids Still Locked Up for Life Despite SCOTUS Rulings…Youth Justice Grant $$ Cut from Federal Budget….Obama on Marijuana Policy…and the US Immigration Lock-Up Quota
STATES’ RESPONSES TO SUPREME COURT RULINGS ON LIFE SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES The United States...
For Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday
To celebrate this day, three versions of A Change Is Gonna Come. A 2013 version by a fine new...
LA County Probation Has Big Drop In Employee Arrests (& It’s Not Accidental )
LA County Probation just released some new figures showing that the number of its employees who...
Jails Commission Members Endorse a Sheriff’s Candidate….A New Candidate for Sheriff…the LASD is Sloppy With Money….& More
MEMBERS OF CITIZENS COMMISSION ON JAIL VIOLENCE TO ENDORSE JIM MCDONNELL FOR SHERIFF Executive...
LA Child Sex Trafficker Pleads Guilty…Gov Brown to Increase Spending on Private Prisons…State School Board to Decide on New School District $$$ Rules…and More
US ATTORNEY BIROTTE ANNOUNCES GUILTY PLEA OF LOS ANGELES CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER On Tuesday, US...
LA Supes Talk Interim LA Sheriff, Majority of LASD Excessive Force Payouts Related to Patrol, Marijuana Offense Lifers, and the Empowerment Congress Summit
SUPERVISORS HOLD PRIVATE SESSION ON INTERIM SHERIFF The LA County Board of Supervisors held a...
Federal Judges to Issue Ruling on CA Prison Pop, from Lockup to Running for CA State Assembly, Split-Sentencing in Contra Costa, and Kelly Thomas
FEDERAL JUDGES PREPARED TO RULE ON HOW CALIFORNIA WILL ALLEVIATE PRISON OVERCROWDING A federal...
NEW CANDIDATE: Long Beach PD Chief Jim McDonnell Has Jumped into the Race for Sheriff
Long beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell announced Monday afternoon that he has jumped into the race...
The LASD Latest, the Problem with Plea Bargains, and New Sentences Under CA’s Fair Sentencing for Youth Act
ADVICE FOR THE FUTURE LASD INTERIM SHERIFF…AND MORE One of the next big questions, following...
LA Libraries to Issue High School Diplomas, Life as a Kid in a GPS Ankle Monitor, LA’s Potential Sheriffs…and More
LA PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM TO PILOT A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA PROGRAM The Los Angeles Public Library...
Governor’s Budget Proposal Banks on a Postponed Overcrowding Deadline…New Federal Guidelines on School Discipline…Must Read LASD Editorials
GOV. BROWN’S NEW BUDGET PROPOSAL AIMS TO REDUCE PRISON OVERCROWDING Counting on a two-year...
Sheriff Lee Baca Retires: “I Will Go Out on My Terms” More Candidates Consider Running…& Indictments Loom
It was a strangely melancholy, almost Shakespearean scene on Tuesday morning at the Monterey Park...
SHOCKER: Sheriff Lee Baca to Announce His Retirement on Tuesday at 10 AM.
Photo of Lee Baca by Saxon Brice for WitnessLA In a surprising turn of events, WitnessLA has...
Head of LA Anti-Gang Dept. Resigns…Realignment, “Flash” Arrests, and the Battle Against Recidivism…and More
GUILLERMO CESPEDES TO LEAVE POST AS “ANTI-GANG CZAR,” AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR...