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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
#Oversight

LASD Oversight Part 3: LA County’s Inspector General has announced his retirement. But he has a lot more to tell us re: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department,

December 17, 2025
CDCR • Charlie Beck • DCFS • Death Penalty • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Foster Care • Homelessness • LAPD • LAPPL • Mental Illness • Uncategorized

$5.9M LAPD Ticket Quota Settlement…Fed. Judge Orders Improved Care for CA’s Mentally Ill on Death Row…LA Social Worker Strike Ends…and More

December 11, 2013
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LAPD TRAFFIC TICKET QUOTA LAWSUIT SETTLED FOR ALMOST $6M On Tuesday, the LA City Council approved...

2014 Election • Crime and Punishment • FBI • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Sheriff Lee Baca

Federal Indictments, Part 2: Where—and To Whom—-Will They Lead?

December 10, 2013
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On the day after United States Attorney Andre Birotte unveiled five criminal cases that have thus...

2014 Election • FBI • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Pandora's Box • Sheriff Lee Baca

FEDS HAND DOWN 18 CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS, WORKING & RETIRED

December 9, 2013
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INDICTMENTS DEMONSTRATE: “INSTITUTIONALIZED BEHAVIOR” AND DEPUTIES WHO THOUGHT THEY...

DCFS • Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • Law Enforcement • Public Defender • Trauma

LA County DCFS Workers Strike, a Close Look at Juvenile Public Defense, the Challenge of Healing Traumatized Kids…and Interrogation Techniques Redux

December 9, 2013
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(NOTE: Today’s posting is a joint project by Walker Taylor & Celeste Fremon) LOS...

FBI • LA County Jail • LASD

Truth & Consequence: The Inmate, The Beating, and the Deputies Who Lied About It – by Matthew Fleischer

December 6, 2013
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After a flood of negative media, a string of high ticket lawsuits, and an aggressively widening FBI...

Bill Bratton • Juvenile Justice • LA County Jail • LAPD • Prosecutors • Sentencing

Report Says Stop Locking Kids Up for “Status” Offenses….Bratton Named NYPD Commissioner…Why Defendants Accept Plea Bargains….& More

December 6, 2013
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NEW REPORT SAYS THAT LOCKING KIDS UP FOR “STATUS” OFFENSES DOES NOT HELP, BUT DOES...

International • International Issues • Life and Life Only

Nelson Mandela: July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013

December 5, 2013
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….During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LAPD • LASD • Prison • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca

LAPD Running Low on Quality Applicants, Baca Discusses Hiring Fiasco, Compassionate Release, and Sentencing Discretion

December 5, 2013
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FEWER QUALIFIED LAPD JOB-SEEKERS LEAVES DEPARTMENT UNDERSTAFFED Over the last few months, the LAPD...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • School to Prison Pipeline • Sheriff Lee Baca • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Sheriff to Report to Supes on Hiring Practices, School Districts Across the US Nix Zero-Tolerance…and More

December 4, 2013
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LA SUPERVISORS WANT EXPLANATION FROM SHERIFF BACA ON RECENTLY REVEALED CONTROVERSIAL HIRING...

Innocence • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • LAUSD

More on the LASD Hiring Story, False Confessions via the “Reid Technique,” and LAUSD’s Vanishing Libraries

December 3, 2013
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LA SUPERVISOR YAROSLAVSKY SAYS NEW INSPECTOR GENERAL SHOULD EXAMINE LASD HIRING On Monday, we...

2014 Election • LASD • LAUSD • Los Angeles Times • School to Prison Pipeline • Sheriff Lee Baca • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

WHO SHOULD BE A COP? LAT’s Disturbing Window into the Hiring Practices of the LA County Sheriff’s Department…and More

December 2, 2013
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On Sunday, the LA Times published an exceptionally well-reported—and disturbing—look...

Life and Life Only

Happy (Slightly Belated) Thanksgiving

November 28, 2013
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We hope your day was filled with warmth, love and friendship. We are grateful for your company. ...

District Attorney • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD

Corruption Fighter from the DA’s Office Will be New Inspector General for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department

November 27, 2013
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has selected Deputy District Attorney Max Huntsman as...

DCFS • Foster Care • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD • Reentry • Uncategorized

LA Supes to Pay LASD Inmate Settlement, More Time for LA Foster Care Panel, the Recidivism Conundrum, and Inmate Firefighters

November 27, 2013
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LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS AGREE TO PAY SETTLEMENT IN JAIL MISCONDUCT CASE On Tuesday, the LA County...

FBI • LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Accusations of Sheriff’s Deputies Allegedly Involved in Murder-for-Hire Plot Called “Frivolous” & “Untrue” by LASD

November 26, 2013
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The whole thing reportedly began around eighteen months ago when an LA County jail informant, who...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Police • Sentencing

Supes May Vote on LASD Oversight Commission & Questionable Electronic Monitoring Contract….A Glitch in 3-Strikes Reform…Police & Sheriffs Given Leftover Iraq War Trucks…An LASD Detective & a Steamy Cold Case

November 26, 2013
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SUPES COULD VOTE TUESDAY ON LASD OVERSIGHT COMMISSION….& THE CONTRACT TO HIRE THE SAME...

2014 Election • LASD • Paul Tanaka

Controversial LASD Challenger, Paul Tanaka, on Which Way LA? With Warren Olney Monday Night

November 25, 2013
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This is a fascinating radio conversation. Warren asks challenging questions about all the...

Homelessness • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • Law Enforcement • Mental Illness • Reentry • Rehabilitation • Skid Row

Inmate Tech Entrepreneur Program Comes to Twin Towers…Help for LA’s Homeless Moms…Suicide of Deputy’s Girlfriend Leaves Much Unanswered…and a Bill for Brightly-Colored Fake Guns

November 25, 2013
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PROGRAM TO TRAIN TWIN TOWERS INMATES FOR FUTURE JOBS WITH TECH START-UPS A relatively new business...

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