CALIFORNIA REALIGNMENT REVIEW AND THE PLIGHT OF AB 109’S WOMEN If you need to brush up on the...
Hiding the Real Cost of Lawsuits Against the LA County Sheriff’s Department…..Sentencing 101…..& Do We Need a Permanent LASD Citizen’s Commission?
WHY WON’T LA COUNTY DISCLOSE THE REAL $$ COST OF DEFENDING THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT...
Prison Health Care Costs Skyrocket, ACLU Director Slams Baca, New Death Penalty Survey…and More
STUDY SHOWS HUGE JUMP IN STATES’ PRISON HEALTH CARE COSTS In 44 states, prison health care...
Where to Lock Up the CA Kid Who Killed his Neo Nazi Dad….Sexual Abuse-Riddled GA Juvie Prison To Close….For Profit Juvie Lock-Ups….And More
PSYCHOLOGISTS ARGUE ABOUT LOCK-UP LOCATION FOR 13-YEAR OLD WHO, AT TEN, SHOT HIS NEO-NAZI...
New OIR Jail Abuse Report Finds Many Excessive Force Allegations “Unresolved”….and Unresolvable
A new report released Monday night by the Office of Independent Review looks at a pile of...
The State of Incarceration in California and Nationwide, 2200+ LA Foster Kids Not Seen by Social Workers Last Month…and More
ANALYZING CORRECTIONS TRENDS TO MAINTAIN THE US PRISON POPULATION DECLINE A worthwhile editorial by...
California Freeing Woman Who Killed Pimp at 16, Teen’s Death Points Back to Defeated Bill…and More
SARA KRUZAN, WOMAN WHO WAS SENTENCED TO LWOP FOR KILLING HER PIMP AT 16, RELEASED ON PAROLE Late...
Supervisors Ever-Changing Jail Plans, Vallejo Schools’ Restorative Justice Comeback…and More
LA TIMES POINTS TO LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS’ CHRONICALLY REACTIVE JAIL PLANS On Tuesday, LA...
A Breast Cancer Survivor “Pampers” Other Women….Veterans of the Gang World Tell Their Stories….and More on Tanaka Supporters’ Lawsuit
BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR ORGANIZES “DAY OF PAMPERING” FOR OTHER WOMEN STRUGGLING WITH THE...
LA Jail Deal with Kern County May Be Nixed, a New Women’s Facility, California Prison Pepper Spray Policy Update…and More
CONTRACT TO MOVE LA COUNTY JAIL INMATES TO KERN COUNTY MAY BE VOIDED NEXT WEEK, AND A NEW...
LASD Union’s PAC Money & Paul Tanaka’s Long Game
THE LONG GAME Does Sheriff’s Candidate Paul Tanaka Have a Plan in Play to Get LASD Union PAC...
Fed Judges Extend Brown’s Prison Pop Deadline—Again… Police Chiefs Want National Crime & Justice Commission….& Jerry’s Bad Veto
On Monday a panel of federal judges, in a surprising and heartening move, gave the Brown...
U.N. Investigator Wants to Examine California Prisons…Domestic Violence Services Victim to Gov. Shutdown…New Study on Low-income Students…and More
(VIDEO: Piper Kerman, whose memoir inspired the Netflix original series “Orange is the New...
3 JAIL & PRISON CASES: Court Judgment Against Lee Baca—Personally…..28 LASD Officials Accused of Jail Abuse…& Sad, Bad Treatment of CA’s Imprisoned Mentally Ill
DID SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES BRUTALLY BEAT AN INMATE FOR NO REASON? AND, IF SO, SHOULD LEE BACA BE...
California Endowment Wants to “Change the Narrative” for Sons and Brothers – by Matthew Fleischer
SONS AND BROTHERS Out of every 100 Black Boys, 33 Will Go To Prison, the California “Sons...
A Good Cop Coerces a False Confession…LASD Lt. Arrested in Prostitution Sweep…and More
A GOOD COP AND A BAD CONFESSION This week This American Life with Ira Glass focuses on the issue of...
Community Alternatives Give Troubled Violinist Second Chance…Problematic Youth Curfews…and More Bills
MENTALLY ILL VIOLINIST SAVED BY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COURT Kim Knoble, a gifted violinist with a...
Advocates Oppose LA’s Newest Jail Contract…New CA Foster Youth Education Data…90% of Pasadena Juvenile Arrests are Minorities…and Gov. Brown on Criminal Justice Bills
LA COUNTY RESIDENTS AND ADVOCATES STILL FIGHTING TAFT JAIL CONTRACT Last month, the LA County Board...