JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF DYING PRISONER AFTER DECADES IN ISOLATION The Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen...
More on CA Prison Overcrowding…Beginning of Fed. Hearings on CA Mentally Ill Prisoner Abuse Claims…LA County Could Get More Out of Realignment…and Olmsted on Baca’s Endorsement
GOV BROWN’S CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST PRISON OVERCROWDING RULINGS Last week, federal judges...
Central CA School Replaces Zero-Tolerance With Restorative Justice…VA Group Aids Homeless Female Vets…Baca & Yor Health…and More
LE GRAND HIGH SCHOOL’S “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LEAGUE” ANNIHILATES ZERO-TOLERANCE...
Letters From Orange by Matthew Fleischer
WLA’s Matt Fischer continues to report on conditions for women in California’s prisons...
ABC 7 to Report Sheriff Baca Acts as Pitchman for Health Supplement Company….and More
According to an upcoming report on ABC 7 (appearing Monday at 11 pm) Sheriff Lee Baca has been...
Changing the Way We Deal with Sex-Trafficked Kids, Repairing the Juvenile Justice System, and For-Profit Probation
BREAKING AWAY FROM THE MISGUIDED HABIT OF CRIMINALIZING YOUNG SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS A notable new...
Detention Facilities as “De Facto” Mental Hospitals, New DOJ Report on LA County Juvie Camps, and More
THE DILEMMA OF JAILS AND PRISONS SERVING AS MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FACILITIES A new Wall Street...
LA Supes Vote $75 Mil for Kern County Jail….Brown Gets a Mini-Extension on Prison Problem…. More on the LASD Deputy & the 7 Shootings…
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS VOTE TO GIVE BACA $75 MILLION TO SEND INMATES TO KERN COUNTY LOCK-UP On...
Why Do Kids Falsely Confess to Crimes?…LAPD Union Likes Body Camera Idea (With Caveats)….And It’s Banned Books Week Again
We know that a significant percentage of those who are falsely convicted—and later...
Pasadena Limits Capacity of Police in Schools…What’s Causing LA’s Foster Home Scarcity?…and For-Profit Prisons’ “Lock-up Quotas”
PASADENA SCHOOLS PUT DISCIPLINARY POWER BACK IN THE HANDS OF TEACHERS The Pasadena City Council...
LASD Deputy Involved in 7th Shooting… Seeking Answers on Those CA Prison Sterilizations…Stop & Frisk Leads Young Adults to Distrust Police, Says Study
FATAL SHOOTING OCCURS AFTER PAUL TANAKA REPORTEDLY PUT DEPUTY WITH SIX PREVIOUS SHOOTINGS BACK ON...
CDCR Prepping Large Inmate Transfer…US Life Sentences Quadruple Over 20 Years…and Staggering Arrest Rates for Black Oakland Youths
STATE READIES THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS FOR RELOCATION OUT-OF-STATE AS DEADLINE LOOMS California is...
LA Supes Postpone LASD Commission Vote…4 Jail Scandal Supervisors Retire Before Repercussions…and More
LA SUPERVISORS PUSH BACK VOTE ON SHERIFF’S COMMISSION The LA Board of Supervisors were...
THE SHOOTING: The Death of Michael Domaloan – An Update
On the night of September 17, 2003, Michael Domaloan, 21, and Felix Quiroz, 23, were shot outside a...
Gov. Brown Signs Youth Sentencing Bill…Supervisors to Vote on LASD Commission…and Corrections Corp. of America in Contempt of Court…and More
GOV. JERRY BROWN SIGNS YOUTH SENTENCING BILL (AND FILES OVERCROWDING TIME EXTENSION REQUEST) On...
The Benefits of Inmate Education, a New Gang Intervention Partnership, Probation Poetry, and LA Deputy Saves Choking Inmate
THE EFFECTS OF INMATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON RECIDIVISM…AND MORE Inmates who...
LA Supervisors Call for Permanent LASD Oversight, Ex-Inmate Gets $585K After Losing Eye…and More
SUPES RIDLEY-THOMAS AND MOLINA CALL FOR PERMANENT LASD OVERSIGHT COMMISSION LA County Supervisors...
Developments in the Prison Overcrowding Saga, New Prez of LAPD Commission on WWLA?…and More
BROWN/STEINBERG PRISON POP. DEAL MOVES THROUGH LEGISLATURE Wednesday the California Senate passed...