NEW PILOT PROGRAM TO PROMOTE READING AND SELF ESTEEM IS HUGE HIT WITH KIDS LOCKED-UP IN PROBATION...
New Candidate for LA County Sheriff Soon to Jump into Race to Oppose Baca
A new candidate is expected to be announcing his or her candidacy for the office of LA County...
The Former “Desperado’s Wife” Confronts the Pain of Kids With Incarcerated Parents – by Amy Friedman
THE FORMER “DESPERADO’S WIFE” NOW HELPS KIDS COPE WITH THE PAIN OF HAVING AN...
The Legal Brain Behind the Hunger Strike….Perpetual Solitary…. Right on Crime….& More
PORTRAIT OF CONVICTED KILLER TOD ASHKER, LEGAL BRAIN BEHIND CALIFORNIA’S PRISON HUNGER STRIKE...
Effects of Severe Cuts to Public Defender Services, Gov. Brown’s Prisons Predicament, Hunger Strike, and More Sheriff’s Luncheon
BUDGET CUTS BEAR DOWN ON PUBLIC DEFENDER SYSTEM With federal public defenders services threatened...
Justice Kennedy and Prison Overcrowding, Solitary Confinement on Death Row, “Scared Straight”…and Bad LASD Luncheons
ALL EYES ON JUSTICE KENNEDY FOR CALIFORNIA PRISON OVERCROWDING DECISION It’s up to US Supreme...
LASD Detective Lied in Court and Arrest Reports, Law to End Rape Behind Bars: Ten Years Later…and More
LA SHERIFF’S DET. CAUGHT LYING ABOUT READING MIRANDA RIGHTS Footage from the reality show...
WLA ON WWLA? With Warren Olney, Tuesday Night, 7 pm, Re: Operation Pandora’s Box
I did a quickie 10-ish minute segment on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? that airs Tuesday night...
OPERATION PANDORA’S BOX: Will Hiding a Federal Informant Result in Criminal Indictments for Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department?
PROLOGUE For 18 days in the summer of 2011, members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department...
No, We should Not Boycott Florida….A School’s Bet on NonViolence ….NYTimes on CA’s Hunger Strike….
WHY BOYCOTTING FLORIDA WON’T HELP The deeply painful issues that have arisen for so many...
Cheating on LASD Sergeant’s Exams….27 Death Penalty Cases Reviewed for Errors…Hunger Strike Leaders Further Isolated
On Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Lee Baca sent out a department wide email indicating that a few...
Mentally Ill Packed into LA County Jails, Oversight Sought for CA Developmental Centers…and More
THE ISSUE OF LOCKING AWAY MENTALLY ILL IN LA COUNTY JAILS LA Times’ Steve Lopez paid a visit...
LA Supes Consider Jail Project, Disciplined Kern County Students Face Meager Education Alternatives…and More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS TAKE STEPS TOWARD NEW JAIL FACILITIES The LA County Board of Supervisors...
MORE POST TRIAL NEWS: Violence at an LA Prayer Vigil……”What Do I Tell My Boys Now?”….Zimmerman Juror’s Speedy Book Agent Deal……..and more
PLANNED LEIMERT PARK COMMUNITY RALLY DISRUPTED BY VIOLENCE, RALLIERS DISMAYED A well-organized...
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman—and the Interweave of Fear, Heartbreak and Injustice that Haunts the Verdict’s Aftermath
Since the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman was announced just a few minutes...
A Closer Look at the CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Deeper Juvie Justice Budget Cuts?, and a Heart-wrenching Essay
A BREAKDOWN OF THE HUNGER STRIKE AND ISOLATION BY A MAN WHO HAS ENDURED IT After the 2011 prisoner...
State Lawmakers Want Probe of Prison Sterilization… CDCR Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers…Bloomberg Op Ed Compares Jerry Brown to George Wallace
STATE LAWMAKERS UNHAPPY AT NEWS OF PRISON STERILIZATIONS On Thursday, state lawmakers got...
As Probation Arms More Officers, Are They Getting the Right Training? by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: Under AB 109—AKA realignment—thousands of low-level offenders who...